Ensemble

The Ensemble Project is running an invited one-day workshop entitled “A Semantic Web App in a Day” at this year’s Computer Assisted Learning (CAL) Conference.  The workshop is on the 14th April 2011, at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Participants will be able to find out about semantic and ‘linked-data’ technologies, as well as about the . . . → Read More: CAL Ensemble Workshop: A Semantic Web App in a Day!

Congratulations to Dr Frances (Fran) Tracy, who has been a researcher on the Ensemble project since the outset, and who has been appointed to the Post of Senior Lecturer in Education Studies at Liverpool John Moores University, where she had been working since moving from CARET in Cambridge in October 2010.

Fran will continue . . . → Read More: An Arrival and a (sort of) Departure

Rob Walker was a visiting scholar at Swinburne University of Technology, School of Design during October 2010, as part of his ongoing work on designing spaces for education.

Environments for Technology Enhanced Learning

Wooranna Park Primary School in Melbourne has become a focus of attention for architects and educators in the UK who . . . → Read More: Rob Walker visits Swinburne University of Technology

Estrid Sorensen

Last week saw the latest seminar day presented by the Ensemble Project, on the topic of ‘Socio-material and Posthuman Readings of Digital Learning’. On Friday 17th September, Liverpool John Moores University welcomed Estrid Sorensen (Ruhr University, Berlin) and Sian Bayne (Edinburgh). The event was chaired by Richard Edwards and included presentations . . . → Read More: Socio-material and Posthuman Readings of Digital Learning

The biennial European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) conference took place last week in Trento, Italy. The conference had a strong Ensemble presence, with team members presenting on a diverse range of topics, including:

Edwards, R. and Carmichael, P. (2010) The Hidden Curriculum of Codes: a Question of Semantics? Paper . . . → Read More: Ensemble at EASST 2010 Conference

Sanna Rimpilainen (pictured) recently presented her paper ‘Actor Network Theory, Pragmatism and empirical data’ at the First International Theorising Education Conference held in June 24-26 in Stirling. She will also participate in the International Doctoral Summer School: Theorising Education in Doctoral Research, following immediately after the conference (27th June – 1st July).

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. . . → Read More: Activities at the Laboratory for Educational Theory, Stirling

This month, Richard Edwards is presenting a paper “(Im)mobilities and (dis)locating practices in cyber education” at a seminar which is part of the ESRC sponsored seminar series “New Spaces for Education”, to be held at the University of Southampton.

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Find out more about the seminar series. Read Richard’s abstract. View presentation . . . → Read More: (Im)mobilities and (dis)locating practices in cyber education

Recently, we learnt of the success of the Australian Research Council Linkage application for a 3 year research project ‘Remaking practices: learning to meet the challenge of practice change in primary health care’.

The project, building on the work of Ensemble, will investigate learning and the use of technologies in the remaking of professional . . . → Read More: New project: Remaking Practices

Patrick visited Washington DC for a meeting to discuss the future directions for the SIMILE Exhibit web application framework. This brought together members of the MIT/SIMILE team, the Library of Congress, and other key Semantic Web players such as Talis, MetaWeb and Zepheira.

Patrick presented a set of ‘use cases’ drawn from Ensemble project . . . → Read More: ‘Future of Exhibit’ meeting in Washington DC

The Ensemble project had a presence at the Learning Development Centre Annual Conference (3rd June) with take away materials and poster. Themes from the project were also taken up by Uma Patel in her presentation on ‘Exploring the benefits of thinking semantically about learning and teaching’. The use of that phrase was problematized and . . . → Read More: Learning at City conference 2010