Baroness Tessa Blackstone, Minister for State for Further and Higher Education, was the guest of honour at the opening of a new Learning Resource Centre (LRC) at North Birmingham College (NBC) on the 1 May 1998. LRC provides excellent facilities for staff and students. It is the electronic hub for the College. The Centre has…
A special issue of JIME went live today for open peer review, following several months’ intensive author-reviewer debate: Authoring Tools & The Educational Object Economy: http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/ The issue’s concerns range from multimedia authoring tools for educational applications, to authoring communities struggling to share interoperable components, to new challenges and business opportunities for publishers. An integrating…
A site under the auspices of The American National Science Foundation has listed FirstFlight among its hotlist of education resources for schools. The widely-regarded ‘Exploratorium‘ posts a monthly list of ten cool sites: ‘FirstFlight – This visually attractive site explores the Wright brothers’ first flight. You can check out the experiments that lead to the…
KMi’s Marc Eisenstadt and Blaine Price are featured speakers at UNICOM’s Interactive Learning/Online Training Seminar and Workshop, taking place 3-4 February 1998 at the Commonwealth Institute in London. The seminar is part of UNICOM’s annual series of seminars aimed at business and academic educators and trainers, designed to summarise the latest developments in the field….
In the past decade, high quality interfaces have become standard in a growing number of areas such as games and CD-ROM-based encyclopedias. Yet the overwhelming majority of programmers edit their code using a single font within a single window and view code execution via the hand insertion of print statements. Software Visualization (SV) redresses this…
Despite the fierce storms the new year saw KMi host an international conference on the Psychology of Programming (PPIG), with speakers from the US, mainland Europe, Israel and Russia. One of the predominant features of the PPIG conferences has been their openness to the variety of contrasting concerns relevant to programming. This year was no…
A collaborative project between KMi and Mac ADB controller manufacturers Beehive Technologies has seen up to 100 visits by show attendees to the KMi/Heronsgate Mars Buggy overnight. Beehive have a number of Apple Macs on their stand at the San Francisco exhibition with browsers pointing to the buggy pages. Visitors to the stand can see…
SIR KENNETH BERRILL formally opened the Open University s newest building today. The Knowledge Media Institute occupies the top floor of the Berrill Building, and visitors – apart from getting an overview of KMi’s myriad research projects – are afforded a memorable view over the eastern flank of the new city of Milton Keynes, where…
Following meetings with the Vice-Chancellor, Diana Laurillard (PVC-Tech. Devpt.), and KMi research groups, Mark Resmer (of Sonoma State Uni.) concluded his visit to the OU with a KMi Seminar on the Instructional Management System (IMS) Project. The IMS seeks to make the web more educationally useful by developing “a specific set of higher-order standards and…
A live Webcast from KMi on Thursday 4th September linked some two dozen University Pro-Vice-Chancellors charged with steering policy on the use of new technologies in education. The event was the first of three phases of the ongoing ‘Learning.Org’ conference, created by Professor Diana Laurillard, The Open University’s PVC (Technology Development). Learning.Org is designed as…
