A free event for building, sharing and learning cool stuff in educational technology

29th – 30th May 2012, Birmingham, UK

#dev8ed


 


 
 
 Learnt a lot from #dev8ed – perhaps, most importantly, that there is still a lot to learn!

 


 

About Dev8ed

 

 

Dev8eD was a free event for developers, educational technologists and users working throughout education on the development of tools, widgets, apps and resources aimed at staff in education and enhancing the student learning experience.

 

Sessions included:
  • Understanding and implementing the IMS Learning Tools Interoperability specification
  • Exploring and sharing tools for learning design through a number of design challenges
  • Widget-based learning environments
  • Mashing coursedata xcri-cap feeds
  • Human Computation related to teaching and learning
  • PublishOER project strand work with academic OER developers and education publishers

 

The full programme for the event is available here.

 


 

Resources

 

Everything you need to help follow up on this event:

 

Videos:

Other Resources:

 

 


 

Participant Feedback

 
Feedback from the audience included:
 

“I enjoyed my lightning talk – its a great way to get your head around your own topic” – Malte Ressin

“My highlights: localisation talk and different sorts of hosting talk” – Amber Thomas

“We had lots of discussions to follow up to help refine and use our Learning Designer tool. This was made it a really useful session for us.” – Diana Laurillard

“There are lots of new things coming out in the VLE world, and it would be good to expand on this at future events with sessions about the different VLEs” – Stephen Vickers

“Seven new issues in my GitHub!” – Rob Engelbright

 


 

Future Plans

 

Subject to funding, we hope to make Dev8ed an annual event.  Please contact Mahendra Mahey if you wish to get involved.

 

 

The event is organised and supported by:

 

   
Amazon Web Services 

 

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