Open Learning Network

Present: Karen, Gary, Patrina, Eileen, Rob, Yishay, Ann, Michelle, Markus, Anna, Doug, Patrick, Natalie, Karen, Sandra

Patrick welcomed everyone back from a meeting hiatus over the summer. Three new people welcomed - Sandra Wills, Markus Deimann (OLnet visiting fellows), Yishay Mor (new senior lecturer in IET).

This is a liveblog from an IET Technology Coffee Morning, held on Wednesday 6 July 2011 in Meeting Room 1, Jennie Lee Building, The Open University.

Patrick McAndrew is presenting on “Open Educational Resources in the OU: an OLnet update”

He says there are many slides in the presentation – his last version had three slides, this one has 99.

Much activity on Open Educational Resources (OER) in the OU. OLnet in particular is a project looking at the research, drawing it all together. Project site at olnet.org. Has been running for 2 years, one more to go.

Present: Karen, Doug, Tina, Kasia, Natalie, Gary, Andreia, Canan, Anna, Michelle Bailey, Ann, Michelle Bachler, Simon

Apologies: Gráinne, Patrick, Elpida, Giota

Introductions

Gary Elliot-Cirigottis (IET Business Improvement and Programme Manager) and Michelle Bailey (IET Research Funding Officer) welcomed to the meeting and introduced.

New Year, New Start

 Present: Patrick, Giota, Karen, Michelle, Natalie, Elpida, Yimin, Anna, Simon, Agnes Sandor, Janet, Eileen, Ann, Canan

Apologies: Tina, Kasia, Andreia

Presentation by Agnes Sandor, OLnet Visiting Fellow.

Based in Xerox Research Centre Europe, in a Château!

Xerox Innovation Group - includes XRCC, XRCW, PARC, and also XRCE - her group. Linguistic analysis of texts. Parsing and Semantics - 10 people; main tool is XIP - Xerox Incremental Parser, their tool they use for analysis. It's dependency parsing, analysis according to their syntactic structure, use it for semantic analysis. English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese - 20 languages, but not all at the same level.  Many interesting applications (natural language processing), in many domains - biology, education, digital libraries, litigation, health. 

Main topic today: finding rhetorical functions related to research problems (in scholarly articles).

 Present: Doug, Janet, Ann, Jenny Preece, Kasia, Patrick, Giota, Simon, Michelle, Elpida, Anna, Natalie, Gráinne, Tina, Canan, Yimin

Apologies: Karen, Andreia

Introductions

Yimin is a Visiting Fellow from China, for about two months.  Jenny Preece is another OLnet Fellow visiting, from Maryland. She's Dean of the iSchool - not Computer Science, not Education, but focus on information and aspects of information storage, searching, retrieval, communications. Most projects work closely with people in computer science, digital humanities, etc. 

Notes from OLnet team meeting, 16 June 2010.

Present: Patrick, Giota, Kasia, Tina, Michelle, Anna, Canan, Doug, Andreia, Svetlana, Janet, Liam

Apologies: Karen, Simon, everyone else

 Live notes from OLnet team meeting, 2 June 2010

Present: Andreia, Janet, Kasia, Liam, Tina, Svetlana, Canan, Karen, Doug, Anna

Apols: Patrick, Ann, Simon, Michelle, Giota, Eileen, Elpida, Nick

Welcome to Svetlana

Welcome to Svetlana, new OLnet fellow with us for this month. Also planning a visit to the Open University of Catalunya. UNESCO Institute for IT in Education, where she works, is launching a project on OER for Russia and CIS.

Present: Simon, Doug, Gráinne, Canan, Ann, Anna, Andreia, Kasia, Elpida, Liam, Janet, Tina, Giota, Karen, Patrick, Michelle, Eileen, Will

Cameras on, being recorded - six cameras capturing us talking in the JLB Ambient Lab. For research purposes.

Broad objective is for us to have a better understanding of what we're doing with the project, greater clarity of everyone's activity, as a foundation for building on. And to have a nice time.

Present: Doug, Karen, Patrick, Andreia, Liam, Janet, Kasia, Ann, Eileen, Anna, Michelle, Canan

Apologies: Giota, Tina, Elpida

Present: Patrick, Janet, Liam, Doug, Nick, Tina, Giota, Canan, Andreia, Kasia, Ann, Anna, Simon

Apologies: Karen, Michelle (at SXSW)