The document discusses the future and sustainability of open educational resources (OERs) and the SCORE project. It suggests that OERs will become essential for higher education and the majority of course content will be based on customized OERs. To sustain OER projects like SCORE, multiple funding models are proposed including direct funding, commercialization through non-profit means like content sales and memberships, and funding from other OER projects and course production savings. The best approach combines these elements with a focus on obtaining funding from course production cost savings, which would have the most direct impact on the institution and support future OER development. Flexibility is also needed to adapt to strategic and community changes.
A short overview of key messages around employer engagement and the use of e-portfolios for work based learning from the JISC Lifelong elarning and work force development programme
Challenges Facing Professional Higher Education in Central and South-Eastern ...Anthony Fisher Camilleri
Summary of the report by the same name, available at https://procsee.eu/outputs/pcs/.
Presents policy challenges facing professional higher education based on a stakeholder consultation conducted during 2016 in Slovenia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Romania and Hungary.
A short overview of key messages around employer engagement and the use of e-portfolios for work based learning from the JISC Lifelong elarning and work force development programme
Challenges Facing Professional Higher Education in Central and South-Eastern ...Anthony Fisher Camilleri
Summary of the report by the same name, available at https://procsee.eu/outputs/pcs/.
Presents policy challenges facing professional higher education based on a stakeholder consultation conducted during 2016 in Slovenia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Romania and Hungary.
Soft Launch an Institutional Eportfolio InitiativeElizabeth Nesius
This presentation highlights PCCC’s approach to piloting online portfolios to support student learning and assessment after18 months of an e-portfolio initiative from 3 perspectives: at the institutional level, for departmental requirements and at a course level.
[SLP webinar week] Challenges and opportunities for the recognition of short ...EADTU
[SLP webinar week] Challenges and opportunities for the recognition of short learning programmes (SLPs) within the European Higher Education Area by Clare Dunn, The OUUK. Day 2, 14 October 2020
Summary presentation looking at developments related to changes in institutions as a result of markets, demographics, technology, austerity in higher education.
Slides used for summary of OERu progress and input resources as OERu 2011.11 Meeting held in Dunedin, 9-10 November 2011. EFQEL slides used under provisions of fair dealing.
Soft Launch an Institutional Eportfolio InitiativeElizabeth Nesius
This presentation highlights PCCC’s approach to piloting online portfolios to support student learning and assessment after18 months of an e-portfolio initiative from 3 perspectives: at the institutional level, for departmental requirements and at a course level.
[SLP webinar week] Challenges and opportunities for the recognition of short ...EADTU
[SLP webinar week] Challenges and opportunities for the recognition of short learning programmes (SLPs) within the European Higher Education Area by Clare Dunn, The OUUK. Day 2, 14 October 2020
Summary presentation looking at developments related to changes in institutions as a result of markets, demographics, technology, austerity in higher education.
Slides used for summary of OERu progress and input resources as OERu 2011.11 Meeting held in Dunedin, 9-10 November 2011. EFQEL slides used under provisions of fair dealing.
Webinar: Driving Technology Adoption and Success from the Top, University of ...BlackboardEMEA
Learn how strong executive leadership helped drive technology adoption at the University of Salford
Good leadership is vital to any change process, especially when it comes to introducing new technology within a university. Strong executive sponsorship - a senior leader in the institution who is endorsing and driving the change is key to ensuring that technology adoption aligns with institutional goals and encouraging participation across the institution.
Gillian fielding blackboard webinar june 2015 finalgillianfielding
These are the slides from the webinar I gave on 10 June 2015 on Driving Technology Adoption & Success From The Top: Learn how strong executive leadership helped drive technology adoption at the University of Salford.
Presents a model for building e-capability in organisations, based on our research into success factors in e-learning delivery projects in training providers and businesses.
Class project for EdTech 501
A sample Technology Use Plan for a fictional school as a ppt presentation to a school and community team as an educational technician
How to gather the right evidence to demonstrate the business value of learningDr. Regis P. Chasse, MBA
For many years, we could proudly report the cost of learning (cost per learning hour, the ratio of L&D professionals per 1000-employee, or how many people our high-priority programs reached); however, it was very difficult to demonstrate the actual value of learning to the business.
After years of focused efforts, we now use a pragmatic and cost-effective approach to measure the business impact of learning. This document covers:
• The pillars of our effectiveness evaluation framework
• Moving the conversation with stakeholders from cost to value
• Developing a pragmatic measurement approach for a learning program: challenges to expect and goals to set
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...
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1. Outcomes Future of OERs Sustainability of SCORE Based on my initial understanding of SCORE and its current strategic priorities. Within the context of how similar projects have been sustained in other institutions as well as the work around OER in the OU. Sustainability models have no reference to funding requirements.
2. The future of OER Essential for HE Widening participation / Social justice Increase student numbers Increased efficiencies & reduced cost in module production As with open source software the quality of the materials is increased through constant analysis / feedback and development inside and outside the OER community. Not yet fully realised but will be. The majority of content within formal HE provision will be based around OER. Teaching & learning teams will customise and scaffold these.
3. The future of OER Monetisation of OERs: Student support. Accreditation, tutorials, formative / summative assessment. Production support. Consultancy New research maybe time limited cost Aggregating services Production services Needs analysis, scaffolding of OERs Enhanced content Key issues Cost of production Quality IPR
4. Sustainability Direct project funding /Charitable donations. Working with the Development office. Commercialisation – (non profit) Funding from OER projects / OU module production.
5. Sustainability Direct project funding /Charitable donations. Working with the Development office. Centre of the Cell, funding from Wellcome, NESTA, DFES etc; to produce content. Sponsorship Commercialisation non profit Centre of the Cell. Selling content interpretation (cell trumps) / consultancy. OCWC membership fees Institution outside of HE around corporate responsibility and dissemination of information IBM learning.
6. Sustainability Funding from OER projects / OU module production. SCORE continues to facilitate & encourage uptake of OERs internal & external Identifies areas of requirement within OU module production. Business appraisal stage and module review. Work with other universities to produce open content benefit to both. We pay for third party content already ie: Welsh / Italian Cost savings within content production to fund work of SCORE. Funding applications / grants for OER related projects have an internal support element in them which is part of SCORE remit Digital scholarship support for faculties & students.
7. Summary There will need to be elements of all three Focus should be on 3rd option - Most impact for the OU directly and the future for OER in general. Need to be flexible in order to respond to changes in strategic requirements and developments in OER community.
