Responses from 100 device-led student interviews

Posted on June 11, 2011 by mark

Between January and March 2011, one hundred students were interviewed about their use of technology and places of study at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU). The interviews took place at locations across MMU and, as far as possible, students were selected … Continue reading →

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CETIS Widget Bash

Posted on March 24, 2011 by mark

On returning home from a productive and enjoyable two days in Bolton I’m rather pleased to see that our PC Availability widget displays the free PCs in the MMU drop-ins in a different order now I’m in South Manchester. Our … Continue reading →

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Running with Wookie

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Steve

When we first looked into getting involved with the Widget revolution we wanted scalable widgets that could enhance the student learning experience and be deployed on a range of different platforms. Continue reading →

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Widget development

Posted on March 21, 2011 by mark

Over the last few months, W2C has been laying foundations for its extensible VLE by developing web services to publish frequently-asked-for information from university systems. We are now ready to test the potential of W3C Widgets as a mechanism for … Continue reading →

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Understanding how our fees web-services are being used

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Steve

After intensive testing, fee status information was released via the myMMU portal to all first year students on November 17, 2010. Naturally, there has been considerable interest in understanding the impact of this new system in terms of take-up and in the broader context of feedback from students and front-line FLS staff dealing with financial queries.
Here is how we sorted the records to get the statistics Continue reading →

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Web Services Update

Posted on February 1, 2011 by kieron

Back in December 2010 Mark blogged about the Web Services we use in MMU to feed our Portal and mobile devices (see his post). At the end of November, web service usage was: This post is by way of an … Continue reading →

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Our DVLE model?

Posted on January 26, 2011 by mark

Sheila and Wilbert’s Distributed Learning Environments briefing paper describes 5 possible integration scenarios and invites consideration of their relative strengths and weaknesses. We have given some initial thought to where our W2C work would be positioned and it seems our … Continue reading →

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Reading List Web Services

Posted on January 20, 2011 by mark

MMU’s learning technologies review (2010) selected the Talis Aspire hosted reading list system to play a key role in delivering its vision of an integrated and extensible VLE. Following the review, policy statements were drafted and approved that set out … Continue reading →

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Device led student interviews

Posted on January 14, 2011 by samcon

During January and February the Project Team (members of Learning Research & Information Services and the Centre for Research in Library & Information Management) will be carrying out 100 short impromptu interviews with MMU students. The aim of the research … Continue reading →

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Growth of Blackberry

Posted on December 7, 2010 by mark

This academic year, colleagues have noticed a growing number of blackberry smartphones around MMU. Our survey of students’ mobile devices, which will be published in conjunction with a number of other universities in 2011, has revealed blackberry as the most … Continue reading →

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