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Author: Thomas Ullmann

  • Simon Penn winner of Research Excellence Award

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    Dr. Simon Penn has been nominated as the winner of the Open University Research Excellence Awards in the category of Outstanding Postgraduate Research Students. This is a huge success, and we as his supervisors congratulate Simon for being recognised by the Open University for his outstanding work. Kevin Shakesheff, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Research and Innovation, shared his…

  • Strong IET presence at the EDEN 2024 conference

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    IET was strongly represented at this year’s EDEN conference, where Denise Whitelock and Thomas Ullmann gave presentations about generative AI for teaching and learning. EDEN is the flagship conference of Europe’s leading network for advancing digital education. This year, it was held in sunny Graz, Austria, from June 16 to 19, 2024, with a great…

  • OpenLearn Create analytics using R

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    I was invited to speak at the Open TEL Learning at Scale Special Interest Group about my work on the Fleming project. I am the Data Analytics lead of the Fleming fund project at the Open University, which is also the global learning lead for Fleming. In my presentation, I focused on how I compile…

  • Quick Zotero guidance to start collaborating on a paper

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    Zotero is a great open-source software for managing your references. Zotero allows the creation of a repository of articles (Zotero group). This allows group members to add references to the same library, a great feature when collaborating on an article. Everyone can store their articles in that group, and all articles are then synced to…

  • Simon Penn’s viva success

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    Please join us in congratulating our EdD student and WELS colleague Simon Penn, who successfully defended his thesis entitled ‘A comparative analysis of the comprehension of text and screencast feedback by distance learning students’. The examiners recommended a pass without corrections. The panel chair noted that the three examiners were impressed with the quality of…

  • Randomising the word order of a text

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    To share texts with others, it occasionally may be necessary to obfuscate what was written so that it is not so easy to understand what a person has said. The following approach randomly changes the word order in a text. This makes it hard to understand the person’s writing, which helps towards anonymisation. Of course,…

  • List of useful commands

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    Here is a list of commands that I use on a regular basis to explore texts: grep -Ir –exclude=”*\.svn*” “pattern” *It searches recursively, ignores binary files, and doesn’t look inside Subversion hidden folders. grep mit colour option: grep -ri –color=auto “needle” . only tex files: grep -ir –color=auto –include=’*.tex’ ‘needle’ . Searching in the BAWE…

  • Viva success of Huda Alrashidi

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    Congratulations to Huda Alrashidi, who passed her PhD viva. Well done for your excellent work entitled ‘Reflective Writing Analysis for Computer Science Education using a Machine Learning-based Approach’ from your supervisors, Mike Joy and myself, and from the whole of the Institute of Educational Technology and the Computer Science Department of Warwick University. Her external…

  • PhD studentships 2021

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    Every year, the Open University announces several opportunities to apply for PhD and EdD studentships. These grants typically cover any study fees, provide a monthly tax-free bursary, and on top of that a research training grant. If you are interested in Educational Technology, there are currently two good opportunities for you to apply for a…

  • A comparable reflective writing corpus of multiple languages

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    Wouldn’t it be great to have a large data set of annotated reflective writings written in various languages? We might get there but let’s start with a bit of brainstorming. At first sight, the task to create a multiple languages reflective writing corpus looks like a relatively straightforward task. For example, we could use a…