Product 3 – Find out how to do user testing!

Another outcome of this exciting project is a brief example video which shows you a real user testing session so you get an idea of what user testing is like.



We also run a workshop on Friday 5th of March 2010 which gives you concrete tips on how to get started on doing a user testing session yourself, and a chance to ask questions and explore your ideas with others who’ve done it before!

After the workshop, you’ll be invited to see the sights of Cambridge!



This workshop will take place at CARET (16 Mill Lane, CB2 1SB Cambridge). It will probably be a full day (morning and afternoon), but further details will follow later.



Apply for attending this workshop by emailing Laura (laura @ caret.cam.ac.uk) or Anne-Sophie (asd38 @ caret.cam.ac.uk), and definitely have a look at the video!



> Watch the video

> Download the flyer



This outcome is one of the products presented at the JISC Innovation Exchange at Birmingham 28th-29th January

Product 1 – Find out how to use user-centric design!

Desperate to understand what your faculty and students REALLY want (because it’s never what they ask for)?

This handbook gives you the methodology description of the JISC Academic Networking project.

A run-through, with real examples, pictures and lots of ‘how-do-I-start-on-this’ should enable you to get started on a project, using this methodology yourself.



> Download the Handbook

> Download the flyer



This outcome is one of the products presented at the JISC Innovation Exchange at Birmingham 28th-29th January

Product 2 – Find out how to involve stakeholders efficiently!

Looking to try something new with your next project, or you simply want to find out how to involve your stakeholders efficiently? Then this product is something for you!



It can sometimes be really hard to get your stakeholders involved. This tick-box-shaped document isn’t a walkthrough roadmap, but a list of initiatives you can choose from, in order to involve your stakeholders in an efficient way.



> Document on how to involve stakeholders efficiently

> Document about personas – Adds to the information in the previous document

> Find out more information on ‘Stakeholder buy-in’ on the BRII blog

> Download the flyer



This outcome is one of the products presented at the JISC Innovation Exchange at Birmingham 28th-29th January

Product 4 – Academic Networking in your Virtual Learning Environment!

One of the outcomes of the JISC Academic Networking project is that the results of the project will be integrated in future releases of open source Online Learning Environment Sakai.

Keep an eye on SakaiProject.org!



> Download the flyer



This outcome is one of the products presented at the JISC Innovation Exchange at Birmingham 28th-29th January

Innovations in Reference Management

On the 14th January 2010 the TELSTAR project organised and hosted the Innovations in Reference Management event. The event was live blogged at http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/telstar/tag/irm10/, and an archive of all related tweets is available at http://twapperkeeper.com/irm10

The event was written up for the Serials-eNews online newsletter (http://www.ringgold.com/UKSG/si_pd.cfm?pid=10&articleid=5145&issueno=212&xsection=Business)

Some of the attendees also blogged the event including:

Semantic Tool for Route planning:

The reason is that XML was designed to carry data, not to display data, XML tags are not predefined, and XML is designed to be self-descriptive. Musket Semantic Tool needs to understand the schema and semantics of the XCRI XML files, it will be able to return informative responses and support the route planning. Within this research field, ontology (a) plays a key role for realizing the tool, (b) which provides a common; shared understanding of knowledge in this domain; (c) capture and formalize knowledge by connecting human understanding of symbols with their machine process ability, (d) and through the introduction of ontological reasoning, the approach are suitable for flexibly discovering abilities in using information, that were not specifically designed or intended for the particular use case.

Project impact and stakeholder engagement

The WELL project evaluation workshops on 3rd Novemer 2009 showed that WBL arena can be quite a tough nut for HE to crack. The workshops thrashed out some of the key issues in relation to

“success” for all stakeholders and what constitutes a “successful” WBL project; and


developing a stakeholder engagement strategy for WBL projects.

Notes made at the events are available to read. They will also be incorporated into a final evaluation report.

Leaflets for Trade Fair in JISC Workshop

As one of the second phase institutional innovation projects, we are prearing to contribute to the Trade Fair in JISC workshop in the end of January selling our products and buying the others’ products – it’s kind of a game to evaluate the project outcomes. 

To productize our project outcome, we came up with the suggestion of five leaflets including model driven data integration framework, data mining for ETL, student intervention services, and etc.  

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We’re all going to Aston…

Avi Naim and Guy Chisholm will be off to the JISC Institutional Innovation programme meeting in Aston next week. Watch this space for the “outputs” we’ll have for sale in the Trade Fair!

Off to the programme meeting…

Next week, Laura and Anne-Sophie will be off to Aston for the Institutional Innovation JISC programme meeting.



We’re looking forward to meeting the other projects, and figuring out what to buy in the Trade Fair… watch this space for posts about what we’ll have available in the Fair!
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