A summary and all the slides for the lightning talks session at the 2013 Workshop for e-Infrastructure trainers event, which took place at the Hartree Centre, in Cheshire.
Event: Plant and Animal Genomes Conference 2012
Speaker: Cath Brooksbank
Train online (www.ebi.ac.uk/training/online/) is a free, web-based learning resource for life scientists. Train online helps you make the most of the huge amount of biological data that EMBL-EBI makes publicly available for the research community. Using a combination of tutorials, guided examples, exercises and quizzes, Train online guides you towards becoming a confident user of open-access data resources. This training portal is there for you to learn in your own time and at your own pace, anywhere in the world. You do not need previous experience in bioinformatics to benefit from our courses.
This presentation will provide a short introduction to the courses currently available in Train online, which will include a demonstration of the resource. After the demonstration, the speaker will welcome questions about Train online and any suggestions that you may have for future courses.
Improving the student experience using digital insightsJisc
- The University of Glasgow conducted a digital experience insights survey to gather feedback from students on their experiences with digital teaching and learning. Over 1,600 students responded.
- Most feedback was positive, with 89% rating the quality of digital provision highly and 73% rating the quality of digital teaching and learning positively. However, some areas like preparation for the digital workplace and up-to-date software lagged slightly behind national averages.
- Key themes from free responses included a desire for improved WiFi, updates to the Moodle interface, and more widespread lecture recording. The results will be used to prioritize improvements like expanding lecture capture and developing virtual desktop infrastructure.
Presentation exploring the relationship between policy and practice in the development of e-assessment in higher education and the importance of establishing a policy framework - developed in collaboration with all key stakeholders - to support wider uptake among academic staff.
The document provides guidance on planning a syllabus, recommending including traditional elements like course rules and learning outcomes, as well as introducing yourself with a picture or video. It also suggests detailing assignments like types, due dates, formats and policies; assessments like tests and projects; and including a syllabus quiz to familiarize students with key information. The syllabus should explain how materials, assignments and correspondence will be delivered.
The ETRC advisory board announces new computers, book donations, and a revised schedule. A survey found that 37.5% answered yes to a question, 43.75% no, and 18.75% not so much. Upcoming ETRC events include using computers in English classes, video essays, and PowerPoint presentations. On average, seminars have 10 attendees while movie and club sessions have 5. ETRC promotion occurred at several universities. A new project proposes seminars on modern technologies in teaching for non-English teachers in collaboration with education institutes.
This document provides 10 strategies for teachers to effectively manage students in a digital classroom: 1) set clear expectations, 2) demonstrate technology use, 3) provide structured activities, 4) encourage collaboration, 5) utilize student experts, 6) ensure student participation through assigned roles, 7) maximize one-to-one computing with different technologies, 8) help students who have questions, 9) have students ask peers first before asking teachers technical questions, and 10) post and communicate visible classroom rules and guidelines regarding technology use.
This document outlines tips for avoiding "Death by PowerPoint" when giving presentations. It discusses focusing on three key elements of any presentation: content, format, and execution. For content, the document stresses keeping it simple and relevant. For format, it recommends using visuals and highlighting the main points. For execution, it advises outlining the presentation, using data to back up points, and rehearsing. The document provides examples and steps to improve presentations in each of these three areas.
The document describes an online module called "topics in modern optometry" that was developed using the ADDIE system of analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. It was designed to deliver lecture material and assessments for a refractive surgery topic through interactive presentations, PDF notes, discussion boards, and randomized multiple choice quizzes online over nine weeks. Student feedback will be gathered through anonymous questionnaires to evaluate the online delivery and assessment approach.
Event: Plant and Animal Genomes Conference 2012
Speaker: Cath Brooksbank
Train online (www.ebi.ac.uk/training/online/) is a free, web-based learning resource for life scientists. Train online helps you make the most of the huge amount of biological data that EMBL-EBI makes publicly available for the research community. Using a combination of tutorials, guided examples, exercises and quizzes, Train online guides you towards becoming a confident user of open-access data resources. This training portal is there for you to learn in your own time and at your own pace, anywhere in the world. You do not need previous experience in bioinformatics to benefit from our courses.
