Tag Archives: EASiHE

Wessex Deanery Update

October 16, 2009 – 12:27 pm

The design for the website was completed by the interns over the summer and this will continue to be progressed with the help of our developer.
There are now more than 60 completed questions with extensive feedback available in the question bank, with a further 65 partially completed and being worked on.
More questions are being added [...]

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Installation of Minibix for Wessex Deanery Question Bank

September 10, 2009 – 11:18 am

Finlay, Minibix has been installed on the virtual machine for Wessex Deanery Question Bank. The installation took a bit longer (: than expected (4 days instead of 1 hour) due to two problems:
1. Building Minibix: Minibix installation stopped half way through.
2. Tomcat failed to start Minibix’s war files.
A guide on how to Install Minibix on Ubuntu server [...]

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QTI Engine on Android

August 11, 2009 – 3:26 pm

JQTI library has been compiled on Android platform. Based on the library, the mobile version QTI-playr was built. There are three type of interactions was implemented including Text Entry Interaction, Choice Interaction and Hot Text Interaction. Due to Android not supporting Java applet, some interactions such as Graphic Gap Match Interaction etc. [...]

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Assembly

August 11, 2009 – 1:30 pm

Following our previous proposal to external contacts (inc contacts at Cambridge, Plymouth, Coventry and Reading) on having an assembly, we will be continuing to try and find a suitable date in august.

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Update

August 11, 2009 – 1:23 pm

* We have prepared a demo giving an overview of our work so far. This was shown at the 1st steering group meeting and will be shown at the 2nd on the 18th August. (This includes QTI questions being played “offline” on the android mobile phone platform courtesy of Pei Zhang!)
* We are working on [...]

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Update

July 29, 2009 – 9:52 pm

* We are starting to extend the project to 6 additional schools
* Modern Languages: Evaluation of eAssessments with Irina and her students started (so far Irina and her students really liked them!). Continuing strong collaboration with Irina.
* Civil Engineering: Evaluation of eAssessments started – one student so far more to come soon. Continuing strong [...]

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Update: Collecting Information from the Schools, Testing and Evaluation

July 6, 2009 – 8:30 am

This is a short update to note that, in addition to everything else I’ve mentioned in previous postings I’ve also been:
- working on collecting the information we have identified as important, from the schools. This includes the personas and scenarios for the existing use of technology, the course aims, the lecturers’ reactions and the lecturers’ [...]

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Interns

June 24, 2009 – 10:40 am

This week, 3 interns (ECS undergrads) have started work on the EASiHE project for 12 weeks over the summer break.  They will be initially working on the website for the Wessex Deanery.

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Wessex Deanery Question Set

June 17, 2009 – 12:28 pm

I have now completed 2  sets of questions for the Wessex Deanery.  These can be inspected at:
https://www.survey.iss-caa.soton.ac.uk/q4/open.dll?SESSION=9241349421190140&NAME=anon&GROUP=spw-wessex
https://www.survey.iss-caa.soton.ac.uk/q4/open.dll?SESSION=9755662522100600&NAME=anon&GROUP=spw-wessex
There have been problems with the construction of these questions as, although good feedback was provided, it was set out in a very confusing way.  I have spent considerable time rewriting the feedback so that now it makes more [...]

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EASiHE Update

June 9, 2009 – 6:19 pm

The EASiHE team have now co-designed a formative eAssessment, and made a prototype available, with each of the two academic schools I am working with at the University of Southampton. This has involved working closely with academics in both schools.
The first school is Civil Engineering. This formative eAssessment is a particularly important part of the [...]

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