Today’s tutorial on Multimedia Information Retrieval at Search Solutions 2013 held at BCS’s headquarters in London was the last in a series of tutorials by KMi professor Stefan Rueger. He started the series at the end of 2009 based on the first stages of his text book with the same title that was finally published…
The 7th International Conference on Education (from April 2012 – November 2013) organised by Fundación Telefónica, is the 1st Massive Open Event on 21st Century Education. It brings together symposiums in many countries as well as a virtual network environment (Encuentro.Educared.org) for large scale discussion. Ale Okada was a keynote at the finale event on the 12-13th November in Madrid with…
The 2008 article of KMi’s Fridolin Wild about personal learning environments has reached the first 100,000 hits on the European Commission portal ‘Open Education Europe’. The article not only phrases critique about the – then – status quo of instructional design theories, but also proposes a fundamentally new approach of mash-up personal learning environments. Congratulations!…
The book Knowledge Cartography: Software Tools and Mapping Techniques. edited by Okada, A., Buckingham Shum, S. and Sherborne, T. was launched on 4th of November 2008 – 400 pages, with all the maps and images in colour! It is a great pleasure to announce that the 2nd edition of this book will be published in 2014 by…
Using search engines effectively is now a key skill for researchers, but could more be done to equip young researchers with the tools they need? Here, Dr Neil Jacobs and Rachel Bruce from JISC’s digital infrastructure team shared their top ten resources for researchers from across the web. CORE was placed among the top…
What connects all three above? Right, a project meeting of the TELL-ME project last week in Tampere, Finland. TELL-ME brings learning technology to manufacturing environments. In a nutshell, the overall top-level idea of TELL-ME is to support ‘learning by doing’, a super hot combination of augmented reality technology and learning from shared experience. This new…
Today saw the end of the Dagstuhl Seminar on Interoperation in Complex Information Ecosystems. These seminars are prestigious events held at the Dagstuhl Castle in Germany which have to be booked two years in advance. The events last between three days to one week and cover new or emerging topics in Computer Science. Generally, the…
… that was co-organised by KMi was as a huge success! Taking place in sunny Limassol on Cyprus, this 9th summer school attracted almost 80 participants, with lectures given by a line up of the creme de la creme of European TEL research. KMi opened this intense week of PhD training with a keynote on…
KMi’s work on the Future of Learning with Technology was commended by the European Commission at the TEL-map project’s final performance review last week in the Euroforum in Luxembourg. The work lead by KMi highlights the key high-impact innovations in learning with technology, helping to extend Europe’s capacity to innovate and helping to increase…
Today, Simon Buckingham Shum was awarded a Chair in the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University. As Professor of Learning Informatics Simon will bring a Knowledge Media perspective to understanding the explosion in digital data that is having a transformative impact on business, government and data-intensive academic fields. Learning Informatics places the learner at the heart of this challenge and…
