A joint KMi and OU library team today hosted a tailored series of workshops in KMi that was designed to explore the future face of the OU library. The workshop participants, all of whom gave extremely positive feedback about the event, were from across the board within the library. Participants were encouraged to explore the…
Paul Alexander is currently attending the DataCore User Conference 2009 held in Dusseldorf at the famous LTU Arena. DataCore is the Storage Area Network (SAN) software that KMi use to store all of their data on. It allows us to mirror our data between both server rooms located at the Open University Walton Hall campus…
KMi’s Stefan Rueger delived today a keynote address at the International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Systems held in the ancient city of Cairo, Egypt. One major focus of the event, organised by the Ain Shams University in cooperation with ACM, is multimedia and sensor analysis, specifically in the medical area. Prof Rueger outlined…
A team from the Open University joined colleagues from Oxford and Cambridge Universities and a large community of podcasters at the STEEPLE project workshop "Beyond Walls" at the Oxford University Said Business School on April 3rd 2009. Peter Scott, Ben Hawkridge and Laurian Gridinoc from KMi, with Nick Watson and Stuart Nixon from LTS were…
The 31st edition of the European Conference on Information Retrieval was held in Toulouse, France from the 7th to the 9th of April. This year confirmed ECIR as one of the major conferences in the IR field. The organisers were thrilled about the high number of participants coming not only from European countries but also…
70 Oakgrove School students have been out and about this spring, exploring environmental conditions in Northampton and Milton Keynes, with the support of the Personal Inquiry project (PI). As a major component of their GCSE coursework, counting towards their exam results, the Year 10 students walked across the two towns with their teachers and OU…
This year’s SCDI forum was held at St Andrews and was concerned with the theme of ‘connecting Scotland’ KMi were asked to develop a workstream for the annual gathering of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry on the theme of e-learning and e-working. Alan Fletcher presented key KMi technologies and research themes, demonstrating the…
In a visit to the Multimedia Interaction Group at the University of Delft in the Netherlands recently, Al Selvin presented his research work to the team there. Al was invited to talk to the MMI group about his work on "Coherence, Engagement, and Usefulness as Sensemaking Criteria in Participatory Media Practice". When skilled practitioners create…
An Enabling Remote Activity (ERA) presentation at mLearn 2008 has lead to JANET to issue a call to develop extreme portable WLAN projects. The presentation at mLearn impressed Mark O’Leary of JANET enough for him to set up a call for projects to investigate ‘networking at the edge’. ERA, along with four other academic teams…
KMi’s new 7th Framework project ROLE kicked off its work in a meeting on 2 – 3 March 2009, in Lausanne, Switzerland. ROLE is a project on Responsive Open Learning Environments and is intended to connect well with established OU work on OpenLearn, current work such as iCoper, and then to new initiatives such as…