This presentation will provide a short introduction to the courses currently available in Train online, which will include a demonstration of the resource. After the demonstration, the speaker will welcome questions about Train online and any suggestions that you may have for future courses.
Improving the student experience using digital insightsJisc
- The University of Glasgow conducted a digital experience insights survey to gather feedback from students on their experiences with digital teaching and learning. Over 1,600 students responded.
- Most feedback was positive, with 89% rating the quality of digital provision highly and 73% rating the quality of digital teaching and learning positively. However, some areas like preparation for the digital workplace and up-to-date software lagged slightly behind national averages.
- Key themes from free responses included a desire for improved WiFi, updates to the Moodle interface, and more widespread lecture recording. The results will be used to prioritize improvements like expanding lecture capture and developing virtual desktop infrastructure.
Presentation exploring the relationship between policy and practice in the development of e-assessment in higher education and the importance of establishing a policy framework - developed in collaboration with all key stakeholders - to support wider uptake among academic staff.
The document provides guidance on planning a syllabus, recommending including traditional elements like course rules and learning outcomes, as well as introducing yourself with a picture or video. It also suggests detailing assignments like types, due dates, formats and policies; assessments like tests and projects; and including a syllabus quiz to familiarize students with key information. The syllabus should explain how materials, assignments and correspondence will be delivered.
The ETRC advisory board announces new computers, book donations, and a revised schedule. A survey found that 37.5% answered yes to a question, 43.75% no, and 18.75% not so much. Upcoming ETRC events include using computers in English classes, video essays, and PowerPoint presentations. On average, seminars have 10 attendees while movie and club sessions have 5. ETRC promotion occurred at several universities. A new project proposes seminars on modern technologies in teaching for non-English teachers in collaboration with education institutes.
This document provides 10 strategies for teachers to effectively manage students in a digital classroom: 1) set clear expectations, 2) demonstrate technology use, 3) provide structured activities, 4) encourage collaboration, 5) utilize student experts, 6) ensure student participation through assigned roles, 7) maximize one-to-one computing with different technologies, 8) help students who have questions, 9) have students ask peers first before asking teachers technical questions, and 10) post and communicate visible classroom rules and guidelines regarding technology use.
This document outlines tips for avoiding "Death by PowerPoint" when giving presentations. It discusses focusing on three key elements of any presentation: content, format, and execution. For content, the document stresses keeping it simple and relevant. For format, it recommends using visuals and highlighting the main points. For execution, it advises outlining the presentation, using data to back up points, and rehearsing. The document provides examples and steps to improve presentations in each of these three areas.
The document describes an online module called "topics in modern optometry" that was developed using the ADDIE system of analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. It was designed to deliver lecture material and assessments for a refractive surgery topic through interactive presentations, PDF notes, discussion boards, and randomized multiple choice quizzes online over nine weeks. Student feedback will be gathered through anonymous questionnaires to evaluate the online delivery and assessment approach.
Lollipop CoFHE NW Circle Presentation 2009Anthony Beal
CoFHE North West Circle Spring Meeting 2009 - Information Skills for Students and Library Staff - Thursday 7th May at One Central Park, The Manchester College.
This document summarizes a virtual exchange program that allows students to take online courses from leading universities around the world to enrich their portfolio without having to travel. Some key benefits outlined include accessing world-class instructors, studying flexibly online or in-person, gaining credits, and connecting with an international student community. So far over 700 students have enrolled across 40 courses in various fields. Feedback from students has been positive about the flexibility and learning useful career skills. Some challenges include differing operational approaches between institutions and ensuring scalability of administration as the program grows.
Increasingly, as higher education develops online degree programs, campuses need to create library and informational literacy tools available for the student who never comes to campus in person. This session addresses the need to provide the same level of library support to online students as is provided to on-campus students.
The document discusses evaluating online learning resources and facilitation. It provides information on collecting learner feedback through online survey tools like SurveyMonkey, Google Forms, and Moodle questionnaires. It also discusses the purposes of evaluation, such as improving resources and facilitation, understanding the learner experience, and sharing best practices. The document gives examples of the types of information that should be reported from evaluations, such as learner feedback, challenges, changes made, and insights gained from the experience.
