MakingTracks

MakingTracks will integrate the work of the well established and popular online NRICH project at the University of Cambridge with the outcomes of the ELF funded project ISIS. It will produce an institutional demonstrator deploying the ISIS toolkit and be informed by the developments from the completion of the DEL funded ASSIS project. The pedagogy of the existing Learning Trails will be enabled by the ELF technology and constructed in conformance with appropriate standards. MakingTracks will improve access to both the resources and their deployment ensuring the sustainability of these materials and the availability of them beyond the duration of the project.

Aims and Objectives

MakingTracks aims to make better use of the NRICH archive by designing and packaging Learning Trails which can be explored by learners and parents at home, and which can inform and guide teaching in the classroom. We expect to future-proof these trails and maximise their reusability by adopting IMS specifications. It is expected that Simple Sequencing will provide a way to encode navigation that will help guide learners Trails will be built around interactive investigative environments constructed in Flash. A learner’s explorations and responses will inform the rules of the sequencing service, and guide progress by suggesting further enrichment material at an appropriate level of difficulty.  This project aims to construct two such rich trails as demonstrators.  During this development we will monitor and report on how the educational designers at NRICH start to understand the use of the ELF toolkit and how effectively they are able to relate to and make use of it.  

This Project starts startdate:=2005-04-01

This Project finishes enddate:=2005-09-30

Related items
This project is involved in the following systems:
 * is involved in::MakingTracks System

This project is associated with the following organisations:
 * is associated with::ASSIS
 * is associated with::ISIS
 * is associated with::Icodeon
 * is associated with::Newark & Sherwood College
 * is associated with::University of Cambridge
 * is associated with::University of Hull

Links & Documents

 * [[Image:web.gif|Web Document]] MakingTracks Homepage: Website:=http://www.hull.ac.uk/esig/makingtracks.html
 * [[Image:web.gif|Web Document]] NRICH Project: Website:=http://www.nrich.maths.org.uk/public/index.php