This presentation from Ian Corns from Talis.

Lecturers want to teach differently, students are learning differently. Students are:

• use to multimedia environment
• always connected
• work in groups
• … insert your ‘millenial’ attributes here etc.

Talis has/had a ‘reading list’ application called ‘Talis List’. However, realised it wasn’t falling short in some areas:

• Didn’t embrace richness of ‘resources’ rather than more traditional ‘book’ list
• Didn’t offer value to lecturers – they saw it as a ‘library’ app, not offering them benefit

Decided to develop new approach which addressed value to lecturer:

• Needed to be easier to author list in the system, than in Word or usual authoring tool
• Offer ability to embed the list into any (web) environment.
• Improve quality of lists – feedback based on usage (what resources used, in what assignments etc.)
• Feedback directly from students
• Start to see connections between lists within and between institutions

From a data point of view, by compiling a set of resources into a list for a specific module, the ‘expert’ is adding implicit information to the resources.

Now Ian showing some screenshots. Talking about the power of the system built on flexible platform – e.g. can say ‘show all key resources from all my courses for the next 2 weeks’

Hard to capture screenshots here – there is stuff at http://blogs.talis.com/list/ – there are some demos and screens etc. here.