The EU-IST programme project PEARL, that is developing a system to enable teaching experiments to be conducted remotely over the Web, holds a key meeting in Dublin this week (20-23 September 2000). This will be a chance for the new project staff at the OU: Chetz Colwell (based in KMi) and Terry di Paolo (based…
The ACM Conferences Hypertext 2000 and Digital Libraries 2000 were hosted in San Antonio, TX, from May the 29th to June the 7th. This year KMi was represented by Simon Buckingham Shum (lecturer) and Clara Mancini (Ph.D. research student), respectively presenting at Digital Library and Hypertext. At HT, themes particularly relevant to KMi included automatic…
The climax of the first phase of the Open University and Living Archive Millennium Awards Scheme was reached on Saturday, 17 June, when nearly 200 parents and guests attended a ceremony in the Berrill Lecture Theatre for the presentation of Millennium Fellowship Certificates to the parents who had successfully completed their projects. The presentations were…
Peter Whalley’s FirstFlight Web Site has topped the Google search engine index, an achievement which relies entirely on the global popularity of the FirstFlight site itself. Unlike other search engines which make use of keywords and other ‘meta tag’ indexing operations, the highly popular Google site relies upon the number of links from the rest…
The Chairman of the Millennium Commission, Rt. Hon. Chris Smith MP, launched a competition on the 14 June for an organisation to administer a UKP100 million endowment that will enable the National Millennium Awards Scheme to continue. The launch took place at the National Liberal Club in Whitehall. Amongst the guests at the launch were…
KMi will be open to the public on the 24th of June from 10am until 5pm, as part of the Open University’s Open Day 2000 Programme. Our theme for the day will be ‘The Future of Learning and Knowledge’, and KMi’s Harriet Ansell has provided a special child-friendly website for KMi visitors and their families…
Thursday 23rd March KMi was showcased on the first day of the Netties 2000 conference in Oulu, Finland. Peter Scott presented a keynote presentation about the future of higher education entitled “Virtual Universities: On-line learning 2000”. The conference was introduced by Olli-Pekka Heinonen, the Finnish Communications Minister, via a videoconference with Helsinki. The Minister stressed…
Todays Times newspaper (Monday, Feb 21) carried our plans to host the worlds first Virtual Degree Ceremony on the front page! The ceremony will actually be the first in the series planned for 2000, and therefore the first in the new millennium. It will be held in the Berrill lecture theatre in Milton Keynes on…
“Computer-Supported Collaborative Argumentation for Learning Communities” is an international workshop being held at Stanford University, CA this weekend, bringing together for the first time researchers and commercial system developers working on collaborative-technologies to augment argumentation. The event precedes the bi-annual CSCL’99 conference which will attract 300-400 international delegates. Convened by KMi’s Simon Buckingham Shum, the…
The annual conference of the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities is underway, with large group visits to KMi being one of the features of the event. About two thirds of the 120 delegates will be visiting KMi during the conference to get a first-hand look into new technologies, and discuss the implications of KMi…
