Author Archives: Andy Burton

About Andy Burton

Dr. Andy Burton is a research fellow in the ISRG.

AI-TOP Multiplier Event

AI-TOP Multiplier Event – 12th July 2023 The successful event was held on 12th July at Nottingham Trent University’s Clifton Campus. The project was disseminated and the ouptuts piloted by almost 50 attendees, many of whom were teachers, Teaching assistants … Continue reading

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Student Created Games for people with Learning Disabilities

Games for people with Learning Disabilities – Games designed and developed as project coursework on the Serious Games module in Computer Science at NTU. The games are designed to support life and independent living skills.

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Student Games for Green Academy

Student created games for Sustainability – Games created by NTU Computer Science Students with the NTU Green Academy team to enable NTU’s staff and students to solve sustainability challenges by embedding the relevant skills, competencies, and knowledge into our curricula.

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VESVET Student Serious Games

VESVET Student Games – developed by our Serious Games students for a project developing content to enhance soft skills in students enrolled on Vocational Education courses in several European countries.

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CodeRED project games

CodeRED Project Games – Games to support actions towards addressing the high proportion of drop-out from i-VET (vocational and educational training) courses.

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Technologies and AI to support students with Autism and SEN

Upcoming Event – Technologies and AI to support students with Autism and SEN Funded by our AI-TOP project, developing AI tools to predict emotional dysregulation, and covering this and other relevant work at NTU. This event is perfect for anyone … Continue reading

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VESVET Game

VESVET Game – Test and improve your entrepreneurship sub-competences by playing the VESVET GAME! It is based on the LEVEL5 system, which is specifically designed to assess personal, social and organisational competence development. 6 languages supported.

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AI-TOP

AI-TOP project – An AI Tool to Predict Engagement and ‘Meltdown’ Events in Students with Autism (Sept 2020 – Aug 2023) AI-TOP aims to tackle early school leaving and to support the inclusive education of students with Autistic Spectrum Condition … Continue reading

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Diversasia

Diversasia project – Embracing diversity in ASIA through the adoption of Inclusive Open Practices (15 Jan 2021 – 14 Jan 2024) Students with disabilities have limited access to HE (Higher Education) in India and Bangladesh. This project aims to tackle … Continue reading

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APESIE II – Apps and Projects to Enhance Special and Inclusive Education

APESIE II – Apps and Projects to Enhance Special and Inclusive Education – Online event video available (Nov 2020) Our APESIE II – Apps and Projects to Enhance Special and Inclusive Education – the Pathway + Project’s online multiplier event … Continue reading

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Dial-a-Poem

Dial-a-Poem (app released July 2020) Dial-a-Poem celebrates 50 years since John Giorno’s public art project launched in New York City. Giorno’s Dial-a-Poem connected callers to answering machines playing recordings by poets such as Allen Ginsberg, John Cage and Patti Smith. … Continue reading

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Latest news on the speech pathology project

Latest news on the Speech Pathology Tools project – Newsletter 3 The latest newsletter about The Speech Pathology Tools project is available now here. It contains information about the Android app release on the Google Play Store, the ongoing usability … Continue reading

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Speech Pathology Tools Video

Speech Pathology Tools Video Check out our new video explanation of how to use the Speech Pathology Tools app. The app is available on the play store for free!

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Speech Therapy Tools

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Speech Therapy Tools – An Android app developed in the Speech Pathology Tools project to help teachers to assess their students’ speech skills, and to help the students to improve them. Play Store Link

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My Appearance

Being on time: My Appearance – A game to teach people with learning disabilities about getting ready in the mornings. download windows zip.

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Interview Expert

Job Interview Training – Developed for the RISE project, this game lets you attend a job interview and experience the sorts of questions you might be asked. Download windows installer zip

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email Knowhow

Formal and informal language skills: e-mail Knowhow – a game developed for the RISE project about selecting the right tone of formality for your email communications. Play Store Link

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Bomb squad

Maths game: Bomb Squad – Test your addition, subtraction, multiplication and division skills whilst saving the city! download windows installer zip

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Cheese Factory

Fractions: Cheese Factory – a maths game to help to teach simple fractions. download zip

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Traverse travel training

Travel Training – Traverse was designed to teach students with learning disabilities about how to be safe on the roads. download (for Windows 8 or older – Updated version coming soon…)

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Games for Competence

Games for Competence – Inca Island – A first person 3D game developed in the SGSCC project to help students to build up competences by completing tasks and finding diamonds! Download desktop game (Windows zip)

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3D4VET App

3D Printing – A 3D Printing training course was developed in the 3D4VET project, and this app was produced as a quick start guide. Play Store Link

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Employability skills games

Employability Skills – Two games developed in the CodeRED project to increase awareness of employability skills . One is a driving quiz, the other a card game. download

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CreateAtSchool

Game Making – to enhance teaching of core curriculum subjects with Create@School. The product of the No One Left Behind project, Create@School is an enhanced version of Catrobat’s Pocket Code enabling accessible scaffolded game making in the classroom. Play Store … Continue reading

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Big 5

Big 5 Personality Test – is an implementation of the IPIP quiz to determine personality types, developed for the RealLife project as part of a suite of software to be used to prevent recidivism. Download Windows Zip

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A Second Chance

Recidivism awareness – A Millionaire style quiz called ASecondChance developed in the RealLife project. Survive your first year on release from prison without falling back into your old ways. Play it!

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RealLife Pathways

RealLife Pathways – A tool developed for the RealLife project to identify and categorise your worries about your future life, and to help you manage and prioritise them. Download Windows Zip

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Quest

Quest – Personal Development and Work sustainability goals addressed in a role playing game. download zipped Windows installer (developed 2007)

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Apps and projects to enhance special and inclusive education event

Update: The ‘Apps and projects to enhance special and inclusive education event’ event was a great success. We had loads of useful feedback on our apps, projects and ideas from some really engaged professionals. Thank you for attending! Do you … Continue reading

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VESVET Newsletter September 2019 out now

The newsletter for the VESVET entrepreneurship skills training project is available now here. Find out what’s been going on so far!

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