News & Updates
:: Dialogue Games & InterLoc News ::
18:08:09 Professor Andrew Ravenscroft's inaugural lecture
Professor Andrew Ravenscroft's inaugural lecture will take place on Tuesday 3rd November 2009, in London.Title:‘Where is my Mind?’ Dialogue, Learning and Design for the Web
Date: Tuesday, 3rd November 2009
Venue: Henry Thomas room, Holloway Road, London Metropolitan University
28:5:09 Andrew Ravenscroft contributes to online radio show
Andrew partcipated in an online JISC radio show on May 21 at 18.00. Andrew was on a 'live panel' with Oleg Liber and Claire Newhouse. More info at: http://www.pontydysgu.org/2009/05/more-about-the-elearning-show/08:05:09 Paper accepted for IADIS e-learning conference
Andrew Ravenscroft has had a paper accepted with co-authors from York and Leeds for IADIS e-learning 2009: Yuan, T., Moore, D. and Ravenscroft. (2009). Evaluations of a Human-computer Debating System for Educational Debate. Paper Accepted for IADIS Conference on e-Learning 2009, Algarve, Portugal, 17-20 June 2009.08:05:09 Workshop invitation, Indiana, June 17-18
Andrew Ravenscroft has been invited to a workshop on ‘digging into data’ and visualisation, organised by Prof Colin Allen and Prof Katy Borner at the University of Indiana funded by the USA National Science Foundation and McDonnell Foundation. This is building on a proposed joint project with Indiana and Dundee in information science and data visualisation, where we aim to use models or argument and dialogue (such as dialogue games) to improve semantic data retrieval and visualisation. The workshop will be held in Indiana on 17-18 June, and is very useful opportunity to extend LTRI work into the field of information science for education through collaborating with world leaders in this field.08:05:09 Workshop invitation
Andrew Ravenscroft has been invited by The Oxford Internet Institute and the Department of Education, University of Oxford to the workshop “Learning Companions and Pedagogical Agents: Future Trends and Possibilities”, on 28th May.02:03:09 Open Source release
The latest release (version 5.0c) of Java code is available through SourceForge and the InterLoc/DDG community wiki under GPL 2 licence.20:02:09 InterLoc 5 released through the InterLoc/DDG community wiki
20:02:09 The InterLoc/DDG community wiki has been set up
This wiki is to support educators using InterLoc within a community. It contains user guides, access to versions of InterLoc, access to shared activity and game templates, suggestions and problem reporting, access to mentors within the partner institutions. See Using InterLoc.01:11:08 The LTRI Dialogue Game team has had two papers accepted for CAL 09: Learning in Digital Worlds:
Baur, E., Ravenscoft, A, Sagar, M. & Schofield. S. (2008). Deploying dialogue games to engage students in collaborative thinking: An evaluation and case study, Oral Paper accepted for CAL 09.Ravenscroft, A. (2008). Learning and thinking on the web: Issues and implications from a decade of digital argumentation, Oral Paper accepted for CAL 09.
27:10:08 Professor Andrew Ravenscroft invite to speak at London Knowledge Lab
Andrew Ravenscroft has been invited to speak at the workshop on "Personalised technologies for lifelong learning" which will be held at the London Knowledge Lab on 18th November 2008 that is being organised by George Magoulas (MyPlan and LDSE) and Alex Poulovassilis (Co-Director of LKL). He will be giving an invited talk and also participating in the plenary discussion at the end of the day.25:11:08 Professor Andrew Ravenscroft invited onto DCSF Consultation Group
Andrew Ravenscroft has been invited on to the DCSF Beyond Current Horizons Consultation Group for the theme: Knowledge, Creativity and Communication: The Futures of Education, that is being led by Carey Jewitt at London Knolwedge Lab.The first event took place on 15 September and the next one will be on 25 November 2008.01:10:08 Invited talk
Andrew gave an invited talk at the University of Dundee School of Computing Seminar Series entitled: "The thinking web? Designing tools and mashups for cyber-argumentation"30:04:08 Andrew invited onto IADIS commitee
Andrew has been invited onto the scientific commitee for IADIS international e-learning conference: IADIS e-LEARNING - EL2008, http://www.elearning-conf.org/05:11:07 Discussant on the Open Learn conference
Dr Andrew Ravenscroft invited to be a discussant on the Open Learn conference closing panel on “The future of open content”, OpenLearn Conference (2007), UK Open University, 30-31 October 2007, other panel members: Prof Eric Duvall, Prof. Robin Mason, John Dehlin and Prof Terry Anderson (see website: http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/openlearn2007/conference.php).30:03:07 Interloc Trial
Over 40 Computer Science students, at London Metropolitan University, tested out the conversation visualization in the latest version of Interloc (2.5). Dr Peter Oriogun provided his computer science students with revision topics for dialogue discussions and the feedback received from the students has been extremely useful for informing future design.
07:09:06 Student Trial
Informal InterLoc trial and focus group session took place at the Shoreditch Building, London Met. with pre and first year students.29:08:06 New Funded Project...
