Dr Aleksej Heinze is a senior lecturer at Salford Business School, University of Salford, UK. Aleksej is leading a European team on the development of Enterprise Cultural Heritage (ECH). The team researches learning material and environments for the application of ECH, helping small businesses to compete and innovate.

Open Educational Resources (OER) produced by communities of teachers represent an important opportunity for the education world. Since 2005, we have designed e-learning courses for teachers on the collaborative production of OERs. The demonstration will illustrate the methodological strategies adopted during 3 EU-funded projects, and will show how technical issues are not a barrier to the development of OERs.

This session will demonstrate an inventive online system for instant knowledge assessment which collects tasks, builds exams, compares results and has a multilingual user interface. As the same system can be used worldwide, cross-country assessments can be made for tracking the highs and lows in the educational process.

This dictionary tool provides any definition, description, biography, image or translation you need to help you understand what you are reading. The context-sensitive definition server can manage and prioritise different content sources such as dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, encyclopaedias and visual dictionaries, in different platforms.

This demonstration highlights how the delivery of instant test and exam results via smartphones can improve student motivation and performance. This is achieved using an innovative evaluation process where learning outcomes are measured on the move and used to improve skills and results by giving participants a second chance.

SciHub connects experiences in science centres to conceptual science learning in classrooms. Collective learning activities, curricula themes and students progress are made available on multiple devices, such as tablets, webpages, and interactive surfaces. Teachers and students can shape and follow activities that take place across hybrid spaces, contexts and time.

The itslearning CPD course guides practitioners through an engaging, structured process to learn the basic, through to the advanced, tools of the virtual environment using a range of Web 2.0 and multi-media tools, with participation in differentiated activities and tasks, resulting in self and peer reflection. The course aims to strengthen practitioners’ digital awareness, skills and confidence.

Historiana is an education programme involving over 30 countries, which was initiated to develop a website on Europe’s history and heritage education. It offers users the opportunity to compare locations and periods, various individual experiences, and the consequences of historical developments, articulated in material and immaterial legacies of Europe.

This demonstration provides insights into a novel, ontology-based, adaptive assessment system (OntoHR), which is capable of selecting applicants for specific job roles. On the basis of this assessment, the system performs a competence gap analysis and offers personalised learning content for the users.

Targeting CEFR levels A2-C1, ages 15-80 years, this award-winning tool adapts automatically to the individual. It does not repeat anything unnecessarily and focuses on areas where practice is required, also supporting the teacher’s work by focusing on vocabulary, pronunciation and spelling.

Adaptive learning is great for the learner, as it creates individual learning paths and saves time. However, it used to be complicated for the developer. In this demonstration session, we will show you how easy it is to create an adaptive course and that it is easy to set up an adaptive learning environment.

Once a Moodle platform takes on more users and more courses, the learning management processes involved are more complex and the storage requirements grow. This demonstration session will show delegates the flexible Moodle Integrated Learning Framework which provides a comprehensive set of add-ons, connected to a Moodle core.

The development of the Media Portal at the Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) has simplified and enhanced the accessibility of the Open Educational Resources (OER) produced at the Institute. The Media Portal has also contributed to an increased use of OER in teaching. During this demonstration session, we will present and discuss the Media Portal and the uses it has had.

We are working with people involved with learning disability therapies for children and we are developing digital tools for them with several aims: providing analytical tools, extending the use of devices with natural user interfaces when possible, allowing personal customisation and providing a way of exchanging digital materials between families.

We aim to accommodate informal workplace learning with the introduction of an open and easily accessible learning resource platform for on the spot and just in time learning, combined with simple and intuitive authoring tools. Our methodology is aimed to be supportive to the process, not intrusive.