Congratulations to the Greenleas Churches and Husborne Crawley CLUTCH Clubs who have scooped first and second prizes in Bedfordshire Local History Association’s Website Competition 2002. In addition to the merits of their historical content, entries were judged against a broad range of criteria (concept, content, design, architecture and accessibility) with the intention of finding the…
KMi researchers have been awarded grants on EPSRC and EU-funded projects worth a combined total of over £1M pounds in a series of new initiatives that will bring KMi into the arenas of interactive digital TV games, cultural heritage, and collaborative tools based on advanced knowledge technologies and presence awareness. The image accompanying this story…
Postgraduate student Daisy Mwanza won an Outstanding Contribution Award for her paper presented at Computer Aided Learning (CAL) 2001, held at the University of Warwick. She won the award in the Lifelong Learning category for her paper entitled “Challenges of designing for collaborative learning in an organisation”. The award also comes with a free subscription…
Postgraduate student Daisy Mwanza won an Outstanding Contribution Award for her paper presented at Computer Aided Learning (CAL) 2001, held at the University of Warwick. She won the award in the Lifelong Learning category for her paper entitled “Challenges of designing for collaborative learning in an organisation”. The award also comes with a free subscription…
The use of ICT in schools in the UK has seldom lived up to expectations. One very notable exception is Heronsgate Middle School in Milton Keynes. This is one of KMi’s partner schools and it has been the focus of Dr Peter Whalley’s research for over 6 years. The school has also benefited from being…
The UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has just awarded a 3 year project grant to the ScholOnto Project. As part of the Distributed Information Management Programme, this project will provide a Research Fellow and Java Developer to build the public version of a system that has been under small scale prototyping and development…
The UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has just awarded a 3 year project grant to the ScholOnto Project. As part of the Distributed Information Management Programme, this project will provide a Research Fellow and Java Developer to build the public version of a system that has been under small scale prototyping and development…
No, it’s not Texas rockers ZZ Top, but our own Dr. Zdenek Zdrahal who is now directing 100% European-funded projects worth a combined total of over £1M to KMi. ZZ’s latest chart-topper comes in the form of a European Framework V project entitled ‘Clockwork: Creating Learning Organizations by means of Contextualised Knowledge-Rich Work Artefacts’. Clockwork,…
Denbigh School has just been awarded first place in the BECTa/Guardian UK Schools and College Year 2000 Web Site Awards. Denbigh was short-listed for the ‘Student Learners’ award from over 640 entries. This award focused on student work, i.e. student web sites, class work involving multiple media, and Magnet (an online student magazine). Significantly, Alex…
KMi has been awarded 1.2M by the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to carry out research in the application of knowledge technologies to support knowledge creation and sharing in organizations. This highly prestigious award has been obtained in the context of the EPSRC Programme on Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations centred on Information Technology.The project…
