Geoff Austin in LTS has finished a series of changes to the OU Forum (aka Phorum) system and it should be ready to go live very soon. Talk to Simon Buckingham Shum for details. Related Links: Existing ForumCreate Forum
Last Friday we got the formal notification that Corous was having its independent spreadsheet surgically removed. They have lost Danny Nti and Jim Flood; and Dr Gerry Hancock in OUW is now formally in charge of their operations (Gerry, I think was ex-regional director for Birmingham?). The two remaining senior staff (Marion McKechnie and Shamus…
Lyceum, the Open University's virtual classroom tool originated in KMi, is alive, kicking, serving thousands of students, and delivering high-quality end-user experiences. I'm taking my first ever OU course – LZX194: Portales (Beginner's Spanish), and using Lyceum as a student, partaking in its capabilities for multiparty audio conferencing with shared graphics. You see the world…
The following quotes are taken from an article on distance learning in Guardian Online which used quotes from Ultralab, the OU and UKeU. Unfortunately someone fron the OU used the phrase “kipper ties” – a perfect example of reinforcing a negative stereotype! Read on: “While this may be largely true, it ignores the fact…
PJS hosted a visit today from Gilly Salmon (OUBS). Gilly was keen on progressing KMi activity on three fronts: (1) Her chairing of the OUBS Management Certificate course – with 5K students and very tight margins imposed by OU tariffs. (2) Her own external commercial activity. She has an international company with 8 (or maybe…
Cipher, Clockwork, BuddySpace, D3E, Compendium shown at Library-organised knowledge event – Exploring Knowledge Management. Location was cramped, away from main body of the meeting and not a good means of presenting what is going on in KMi. Participants concluded that, while working with the Library is a worthy thing to do, this is not a…
Tony Mays from a local PR firm (Newport pagnell based CIT Public Relations), who work for Macromedia Europe, will be visiting Peter Scott this coming Tues to chat about doing another case study of the lab – this time for their education section. The big headline for me is the sell for Flashmeeting; but I…
The new URL for access to the KMi ONLY Hexagon Room is: http://cnm.open.ac.uk/projects/hexagon/kmi.html Which is intended to be a private-to-kmi room for our experiments. Please join us, even if only to listen to News-24 🙂 And yes we know it is a bit broken up, we are musing on this … Actually, the direct to…
On Wednesday 15th October, three Directors from NERC (Nat. Env. Res. Cncl) visited the OU: Jonathan Bates, Avril Allman and Janice Timberlake. The visit was primarily to discuss the proposed course for postgraduate students undertaking research degrees, namely ST500: Doing Postgraduate Research in Science and Technology, but the visit included the role of KMi collaboration…
The visitors – Prof. Sally Joy, Associate Dean Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Business and Economics and Dr.Andrew Treloar, Project Manager Strategic Information Initiatives, from Monash University – came by on a fact-finding mission on Information Management in the OU. They were met by Peter Scott and Simon Buckingham Shum. The main areas of…
