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…
Sue Downey brought Peter Bentley (Shell Educ) over today for a chat about innovations. Peter is keen to consider how his company can better manage the departing knowledge from retiring senior folks. He wants them to ramp down their engagement with the company annually – to step back gradually from their role so that the…
Spoke to Angela Driver (Comms) about the possibility of doing a webcast from the Cardiff regional centre about the launch of one of our Welsh Language initiatives (28 Oct PM). Evidently Fraser is terribly keen to have this as a live internet video. I promised to *look into* what was possible. Another freebie for the…
Visit today from Diane Earl, John Hackett and Phillip Pearce (east of england broadband network consortium) today to discuss the on-going work with CABER and new potentials for Flashmeeting. They have a click-to-meet trial running alongside their big commitment to hardware vc. However, they seemed terribly keen to be *early adopters* for flashmeeting – and…
Come NOW to Peter Scott's office and ask for a webcam. I have bought a bunch (first come first serve) and will buy more if there is a queue!!! The cameras I have are cheap USB PC only jobs – no mike – so this reduces the queue slightly? Heck, these things only cost 12.50…
The Chairman and Managing Director of Niftylift Ltd, a successful local engineering company, came for a visit today. They were escorted by David Hawkridge of the OUBS. They are interested in engineering design, design consistency, group communication and engineering education. Probable contacts should be ZZ, PM. PCW and PJS Related Links: Niftylift
As part of his visit to KMi to discuss potential collaboration, John Fox of Cancer Research UK gave a seminar on “Logics, tasks and agents: towards a unified model for delivering knowledge services”. This was an informal review of work at Cancer Research UK aimed at developing general methods and technologies for building knowledge based…
Marc Eisenstadt demonstrated the use of BuddySpace instant messaging to the Senior Faculty Administrators group. This follows the installation of the software on their machines by Jiri Komzak over the past few weeks.
The OU Council gig went *extremely well* on Friday. There were constant visitors (both from the council and OU deans) for the whole session. The last visitor had to be dragged off by the official dinner announcer. Everyone was a) knowledgeable about the web b) very impressed with our work and c) asked intelligent questions….
John Domingue in Luxembourg today at EC brainstorming session “Defining priorities for RTD activities for Technology Enhanced Learning”. John is one of only 10 invited participants; the only other from UK being Tony Hey, Head of E-Science Core Programme at EPSRC.
