February has been a busy month for the StudentMASH technical team. Just one of a long list of additional site enhancements is the new optimised search engine.
Search results can now be ordered according to 5 different criteria. Search for a course / institution by relevancy, content, popularity, StudentMASH user rating or alphabetically.
New webpages have been built, giving each faculty from over 5000 institutions worldwide an individual profile page on the site!
This means that you can be even more specific with your searches. Whether posting or viewing, users can now directly visit their specific department of choice.
As we understand that academic institutions differ from country to county, individual college and school pages have been built to accommodate the variation between national structures.
Check out Royal Holloway's School of Business Vid by clicking this link.
For both students and staff alike, StudentMASH's new pages provide a chance to make your mark! Upload your content and set yourselves apart from other faculties in your institution and around the world.
From the beginning of Feburary, StudentMASH has been mashing in all the best videos from YouTube, images from Flickr and news from Google.
What is mashing?
This means that all the most up-to-date content from YouTube, Flickr, Google are fed onto StudentMASH every hour. StudentMASH is also interfaced with the professional network LinkedIn.
Where can I find the mashed in content?
Everywhere! Mashed in content can be found on every single one of StudentMASH's profile pages. What's more, the content that appears has been filtered so that only the most relevant material is displayed.
What if inappropriate content slips through the net?
If you come across anything that you find offensive or irrelevant just press the 'inappropriate' button that appears next to the offending item. An alert is then automatically sent to a member of the StudentMASH team and the post is removed until someone personally checks it.
'No
frills, just outstanding, world-renowned expertise’ is the theme of the Tata
Interactive Systems (TIS) stand at the Learning Technologies 2008 exhibition,
being held at London's Olympia on the 30th and 31st Jan 2008.
Visitors to the TIS stand
at Learning Technologies this year are being encouraged to discuss their key
business challenges and corporate initiatives with TIS - and benefit from a
free 'e-learning consultation'.
“This
year, our focus is on offering, and using, our considerable expertise in all
aspects of ‘business’ to address the business challenges faced by our clients –
and by visitors to our stand at the exhibition,” said Alan Samuel, head of UK
operations for the global learning provider, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS).
Click
on the link the view Tata's
StudentMASH profile page.