Professional practice supports teachers' professional development beyond their subject area through university courses delivered on campus or online. The program is jointly delivered with placement schools and helps teachers develop through supporting assignments, working with other subjects, participating in whole school initiatives, and cross curricular days.
The document discusses achieving accessibility standards in online teaching. It recommends starting with text and using headings and style guides before adding other media like visuals, audio, or video. It also stresses keeping things simple, beginning with text, and using accessibility checklists and universal design for learning resources. Faculty are encouraged to leverage their buying power when selecting materials and interacting with publishers.
Podcasting and vodcasting can help reduce training times for Department of Correction staff while still providing essential information. Updates and parts of full-day trainings, like demonstrations in child protection, can be shared remotely through these channels. This allows staff in rural areas access to training materials and reduces time spent attending courses in person. While start-up costs and lack of physical interaction are challenges, podcasts and vodcasts offer portability, accessibility, and visual aids to support learning.
Presentation for Queensland VDC
Topics covered include:
What is e-Assessment?
Issues and concerns around using eAssesments
Mobile evidence capture and submission
Principles for developing self paced assessment tasks
(Quizzes, Scenarios, Decision making trees)
Webinar based assessment and peer review
Using discussion forums to uncover student ?stories? and understanding
Tools and approaches for Student placement reporting
Group work projects ? measuring contributions
Other interesting approaches from the field.
Benefits and learning outcomes include:
* Understanding and application of various types e-assessments
* Application of relevant e-Assessment approaches to specific training context
Tips and Tricks to Engage with the New Blackboard Collaborate Ultra - Lau Eng...Blackboard APAC
There's nothing new about the connection between student engagement and student learning. Educators have been making it for years. What's changed is the role that technology plays in the classroom. What's changed is the emergence of virtual learning, both real-time and self-paced. And what's changed is the students. They're digital natives - tech savvy, connected, always on - who'll turn learning off if it's not deeply engaging. With our new Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, we make it easier than ever to create a vibrant and engaging learning environment. That's why thousands of educators in higher education and in K-12 are using Blackboard Collaborate to get their students engaged in a lot of very cool ways. The result? Students who are more engaged. And as every educator knows, students who are more engaged are shown to perform better academically. How cool is that?
This one hour course will put participants in a position where they can experience first-hand how a CLIL lesson works, using technology as a tool to promote authenticity and engagement in the content.
The Roadmap to Distance Learning Technology: Retooling Traditional Outreach b...sondramilkie
The document discusses one program's use of distance learning technologies to provide conservation professional training. It describes how the Conservation Professional Training Program (CPTP) decided to use distance learning to address challenges like broad geographic distances, limited budgets, and diverse training needs. The CPTP transitioned some trainings online using tools like Basecamp, a custom-built registration website with Ruby on Rails, Moodle for online course delivery, and Drupal for a course portal site. The program evaluates its process and impact using online evaluations and quizzes. The presentation demonstrates how these tools meet the program's needs and allows personalized, non-traditional learning while building successful partnerships across multiple states.
What makes a great blended learning trainer and academic?Yum Studio
This document discusses what makes a great blended learning trainer and academic. It covers facilitating social and collaborative communication, teaching using virtual classrooms and synchronous tools, understanding e-assessment options, and accessing cloud-based storage. The outcomes include evaluating skills for various teaching modes and applying blended learning strategies through professional development. It also discusses auditing staff capacity to implement blended learning.
Course design and delivery: guidance and tips for impactful trainingCORBEL
CORBEL and EOSC-Life organise the webinar series "Engaging with your community through events and training". The series continues with a presentation by Sarah Morgan (EMBL-EBI).
This webinar will provide a practical look at course design and delivery, giving guidance on the key elements you need to consider to ensure your training meets the needs of your intended audience. It will also provide some tips for successful delivery and a brief look at how you can assess the impact your training has in the short and long term.
The webinar includes an audience Q&A session during which attendees can ask questions and make suggestions. Please note that all webinars are recorded and available for posterior viewing.
