KMi is in Utah this week, contributing to the primary international gathering of educators and researchers, debating the future of the Open Content movement. Open Content is the educational analogy to the Open Source software movement, with the mission to make top quality learning material freely available to any student or educator, in a form…
The first Prolearn Summer School ran from 5th-9th September this year at the Sile campus of Isik University in Turkey. This brand new campus near Istanbul was occupied by hard-working Prolearn Grad Students even before it had seen its first intake of Turkish undergrads! The School was a great success and was very highly regarded…
ICWL 2005, the 4th International Conference on Web-based Learning was held this year in Hong Kong (31st July – 3rd August , 2005). This event gives a very interesting perspective on Asia Pacific and eLearning with topics ranging from e-Learning Platforms and Tools, Learning Resource Deployment, Organization and Management Practice and Experience Sharing, e-Learning Standards,…
KMi students joined more than 50 others from Europe and beyond in Spain last month for the third Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW05). Co-directed by Enrico Motta (KMi) and Asun G�mez-P�rez (UPM) the school covered topics such as ontology mapping and alignment, semantic web services, and human language technologies. As…
The E2BN Annual conference is always a good showcase for KMi Technologies in Schools, and this year we had a particularly strong showing. The conference was hosted in Robinson College, Cambs. and involved a couple of hundred teachers, IT specialists companies and delegates from DfES, Becta and NCSL looking into ICT, kids and learning. This…
KMi has hosted a roundtable workshop examining research into supporting community through the use of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies). The two day workshop brought together academics and practitioners from as far afield as Australia and Brazil to exchange stories, highlight interests and consider possible solutions to issues in their research. Organised by Mark Gaved…
The huge eLearning 2005 conference in Brussels involved a high level of KMi research input, as you would expect. Peter Scott chaired the stream on Higher Education, and Enrico Motta presented our Semantic Web research under the “Learing Enablers” theme. The conference, funded by the European Union, was held in Brussels (19-20 May 2005) and…
This conference in the city Kaiserlautern in southwestern Germany has attracted lots of attention from both academia and industry. KM (Knowledge Management) as an important topic for both academic research and industrial applications has raised fruitful discussions. KMi was represented by Jianhan Zhu to make a presentation of ESpotter, an adaptive named entity recognition tool…
KMi technologies are being showcased live, right now, at CEBIT 2005 on stand C29 in Hall 6. Sitting within the Prolearn Project, and alongside some key technology partners, KMi technologies are being presented to visitors to this huge event. Alongside our usual materials and demonstrations, the luckiest of visitors are being presented with a Prolearn…
On 11 Feb Simon Buckingham Shum (KMi) and Wendy Stainton Rogers (OU Research School) hosted a Joint Workshop between The UK GRAD Programme and The Open University. This broke new ground in the integration of KMi's social software and knowledge mapping technologies, with both physical and virtual attendees participating, virtual presence being provided by Peter…
