Final APT STAIRS Event

We are holding our final dissemination event on the 8th October at the Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes (London) at 2pm for anyone interested in learning about the APT STAIRS project.

The APT Team will be presenting their findings and sharing their experiences followed by a workshop on the future of online collaborative technologies, plus guest speakers from JISC and Bloomsbury.

To reserve a place at the event please register here.

Podcasted!

Have a listen to Sarah Sherman talking about the APT STAIRS project for the University of Leeds' podcast series.

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/sddu/podcast/

Taking APT to Africa

The RVC Undergraduate Research Team (www.rvc.ac.uk/urt) has just returned from their project on East Coast Fever in the cattle of Zanzibar. This project also served as a pilot for the use of Google Android Platform devices for the collection of field data via the Google Open Data Kit. The project was a big success as over 400 animals were sampled from all parts of the main island. The devices were also a huge hit with the team who found them very easy to use for both collecting physical exam data and updating Twitter, Facebook, and the team blog (http://urt2009zanzibar.blogspot.com/search?q). The project hopes to provide answers to the Zanzibar Government about which vaccine strains to use as well as helping this exciting new mobile technology through its growing pains.

Award-winning status!

This week, Sarah Sherman presented at ALT-C 2009 (the Association of Learning Technology's annual conference). Focusing on the APT Model, Sarah highlighted the success of the project and the various offspring projects that have grown out of the APT approach. You can access the presentation here.

The team was also delighted to have been awarded best poster at the conference. To view the poster, click on the image on the left to zoom in. Special thanks to Caroline Bell, the poster's designer.

e-Cases presented at AMEE, Malaga!

The e-Cases project was presented on Monday 31^st August at the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) conference, which was held in Malaga. This conference brings together those interested in Medical education (plus a few vets!) from all over the globe, and is the biggest of its kind.

Chris Trace, from the Royal Veterinary College, gave a ten minute presentation to a packed room. He then answered questions from the delegates for a further five minutes. The project was well-received by the medics there present, and seemed to spark some interest!

The presentation that Chris gave and a summary sheet on the e-Cases project can be found by clicking here