This is a summary of how to develop a technology staff development program. Provides some review of the Individual Technology Learning Plan recognized by NBSA as one of the best programs in the nation.
A keynote presentation for the Online Teaching Pathways for Early-Career Criminologists & Sociologists
by University of Glasgow, Hong Kong University, U21.
Abstract: We have all had to pivot rapidly from teaching face-to face to teaching fully online and have learned many lessons along the way, in a particularly short space of time. In many cases, if our IT groups and vendors had not equally risen to the occasion this would not have been possible. However, what has been observed is that those who have fared better over these recent months have been those institutions with well-established frameworks in place to mediate their technology-enhanced learning (TEL). That is, they have recognised processes that define how they translate what is in policy, procedures and planning into practice with appropriate IT scaffolding. Such a framework can be found within a number of TEL quality tools, that are designed to provide an institution with clear guidelines as to what things need to be in place to facilitate a robust and consistent approach to teaching with technology. Once these things are in place it makes it possible to undertake online teaching that does more than just mimic face-to-face practice, but actually provide a the foundation for innovative pedagogies to thrive. One concept associated with this is the notion that students can be productive and typically, this means the TEL has, or can become far more, active, authentic and collaborative.
Self-Regulated Learning in Action!
International Teacher and Teacher Educator Training (E1)
Athens 6-8 November 2019
SLIDEshow Erasmus+ Project
Training Venue Doukas School
https://www.slideshowproject.eu/
This document summarizes a regional initiative in Ireland called "Take one step" that aimed to raise digital literacy across higher education institutions. It involved diagnostic surveys, innovation funds, and roadshows to train staff and students on digital skills. An evaluation found high satisfaction rates but also challenges with sustaining engagement, especially among students. Suggestions are provided to better reach those most in need of training and to evidence the impact on teaching practices.
Steve Wileman - Smart Assessor - Developments in digital learning technology ...Arkin Buhara
The document discusses using technology like online meeting spaces to provide cost-effective workforce training and development amid tight budgets. It notes that tools like Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies, social media integration, and cloud-based solutions can help harness digital learning technologies while cutting costs on hardware, software, and travel. Online meeting spaces allow for remote collaboration, CPD delivery across campuses, and reusing video sessions for online lessons to engage learners.
Lollipop CoFHE NW Circle Presentation 2009Anthony Beal
CoFHE North West Circle Spring Meeting 2009 - Information Skills for Students and Library Staff - Thursday 7th May at One Central Park, The Manchester College.
This document summarizes a virtual exchange program that allows students to take online courses from leading universities around the world to enrich their portfolio without having to travel. Some key benefits outlined include accessing world-class instructors, studying flexibly online or in-person, gaining credits, and connecting with an international student community. So far over 700 students have enrolled across 40 courses in various fields. Feedback from students has been positive about the flexibility and learning useful career skills. Some challenges include differing operational approaches between institutions and ensuring scalability of administration as the program grows.
Increasingly, as higher education develops online degree programs, campuses need to create library and informational literacy tools available for the student who never comes to campus in person. This session addresses the need to provide the same level of library support to online students as is provided to on-campus students.
The document discusses evaluating online learning resources and facilitation. It provides information on collecting learner feedback through online survey tools like SurveyMonkey, Google Forms, and Moodle questionnaires. It also discusses the purposes of evaluation, such as improving resources and facilitation, understanding the learner experience, and sharing best practices. The document gives examples of the types of information that should be reported from evaluations, such as learner feedback, challenges, changes made, and insights gained from the experience.
Professional practice supports teachers' professional development beyond their subject area through university courses delivered on campus or online. The program is jointly delivered with placement schools and helps teachers develop through supporting assignments, working with other subjects, participating in whole school initiatives, and cross curricular days.
The document discusses achieving accessibility standards in online teaching. It recommends starting with text and using headings and style guides before adding other media like visuals, audio, or video. It also stresses keeping things simple, beginning with text, and using accessibility checklists and universal design for learning resources. Faculty are encouraged to leverage their buying power when selecting materials and interacting with publishers.
