This years Ed Media (June 21-26, 2004) was in the beautiful lakeside setting of Lugano in Switzerland. I was there to catch up with some interesting people and to do a great deal of work on the Prolearn Network of Excellence, which was running a series of parallel events. It was hot, it was sunny,…
The EDEN organization (European Distance and E-Learning Network) held its annual conference for 2004 at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. The conference focus was on NEW CHALLENGES AND PARTNERSHIPS IN AN ENLARGED EUROPEAN UNION: Open, Distance and e-Learning in Support of Modernisation, Capacity Building and Regional Development. The principal conference sponsor was Microsoft…
KMi members Dr Kevin Quick and Chris Valentine flew to Vienna Sunday to present the ROSTRA news dissemination system to other members of 'ProLearn', a network of excellence for professional learning. The meeting focused on issues of integration and dissemination. The prospect of including some aspect of News and the KMi Rostra system into the…
A graduation ceremony at the National Hockey Stadium on Thursday 27th May marked the end of citischool's third year. Started by Tom Bulman, the scheme “where young people are citizens and citizens are teachers” engages students in a range of action learning experiences in work places and citizenship activities across Milton Keynes, for 15-16 year…
Last week’s conference on Appliance Design took place in Bristol, between 11-13 May, at the HP Labs site. Following from 1AD last year, this conference series aims to create a dialogue between disciplines, as stated on the conference website including product and industrial design, information design, interaction design, technology innovation and research in human-centered…
The OU and KMI were represented last week at the International Conference on Open & Online Learning (ICOOL03), where I was invited to give a keynote address. Held at the University on the beautiful island of Mauritius, ICOOL attracted a wide range of delegates from all over the world. A distinctive feature of ICOOL was…
An audience of around 25 visitors, including members of the Milton Keynes mountaineering club, joined a number of webcast viewers from countries around the world (some as far away as Alaska) to witness Lorenzo Gariano's slide/talk presentation of his adventures in the Everest region. Lorenzo took part in the Adventures International expedition to Everest, organized…
The Science Museum in London is the scene for today's launch of ClimatePrediction.net, the world's largest climate prediction experiment . The experiment, using thousands of personal computers to run different facets of a highly complex simulation, has been developed by a large team including the Oxford University Department of Atmospheric Physics, The University of Reading,…
The First European Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW-2003) took place on 21-26 July in Cercedilla (Spain). The event was the first opportunity anywhere in the world for postgraduate students to equip themselves with the range of theoretical and practical skills necessary for full engagement with the challenges involved in developing…
On 21st May 2003, a dozen OU staff plus a few external guests spent an afternoon being trained in the Compendium approach to visual problem analysis and meeting support. Compendium provides a suite of techniques and a hypertext software tool for managing different kinds of connections between ideas. The training was conducted by Simon Buckingham…
