Category Archives: social networking

Supporting Personalised & Collaborative e-Learning in Foundation Degrees

nbsp;http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programme…
The aims of the programme include the delivery of a personalised learning experience (PLE) within selected Foundation Degrees, through the use of blogs, discussion fora and collaborative tools; personal workspaces and tools for reflection, presentation and shared learning. This process will include the identification, evaluation and implementation of e-portfolio, personal development planning (PDP), and e-assessment [...]

Coalition of Humanities and Arts Infrastructures and Networks – CHAIN

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A meeting was held at King’s College, London, on 26th and 27th October 2009, between representatives of the following networks, infrastructure projects, and planning initiatives working with digital technologies in the Arts and Humanities:
 arts-humanities.net  http://www.arts-humanities.net/)
ADHO – Association of Digital Humanities Organisations  http://www.digitalhumanities.org/)
CLARIN  http://www.clarin.eu/)
centerNet  http://www.digitalhumanities.org/centern…)
DARIAH  http://www.dariah.eu/)
NoC – Network of Expert Centres in Great Britain and [...]

AIP UniPHY

nbsp;http://www.aipuniphy.org/Portal/Portal.a…
AIP UniPHY is the world’s first literature-based professional social networking site for physical science researchers.
The site allows physicists, engineers, and other scientists to directly connect with and explore their professional contacts and to identify researchers with the expertise needed for future collaborations.
source: IRN

TheNeuroNetwork.com

nbsp;http://theneuronetwork.com/
Springer, the global; scientific publisher has launched a free, multidimensional professional networking site called TheNeuroNetwork dedicated to those working and studying the brain.
 TheNeuroNetwork.com is aimed at professionals from the fields of neuroscience, neurology, psychology, artificial intelligence, and other related areas. It offers an online community and networking site for those studying neural activities in [...]

AcaWiki

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Increasing the Impact of Research Using Web 2.0
AcaWiki is like “Wikipedia for academic research” designed to increase the impact of scholars, students, and bloggers by enabling them to share summaries and discuss academic papers online. AcaWiki turns research hidden in academic journals into something more dynamic and accessible. All content on the site is licensed [...]

AIP UniPHY

nbsp;http://aipuniphy.org/Portal/Portal.aspx
AIP UniPHY is the world’s first literature-based professional social networking site for physical science researchers.
The site allows physicists, engineers, and other scientists to directly connect with and explore their professional contacts and to identify researchers with the expertise needed for future collaborations.

ResearchGATE

nbsp;https://www.researchgate.net/
ResearchGATE is the leading professional network for scientists.
It’s free of charge and designed to meet researchers’ needs.
CONNECT with colleagues and build your scientific network
DISCOVER new methods, papers, and people with our comprehensive research based search engine
COLLABORATE using our suite of applications built specifically for researchers

Reflect 2.0: Digital storytelling to develop reflective learning with next generation technologies & practice

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The overall aim of the project was to pilot the use of Next Generation Technologies to enable students to collect and present multimedia artefacts to facilitate reflective learning.

Alternate reality games for orientation, socialisation & induction

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This project aimed to provide a novel and engaging alternative to traditional student induction. Through the use of an Alternate Reality Game, which combines a series of collaborative challenges within an unfolding storyline, it aimed to provide a mechanism for new students to make friends, orientate themselves to the City of Manchester and learn basic [...]

Academic writing empowered by online social mediated environments

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This project developed a personalised learning community, in which dynamic intelligent knowledge structuring, anchored to a core ontology of dissertation writing practices, and encouraging the addition of evolving community-generated relevant content, both supports individual students writing dissertations and enhances traditional face to face supervision.

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