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…
The early part of this month saw the demonstration of a number of KMi technologies to the Chilean Higher Eduction Council during their international seminar on New Technologies for Teaching, Learning and Management in Higher Education held in Santiago, Chile. KMi was invited to give a presentation because of the high prestige in which the…
KMi today played host to a presentation by Dr. Ann Hanson of the ALCET project – Associate Lecturers Cascading Electronic Tutoring – a project which involved tutors on School of Education courses in the northwest region of the OU. A pilot study was undertaken to examine the potential value of synchronous audio discussion rooms via…
KMi today played host to a presentation by Dr. Ann Hanson of the ALCET project – Associate Lecturers Cascading Electronic Tutoring – a project which involved tutors on School of Education courses in the northwest region of the OU. A pilot study was undertaken to examine the potential value of synchronous audio discussion rooms via…
Eight new teachers from Heronsgate Middle School are participating in ICT training sessions at KMi as part of a pilot programme to test teaching materials for the CLUTCH Club Millenium Award Scheme. For the teachers the sessions provide them with the skills to make ICT activities integrate effectively with study in other parts of the…
The delivery of 25 i-Macs took on a festive mood when the colourful collection arrived. No, it was not an early Christmas present from Apple but the arrival of the key part of the workstations that parents will be using in schools for the Millennium Awards Scheme that is now underway. The first 100 parents…
The FirstFlight site, dedicated to the history and scientific study of flight, has once again leapt to the top of the charts. This time, aspects of the site are featured on the Associated Press ‘History of the 20th Century in Video’ site. Because of the design of AP’s own user interface, you need to click…
Yesterday saw the first public viewing of a number of web-based services, constructed collaboratively by KMI and IET’s International Centre for Distance Learning, which will form a significant part of the University for Industry’s National Observatory. By capturing, contextualising and semantically indexing best practice within EU funded ADAPT projects the observatory will provide a highly…
