KMi ‘s Alan Fletcher was one of the speakers at this years British Institute for Learning and Development conference which focussed on ‘Learning and Development: the next five years’ The conference, which included speakers form BT, Serious Games Institute and Rolls Royce aimed to provide the opportunity for Learning & Development professionals to update their…
This year’s Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) took place last week in Heraklion, Greece. ESWC2010 builds on the success of the former European Semantic Web Conference series, but seeks to extend its focus by engaging with other communities within and outside ICT, in which semantics can play an important role. It is one of the…
Yesterday saw the end to the highly stimulating day and a half International Research Forum (IRF) hosted by SAP at the Lindner Hotel & Sporting Club Wiesensee. The annual invitation-only forum brings together the leading thinkers from academia and industry around a preselected topic and the theme of this year’s event was "Future Internet: Right…
This week saw over 2500 participants attend a large EU meeting: "From Economic Recovery to Sustainability". This large meeting combined large public-private partnerships in the areas of: Factories of the Future, Energy Efficient Buildings, Green Cars and the Future Internet. Each of these areas is associated with a significant pool of funding and at the…
KMi’s first ‘robot’ for Google Wave has started surfing. It isn’t very smart, and can’t do much as yet but still demonstrates the exciting potential of Google Wave to transform the online aspects of distance education. Rocky is designed to offer information about the microscope slides used in Earth Sciences courses such as S276, and…
KMi researchers Chris Valentine and Dr Kevin Quick have discovered that the well known Google Maps software can also be used to develop microscopes. They have found that by adapting a technique developed by UCL’s mapping department it is possible to display and manipulate the large images used by the on-line microscopes recently developed at…
The webCEF project has received an overall ‘excellent’ rating from the EU in its final report. The assessor stated that webCEF showed “high quality of project outcomes and products; good functioning of the consortium and efficient project management [with a] large dissemination of results and a user-friendly website”. webCEF provided a web-based assessment tool that…
Today, the National University of Bahia in Salvador, Brazil launches the first handbook of research on Moodle pedagogical strategies and case studies. This book, published in Portuguese, was edited by Dr. Lynn Alves from the UNEB University (Brazil), Dr. Daniela Melare from UNED (Spain) and UALG (Portugal) and Dr. Alexandra Okada from the Open University,…
KMi today hosted a visit from Babu Ram K.C., principal of Mahan Siddhartha High School in Kathmandu in the Kingdom of Nepal. Chris Valentine demonstrated some of the web-based projects that KMi have worked on in collaboration with Heronsgate. Mr Ram then shows their school website and their children have also recently organised animation workshops….
The Out There and In Here (OTIH) project has been awarded funding from the Research Councils UK Digital Economy Programme under the ‘Research in the Wild’ call. The project team, led by Dr Anne Adams from IET, will develop the use of mobile technologies and interactive tabletop displays to support collaborative group work between field…
