A free event for building, sharing and learning cool stuff in educational technology
29th – 30th May 2012, Birmingham, UK
#dev8ed
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.
- 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:
Summaries:
- Introducing Dev8ed
- Workshop: Mashing Coursedata XCRI-CAP Feeds
- Workshop: Booktype
- Workshop: How to Build & Develop Responsive Open Learning Environments with the ROLE SDK
- Workshop: Teaching a MOOC with Coursera
- Workshop: Creating and Sharing Learning Designs
- Workshop: Node js
- Clinic on Licensing Data, Content and Software
- Talk: Learning Technologies from a Historical Perspective
- Dev8ed Showcase
Videos:
- Videos from the event, including lightning talks, presentations and delegate interviews, are available on Vimeo in the Dev8ed album
- The most popular sessions were Martin Hawksey’s Hacking Stuff Together with Google Spreadsheets and Alex Bilbie’s HTML5 and CSS3 Overview.
Other Resources:
- Interview with Frindolin Wild, research associate at the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University
- Interview with Sheila MacNeill, JISC Cetis
- Interview with Federico Sangati, Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC) at the University of Edinburgh
- Interview with Stephen Vickers, freelance
- Twitter Archive of #dev8ed Tweets
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:
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