EuroPLOT at Interact 2011

A small corner of the persuasive Learning Design process was presented at Interact 2011 in Lisbon in the beginning of September.

When the euro PLOT partners met in Aalborg in May 2011, they were asked to participate in an Inspiration Card Workshop, which aim was to help develop a common language between case representatives, designers and developers, and to ensure that all partners left the meeting with an understanding of the challenges and possibilities within the 4 PLOT work cases, as well as a general understanding of Persuasive Design.

The short paper very briefly describes how the workshop furthermore helped integrate ethical considerations into the development process. The paper was originally submitted as a full paper but was accepted as a short paper and poster, as the actual workshop had not yet been held at the call for papers deadline. Reviews were however very positive and we expect to publish the full paper version of this paper at a later time.

In Lisbon, the paper and poster was presented by Jens Dinesen, and was met with much interest, not only regarding the particular perspective of the paper, but also regarding euro PLOT in general.

Both paper and poster are available in the publications section.

EuroPLOT at SBL in London in July

EuroPLOT was presented in London in July and the papers are now online.

The main international conference for Bible scholars at Kings' College in London on July 6 2011 had a special session on Persuasive Hebrew Learning. Members of EuroPLOT introduced the project and made the case for developing new technology for learning from the Hebrew Bible database published by the German Bible Society.


Chair and first presenter Nicolai Winther-Nielsen introduced EuroPLOT. This is the first part of the presentation video. The second part is here.

The key speaker was Professor Tom Boyle from the Learning Technology Research Institute who presented GLOMaker. This is his introduction to GLOMaker; the second part can be found here

The other presentations are available at YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/nicolaiwn.

Programmer Claus Tøndering and research student Daniel Lundsgaard Skovenborg presented aspects of the new PLOTLearner which we develop for the Hebrew Bible. Nava Bergman is an Associate Partner in the EuroPLOT and she introduced her online learning at Gothenborg University. Jari Metsämuuronen, Senior Researcher of National Board of Education in Finland presented the results of measurements on training of proficiency in Biblical Hebrew at Helsinki University.

The program is accessible here: View or Download

Presentation at SLE 2011: "ULM Revisited: ..."

Elizabeth Guest (Leeds Metropolitan University) presented a paper at the Societas Linguistica Europea (SLE 2011) conference in Logrono, Spain. The paper was entitled “ULM Revisited: A Semantic Framework that incorporates Syntax and Information Theory”. The focus is an exploration of automatic construction of semantic databases. This has particular relevance to the Kaj Munk project and potential relevance to the Ancient Hebrew project, which are among the case studies in EuroPLOT .