The E2BN Annual conference is always a good showcase for KMi Technologies in Schools, and this year we had a particularly strong showing. The conference was hosted in Robinson College, Cambs. and involved a couple of hundred teachers, IT specialists companies and delegates from DfES, Becta and NCSL looking into ICT, kids and learning. This…
Personal assistant to department director, Enrico Motta, Ortenz Rose today celebrated twenty five years of service at The Open University. In addition to the official certificate, she also recevied a crystal vase and a large bunch of flowers.
Making The News, a schools research project which is using the KMi Rostra news system, got a significant public outing today at the annual Educational Technology show at Olympia in London. Sixth-form pupils from a Milton Keynes school used the news system to publish a number of multimedia stories live from the show. For over…
KMi Chief Scientist Marc Eisenstadt presented a Keynote speech today at Teleduc04, the Third Latin American Symposium on Distance Education and Lifelong Learning, in Havana, Cuba — hot on the heels of an interview for Cuban TV. Eisenstadt's speech, entitled “The Problems With E-Learning: What Works and What Fails” undertook a personal tour through the…
Ms. Ruth Thompson, the newly appointed Director of the Higher Education Strategy and Implementation Group visited the OU today for in-depth discussions with OU Vice-Chancellor Prof Brenda Gourley and most of the Vice-Chancellors Executive Team. Ms. Thompson visited KMi to have a first-hand look at OU innovations in learning and knowledge technologies. Dr. Paul Clark…
Wearable PCs for healthcare provision: that's one of the themes presented by KMi PhD student Yanna Vogiazou, who spoke at the International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks held at Imperial College in London on 6th-7th April. The aim of the workshop was to address general issues related to using wearable/wireless and implantable…
Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP, Minister for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education, today came to KMi as part of a visit to the Open University to find out about the current state of the art of Open Learning. He was shown Lyceum (in the context of the OU's flagship Language Learning courses); and a…
Today KMi hosted a visit by key members of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Dr. Marshall (Mike) Smith, Program Director of the Foundation's Education Program, and Dr. Catherine Casserly a consultant to the same program, were visiting the Open University at the invitation of Vice-Chancellor Professor Brenda Gourley. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation…
René Olivieri, Chief Executive of Blackwell Publishing and Trustee of the Tubney Charitable Trust, paid a brief visit to KMi today as part of an in-depth visit to the OU. The overall visit, organised by Sarah Jarman of the OU Development Office, had several goals, focussed on highlighting the scale and quality of the OU’s…
KMi continues to roll in the external funding and maintain its high hit rate on European projects. Over the past two months KMi has launched four new EU-funded projects worth over £1M to KMi, and representing European initiatives with a combined total value of more than £15M. The projects are a mixture of Integrated Projects…
