Category: Xerte 3.0
Success in Jorum’s Learning and Teaching Competition
1 September 16th, 2011 at 09:09
Open Nottingham wasn’t Nottingham’s only success at ALT-C this year. “Statistics – An Intuitive introduction” (SII) was commended in Jorum’s Learning and Teaching Competition. This is the first time that Nottingham has been placed in this particular competition. Jorum may not be a name familiar to everyone. It began as the UK’s national repository for resources in higher [...]
Happy Birthday Xerte! Using Xerte and Toolkits
September 2nd, 2011 at 09:09
The Open Source Xerte Project celebrates its fifth birthday this week! In this series of blog posts, we take a closer look at our offspring! Children this age can manage feelings and social situations with greater independence. They also have improved skills for forming and maintaining friendships with adults and other children. Being accepted by [...]
Happy Birthday Xerte! A growing user community
September 1st, 2011 at 11:09
The Open Source Xerte Project celebrates its fifth birthday this week! As our community of users has grown, we’ve found the tools being used in a wide variety of different settings: from corporate training, schools, colleges, universities and government agencies. These experiences have given us so much feedback and it’s always pleasing to hear [...]
Happy Birthday Xerte! The development of Xerte Toolkits
August 30th, 2011 at 09:08
The Open Source Xerte Project celebrates its fifth birthday this week. Five-year-olds are creative and enthusiastic problem solvers. They offer progressively more imaginative ideas for how to do a task, make something or solve longer-term or more abstract challenges. As they participate in a variety of new experiences, five-year-olds ask more analytical questions and weigh [...]
Happy Birthday Xerte! Key events
August 29th, 2011 at 10:08
The Open Source Xerte Project celebrates its fifth birthday this week! In a series of blog posts, we take a look at our developing five-year-old. Jan-04 Andy Beggan proposes the development of a new learning object development tool to simplify and standardise development. With SENDA now high on the agenda, accessibility is a key element. [...]
In the ‘know’
April 4th, 2011 at 08:04
How do you pronounce XERTE? I’ve heard quite a few variations in my time, from ‘X-ert’, ‘X-ert-ee’, ‘zertay’ to ‘zertee’. The latter is the preferred pronunication by the team here at Nottingham, if that counts for anything. But what does it all mean? For a while, Xerte was simply known internally as the ‘Engine’. Agreeing [...]
Xerte at University College Plymouth Marjon [guest post]
1 November 1st, 2010 at 03:11
Adam Read is an eLearning Technologist at the University College Plymouth St Mark & St John. I first discovered Xerte when working with colleagues to develop a series of MS Producer learning objects for student consumption. Although Producer was fairly straightforward to use, the end result was a little bland, and had inherent problems for [...]
Xerte 3.0 Beta
1 October 7th, 2010 at 01:10
There is a new beta of Xerte 3.0 to play with that you can download here: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/xerte3.htm. Xerte 3.0 is a complete rewrite of Xerte 2.x, using the Flex framework. There is a major difference between this latest version and previous versions which I wanted to say something about. Anyone following Xerte 3.0 developments, or [...]