Yesterday a user group had the opportunity to test out a prototype Election Debate audience feedback tool at KMi. A group of voters gathered in our Podium space to watch one of last year’s political debates and log our reactions to the speakers’ performances using an innovative online tool. The prototype application was tested on…
KMi has developed an Augmented Reality enabled mobile application to bring the latest undergraduate prospectus to life. The user of the app just points their device at the appropriate page in the prospectus and a 3D object will appear. The displayed objects also allow user interaction such as swiping to rotate. Related Links: View…
Congratulations to Karine Souza who passed her PhD viva last friday – 19th of December. She was a visiting PhD researcher from University of Minho Portugal supervised by Dr. Bento Silva and by Dr. Ale Okada during her visit at the Open University UK. In KMi, Karine has been participating in the COLEARN – open research network since 2013….
Dr. Izabel Meister, who was a PhD student in KMi in 2012, has just published a book about her thesis, which was launched today in Brazil. Her thesis co-supervised by Dr. Okada – “The weaving of knowledge in social networks habitat of collective intelligences” – focused on social networks as a space of creation and acquisition…
EDENRW8, which was held in Oxford on 27-28 October 2014, provided a good overview of the current state of online, open and distance learning in Europe. This event was organised by Professor Antonio Moreira Teixeira, President of EDEN from the Open University of Portugal, and Professor Belinda Tynan, Pro Vice-Chanchellor on Learning & Teaching at the Open University…
Ligia Puppato, the Secretary of Digital Inclusion of Brazil Government visited the Open University to get a clear picture of the future of Knowledge Media Technologies particularly applied to open education and smart cities. She also participated in the webinar held in KMi podium to launch the 3rd edition of the book “Open Education Resources…
The annual performance review of the TELLME project last week in Luxembourg saw KMi present work on learning by doing with a wearable, mixed reality job performance aid to the European Commission. Innovation and technological advances in manufacturing created a skills gap across the globe, shifting demand for human labour from robotizable production jobs to the…
In August we published a story entitled Citizen Data – empowering citizens about how KMi had joined a three-month feasibility study on how to empower citizens with their own data. A report detailing the outcomes of the study has now been released and can be downloaded here. Other organisations involved in the research include the Digital Catapult, consultancy Ctrl-Shift and non-profit…
On 12th of November, KMi’s Aneta Tumilowicz presented a workshop on the use of European Commission’s Participant Portal for EU grant management. This is the second workshop of this type organised by the KMi (the first one was presented in June 2013) at the Open University. The aims of this workshop were: To communicate new…
At the end of November Martin Hlosta presented OUAnalyse at DatConf2014 at Brno University of Technology (TU Brno). Martin was one of the ten speakers presenting on the theme of data in the second largest city in Czech Republic. The Open University have a strong relationship with TU Brno, displayed through an agreement between the…
