Alexander Mikroyannidis and Teresa Connolly have prepared in collaboration with other ROLE partners, a new ROLE course about Self Regulated Learning (SRL). The course, which is available in OpenLearn, provides an overview of the concepts behind SRL and also offers an opportunity to use a selection of learning tools that have been developed by the…
The 3rd annual review of the European project ROLE (Responsive Open Learning Environments) took place on March 27 in Luxembourg. The project consortium presented the ROLE technological achievements and their applications in different learning contexts. Alexander Mikroyannidis presented the lessons learned and best practices from piloting and evaluating the ROLE technologies in the test-beds of…
KMi hosted the first Build A Widget Day last week, co-organised with the British Institute for Learning and Development (BILD). The event was attended by approximately 12 representatives of BILD member organisations. Alexander Mikroyannidis presented the latest learning tools developed by the ROLE project and introduced participants to the ROLE course available in OpenLearn (see…
Alexander Mikroyannidis and Teresa Connolly from KMi recently organised a ROLE workshop together with the eLearning Community (eLC) of the Open University. The workshop was part of a monthly showcase event demonstrating a wide range of both research and implementations of current eLearning applications. Approximately 20 people were in attendance at the workshop and were…
Suzanne Little is leaving KMi today, after having spent the last 3 and a half years with us. She started working in KMi in July 2008 when she was appointed as Research Associate on the PHAROS project, as part of Stefan’s team. She took the opportunity to change roles as Project Officer on ECIR (March…
The ROLE project (Responsive Open Learning Environments) is running dissemination contests twice a year, where project partners compete over the number and quality of their dissemination activities. The winner of the latest contest is the KMi team led by Alexander Mikroyannidis and consisting of Peter Scott, Teresa Connolly, Joe Corneli and Fridolin Wild. The team…
The OpenScout Tool Library is a social network of individuals and collectives who are developing or using learning resources and want to share their stories and resources from different countries. The OpenScout Tool Library is currently hosting the activities of the COLEARN community of research in collaborative learning and educational technologies in the Portuguese language….
Alexandra Okada and Alexander Mikroyannidis from KMi organised an international workshop at the ED-MEDIA conference on June 29th in Lisbon, Portugal. The workshop was entitled “Social networking for collaborative authoring, adapting and sharing of Open Educational Resources” and was related to the work currently being undertaken within the OpenScout project. The workshop organisers introduced participants…
The annual General Assembly of the ROLE (Responsive Open Learning Environments) project took place last week in Shanghai. The event was hosted by the School of Continuing Education at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). The attendees were toured to the distant education facilities of the SJTU and had a chance to talk with students…
The UK Open Educational Resources (OER11) conference took place in the Manchester Conference Centre 11th-13th May 2011. KMi was represented by Teresa Connolly, Alexander Mikroyannidis, and Alexandra Okada. Teresa along with Elpida Makriyannis (IET), Tina Wilson (IET) and Andy Lane (MCT) ran a very successful workshop centred on the game OERopoly. Both the global version…
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