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Learning Disability History
Enabling people to share experiences
Each year the School of Health and Social Welfare at the Open University organises a conference where people with learning difficulties, supporters, practitioners and academics share their life history experiences about a common theme.
It's been a common concern at these meetings that only a limited number of people can take part. In this short project, we looked at how we would build a record of such a conference within the limits of current technology. The year is 2001 and the theme "resistance".
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Antonini, A., Coşar, S., Naja, I., Muhammad Salman, H., Jamie, M., Pasquale, I. and Giacinto, B. (2025). Smartphone as a Sensor in mHealth: Narrative Overview, SWOT Analysis, and Proposal of Mobile Biomarkers. Sensors, 25(12), https://oro.open.ac.uk/104648/.
Antonini, A. and Naja, I. (2024). Positive Media. In: 35th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT '24), 10-13 Sep 2024, Poznań, Poland. https://oro.open.ac.uk/99176/.
Lakeman Fraser, P., Colluci-Gray, L., Robinson, A., Sforzi, A., Staples-Rolf, R., Newman, J., Gill, R., Sharma, N., Rüger, S. and Siddharthan, A. (2023). X-Polli:Nation: Contributing towards sustainable development goals through school-based pollinator citizen science. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 8(1), https://oro.open.ac.uk/86427/.
Sharma, N., Colucci-Gray, L., van der Wal, R. and Siddharthan, A. (2022). Consensus building in on-line citizen science. In: 25th ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (CSCW 2022), 08-22 Nov 2022, Online. https://oro.open.ac.uk/83971/.
Ekuban, A., Mikroyannidis, A., Third, A. and Domingue, J. (2021). Using GitLab Interactions To Predict Student Success When Working As Part Of A Team. In: ICL2020, 23 Sep - 25 Sep 2020. https://oro.open.ac.uk/71707/.
Adamou, A., Daga, E. and Isaksen, L.E. (2016). WHiSe 2016 - Humanities in the Semantic Web. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 1608. CEUR-WS.org. https://oro.open.ac.uk/46869/.
Sharples, M., Scanlon, E., Ainsworth, S., Anastopoulou, S., Collins, T., Crook, C., Jones, A., Kerawalla, L., Littleton, K., Mulholland, P. and O'Malley, C. (2015). Personal inquiry: orchestrating science investigations within and beyond the classroom. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 24(2), pp. 308–341. https://oro.open.ac.uk/41623/.
Mikroyannidis, A., Okada, A., Scott, P., Rusman, E., Specht, M., Stefanov, K., Boytchev, P., Protopsaltis, A., Held, P., Hetzner, S., Kikis-Papadakis, K. and Chaimala, F. (2013). weSPOT: A personal and social approach to inquiry-based learning. Journal of Universal Computer Science, 19(14), pp. 2093–2111. https://oro.open.ac.uk/39263/.
Mikroyannidis, A. (2013). A personalised approach in informal and inquiry-based learning. In: 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2013), 06-08 May 2013, Aachen, Germany. https://oro.open.ac.uk/39234/.
Rizzardini, R.H., Linares, B.H., Mikroyannidis, A. and Schmitz, H.C. (2013). Cloud services, interoperability and analytics within a ROLE-enabled personal learning environment. Journal of Universal Computer Science, 19(14), pp. 2054–2074. https://oro.open.ac.uk/39235/.
Mulholland, P., Zdrahal, Z. and Domingue, J. (2005). Supporting continuous learning in a large organization: the role of group and organizational perspectives. Applied Ergonomics, 36(2), pp. 127–134. https://oro.open.ac.uk/2973/.
