Colin Barrett

CABER Online at BETT 2003

The CABER Online project was one of a number of schools’ broadband internet projects to be showcased at the BETT 2003 educational technology show at London’s Olympia Exhibition Centre. The project’s funding body, the East of England Broadband Network (E2BN), is one of several regional broadband consortia whose responsibility it is to create the UK’s…

Return to Walton Hall after 30 years

KMi hosted a visit this week by Dr. Susan Olson, who was seeing the Walton Hall campus for the first time in 30 years. As a PhD research student from Ohio State University, USA, Dr. Olson received a bursary which enabled her to come to the UK to study the Open University and its pioneering…

CLUTCH as a Broadband Educational Resource launched

The 2-year Computer Literacy Understanding Through Community History project (CLUTCH) funded by the UK Millennium Commission is now complete. This scheme has facilitated some 311 parents in the research and production of 59 web sites on a local history topics. CLUTCH has proved to be tremendously popular and a powerful tool for the production of…