UCIAD (User Centric Integration of Activity Data) is a new 6 month JISC-funded project addressing the integration of activity data spread across various systems in an organization, and exploring how this integration can both benefit users and improve transparency in an organization. Both research and commercial developments in the area of user activity data analysis…
Members of KMi were invited to show their work in the field of mobile technologies in education at the Mobile Learning Winter Festival hosted, by IET. Professor Agnes Kukulska-Hulme invited staff from various departments around the University to talk informally about their experiences of using and developing mobile applications for teaching, learning and student support….
KMi present both its mobile prototype applications and work on the iTunes U system at the Mobile Technologies Special Interest Group showcase in the Library yesterday, despite the team being seriously depleted by illness. The Chinese Characters and Virtual Microscope applications have both proved popular on the Apple downloads site and are currently being expanded…
Members of the OUs virtual microscope team were invited to exhibit at the event and took the opportunity to showcase their latest work – an Apollo moon rock virtual microscope. This was prepared in partnership with NASA and is now freely available via the VM website. The team have previously worked on terrestrial rocks and…
The annual Online Educa conference took place in frozen Berlin last week. Despite the weather conditions, the conference was attended by key people in the e-learning industry and academia. Alexander Mikroyannidis from KMi was there and gave a talk at the Next Generation Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) workshop organised by the British Institute for Learning…
Various members of KMi grew moustaches in aid of The Prostate Cancer Charity via Movember. This is the second year KMi have taken up the challenge and 2010 saw double the number of participants and double the total contributions. Movember challenges men to change their appearance and the face of men’s health by growing a…
KMi today gathered to celebrate a “significant” birthday for long-term secretary Ortenz Rose. Ortenz has served at the OU since before KMi was formed in 1995 and joined the institute together with KMi co-founder Marc Eisenstadt. Ortenz started her celebrations earlier this year with a South Caribbean cruise, but confesses that she had spent the…
The webCEF project has received an overall ‘excellent’ rating from the EU in its final report. The assessor stated that webCEF showed “high quality of project outcomes and products; good functioning of the consortium and efficient project management [with a] large dissemination of results and a user-friendly website”. webCEF provided a web-based assessment tool that…
KMi today hosted a visit from Babu Ram K.C., principal of Mahan Siddhartha High School in Kathmandu in the Kingdom of Nepal. Chris Valentine demonstrated some of the web-based projects that KMi have worked on in collaboration with Heronsgate. Mr Ram then shows their school website and their children have also recently organised animation workshops….
Serge Zagorac of Multimedia Information Systems group has successfully accomplished this years Trecvid submission, competing in fully automatic video search category. This is the 7th successful participation for MMIS. We are eagerly anticipating the results. The TREC conference series is sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with additional support from other…
