Feb
27
Early every year, there are 2 significant learning Technologies Conferences and Exhibitions in London, The BETT Show and the Learning Technologies Show.
BETT SHOW (http://www.bettshow.com/)
The BETT Show was held at the London Excel Arena on January 27/28. The primary focus of this annual event is to showcase the educational technologies used in schools and Colleges. This year’s event exhibited many of the usual technologies showcased by the major corporate organisations selling into this space with solutions for visual displays, electronic whiteboards, cloud computing and learning management systems. These very large stands were interspersed with smaller booths and a whole area of small tables for SMEs offering niche products, including quite a number of games-based learning solutions.
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Feb
13
Testing is under way on ‘Accessabar’, an accessibility tool which will be integrated into the BEACONING Platform. With the help of INESC in Portugal, blind and visually impaired users will participate in the usability assessment of Accessabar. The users will test the compatibility with screen readers and other assistive software, as well as the ease of use and compliance with accessibility guidelines. The results will help develop the Accessabar and related accessibility tools into an effective and fully accessible product, ready for the Alpha prototype. Results from this study will be available in the coming weeks.
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Feb
8
At the beginning of February 2017, the project partners were invited to participate at the Integration Design Workshop in Madrid, Spain, held by UCM - University Complutense of Madrid. The objectives of the meeting were to:
validate the architecture of each of the BEACONING components; validate the overall architecture of the BEACONING Platform for testing; define and validate integration requirements for each of the components; validate the data flows between the BEACONING components; identify the key issues and risks associated with development and piloting; identify the connections with other projects.
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Feb
7
The escolaglobal® school group, from Santa Maria da Feira county (Portugal), encompassing 600 alunos, is developing since 2015 an educational technology effort in every room, in the hands of every student, from preschool to secundary (“sixth form”) levels - TeK.escolaglobal, in cooperation with researchers from Universidade Aberta and Universidade de Coimbra. Going beyond the use of virtual textbooks, the project aims at the developing and deploying an educational model centred on project-based learning, where technology is employed in service of creativity, individual freedom of expression, and group work (more info about the firt year can be found in the Portuguese-language paper presented at the conference “3.º Encontro de Jogos e Mobile Learning”, in Coimbra, Portugal).
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Feb
3
The Gamification World Congress hosts enthusiasts, evangelists, practitioners, researchers, designers and developers of gamified solutions for commercial, environment, health and education applications. I have had the privilege to speak at the event twice and this year the Beaconing project was shortlisted for the Best Education Project award.
More HERE
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