This year's International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2004) was another successful occasion marking presence of KMi in the Semantic Web research community – simultaneously on several different fronts. The conference took place in a wonderful city of peace – Hiroshima, Japan. It followed the last year's success in Florida and was even bigger event with…
KMi Chief Scientist Marc Eisenstadt presented a Keynote speech today at Teleduc04, the Third Latin American Symposium on Distance Education and Lifelong Learning, in Havana, Cuba — hot on the heels of an interview for Cuban TV. Eisenstadt's speech, entitled “The Problems With E-Learning: What Works and What Fails” undertook a personal tour through the…
Mark Gaved, KMi PhD student, attended the Community Informatics Research Network conference, hosted in Monash University, Prato, Italy (Sept. 29 Oct. 1). The theme of the conference was “sustainability” and 80 researchers discussed how this applied to the field of Community Informatics. 'Sustainability' has been identified as a key and controversial issue in community…
Mark Gaved, KMi PhD student recently attended the Association of Internet Researchers conference, “Ubiquity?” hosted at the University of Sussex (18 – 22 September 2004). Approximately 350 attendees discussed mainly human centred aspects of internet research over 5 days in 9 parallel sessions and workshops. Sociological interest in the internet has developed rapidly in few…
The Adaptive Hypermedia 2004 conference ran in Eindhoven in the Netherlands this year (August 23-26, 2004). I was there because the conference had some dedicated Prolearn sessions this year, and hosted a meeting of the executive board. There were a number of very good papers “with a strong showing from the Irish” Trinity especially. My…
At the E2BN (East of England Broadband Network) conference, this week I did a fun workshop on Mobile Technologies for Teachers. The E2B folks run schools networking in this region of the country. And this was their annual conference. Last year I did a keynote for them, so this year (not wanting to bore them…
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…
