Online promotion of research expertise self assessment

Helps institutions identify if their use of online channels in communicating information about the expertise of researchers within their organisation meets the needs of both business and wider communities, as well as the researchers themselves.

Online communication and promotion of research expertise report

Examining how universities use online channels to promote their research expertise and making recommendations for how institutions can improve this.

Presenting research expertise information online: a guide for higher education institutions

Helping HEIs plan the use of online channels to communicate information about the expertise of researchers within their institution so that it meets the needs of business and community users, as well researchers themselves

Promotion of research expertise online project report

An output from the online promotion of research expertise project:

Promotion of research expertise online: the self-assessment tool

Helping HEIs identify whether the way they use online channels to communicate information about the expertise of researchers within their institution meets the needs of: – Business and community users – Researchers themselves.

Case study: Engaging students and staff in online activities

Case study about how East Berkshire College is engaging student and staff in online activities to develop digital literacy skills.

Online Learning Readiness Tool Guide

A user guide for the Online Learning Readiness Tool, developed as part of the Jisc Scaling up online learning project.

Poster: Outputs from the Manchester Metropolitan University online distance learning think tank event

Poster from the overview of, and the emergent themes from, the Manchester Metropolitan University distance learning think tank event which took place on 10th July 2014 and aimed to provide a forum to explore and discuss some of the key issues for colleagues across the university involved in planning, setting-up and delivering such programmes at MMU.

Exploring your online behaviour

Personal e-safety audit

Online exercise for the design and simulation of PCR and PCR-RFLP experiments

[EN] Background: Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism of PCR products (PCR-RFLP) are extensively used molecular biology techniques. An exercise for the design and simulation of PCR and PCR-RFLP experiments will be a useful educational tool. Findings: An online PCR and PCR-RFLP exercise has been create that requires users to find the target genes,compare them, design primers, search for restriction endonucleases, and finally to simulate the experiment. Each user of the service is randomly assigned a gene from Escherichia coli; to complete the exercise, users must design an experiment capable of distinguishing among E. coli strains. By applying the experimental procedure to all completely sequenced E. coli, a basic understanding of strain comparison and clustering can also be acquired. Comparison of results obtained in different experiments is also very instructive. Conclusions: The exercise is freely available at http://insilico.ehu.es/edu.

La creciente importancia de las redes sociales online para la compra-venta de productos y servicios.

En este proyecto se plantea un modelo que relacione directamente la popularidad o actividad de las empresas en redes sociales con su facturación. Español

Neologismos na mídia escrita: os empréstimos na publicidade

Esta pesquisa cita os dois processos pelos quais podem ser formados os neologismos e estuda os formados por empréstimos, em corpus constituído por dados colhidos em textos publicitários da mídia em corpus escrito da língua portuguesa do Brasil. As fontes de dados foram variados veículos de comunicação. Objetivou-se identificar a diversidade de classes/funções, campos semânticos, funções do uso nos textos, veículos de comunicação (como os jornais, as revistas, os sítios da internet, a televisão, o outdoor, o busdoor, o wallpaper, o folheto e a mala direta) que apresentaram esses itens neológicos. Tratando ainda dos empréstimos, foram descritas as ocorrências da influência das línguas de outros países nos usuários da língua portuguesa do Brasil. Constatou-se que o inglês foi a língua fonte que contribuiu com mais empréstimos e que há um continuum nos estágios de adaptação desses itens. Apontou-se a descrição discursiva da língua materna para resolver o conflito e a polêmica que envolvem o uso desses empréstimos. Finalizando, construiu-se um glossário com os neologismos formados por empréstimos encontrados no corpus