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Xpert – Expert Talk – Video: Pat Lockley – Day 1

devcsi-team — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:08:03 +0000

Expert talk given by Pat Lockley about Xpert, on day 1 of the event.

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Xpert – Video: Pat Lockley – Pitch 25 – Day 2

devcsi-team — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:57:53 +0000

Using a set of ditributed tools to facilitate easy submission to repositories.We have been speaking to:For further information, please visit:Please note that this 20 second pitch was voted second runner up as best pitch by the audience.

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Xpert – Interview: Pat Lockley

milly-shaw — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:17:17 +0000

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

Patt Lockley

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.