Podcasting and vodcasting can help reduce training times for Department of Correction staff while still providing essential information. Updates and parts of full-day trainings, like demonstrations in child protection, can be shared remotely through these channels. This allows staff in rural areas access to training materials and reduces time spent attending courses in person. While start-up costs and lack of physical interaction are challenges, podcasts and vodcasts offer portability, accessibility, and visual aids to support learning.
Presentation for Queensland VDC
Topics covered include:
What is e-Assessment?
Issues and concerns around using eAssesments
Mobile evidence capture and submission
Principles for developing self paced assessment tasks
(Quizzes, Scenarios, Decision making trees)
Webinar based assessment and peer review
Using discussion forums to uncover student ?stories? and understanding
Tools and approaches for Student placement reporting
Group work projects ? measuring contributions
Other interesting approaches from the field.
Benefits and learning outcomes include:
* Understanding and application of various types e-assessments
* Application of relevant e-Assessment approaches to specific training context
Tips and Tricks to Engage with the New Blackboard Collaborate Ultra - Lau Eng...Blackboard APAC
There's nothing new about the connection between student engagement and student learning. Educators have been making it for years. What's changed is the role that technology plays in the classroom. What's changed is the emergence of virtual learning, both real-time and self-paced. And what's changed is the students. They're digital natives - tech savvy, connected, always on - who'll turn learning off if it's not deeply engaging. With our new Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, we make it easier than ever to create a vibrant and engaging learning environment. That's why thousands of educators in higher education and in K-12 are using Blackboard Collaborate to get their students engaged in a lot of very cool ways. The result? Students who are more engaged. And as every educator knows, students who are more engaged are shown to perform better academically. How cool is that?
This one hour course will put participants in a position where they can experience first-hand how a CLIL lesson works, using technology as a tool to promote authenticity and engagement in the content.
The Roadmap to Distance Learning Technology: Retooling Traditional Outreach b...sondramilkie
The document discusses one program's use of distance learning technologies to provide conservation professional training. It describes how the Conservation Professional Training Program (CPTP) decided to use distance learning to address challenges like broad geographic distances, limited budgets, and diverse training needs. The CPTP transitioned some trainings online using tools like Basecamp, a custom-built registration website with Ruby on Rails, Moodle for online course delivery, and Drupal for a course portal site. The program evaluates its process and impact using online evaluations and quizzes. The presentation demonstrates how these tools meet the program's needs and allows personalized, non-traditional learning while building successful partnerships across multiple states.
What makes a great blended learning trainer and academic?Yum Studio
This document discusses what makes a great blended learning trainer and academic. It covers facilitating social and collaborative communication, teaching using virtual classrooms and synchronous tools, understanding e-assessment options, and accessing cloud-based storage. The outcomes include evaluating skills for various teaching modes and applying blended learning strategies through professional development. It also discusses auditing staff capacity to implement blended learning.
Course design and delivery: guidance and tips for impactful trainingCORBEL
CORBEL and EOSC-Life organise the webinar series "Engaging with your community through events and training". The series continues with a presentation by Sarah Morgan (EMBL-EBI).
This webinar will provide a practical look at course design and delivery, giving guidance on the key elements you need to consider to ensure your training meets the needs of your intended audience. It will also provide some tips for successful delivery and a brief look at how you can assess the impact your training has in the short and long term.
The webinar includes an audience Q&A session during which attendees can ask questions and make suggestions. Please note that all webinars are recorded and available for posterior viewing.
This is a summary of how to develop a technology staff development program. Provides some review of the Individual Technology Learning Plan recognized by NBSA as one of the best programs in the nation.
A keynote presentation for the Online Teaching Pathways for Early-Career Criminologists & Sociologists
by University of Glasgow, Hong Kong University, U21.
