Friday 6th Feb 2004 Peter Scott and Sue Downie (Corous) visited the Shell Training Centre in Holland as the guests of Peter Bentley (pictured). Their training centre operation is a very big business! The Centre was, strangely enough, running a big workshop for one of the OU Business School courses, B871 or somesuch … so…
The two visitors, Sabine Seufert and Dieter Euler, were from the IWp (Institut fur Wirtschaftspadagogik) – which they translate as the Institute of Business Education and Educational Management. Housed within this Institute is the SCIL or Swiss Centre for Innovation in Learning, Sabine is the Executive Director and Dieter is the Academic Director. The Institute…
Just found this website paying tribute to the computers of yesteryear. Related Links: Obsolete Computers Museum
In a keynote address to an International Policy Forum on the Internet and Society at Oxford University this evening, KMi Chief Scientist Marc Eisenstadt proclaimed E-Learning to be a “quaint term we won't be using when we reconvene this meeting in a few years”. In a presentation of “what works”, “what fails”, and “what's next”,…
US Democrat Presidential hopeful Wes Clark has embraced the Internet and is heavily into blogging. Many of his policy documents are available as PDFs, his entire website is also available in Spanish and there are a number of blogs. A volunteer TechCorps runs the site for him providing “a framework for involving open source software…
From Logitech somes the QuickCam Sphere. Decidedly retro in styling, it looks to have come straight from the cult SF movie Barbarella. But what makes it different is its built-in subject tracking motors. All for a staggering 100 quid – if you can find a supplier who's got one in stock, that is. Its USB…
“Serving large files creates problems of scaling, flash crowds, and reliability. As you grow, they become more central to your business, but your bandwidth costs go up as well. It's a vicious cycle. There is a solution. BitTorrent is a simple software product which addresses all of these problems. The key to cheap file distribution…
Alumni of OU Courses L203 and L231 (the main and 'top up' courses for the OU Diploma in German) are undertaking a unique 3-way trial of KMi-originated collaboration and group publishing tools (BuddySpace, Rostra, and Lyceum) starting today. The aim of the project, led by Klaus-Dieter Rossade from the Department of Languages, is to push…
Very interesting session today… Eric Ostrowski of EC Harris (www.echarris.com), a consulting / knowledge brokering firm (my term, not theirs), that works extensively with (for example) the building trade, doing a lot of valuable knowledge capture (e.g. deep tradeoffs involved in building short-squat vs skinny-tall for identical cubic footage… SEE SECOND URL BELOW). Eric had…
Full story at link below… would be cool if I could create an entry here automatically (it's got a 'visitor' tag in the original.. that should be sufficient) without having to post the story twice… 3 times if you count an impact.kmi.open.ac.uk entry.. Related Links: See original KMi Planet story here
