Event Participation/Organization

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Strong KMi presence at ACM Web Science Conference

KMi was well presented at the ACM 2014 Web Science Conference (WebSci) which was held last week at Indiana University, Bloomington, US. Acceptance rate at the conference was 20%, with 3 full papers from KMi.   Lara Piccolo presented a paper on Motivating Online Engagement and Debates on Energy Consumption, co-authored with Harith Alani and…

KMi at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences

This week 2nd year PhD student Simon Knight‘s been attending the 2014 International Conference of the Learning Sciences, in Boulder Colorado. In addition to co-chairing a workshop on learning analytics, and productive dialogue with the international community, Simon also presented a paper (slides, video) on a developing ‘epistemic network analysis‘ approach to learning analytics around…

Bridging Learning Analytics and Learning Sciences – ICLS Workshop

On Monday this week 2nd year PhD student Simon Knight co-chaired a full day workshop at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) in Boulder, on Learning Analytics for Learning and Becoming in Practice. The workshop website (including all accepted papers) is available hosted by KMi here and provides further information regarding the themes…

Parliamentary Select Committee: Social Media data and real time analytics

KMi’s Dr Mathieu d’Aquin gave evidence on behalf of the OU to the House of Commons Science & Technology Committee at an oral evidence session on Monday 23 June. The session formed part of the Committee’s inquiry into Social media data and real time analytics launched earlier this year. Dr d’Aquin was joined in front of the select committee…

Towards a European Area of Skills and Qualifications

European learners and workers should be able to have their skills and qualifications understood and recognised, within and across national borders, by employers and by educational institutions. The tools that support this aim should be coherent, simple, and easy to use. The EASQ conference in Brussels on 17th June 2014 took as a starting point…

Professor Enrico Motta takes MK:Smart thinking to the Westminster eForum

Prof. Enrico Motta, delivered a keynote talk at the Westminster eForum this week, giving a research perspective on the UK smart city market. The Westminster eForum is a platform for policymakers in Parliament, Whitehall and regulatory agencies to engage in a dialogue with key stakeholders on public policy relating to technology. Participants include academics, technology businesses, domestic customers, interest…

DfE consults KMi on Educational Big Data/Analytics

The Dept. for Education Educational Technology Action Group (ETAG), was set up in February 2014 by three Ministers: Michael Gove, Matthew Hancock and David Willetts. In response to the online consultation, Simon Knight and I have contributed to the ETAG2a cluster focused on: Students with sight and control of their own complex learning "big" data….

KMi at ESWC 2014!

A significant number of KMiers attended the 11th edition of the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2014, http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/), which was celebrated one more year in Anissaras, Crete. The European Semantic Web Conference is held annually and is one of the most relevant events in the Semantic Web area.   KMi’s presence was one of the…