Lord Dalkeith, a Millennium Commissioner, visited KMi on the 3 September together with Rob Luke, Manager of the Millennium Awards Scheme, to discuss a proposal for an Open University and Living Archive Millennium Awards Scheme. The aim of the proposal is to encourage and enable parents of schoolchildren to gain new skills in the use…
Lord Dalkeith, a Millennium Commissioner, visited KMi on the 3 September together with Rob Luke, Manager of the Millennium Awards Scheme, to discuss a proposal for an Open University and Living Archive Millennium Awards Scheme. The aim of the proposal is to encourage and enable parents of schoolchildren to gain new skills in the use…
Martin Dzbor of the Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia, is currently visiting KMi as part of a collaboration with Zdenek Zdrahal on an EU funded Socrates/ODL project. As part of the project, they are preparing a technical specification for a knowledge based software support and training environment for users of a software package designed to…
David Kolb, Professor of Philosophy at Bates College, Maine, USA, gave a fascinating talk today, entitled “Ruminations on Argument in Mixed Company”. He explored the possible advantages that hypertext might play in argumentative texts which seek to persuade the reader, as encountered in philosophy, and much other scholarly writing. What new affordances might hypertext offer…
Members of Microsoft’s group developing learning technologies for distance education visited the OU on 9th and 10th June. Hosted by Diana Laurillard (PVC Technology), Jim Ptaszynski, Eric Rait and David Kosbie spent a day in KMi, discussing several projects with staff, before presenting their own work in the afternoon. They continue their consultations tomorrow with…
On Wednesday 6th May Kim Howells MP (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Lifelong Learning at the Department of Education and Employment) visited the Open University. He was welcomed by the Vice Chancellor Sir John Daniel, and visited a number of OU units to see, first hand, how the University makes Lifelong Learning a reality…
Chris Wells, Divisional Manager, and John McCann from the DfEE Millennium Projects Team visited KMi to see a range of multimedia and Web developments. The day commenced with a visit to Heronsgate School to see a number of examples of children using applications to support the curriculum which have been developed by the Multimedia Enabling…
Sue Thexton, Managing Director of Macromedia Europe, visited KMi to see a range of developments that involve the use of Macromedia Director for multimedia authoring. There was particular interest in seeing applications such as the Virtual Microscope, Topic Accessed Video and the Virtual Leaf. Shockwave applications seen included First Flight and the Dynamic Pump. Macromedia…
A half-day visit took place on 20th January 1998 to foster further cooperation between KMi and Denbigh School, and to explore possible projects which could be undertaken by Denbigh Sixth Form pupils. The visit followed hot on the heels of the successful link-up of Denbigh and KMi via a wireless local area network installation on…
President of Florida State University, Dr. Talbot (Sandy) D’Alemberte, visited the Open University on Tuesday 16th December to progress details of OU/FSU collaboration. He met with Gary Slapper, Director of the Law Programme at the Open University Business School, visited Marc Eisenstadt here in the Knowledge Media Institute, and joined Bob Masterton, Keith Williams, Graham…
