The Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Higher Education, Mr.Phil Willis, today visited the University. After a meeting and introduction by the Vice Chancellor, he was shown details of the popular new course T171 “You, Your Computer and the Net” by John Naughton of Technology. Dr.Peter Scott then demonstrated some of KMi’s current research projects. Later, Dennis…
The KMi Review process enters its next phase today, as the formally-constituted Review Panel spends a full day visiting KMi. The KMi Review, as specified by the OU Academic Board in 1995, was established to undertake the task of assessing how well KMi performed with respect to its original goals. The terms of reference of…
Following the earlier announcement of a UKP 0.7million grant from the Millennium Commission, a newly formed Advisory Committee met for the first time today in the Knowledge Media Institute. The main tasks of the Committee are to oversee the Open University and the Living Archive Millennium Awards Scheme, provide advice on future developments, and advise…
The Office for Students with Disabilities are starting to mail CD-ROMs to blind students in a new service for 1999. In the past the only alternative to printed units were audiocassettes, but research by Professor Tom Vincent’s Multimedia Enabling Technologies group within the Knowledge Media Institute has brought together electronic text and digital audio in…
A successful one-day workshop on ‘audio versions of learning materials for print-disabled students’ was held on the 28th January. It was attended by people with responsibilities for supporting disabled students in higher education institutions in the UK. This workshop provided an opportunity to disseminate the outcomes of the METG DREAM (Digitally Recorded Educational Audio Media)…
The Knowledge Web: Learning and Collaborating on the Net is the first major book describing a significant portion of KMi’s research in one volume. The book, published this week by Kogan Page, was edited by Marc Eisenstadt and Tom Vincent, and includes contributions from 23 authors, mostly working in or directly affiliated with the Knowledge…
Lord Dalkeith, a Millennium Commissioner, visited KMi on the 3 September together with Rob Luke, Manager of the Millennium Awards Scheme, to discuss a proposal for an Open University and Living Archive Millennium Awards Scheme. The aim of the proposal is to encourage and enable parents of schoolchildren to gain new skills in the use…
Lord Dalkeith, a Millennium Commissioner, visited KMi on the 3 September together with Rob Luke, Manager of the Millennium Awards Scheme, to discuss a proposal for an Open University and Living Archive Millennium Awards Scheme. The aim of the proposal is to encourage and enable parents of schoolchildren to gain new skills in the use…
Four groups of women studying for an NVQ in Media and IT skills have undertaken a crash course in internet skills, taking them from their first experience of browsing the web to web page design and site maintenance in 12 hours over 4 days. During this time the separate groups have created their own homepages,…
On Wednesday 6th May Kim Howells MP (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Lifelong Learning at the Department of Education and Employment) visited the Open University. He was welcomed by the Vice Chancellor Sir John Daniel, and visited a number of OU units to see, first hand, how the University makes Lifelong Learning a reality…