Abstract: We have all had to pivot rapidly from teaching face-to face to teaching fully online and have learned many lessons along the way, in a particularly short space of time. In many cases, if our IT groups and vendors had not equally risen to the occasion this would not have been possible. However, what has been observed is that those who have fared better over these recent months have been those institutions with well-established frameworks in place to mediate their technology-enhanced learning (TEL). That is, they have recognised processes that define how they translate what is in policy, procedures and planning into practice with appropriate IT scaffolding. Such a framework can be found within a number of TEL quality tools, that are designed to provide an institution with clear guidelines as to what things need to be in place to facilitate a robust and consistent approach to teaching with technology. Once these things are in place it makes it possible to undertake online teaching that does more than just mimic face-to-face practice, but actually provide a the foundation for innovative pedagogies to thrive. One concept associated with this is the notion that students can be productive and typically, this means the TEL has, or can become far more, active, authentic and collaborative.
Self-Regulated Learning in Action!
International Teacher and Teacher Educator Training (E1)
Athens 6-8 November 2019
SLIDEshow Erasmus+ Project
Training Venue Doukas School
https://www.slideshowproject.eu/
This document summarizes a regional initiative in Ireland called "Take one step" that aimed to raise digital literacy across higher education institutions. It involved diagnostic surveys, innovation funds, and roadshows to train staff and students on digital skills. An evaluation found high satisfaction rates but also challenges with sustaining engagement, especially among students. Suggestions are provided to better reach those most in need of training and to evidence the impact on teaching practices.
Steve Wileman - Smart Assessor - Developments in digital learning technology ...Arkin Buhara
The document discusses using technology like online meeting spaces to provide cost-effective workforce training and development amid tight budgets. It notes that tools like Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies, social media integration, and cloud-based solutions can help harness digital learning technologies while cutting costs on hardware, software, and travel. Online meeting spaces allow for remote collaboration, CPD delivery across campuses, and reusing video sessions for online lessons to engage learners.
The Accidental Instruction Librarian (December 2014)Kelly Woodside
This document outlines a workshop on instructional design for library staff. It introduces the ADDIE model of instructional design, which includes analyzing needs, designing content and outcomes, developing materials, implementing instruction, and evaluating results. The workshop covers how to analyze learners and goals, design meaningful learning outcomes, select appropriate formats and technologies, develop and implement the instruction, and evaluate its effectiveness. Participants work in groups to draft a proposal for a library instruction program.
Sustaining innovation in curriculum delivery Gus Cameron (University of Bristol), Marion Manton (University of Oxford) and Phil George (Kingston College) Facilitated by Simon Walker.
Jisc conference 2010.
CINECA webinar slides: How to make training FAIRCINECAProject
This document summarizes a webinar on applying FAIR principles to training materials. It discusses why training materials should be shared and made FAIR, including enabling reuse by other trainers. Ten simple rules for making training materials FAIR are presented, such as giving materials unique identifiers, describing them properly, and stating clear licensing. A case study of the EMBL-EBI training program is provided, which aims to share its materials widely and follow FAIR principles to maximize their findability, accessibility, and reuse. Challenges in applying FAIR to all training materials are noted. The webinar encourages applying metadata and structuring materials to open them up for broader use.
E/merge Africa Learning Festival Conference 2018
Digital Fluency Workshop - Brenda Mallinson & Shadrack Mbogela
5 modules: Digital Fundamentals; Working with OER; Course Design & Development for online provision; Academic Integrity in a Digital Age; Storage and Access of Digital Resources.
Online Forum succesfully integrating MOOC in training environmentInge de Waard
This is the slide deck I will use for the Online Forum that is planned by the eLearning Guild in May 2014. In this presentation I offer suggestions on how to integrate the MOOC platform successfully into an overall training environment.
Modelling openness: Developing the Digital Fluency course at OUTBrenda Mallinson
It is recognised that more than ‘literacy’ is needed in today’s academic environment in order to take full advantage of the affordances of using ICTs for the full range of teaching and learning, research, and administrative duties and blended modes of provision.
In order to address this issue, OUT, in collaboration with Saide’s OER Africa initiative, has conceptualised a course on ‘Digital Fluency’ to be provided as an Open Educational Resource (OER) and made available for ODeL provision.
The move from literacy to fluency encompasses effective and ethical online communication, critical interpretation, quality resource creation and curation, knowledge co-construction, and an understanding of using all of these abilities to open up education – with all of these becoming increasingly standard and effortless over time.
