Learning Technologies

20 days ago

IMS Learning Impact 2008

Posted at MyWay

IMS Learning Impact took place in austin between May 12th and 15th. We presented MyWay project, more specially our iPhone solution that mixes text and audio, to the anual awards and .
Vece Rector of Technology Llorenç Valverde, Eva De Lera an myself had a wonderful time chatting with people all over the world about e-learning, [...]

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1 month ago

UOC AT THE OPENIWORLD’08 (LYON, FRANCE)

Posted at Edtech

The UOC has a relevant role in the OpeniWorld, as one of the organizers. In collaboration with MIT’s Open Knowledge Initiative, the event will focus its attention on resource federation, one of today’s key educational technology challenges.
Dr Llorenç Valverde, Vice-rector of Technology at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) leads several teams in the [...]

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1 month ago

Eva de Lera at NMC Summer Conference 2008

Posted at Joy of Learning

NMC Summer Conference 2008 - Eva de Lera will be participating at this year’s Summer conference which will be held June 11-14 in Princeton, New Jersey.
She will be presenting the ENJOY Guidelines and also joining other Horizon Report 2008 Advisory Board members. UOC has also collaborated with NMC and Educause in translating the [...]

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1 month ago

Chuck Severance & Campus Project

Posted at Edtech

Chuck Severance was here, some weeks ago, talking about Campus Project with developer teams involved on the project.
See him talking about the campus project:
Campus Project Overview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRBJZ1kpYI4
Campus Project Architecture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATwP3V0brfI
Campus Project and IMS TI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt8Rvhlsvew
Dr. Charles R. Severance (http://www.dr-chuck.com) is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan focused on the [...]

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2 months ago

Final “karaoke” prototype

Posted at MyWay

The final prototype of the “karaoke” project. It’s an mpg4 movie so you can upload it to your iTouch / iPhone. Video to desktop (mpg4, 80Mb, Right click to dowload).
Thanks to Albert (Omaonk, programming) & Irene (design). They have done an outstanding job!

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2 months ago

Mobile content v.0.1

Posted at MyWay

We have uploaded a very first version of a content for mobile devices.
As you can see it’s a flash movie that reproduces an speech, shows a text and higlight what is beeing said. With this format we are trying to overcome the loose of attention that occurs when you listen a long speech generated by [...]

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2 months ago

ENJOY: Guidelines for designing engaging eLearning environments

Posted at Joy of Learning

One of the topics that we are researching at the UOC is how the overall online learning experience enhances engagement and motivation and contributes to the ultimate goal which is to learn and be motivated to learn.
One of the results of our research has been a set of guidelines that can help to design motivating [...]

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4 months ago

An iRex Iliad (short) tutorial

Posted at MyWay

We’ve just started a pilot with seven students that are going to use an iRex Iliad eBook during a semester. Irex Iliad is an eInk device capable to reproduce text, pdf an html files. The screen is slightly bigger than in other eBooks but the point with Iliade is that it allow to take notes [...]

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4 months ago

A new phone with rollable eInk display

Posted at MyWay

As we work toward automatizing multiple output formats, we were impressed by one of the newest gadget presented at the last Mobile Congress in Barcelona. The rollable phone and display has been created by PolymerVision, a spin-off of Philips, and it’s still going through a pilot phase.
See the Product Brochure for more information.

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4 months ago

Text-to-voice developments

Posted at MyWay

Get Flash

We are currently pilot testing our latest text-to-voice technology development in which background music, sounds, and a choice of different voice tones and styles are applied to ensure that the automatization from text to voice is engaging to the listeners. For more information about this project please contact Josep Rivera at jrivera@uoc.edu.
An audio sample using [...]

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4 months ago

Our meeting with Martha Cleveland-Innes

Posted at Joy of Learning

It was great having an opportunity to speak to Martha Cleveland-Innes from Athabasca University.
UOC interviewed Martha during her visit. Here’s the link to the interview.

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4 months ago

ePortfolio at iLearning Forum 2008

Posted at Edtech

Josep Mora presented the ePortfolio project at this years’ iLearning Forum in Paris. For more information about the project, please contact Josep directly at jmora@uoc.edu.

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4 months ago

UOC 5.0 version on the works!

Posted at Edtech

This coming September 2008 we will launch the 5.0 version of the UOC virtual campus. The most important changes in this version include:
An open source platform
Interoperability elements that will allow the integration of elements from other platforms such as Moodle and Sakai, through OKI standards.
Personalization elements
Ensure accessibility
Evolved graphic design and interactivity
And many more…
The 5.0 version [...]

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