The OU launched a new mobile access centre for disabled people at 1.00pm on Tuesday 20th November 2001. Maria Eagle MP, Minister (pictured) for Disabled People, was the guest of honour and will give a short speech. She inaugurated the OU / Halifax Access Bus with the help of one of our disabled students. This…
The Digital Document Discourse Environment (D3E) has been released for free download, most components already open source, with others to follow. This ‘world release’ is accompanied by the launch of the LTS OU-D3E service, to assist the OU community. What is D3E? Use D3E to publish web discussion documents. The content (any web media) is…
Professor Brenda Gourley, the Open University Vice-Chancellor designate gave her first University presentation today. The event was the Keynote Address to the University Council – webcast on Friday 21st September 2001, at 1530 GMT from the Berrill Lecture Theatre, The Open University, Walton Hall Campus, Milton Keynes, in the United Kingdom. Professor Gourley spoke on…
With the official signing of the OntoWeb contract The Open University has formally joined the OntoWeb European Thematic Network. The goal of OntoWeb is to co-ordinate European research on the Semantic Web, Tim Berners Lee’s vision for supporting agent interoperability and providing logical inferences over the World Wide Web. OntoWeb currently comprises 81 organizations, drawn…
OU staff are invited to take part in an event to put them and their families ‘on the map’ as part of a scheme to create a ‘portrait‘ of Milton Keynes. The OU/Living Archive Clutch club scheme is part of the Portrait of the Nation & the Face of Milton Keynes event being staged until…
KMi was invited to present its innovative Journal of Interactive Media in Education to an expert conference, Change & Continuity in Scientific Publishing, convened under the auspices of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Simon Buckingham Shum joined other Editors of leading electronic journals covering diverse disciplines to share experiences, and discuss future…
On Friday 15 June 2001, KMi hosted a workshop on the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to change practice in the National Health Service. The workshop was organized by the NHS Information and Communication Research Initiative (ICTRI – http://www.dis.port.ac.uk/ictri). The workshop was opened by the programme management team at the Department of Health,…
The 10th international world wide web conference is this week in Hong Kong (http://www10.org). It is running in conjunction here with the 7th Hong Kong Web Symposium (http://www.hkwebsym.org.hk/2001). And, spookily enough there is a big pan-Asia streaming media symposium running right next door! After 10 years of the web, the ACM have finally granted this…
The second worldwide virtual degree ceremony from the Open University was webcast live on April 18th 2001 at 15:00 GMT/UT. The live ceremony included chat, slides and animations as well as audio and video from the Berrill Lecture Theatre in Milton Keynes in the United Kingdom. Apart from staff on stage, the auditorium itself was…
Yesterday, the Assisted Electronic Communication (AEC) project team were down at the Institute of Health Sciences, City University in London. They were presenting at the 3rd International Conference on Advances in the Delivery of Care, “eHealth: a futurescope”. The AEC project is a joint initiative of the Centre for New Media in KMi, the Institute…
