A JIME submission was made by Simon Buckingham Shum to the Royal Society Working Group on communicating the results of new scientific research. The Royal Society has set up a working group to carry out a study on best practice in communicating the results of new scientific research to the public. The study has been…
On Wednesday 15th October, three Directors from NERC (Nat. Env. Res. Cncl) visited the OU: Jonathan Bates, Avril Allman and Janice Timberlake. The visit was primarily to discuss the proposed course for postgraduate students undertaking research degrees, namely ST500: Doing Postgraduate Research in Science and Technology, but the visit included the role of KMi collaboration…
On 21st May 2003, a dozen OU staff plus a few external guests spent an afternoon being trained in the Compendium approach to visual problem analysis and meeting support. Compendium provides a suite of techniques and a hypertext software tool for managing different kinds of connections between ideas. The training was conducted by Simon Buckingham…
Reusable Learning Resources on the net is the topic of the latest issue of the award-winning e-Journal of Interactive Media in Education. The huge amounts of global activity currently being invested in 'Learning Objects' envision a world where learning resources and activities can be effectively found on the net and even sequenced in appropriate ways….
OU staff will be browsing and discussing future scenarios in which the university will be operating via an intranet site powered by the latest version of KMi's D3E technology. D3E stands for the Digital Document Discourse Environment. It is now being developed in collaboration with LTS and AACS, and provides integrated document discussion tools via…
30 January 2003: Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, UK Compendium Institute releases Compendium software for free distribution www.CompendiumInstitute.org The Compendium Institute is pleased to announce that v1.2 of its Compendium software is now available for free download. This is the long-awaited first public release of the tool. Compendium is the semantic hypertext concept mapping tool…
A new book published this month identifies the emergence of an exciting new field – the computer-supported visualization of argument structure. Co-edited by KMi's Simon Buckingham Shum, this volume brings together leading figures from around the world who have pioneered argument mapping in different contexts. Case studies ranging over scholarly publishing, public policy formulation, strategic…
Jack Park, VP of ThinkAlong Software, gave KMi an introduction to the Topic Map technology and standard, and then contextualised it to classroom technology experiments in which he is engaged. Park, a research partner with Doug Engelbart, has been heavily involved in the ISO Topic Map standard, and its translation to XML that has produced…
The Digital Document Discourse Environment (D3E) has been released for free download, most components already open source, with others to follow. This ‘world release’ is accompanied by the launch of the LTS OU-D3E service, to assist the OU community. What is D3E? Use D3E to publish web discussion documents. The content (any web media) is…
Doug Engelbart, whose inventions in the 1960s still define interactive computing today, spent two days at KMi this week discussing the overlap in mission with his Bootstrap Institute. Engelbart is a true pioneer of modern interactive computing, whose inventions include the mouse and cursor, multiple windowing, display-based text editing, hypermedia linking, shared whiteboards, outline processing,…
