Xpert – Interview: Pat Lockley

Sep 4, 2009 by milly-shaw

Pat Lockley from University of Nottingham talks about Xpert, an educational resources search engine.

What is Xpert?Xpert is a unique search engine. It’s the biggest UK search engine of university content from across the world. It has over 2000 pieces of content, and it’s growing by 200 a month.What problems/issues is Xpert tackling?Xpert makes it quicker and easier to get content into more than one repository as a time. It’s also the only place that offers all the the OCW (OpenCourseWare) feeds.How would you like other software developers and users to get involved in what you are doing?It would be useful if people wanted to add content to it, or produce something from the feed data.What developer communities have you been involved in and if none, why not?None that I’m aware of…What is the coolest or most exciting thing in educational software development?Moodle, not because it’s particularly cool but because it’s the biggest e-learning tool out there.