Alan Fletcher

Proteach Italia – Helping Italians teach English to Italians!

Proteach Italia is the collaborative research project that was launched on 1st November by the Open University’s KMi and the University of Padova. The project aims to explore the use of new video conferencing innovations to enhance the learning experience of professional groups. Specifically, the project will evaluate the use of FlashMeeting and Compendium in…

KMi FlashMeets with the world at MoodleMoot Brazil

As part of KMi’s continuing commitment to Moodle development and support of the Open University’s VLE Ale Okada presented the KMi technologies of Compendium, MSG and FlashMeeting at the prestigious MoodleMoot Brazil 2007, using a live FlashMeeting. MoodleMoot Brazil is the largest gathering of Moodle developers in South America. Ale, sitting at her KMi desk…

Sending the OU Council out into a rainy quarry – virtually

In order to showcase collaborative project work for the OU Council “student support” residential weekend, KMi and Earth Sciences joined forces today to give a live demo to the council of how digital technology has been used to solve the problem of Enabling Remote Access. The project was born out of the need of Earth…

KMi to change the way you think about Information Retrieval

Dr Dawei Song and Prof. Stefan Rueger have been awarded a significant grant from the EPSRC, placing KMi as the lead university in a three year, £1m research project that aims to change the paradigm of information retrieval on the web. Their bid, ranked second out of 60 fundable proposals at the recent ICT Prioritisation…

Corous MoodleMeisters get FlashVlogging

The OU delivery of training and learning to Reuters via the Moodle platform was given a boost in April by KMi. Incorporating FlashVlogs into web pages is something KMi has been doing for ages and it was the obvious solution for the Corous team who manage the Reuters Account. Sarah Walshe of Corous had asked…