As part of the Jisc business intelligence project lots of clever folk from different HE Institutions are getting together, looking at data they know about and working with HESA to augment it with data HESA collects. The result is the […]
8 years ago I was heading in to summer working hard on my MSc project. My head space was completely absorbed in it for two reasons. 1) It was a interesting subject, 2) I didn’t want to think about what […]
Way back in February the EU commission raised concerns over business models in the mobile phone ‘app industry’. There were 4 major points of concern, these are taken directly from the EC press release : • Games advertised as “free” […]
Our research department is currently housing a student from a different instition who is interested in mobile learning. She has just finished her doctorate in a Spanish university and is about to head home to China. During a welcome meeting […]
Registration has now opened on the Cetis site for the CETIS 2014 conference. From the Cetis site: Each year the Cetis conference provides a unique opportunity for developers, learning technologists, lectures and policy makers to come together to discuss recent […]
If you play games on your Android device or iPhone you may have noticed that most of the games are pitched as “free to play”. While they might be free to start playing, they still make a lot of money. […]
Recently I’ve been playing with an R wrapper for a machine language library called Mallet to generate lists of topics from a series of text documents. The technique is called Topic Modelling and I have gotten to grips with it […]
According to Wikipedia there are eight generations of video game consoles, each generation defined by the consoles that are released and the innovations they make. We are at the start of the eighth generation with the PS4 and Xbox one […]
I’m feeling really chuffed with myself, I got to the end of a MOOC. So what did I learn from the experience? If you haven’t already guessed I picked up a little bit about Weka. Still, I don’t feel much […]
