The 9th European Summer School on Ontology Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW 2012) took place from 8 to 14 July in Cercedilla (Spain), confirming the SSSW series as the premiere educational event in the area of semantic technologies. Indeed, despite the decrease in attendance faced by other event organisers in this area (due mostly…
The 7th International Conference on Open Repositories (OR 2012) has seen last week close to 500 participants, the highest number in its history. The theme and title of OR 2012 in Edinburgh – Open Services for Open Content: Local In for Global Out – reflects the current move towards open content, ‘augmented content’, distributed systems…
KMi hosted a Social Learning Analytics symposium, in which we provided an update on the research programme. It served as a student work-in-progress event, and was a hybrid f-f/webinar as part of SoLAR Storm — the new virtual research lab convened by the Society for Learning Analytics Research, to build research capacity in this new…
The Paris OER Declaration was formally adopted at the 2012 World Open Educational Resources (OER) Congress held at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris from 20 – 22 June 2012. Over 550 delegates including representatives of Government, educators, NGOs, and universities attended the Congress which was organized in full partnership with the Commonwealth of Learning (COL)…
Vancouver has just hosted the 4-day 2nd International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge. What we see unfolding is an intriguing landscape for educational research and delivery, whose contours may be remoulded in the way that data science has impacted other academic fields, and businesses. LAK’12 sold out, after doubling in size from last year’s…
Development of web services faces significant challenges concerning quality of design, development costs, endorsement of services by the community, integration and interoperability of services from different domains and effective sharing of services among users and developers. This spring symposium brought together two lines of research whose combination can help in dealing with these issues, namely…
On January 24-26, one hundred distinguished thought leaders from around the globe have convened in Austin/Texas on invitation of the New Media Consortium (NMC) to predict the Future of Education. Within this three day retreat, thought leaders around the globe reflected and exchanged ideas around technology use in learning and connected emerging trends and metatrends,…
Teresa Connolly recently delivered two workshops at an Open Education Resources (OER) event in Leicester for the National Institute for Adult and Continuing Education (NIACE): “Open Educational Practice – making best use of free resources”. Attendees soon became immersed in the imaginary world of OERopoly, a game that raises awareness about OER and encourages collaborative…
Live from your correspondent in New York at the Guggenheim Museum, Apple have just announced iBooks2, iBooks Author and the new iTunes U. The new-look iTunes U released by Apple today includes an innovative iTunes U app. The Open University was one of the showcase Universities in their recent launch – of the hundred courses…
Simon Buckingham Shum presented FuturICT’s “Global Participatory Platform” to the FET Flagship organizers in November, Warsaw, at a meeting for all six pilot projects to report on progress. As reported in an earlier story (Sept 21, 2011), KMi is playing an active role in FuturICT, one of the EC’s FET Flagship pilots, funded to define…