This document summarizes the development of an Open Educational Resources (OER) digital fluency course for academics at the Open University of Tanzania (OUT). The goals were to develop a 5 module course on digital skills, convert existing OUT courses to OER, establish an OER repository, and conduct research. The course was developed iteratively over 3 years with input from OUT and other universities. It was piloted with academics and received positive feedback. Moving forward, OUT aims to further integrate OER into its practices and policies to promote open teaching and learning.
The document discusses moving a workshop from in-person to online delivery. It recommends defining clear learning objectives and creating a skeleton plan that outlines the workshop content and type of content. Examples of content types include information, activities, quizzes and screencasts. The document also suggests developing a storyboard to flesh out the skeleton plan in more detail. Common pitfalls to avoid include making the learning tool-driven or including too much information. The workshop leaders are asked to share their storyboards for feedback.
This document outlines the agenda and content for a workshop on re-evaluating online teaching. The workshop aims to enable reflection on learning and teaching experiences, articulate characteristics of good learning, and develop strategies for effective course design, evaluation, and sharing of good practices. The agenda includes discussions of what constitutes good learning, the importance of e-learning, emerging technologies, and strategies for collaborative learning and course evaluation. Resources on open educational practices and a taxonomy of MOOCs are also presented and discussed.
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The introductory talk given by the Software Sustainability Institute's Simon Hettrick at the 2013 Workshop for e-Infrastructure trainers event, which took place at the Hartree Centre, in Cheshire.
Presented by Simon Hettrick at the e-Infrastructure Academic User Community Forum, this talk provides a number of recommendations for improving the provision of training for e-Infrastructure.
The document discusses the Software Sustainability Institute's community engagement efforts, including its Agents/Super Pals program and Fellows program. It recruits early-career and mid-career researchers to gather intelligence, run workshops, and provide feedback. The Fellows program has grown from 10 Agents in 2011 to 15 Fellows in 2013 across various research domains. The goals are to effectively serve the research community, maximize the Institute's impact, and promote awareness of software sustainability best practices.
Introduction from Neil Chue Hong, Director of the Software Sustainability Institute for session on "Publishing Research Data: What’s in it for me?" at Science, Policy, Outreach and Tools Online.
These are the combined slides from the lightning talks sessions at the Collaborations Workshop 2012. For speaker information, see: http://www.software.ac.uk/cw12/cw12-topics-lightning-talks
The document provides information about a workshop hosted at www.software.ac.uk, including details on how it works, the events team members, ways to provide feedback, announcements, an agents network, and collaborative ideas activities. Attendees are encouraged to meet new people, visit the website for information, email (but not attach) documents, and that the workshop is flexible.
The document provides instructions for conducting breakout sessions, which include choosing a Chair and Scribe in the first 5 minutes to lead discussion on lessons learned, problems and solutions, further work needed, and resources. In the last 10 minutes, the Scribe distills the group's notes using a template, and the group chooses a presenter to report the results to the larger group via email.
This document provides guidance on carefully selecting open source software for adoption and long-term reuse. It emphasizes the importance of evaluating several key factors, such as whether the software meets functional requirements both currently and for the future, has an active user and developer community, provides good documentation and support, remains up to date and interoperable with standards, and has a development roadmap that indicates ongoing support. The document advises asking the developer community questions and provides an example of thoroughly evaluating the Taverna workflow system based on these criteria.
This talk was presented by Simon Hettrick at the University of Southampton, Digital Economies Christmas Party.
The talk covered three activities of the Software Sustainability Institute: the Collaborations Workshop, the Agents network and Ask Steve!
Presentation by Steve Crouch, Software Architect at the Software Sustainability Institute.
Presented at the Digital Social Research: Sustainability Training Workshop at OeRC, Oxford on 12 December 2011.
Presentation by Steve Crouch, Software Architect at the Software Sustainability Institute.
Presented at the Digital Social Research: Sustainability Training Workshop at OeRC, Oxford on 12 December 2011.
A presentation by Matt Shreeve from curtis+cartwright Consulting Ltd..
Presented at the Preserving Software workshop, Brettenham House, London, 7 July 2010
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Presented at the Preserving Software workshop, Brettenham House, London, 7 July 2010.
