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Project award: fishDelish

By Mark van Harmelen | Published: June 8, 2010
We are very pleased to have a strong role in the fishDelish Project awarded to the  University of Manchester’s School of Computer Science by the Joint Information Systems Council (JISC). Our co-partners in the project include FIN Inc, a not-for profit NGO that has created and runs FishBase, a 400M hit per annum species-specific database. [...]
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Project award: ourWikiBooks

By Mark van Harmelen | Published: June 8, 2010
We are very pleased to have a role in the recently announced ourWikiBooks Project awarded to the Manchester University’s School of Computer Science by the Joint Information Systems Council (JISC). The project will  investigate student authorship of textbook material: “OurWikiBooks will undertake co-development, with teachers and GCSE and A-level students, of a new digital collection of key [...]
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iDoc: Hedtek’s open source community documentation system

By David Workman | Published: May 26, 2010
iDoc is an open source community documentation system for the production and use of help documentation for web sites and applications. It’s more than just a vanilla documentation system:  We believe is important is for the users of an application to be able to contribute back and help others learn to use an application application — iDoc allows [...]
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What we’ve been doing at Hedtek

By Mark van Harmelen | Published: May 26, 2010
Our last post was way back, during ALT-C. Since then we’ve been totally heads down, working on projects for clients and on our own PLE Project. The JISC-funded MOSAIC Project, with SERO and co-partners Ken Chad (Ken Chad Consulting) and Paul Miller (Cloud of Data) investigated, at many levels, a new social and personal search [...]
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PLE Conference – Barcelona July 2010

By Mark van Harmelen | Published: December 10, 2009
Advance notice of The PLE Conference, Barcelona 8-9 June July 2010. From an e-mail from Graham Attwell, with a mild edit: The PLE Conference is intended to produce a space for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas, experience and research around the development and implementation of PLEs; including the design of environments, and sociological and [...]
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Hedtek tumblelog

By Mark van Harmelen | Published: November 28, 2009
For the last year we’ve been a bit inward facing with several large projects to attend closely to, including getting the PLE to a usable state, and running the first trial with 80 users. This blog has been pretty much focused on company stuff, on presentations I’ve made, and on the Manchester PLE. Wanting something [...]
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Manchester PLE demos during ALT-C 2009

By Mark van Harmelen | Published: September 5, 2009
Hedtek Ltd demonstrated the Manchester Personal Learning Environment at two fringe events during ALT-C 2009. Overview The Manchester PLE was first conceived of a response to a perceived lack of usable open source software to support communities and learning in those communities. Informed by social constructivist and constructionist perspectives, the Manchester PLE is designed to [...]
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Company name change to Hedtek

By Mark van Harmelen | Published: September 1, 2009
Currently we Lead development of a personal learning environment, with a related stealth-mode project Work in resource discovery and use, particularly for personalised search and the repurposing of library catalogues Are engaged in a massive data deduplication project in the library world Are increasingly moving into the mashed up mobile world. To reflect the fact [...]
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A 2008 JISC Developer of the Year Award

By Mark van Harmelen | Published: March 1, 2009
Complete with kooky grin, I was awarded one of several JISC Developer of the Year Awards at the Dev8D dinner. Nominated for work around library catalogues, the award was subsequently made in recognition of efforts I’ve made to incorporate users into the system design process. Also in the pic, Andy McGregor and David Flanders of [...]
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Personal Learning Environments rises phoenix-like

By Mark van Harmelen | Published: January 1, 2009
Previously a vehicle for elearning projects, and then going into a quiescent state while I worked at ALT, Personal Learning Environments Ltd has now been re-established as a company specialising in software engineering, elearning, resource discovery, and consultancy.
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