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Open Data Institute Summit 2014
by Lisa Harris via WSI | WSI
By Johanna Walker, Web Science PhD Student The conference consisted of 4 sessions; innovation, real life applications, culture and the future and involved 37 speakers, touching on areas from Amazon Web Services’ partnership with NASA to 3D printing to digitizing Burkina Faso to audio visual artworks. The mixture of formats allowed attendees to hear from academics, practitioners, government, publishers, producers, …
Barry Wellman Distinguished Lecture
by Lisa Harris via WSI | WSI
This review of the evening has been written by Digichamps Sylvian Jesudoss and Elena Tsarkova On 31st of October at the University of Southampton, we had a unique chance to attend the distinguished lecture by Professor Barry Wellman, organised by Web Science Institute. Barry Wellman is a Canadian-American sociologist and currently director of NetLab at the Faculty of Information at …
Curriculum Innovation & MOOCs: our contributions to ILIaD Launch
by Lisa Harris via WSI | WSI
The launch of our new Institute for Innovation, Learning and Development (ILIaD) was an ideal opportunity to share some of the work we have been doing recently with MOOCs and Curriculum Innovation. The event was great fun and well supported. The full programme is available here. The University of Southampton’s Vision 2020 states that over the next few years we …
Qualifications, Skills & Gender
by Carolin Bothe-Tews via Work Thought Blog
Author: Dr Suzanne Reimer, University of Southampton In early September, the BBC news website ran a story with the headline ‘Women may take best jobs by 2020.’ Reporting on evidence from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES), the BBC claimed that “men could struggle to get highly skilled jobs because women are increasing […]
Longer nursing shifts might ‘hit patient care’
by Peter Griffiths via Work Thought Blog
Our recent paper about the length of nursing shifts in hospitals has attracted quite a lot of attention including, I am reliably informed, a piece in the daily Sun. In simple terms, the issue is this: Traditionally, shift work was organised by dividing the day into three eight-hour shifts. Workers would generally work 5 such […]
MOOCs, MOOCs and more MOOCs…
by Lisa Harris via WSI | WSI
There are a number of FutureLearn MOOCs about to start which may be of interest to students, staff, alumni… For students coming up to dissertations and/or preparing for the workplace: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/data-to-insight (University of Auckland, starts 6/10 ) This course is a hands-on introduction to statistical data analysis that emphasises fundamental concepts and practical skills. https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/writing-applications (University of Sheffield, starts 6/10) This free …
Thunderclap – the results!
by Alex Hovden via WSI | WSI
On 11th July (over 2 months ago – where has the time gone!) I blogged about our plan to set up a Thunderclap to help us promote the Digital Marketing and Web Science MOOCs. We set the completion date/time for Monday 8th September at 3:30pm. As long as we got at least 100 supporters by that date then our Thunderclap …
Web Science Summer School 2014
by Alex Hovden via WSI | WSI
Next week sees the University of Southampton Web Science Institute play host to the inaugural Web Science Summer School. It aims to provide comprehensive education and networking opportunities to the next generation of Web Scientists. Official participant registration is closed, but staff and students of the University can still informally attend the keynote speeches for free. Keynote 1 – Professor …
Thunderclap – the social media flashmob!
by Alex Hovden via WSI | WSI
As part of my summer internship here at the WSI I am promoting Web Science in all shapes and forms. Part of that involves promoting our MOOC (Web Science) and I am also helping to promote Dr Lisa Harris’ brand new MOOC in Digital Marketing. I have been investigating the concept of a Thunderclap. A Thunderclap is… if you can …
MOOCs – where next?
by Lisa Harris via WSI | WSI
In a recent post we discussed the background to our MOOC work which has evolved from the Digital Economy Research Group’s emphasis on bringing inter-disciplinary research into education. This has been specifically progressed through curriculum innovation modules and a number of collaborative projects working with students as partners. As the first running of the Portus MOOC comes to an end …