Issue tracking allows organizations to manage changes and bugs in an ordered way. An issue can represent any query, occurrence, or task that may impact a project, such as a software bug, request for change, or action item from a meeting. When an issue is reported, it goes through a typical workflow of being assigned, accepted, worked on, and eventually closed or reopened. Popular open source bug trackers include Bugzilla, Trac, and JIRA, with Trac being a good example of a lightweight yet powerful option that allows cross-referencing with wikis and version control systems.
The document discusses expanding support for software users by providing multiple avenues of help including email lists, FAQs, tutorials, a public issue tracker, and chat rooms. It emphasizes being honest about quality of service commitments like response times, supported platforms and issue scope, as well as types of support offered such as general help or tailored solutions. Alternative resources are suggested to help users help each other through a public archive and code drops while still ensuring individual requests are addressed.
The document discusses code repositories and recommends hosting code online for open source projects. It describes how code repositories provide a safe place to store code, manage changes, and collaborate. It then discusses local versus internet repositories and recommends internet repositories for open source projects to avoid hosting burdens. Several popular online repositories are described, including SourceForge, Google Code, and GitHub.
Planning is essential for any project that produces software, even if it is research-oriented. Development plans should be detailed enough to provide guidance but not constrain the project. The plan should be useful to the project team and use tools that work best for the individuals involved. The plan should set regular milestones to release work in progress and review progress without locking in scope too early. A product-based approach to planning breaks work down into components that can be estimated, and the plan should include testing, integration, documentation, and release tasks.
The document discusses enabling smooth transitions between software maintainers. It suggests that when inducting a new maintainer, an experienced maintainer should discuss the software's design, develop code together, and walk through the code. For self-guided learning, documentation like user docs, tests, design docs and commented source code can help navigate understanding. When inheriting a large codebase, inspecting the code, documenting assumptions and designs, and writing tests and user docs creates resources to help future maintainers. Well structured code with tests that demonstrate functionality form a minimal effective handover.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
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Boost your website's visibility with proven SEO techniques! Our latest blog dives into essential strategies to enhance your online presence, increase traffic, and rank higher on search engines. From keyword optimization to quality content creation, learn how to make your site stand out in the crowded digital landscape. Discover actionable tips and expert insights to elevate your SEO game.
Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and MilvusZilliz
Spark is the widely used ETL tool for processing, indexing and ingesting data to serving stack for search. Milvus is the production-ready open-source vector database. In this talk we will show how to use Spark to process unstructured data to extract vector representations, and push the vectors to Milvus vector database for search serving.
Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
Discover how Standard Chartered Bank harnessed the power of Neo4j to transform complex data access challenges into a dynamic, scalable graph database solution. This keynote will cover their journey from initial adoption to deploying a fully automated, enterprise-grade causal cluster, highlighting key strategies for modelling organisational changes and ensuring robust disaster recovery. Learn how these innovations have not only enhanced Standard Chartered Bank’s data infrastructure but also positioned them as pioneers in the banking sector’s adoption of graph technology.
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
Goodbye Windows 11: Make Way for Nitrux Linux 3.5.0!SOFTTECHHUB
As the digital landscape continually evolves, operating systems play a critical role in shaping user experiences and productivity. The launch of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 marks a significant milestone, offering a robust alternative to traditional systems such as Windows 11. This article delves into the essence of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, exploring its unique features, advantages, and how it stands as a compelling choice for both casual users and tech enthusiasts.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
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Pakdata Cf is a groundbreaking system designed to streamline and facilitate access to CNIC information. This innovative platform leverages advanced technology to provide users with efficient and secure access to their CNIC details.
TrustArc Webinar - 2024 Global Privacy SurveyTrustArc
How does your privacy program stack up against your peers? What challenges are privacy teams tackling and prioritizing in 2024?
In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
See how organizational priorities and strategic approaches to data security and privacy are evolving around the globe.
This webinar will review:
- The top 10 privacy insights from the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey
- The top challenges for privacy leaders, practitioners, and organizations in 2024
- Key themes to consider in developing and maintaining your privacy program
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
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