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…
As the theme of the 8th world conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, held in Kobe Japan, was ‘Knowledge and Media in Learning Systems’ I shouldn’t have been as surprised as I was that the current interests of the AI & ED community now closely match that of KMi’s. The bulk of papers discussed the…
The METg’s Chris Valentine recently attended a meeting to discuss the future world file format for digital talking books in Sigtuna, just north of Stockholm, Sweden. The meeting was attended by at least seven talking book libraries and eleven visually-impaired research and support institutions from around the world. The principle driving force behind the development…
Last week, three students made OU history by being the first to sit an examination via the Internet. Exams in odd places are not a new thing for the OU, as students have sat exams in nuclear submarines as well as many far off foreign locations, but this is the first time that the examination…
Peter Whalley’s Firstflight project has been dubbed ‘cool site’ by the California Institute of Technology, in recognition of the project’s novel approach to helping students understand the complexities of aeronautics. The project encourages individuals to experiment with the numerous parameter settings concerned with air flow and wing shape, and then puts them directly in the…
Prof Tom Vincent MBE, Deputy Director of KMi and Head of the Multimedia Enabling Technologies Group, is addressing the invitation-only Apple Europe Education Conference being held 17th-18th March in London. The conference, entitled “Creating our Online Future – Imperatives for Education” is part of a European-wide series launched recently by Apple Europe to help Education…
Vice-Chancellor Sir John Daniel will be giving the opening keynote address at the International Distance Learning Conference (IDLCON-7) taking place in Washington DC starting on 24th March. But he won’t be there. Instead he’ll be delivering his 25-minute address directly from KMi using an innovative mixture of satellite TV broadcast technology and KMi’s own Stadium…
BT has joined the growing list of household names sponsoring KMi research. In late February 1997 a contract was signed between the Open University and BT Research Labs to foster collaboration on the construction of a Virtual Science Laboratory. Professor Tom Vincent, head of the Multimedia Enabling Technologies group, conducted negotiations with Chris Fowler of…
Sun Microsystems is hosting an internal KMi Stadium Webcast on March 12th 1997, featuring Adrian Cockroft. Dr. Cockroft will be speaking on the subject of Java sizing and web performance monitoring, and the event will be made available at multiple sites across the UK SWAN (Sun Wide Area Network). This event complements Sun’s ‘tech talk’…
