Education and research international collaboration - a recipe for success!

Podcast interview with Richard French, international coordinator at Jisc.

Digging into signs: Developing standard annotation practices for cross-linguistic, quantitative analysis of sign language data. Final Report.

For sign languages used by deaf communities, linguistic corpora have until recently been unavailable, due to the lack of a writing system and a written culture in these communities, and the very recent advent of digital video. Recent improvements in video and computer technology have now made larger sign language datasets possible; however, large sign language datasets that are fully machine-readable are still elusive. This is due to two challenges. 1. Inconsistencies that arise when signs are annotated by means of spoken/written language. 2. The fact that many parts of signed interaction are not necessarily fully composed of lexical signs (equivalent of words), instead consisting of constructions that are less conventionalised. As sign language corpus building progresses, the potential for some standards in annotation is beginning to emerge. But before this project, there were no attempts to standardise these practices across corpora, which is required to be able to compare data crosslinguistically. This project thus had the following aims: 1. To develop annotation standards for glosses (lexical/word level) 2. To test their reliability and validity 3. To improve current software tools that facilitate a reliable workflow Overall the project aimed not only to set a standard for the whole field of sign language studies throughout the world but also to make significant advances toward two of the world’s largest machine-readable datasets for sign languages – specifically the BSL Corpus (British Sign Language, http://bslcorpusproject.org) and the Corpus NGT (Sign Language of the Netherlands, http://www.ru.nl/corpusngt).

Case study: Using audio feedback to improve engagement and performance

Case study on how tutors at Kingston College are using a free screencasting app called Jing to provide responsive audio feedback to students on their progress and performance.

EMA podcast: the assessment and feedback lifecycle

Podcast involving audio responses from three universities discussing the assessment and feedback lifecycle.

EMA podcast: benefits of electronic management of assessment

Podcast from interviews with universities discussing the benefits of electronic management of assessment.

EMA podcast: using Jisc electronic management of assessment resources

A podcast including interviews from diffferent universities on how they've used Jisc EMA resources.

EMA podcast: improving processes through the electronic management of assessment

An audio podcast involving interviews from universities talking about electronic management of assessment business processes and systems.

Interview with Claire Gibbons about implementing XCRI-CAP

Claire spoke to Janette Hillicks about the University of Bradford's implementation of XCRI-CAP.