Semantic Technologies in Education – exploring the practitioners’ perspective
This workshop will collect and share insights into current understandings and future applications of semantic technologies in education.
This workshop will:
• augment the findings of a recent JISC survey on semantic technologies in education;
• calibrate the findings against the experience and understandings of members of the ALT community;
• use feedback to further develop the survey’s technology roadmap.
We are relying on active participation from attendees at the workshop to make this session useful and interesting.
JISC commissioned an investigation into semantic technologies in learning and teaching (SemTech) due for completion early in 2009 . The SemTech Project Website summarises information about semantic technologies in education and contains an analysis of the technologies and applications thus far identified.
Following a brief overview of our investigation of semantic technologies in education the workshop will consist of structured group discussions from a selected perspective (educational, technical and organisational).
The workshop structure will be fine-tuned to match the participants basically as follows:
1. Working in groups of up to eight using flip charts to produce a poster for a two-minute poster pitch.
2. Peer review group comments on each poster.
3. Plenary session to identify next steps