Cor! It’s time for CORE!
Is an article published by the University of London Computing Centre featuring certain aspects of the CORE system. Check it out … Related Links: Cor! It’s time for CORE!
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KMi launches the first handbook of research on Collaborative Learning 2.0: OER
“Collaborative Learning 2.0: Open Educational Resources”. Edited by Ale Okada Teresa Connolly Peter J. Scott (Open University, UK) The purpose of this book is to understand how OER and Web 2.0 can be deployed successfully to enrich the collaborative learning experience and ensure a positive outcome in terms of user generated knowledge and development of…
New ROLE course about Self-Regulated Learning
Alexander Mikroyannidis and Teresa Connolly have prepared in collaboration with other ROLE partners, a new ROLE course about Self Regulated Learning (SRL). The course, which is available in OpenLearn, provides an overview of the concepts behind SRL and also offers an opportunity to use a selection of learning tools that have been developed by the…
Collective Intelligence Workshop @ CSCW2012
KMi’s Anna De Liddo and Simon Buckingham Shum have recently chaired the second international Collective Intelligence workshop held in conjunction with the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW2012) in Seattle, Washington on February 11-15, 2012. The workshop brought together researchers and practitioners in the field of collective intelligence and online discourse to discuss…
New project: UK-wide, educational app store ‘EDUKApp’
KMi was contracted by JISC to create EDUKApp, an educational, UK-wide app and widget store. EDUKApp will be both a repository and community site that focuses on collecting and promoting widgets and apps for learning and teaching. The first prototype of EDUKApp was presented at the JISC CETIS, that took place in Nottingham on Feb…
The Open University – where learning runs day and night
Students’ engagement with the Virtual Learning Environment Students Live: The AA100 course activities* Addition / Subtraction: [?] Add 567 Subtract 567 You can also add and subtract a value to/from the counter using the add and subtract methods: myCounter.add(567); myCounter.subtract(567); Set Value: [?] Set value of counter to 12,345 You can manually set the value…
Suzanne leaving KMi
Suzanne Little is leaving KMi today, after having spent the last 3 and a half years with us. She started working in KMi in July 2008 when she was appointed as Research Associate on the PHAROS project, as part of Stefan’s team. She took the opportunity to change roles as Project Officer on ECIR (March…
Another member of CORE family
DiggiCORE is a new two year project funded under the Digging into Data programme, which supports collaboration between the UK, USA, Canada and the Netherlands. The DiggiCORE partnership consists of KMI and The European Library. This makes DiggiCORE the only funded fully European project in the whole programme. The members of the DiggiCORE Advisory Board…
OpenScout supports the collaborative reuse and adaptation of Portuguese and Brazilian OER
The OpenScout Tool Library is a social network of individuals and collectives who are developing or using learning resources and want to share their stories and resources from different countries. The OpenScout Tool Library is currently hosting the activities of the COLEARN community of research in collaborative learning and educational technologies in the Portuguese language….
Celebrating another PhD
Congratulations to Adam Rae who successfully completed his viva. Adam’s thesis is titled “Exploiting Social Networks for Recommendation in Online Image Sharing Systems”.
