Category Archives: Events

openAIED 2nd Interest group Meeting 22nd May

openTEL is delighted to announce the second openAIED interest group meeting on the 22nd May 2018, 14:00 – 15:00, Library Seminar Room 4

We will be hosting Aftab Hussain and Dean Baggaley from Bolton College, who will kick off with keynote,

“The ADA Service at Bolton College”

 Followed by Alistair Willis, Senior Lecturer in Computing, STEM, who will be presenting,

“AMATI: Scalable assessment of Short, Free-Text Responses.”

 Martin Hlosta, Research Associate in STEM, will be presenting

“OUAnalyse: Supporting students and tutors using predictive analytics”

We look forward to seeing you on the day, openAIED Team.

Completed Projects Short Seminar Series

openTEL is pleased to announce the introduction of the Completed Projects Short Seminar Series. The Short Seminar Series gives IET Academics the opportunity to present their research projects to the openTEL community from across the university. The short seminar series will be running periodically throughout the year.

Our first Short Seminar Series kicks off on the 9th May 2018 from 10am till 12.30 in the Ambient Lab, Ground Floor, Jennie Lee Building.

Kicking off is;

Dr Rebecca Ferguson presenting Innovating Pedagogy

Dr Wayne Holmes presenting Data-Informed Learning Design for Future Schools

Dr Jude Fransmann presenting Evidence and the Politics’ of Participation in Academic-INGO Research Partnerships for International Development

 

If you are interested in learning more about the above projects, key findings, the challenges involved, lessons learnt and the impact, you can reserve your seat using the doodle poll link below;

https://doodle.com/poll/r33vtfzqscbnv98n

 

We look forward to seeing you there!

1st openTEL AIED Interest Group Meeting

We will be hosting our first openTEL Artificial Intelligence in Education Interest Group meeting on 17th April 2018 at 3PM Ambient Lab, Ground Floor, Jennie Lee Building.

This will be an open discussion with colleagues who have a similar interest in Artificial Intelligence, looking at how we can move forward, understand each other’s research interest areas and hopefully build a network where we can work collaboratively across The Open University, UK.

Please feel free to pass this event on to people you feel would be interested in attending. Booking is essential for this event as we have very limited spaces left, so please email opentel@open.ac.uk to confirm your attendance.