The convergence of broadcasting IT and networking technologies means that soon millions of TV channels and digital derivatives will be available over the Internet. A level of automation is required for both broadcasters and viewers to be able to cope with increased scale. In short, one can not select a specific TV digital content from…
Delegates 16 European Universities met in KMi today to kick off the STELLAR Network of Excellence in Technology Enhanced learning, the effort of the leading institutions and projects in EU TEL to unify our diverse community. The work of STELLAR will focus on the Grand Challenge for TEL, via a series of capacity building instruments…
In preparation for the Service Web 3.0 project review, last week saw the release of the project�s Future Internet Video. Designed to be viewed by stakeholders, who may be non-experts, in a new generation Internet, the video outlines the basic themes of the European Union�s Future Internet initiative. These include: an Internet of Services, where…
The e-Dance project is investigating the use of Access Grid and hypermedia annotation in the choreography of distributed dance. On Wednesday the KMi Podium area was transformed into an internetworked dance studio. We used the Access Grid to connect with our colleagues at Manchester University. We had Helen Bailey from Bedford University dancing here at…
KMi researcher Stefan Rüger has been invited as a Visiting Professor to the Digital Libraries research group at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, with a view to research and co-develop Video Digital Libraries. The principal research output of the world-renowned Digital Libraries Research group is called Greenstone, which is an open source, multilingual digital…
Members of the team behind the ERA Project were pleasantly surprised (to say the least) to have won the Special Needs Innovation category at the 2008 Handheld Learning awards at The Brewery, Barbican Centre, London last night. Photo shows, from left to right, famous TV mathematician and childrens’ entertainer Johnny Ball, Jessica & Mark from…
One million tracks of educational content from the Open University has now been downloaded in the four months since it joined Apple’s iTunes U channel. This has meant providing over 17 Terabytes of data, being around 62,000 hours of audio and video from the Open University to a new, worldwide audience. On 3 June, the…
The Enabling Remote Activity (ERA) project has just returned from two weeks in the Highlands of Scotland, successfully supporting two mobility impaired students on the SXR339 ‘Ancient Mountains’ geology summer school. KMi staff worked alongside course tutors to enable the students to participate in the summer school, giving them access to rock outcrops they would…
Chris Valentine and Peter Scott have spent this week in Helsinki at a major project meeting of the WebCEF initiative – working on systems for interactive language learning and assessment. WebCEF enables the collaborative assessment of oral language proficiency through a web-based environment. As a language learner or language teacher you can evaluate your own…
The X-Media consortium celebrated a success in St Goar last week. St Goar traditionally supplies pilots to Rhine barges to help navigate the dangerous rocks of the Loreley. None such was needed by the X-Media crew however, who sailed through the review with flying colours. The reviewers particularly praised the high levels of integration and…
