The annual HRD Conference of the CIPD at Olympia, London is the largest UK Training and Development event of its kind and KMi’s Alan Fletcher hosted the ‘Learning Technologies of the Future’ presentation The conference, which included over 30 sessions across two days invited industry and education experts and HR professionals to share their knowledge…
KMi were delighted to host a group of Finninsh academics from the ESF funded European Best Practices of Adult Education and Training project. The team of eight from Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences, University of Joensuu, Savonlinna Centre for Continuing Education and Regional Development, Diaconia University of Applied Sciences and The Small Business Centre at…
A joint KMi and OU library team today hosted a tailored series of workshops in KMi that was designed to explore the future face of the OU library. The workshop participants, all of whom gave extremely positive feedback about the event, were from across the board within the library. Participants were encouraged to explore the…
This year’s SCDI forum was held at St Andrews and was concerned with the theme of ‘connecting Scotland’ KMi were asked to develop a workstream for the annual gathering of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry on the theme of e-learning and e-working. Alan Fletcher presented key KMi technologies and research themes, demonstrating the…
In collaboration with key European education and commercial partners, The Open Universitys Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) will be leading the way in an additional five EU funded consortia to develop a variety of information technology initiatives over the next four years, all ultimately designed to increase computing, business and education efficiency. Already well represented and…
The final of the RCUK Business Plan Competition 2008 was held on the 20th October at Stamford Bridge, the home of Chelsea Football Club. KMis Alan Fletcher was there to represent the competition entry for the FlashMeeting project and FM technologies, running an exhibition stand with live demos of FM and Hexagon for the assembled…
Professor John Domingue who originally came to the OU to do his PhD, entered KMi when it was formed in �95. Now, as one of the leading academics in the world of the Semantic Web, Professor Domingue has been awarded this prestigious title after years of dedicated work in his field resulting in highly acclaimed…
Dr John Domingue, deputy director of KMi and a leading member of the Semantic Web Community was recently interviewed by SemanticWeb.com . The interview deals with the specific KMi project as well as discussing the need for applying Semantic Web Services to the Web. Dr Domingue is leading KMi’s work in the field of Semantic…
KMi were happy to show support for this important opposition by appearing as part of the Channel 4 news story on the ELQ proposals. In brief, the govt. wants to remove all funding for students studying for a degree at the same level as one they already hold. For the OU this represents a significant…
Marc Eisenstadt co-founded KMi in 1995 and has pretty much dedicated his life to the lab ever since. The vision for the Open University to host a purely research based lab was revolutionary. The result was a small bunch of crazy academics in a hut trying to figure out how cool science could be woven…
