The "mEducator Linked Educational Resources" store is one of the outcomes of the mEducator project and is among a number of datasets which recently were included into the Linked Open Data cloud. The dataset contains data about educational Web resources (over 23.000 triples), mainly from the biomedical field, which was partially contributed by the 15…
Vanessa Lopez passed her viva with only minor modifications two weeks after another KMi student, Fouad Zablith, also passed his viva. Vanessa’s thesis “Open Question Answering on the large, distributed and heterogeneous Semantic Web” is the result on her topical and timely research. One side effect of Vanessa’s research is an implemented and working question-answering…
Alexander Mikroyannidis and Teresa Connolly have prepared an online course about Responsive Open Learning Environments, which is now available in OpenLearn. The course provides an overview of the concepts behind Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) and also demonstrates a selection of learning tools that have been developed by the ROLE project. Additionally, it gives the learner…
Teresa Connolly, of KMi & SCORE Fellow, recently delivered a workshop at the 18th International ALT conference in the University of Leeds, 6-8th September: “Enhancing synergies between technologists, learning support specialists and academics utilizing Open Educational Resources (OER)” along with SCORE Fellows Alannah Fitzgerald (Durham) and Jane Gay (Kingston) in association with Gabriel Reedy (Kings…
Computer Science is a subject with rapid changes and always brimming with new ideas. One of the emerging hot topics is “knowledge discovery in the web”. Taking its roots in document understanding of single texts of early computer linguistics, knowledge discovery in the web goes far beyond looking up the odd article in wikipedia or…
Teresa Connolly recently represented KMi at the UNESCO International workshop “Open Educational Resources and Intellectual Property Rights” held at the Russian National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Moscow. Her presentation “Collaborate to compete” included descriptions of numerous OER based projects, including ROLE, as examples of achieving best practice through collaboration. More than 50…
KMi was recently represented at the OpenCourseWare Consortium’s (OCWC) 10th anniversary conference held in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Teresa Connolly (KMi), Elpida Makriyannis (IET) and Andy Lane (MCT) ran a workshop centred on the OERopoly game. OERopoly was used as a mediating artefact to raise awareness about Open Educational Resources. The workshop was successful as well as…
Last week’s final review of the EC-funded ‘language technologies for lifelong learning’ (LTfLL) project found that technology is mature and ripe for the market. Over the course of three years, the collaborative project LTfLL has developed a set of interoperable services that use natural language processing techniques and semantic web technology to support all aspects…
Last Friday saw a VIP installation event and networking party at Centre Point for the Resonance project. This invitation-only party had a number of prominent attendees from the Media and Broadcasing industry including: Chris Fry the Producer of Spooks, Foz Allen the Executive Producer of Robin Hood, Matthew Bouch the Producer of Being Human, Colin…
UCIAD (User Centric Integration of Activity Data) is a new 6 month JISC-funded project addressing the integration of activity data spread across various systems in an organization, and exploring how this integration can both benefit users and improve transparency in an organization. Both research and commercial developments in the area of user activity data analysis…
