In collaboration with key European education and commercial partners, The Open Universitys Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) will be leading the way in an additional five EU funded consortia to develop a variety of information technology initiatives over the next four years, all ultimately designed to increase computing, business and education efficiency. Already well represented and…
Sofia Angeletous submission to this years PhD symposium has been selected as one of the top three papers of the event and obtained an honourable mention. This is a remarkable achievement given this years incredibly high competition. Indeed, a record number of 39 submissions have been received, out of which only seven have been selected…
The final of the RCUK Business Plan Competition 2008 was held on the 20th October at Stamford Bridge, the home of Chelsea Football Club. KMis Alan Fletcher was there to represent the competition entry for the FlashMeeting project and FM technologies, running an exhibition stand with live demos of FM and Hexagon for the assembled…
At the recent General Assembly meeting for Semantic Technology Institute International (STI International), held at the end of September in Vienna, the members voted in John Domingue as the new President. STI International is an global organisation with over 35 members in Europe, North America, and Asia with a mission to “make semantics real” –…
The Enabling Remote Activity project has been shortlisted for an award at the Handheld Learning 2008 conference. ERA is a finalist in the ‘Special Needs – Innovation’ category for developing a system to support mobility impaired students participating in the OU ‘Ancient Mountains’ geology fieldwork course. You can help us win – the winner is…
OpenLearn tools created by KMi are helping educators and researchers develop innovative practice and learning methodologies across the world! Paulo Moreira (Minho), Daniela Melare (UNED) and Ale Okada (KMi) participated as keynotes in the Web Curriculum Conference in Brazil describing the best learning projects from CoLearn Community with KMi Tools: Compendium and FlashMeeting Project. The…
I’m delighted to announce that Joanna Kwiat has successfully defended her PhD, entitled "Multi-Perspective Annotation of Digital Stories for Professional Knowledge Sharing" The thesis will be published as a KMi Technical Report following revisions, although its in depth literature review of narrative theory, and its relevance for story technology, is already available as the report…
Congratulations to Anna De Liddo, who passed her PhD viva with flying colours last Friday! Her thesis "A Process Memory Platform to Support Participatory Planning & Deliberation" is collaborative work with Dept. di Architecttura e Urbanista, Politecnico di Bari, and KMi’s Hypermedia Discourse group. The viva panel were impressed with the originality of the research,…
Congratulations to MMIS group member Joao Magalhaes for passing his PhD viva yesterday at Imperial College London! Joao passed his viva with flying colours with an amazing "no changes required" from the examiners and many a complementary remark by them. We were all surprised by the appearance of his family and some friends who flew…
Today, Apple’s iTunes service for Universities, iTunes U was thrown open to an international community – and is showcasing the Open University. A team from KMi and the University Learning and Teaching Solutions have crafted a strong presence for the OU at launch; and have cunning plans to use this new channel opportunity in some…
