Tag Archives: Stellar

Presenting STELLAR at ELAG 2013

Posted on June 19, 2013 by sb25723

I expected Ghent at the end end of May to be bathed in sunshine, offering numerous opportunities for coffee stops as well as Belgian chocolate! Unfortunately it rained… so there was nothing to distract me from the ELAG 2013 conference. Just … Continue reading →

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Our first view of the prototype…

Posted on March 18, 2013 by sb25723

Last Friday was a big day for the STELLAR team – we had the first demonstration of the proof of concept tool being developed to demonstrate the enhancements we are making to the digitised non-current OU learning materials. It was … Continue reading →

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Moving forward

Posted on January 30, 2013 by sb25723

Despite the recent ice and snow, work continues on STELLAR to develop the proof of concept application which will demonstrate the transformation of our selected legacy module learning materials… Our Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) is now working on mapping the … Continue reading →

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Taking stock…

Posted on December 19, 2012 by sb25723

Throughout 2012 STELLAR has prepared the groundwork for the development work we are now undertaking. The pre-enhancement survey was conducted and the findings from this identified the value placed on legacy learning materials as well as informing the selection of … Continue reading →

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STELLAR Update

Posted on November 14, 2012 by sb25723

Over the last few weeks work has focused on preparing the legacy learning materials for enhancement into linked data format. The materials are in a variety of formats and we have completed the digitisation of nearly all the video content, … Continue reading →

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Stellar Pre-enhancement survey report

Posted on October 8, 2012 by admin

Survey finds the value of old learning materials The pre-enhancement survey report for Stellar is now available [STELLAR-Project-Pre-enhancement-survey-report].  Although we have known for some while that there is value in old learning  materials as it may be able to be … Continue reading →

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STELLAR September update

Posted on September 26, 2012 by sb25723

We have now embarked on the next phase of the project; the enhancement of legacy learning materials. Informed by the feedback from the pre-enhancement survey we have selected three discontinued OU modules as our targets: S100 Science Foundation course D251 … Continue reading →

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New STELLAR Project Manager

Posted on August 29, 2012 by sb25723

By way of introduction, I’m Sarah Brown and I’ve recently joined the STELLAR team as the new Project Manager. Since then I have been busy getting up to speed with what has been achieved so far. A great starting point has been the feedback … Continue reading →

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Stellar pre-enhancement survey update

Posted on July 30, 2012 by admin

We’ve now published the results of the Stellar survey as a page on this blog – Summary of survey results.  This page includes details of the number of survey respondents and their breakdown as well as the responses to each question, … Continue reading →

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