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SILVER is a collaborative Research and Development project funded by the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS). Its objective is to research the visualisation of knowledge within e-learning environments and to develop highly innovative software along with content-based prototypes for educational use.
Key to the success of project SILVER is the unique mix of skills and experience brought to the project by all participating partners. SILVER brings together the collaborative efforts of the following three organisations:
The Bridgeman Art Library - Project Lead
Lexara - Technology Partner
Knowledge Media Institute (KMI)
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SILVER has produced a toolkit for building Visual Interactive Publications (VIPs). A VIP is a dynamic, visual presentation that combines existing resources according to their semantic description and user goals to support creative problem solving. VIPs use visualisation techniques to make the semantic structure visible in the context of the resources and learner tasks. Visualisation also allows the user to uncover complex knowledge structures associated with different perspectives on the same situation.
The basic software is content independent and allows teachers to add their own content specific to their own needs. The project team is developing a set of preloaded content relating to learning outcomes set out in the National Curriculum. Teachers will be able to use these preloaded examples without modification or use them as a basis for developing lessons more refined to their individual needs. A key part of the project will be to investigate new ways of delivering and visualising the content on a wide variety of hardware such as whiteboards and mobile devices including PDAs.
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The SILVER team have been involved in information gathering throughout the project and have compiled a series of reports, which you can download from this website.
 Importance of User Testing - Teaching Times
SILVER Article - Education Today
Support for Inquiry Learning from Images
SILVER White Paper - Available May 2010
Being Image Conscious
Use of Images in Design Courses
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