New funding for project entitled "Cross-institutional implementation and evaluation of digital dialogue games for inclusive and personalised learning". The project is a continuation of the digital dialogue game/InterLoc project work. It is worth about £200,000 and being led by LTRI with partners at Exeter, OU, Queen Mary (University of London) and Teesside. The project is funded through the “JISC Capital Programme: Cross-institutional use of e-learning to support lifelong learners” programme.Andrew Ravenscroft invited to give workshop paper
Andrew has been invited to give a workshop paper at 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (2006), Kerkrade, Netherlands, July 5-7. The Workshop is on “Machine-Mediated Multimodal Communication”, organised by Adel Esayed (Bolton). The title of his paper is ‘Digital dialogue games for inclusive conceptual learning: exploring multimodal interaction’.31:03:06 InterLoc is now available
InterLoc is now available to download, see our Download page for more information.Peer-based Learning Workshop
On 6th April, Dr Andrew Ravenscroft and Dr Simon McAlister will present the InterLoc tool and Dialogue Game approach, at a Peer-based Learning L&T development workshop at London Metropolitan University. Their presentation is entitled: "InterLoc: digital dialogue games for critical discussion and reasoning"CE2 papers now published
Andrew and Simon's paper from the ICE2 Symposium is now published, in a Special double issue: Learning in the Digital Age: papers from the second Ideas in Cyberspace Education symposium. Guest Editors: Siân Bayne, Ray Land & Martin Oliver, Part 2Andrew Ravenscroft & Simon McAlister. Digital Games and Learning in Cyberspace: a dialogical approach, pages 37‑50. The paper is available from: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/ELEA/content/pdfs/3/issue3_1.asp#5
Invited talk at the OU Educational Dialogue Research Unit (EDRU)
Andrew Ravenscroft will be giving an invited talk at the OU Educational Dialogue Research Unit (EDRU) "Argument Seminar" on 18 May 2006. Other speakers include Professors Rupert Wegerif and Richard Andrews.24:01:06 Completion of final pilot testing
The final pilot study of InterLoc took place at University of Oxford, with version 0.09 of InterLoc....Reminder...the latest version of InterLoc will be available for download on, or before, 31st March 2006, following a period of pilot testing.
19:01:06 Invited talk at The HE Academy Centre
Andrew presented at The Higher Education Academy Centre for Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) Workshop, on Machine Mediated Multimodal Communication (M3C) at University of Bolton. Talk: "Towards Multimodal Dialogue Games". Details of this workshop are online: http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/Resources/MC3/index.shtml23:09:05 LTRI invited to Cambridge-MIT Institute workshop
Andrew Ravenscroft was invited by the Cambridge-MIT Institute to a workshop on ‘Innovations in the Reuse of Electronic Learning Materials: Enabling Communities of Practice’, held at the Open University Business School, Milton Keynes. Andrew gave an invited talk on ‘Content, communication and communities: what can we use and re-use’. Andrew commented “Generally, this was a very interesting day and particularly relevant to our approaches to reuse in the institute (e.g. CETL's RLOs and reusable e-learning tools such as AcademicTalk and InterLoc)”.:: Conference News ::
18:05:09 Paper accepted for IADIS e-learning conference
Andrew Ravenscroft has had a paper accepted with co-authors from York and Leeds for IADIS e-learning 2009: Yuan, T., Moore, D. and Ravenscroft. (2009). Evaluations of a Human-computer Debating System for Educational Debate. Paper Accepted for IADIS Conference on e-Learning 2009, Algarve, Portugal, 17-20 June 2009.10:05:07 Andrew Ravenscroft invited to speak at conference
Andrew Ravenscroft has been invited, on behalf of the dialogue game project, to speak at the Higher Education Academy centre for Social Policy and Social Work (SWAP) conference at Queens University (Belfast) on 4th October. The talk is entitled: ‘Multimedia dialogue games for thinking conversations’.30:03:07 CAL 07, March 26-28, Trinity College, Dublin
Paper by Andrew Ravenscroft, Simon McAlister & Enzian Baur, titled: ‘Developing digital dialogue games for personalised learning: towards pervasive interactions’,
was presented at the CAL 07 conference by Dr Andrew Ravenscroft and Enzian Baur.
The theme of the CAL 07 conference was ‘Development, Disruption & Debate - D3’ and took place at Trinity College, Dublin.
20:01:06 Mindplay Conference, London Metropolitan University
The Mindplay conference is organised by the Group for Research in Interactive
Media, London Metropolitan University. Andrew Ravenscroft presented his paper:
'Its a funny old game': Defining and designing gaming interactions for learning.
It was a good opportunity to strengthen and further develop links with other gaming and digital media experts at London Met and elsewhere. For more information see: http://www.mindplay.org.uk.
14:12:05 Contemporary issues in science learning symposium, UK Open University
Andrew Ravenscroft gave an invited talk: “Promoting Conceptual Change
with Digital Dialogue Games”. Other talks were given by Prof. Neil Mercer (OU, but at Cambridge after Christmas) and Prof. Edgar Jenkins (Leeds) amongst others...with Professors Roger Hartley and Eileen Scanlon acting as discussants.
To view the powerpoint slides used or hear an audio of the presentation, please visit the OU website: http://www.open.ac.uk/science/SEH806/Symposium/Ravenscroft.html
Just published
The paper Andrew Ravenscroft and Simon McAlister presented at ICCE 2005 is now published as part of a research series (in AI). The reference is:Ravenscroft, A. & McAlister, S. (2005). Dialogue games and e-learning: The InterLoc approach, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Volume 133, Towards Sustainable and Scaleable Educational Innovations Informed by the Learning Sciences, Looi, C., Jonassen, D. & Ikeda, M. (Eds), IOS Press, pp 355-362. ISSN 0922-6389.
28:11:05 - 02:12:05 ICCE, Singapore
Andrew Ravenscroft and Simon McAlister have a full paper accepted
for 13th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2005), held
in Singapore. The paper is: Ravenscroft, A & McAlister, S. (2005). Dialogue games
and e-learning: The InterLoc approach. For more details go to: http://www.icce2005.servy.net/