Dr. Stuart Monro, Scientific Director, and Nina Ludgate (Event Communications) visited KMi’s MultiMedia Enabling Technologies group to see protoype material for the Volcanic Edinburgh part of the exhibition currently under construction for the Dynamic Earth project in Edinburgh. A web page for the project, with sample QTVR movies, can be viewed at http://met.open.ac.uk/met_vr/v r_earth.html Later,…
On Friday 24th October 1997 a team from British Aerospace visited the Open University to talk about the British Aerospace Virtual University initiative. The team visiting the OU included the VC of this new University, Geraldine Kenney-Wallace; the Director and Registrar, Alan Millican; the Director of BAe Personnel, Terry Morgan; the Dean of the BAe…
Tuesday 21st October, Bill Morris, General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union, visited KMi. The purpose of the visit was Bill Morris’ first meeting as a Trustee of the OU Foundation. Bill has a true passion for education, and is a committed supporter of the OU. The Transport and General Workers Union have…
David Brown, the Chairman of the University for Industry Design and Implementation Advisory Group and Chairman of Motorola, visited the OU as part of a fact finding exercise, prior to drafting his initial 100 Days Report to HM Government. David was accompanied by Jeannette Pugh, Josh Hillman and Nick Pearce. The DfEE has stated that…
Gale Moore is the Deputy-Director of the Knowledge Media Design Institute, an organization of over 50 faculty members from 20 different academic departments in the University of Toronto with a mission similar to KMi. Gale spoke about some of the work in KMDI including a demonstration of the Virtual Sandbox, a collaborative project with Xerox…
Ed Weeple, Under Secretary, Scottish Office Department for Education and Industry, and Graeme Dickson, Head of HE Division SOIED, visited KMI to discuss applications of IT for disabled learners with Professor Tom Vincent. During his visit, Ed Weeple was shown how developments in multimedia for disabled learners had brought benefits for all students. This was…
Dr Hans Geiser visited the Open University on Wednesday 21st May, 1997. Dr Geiser, Director of the UN Staff College in Turin, visited the OU to see its pioneering uses of new media technology. He had a meeting with Sir John Daniel (Vice-Chancellor), and Bob Masterton (OU Worldwide and was taken on a tour of…
The Hon Roy MacLaren and Mrs Alethea Lee MacLaren visited Milton Keynes today. They spent the morning at the Open University and had lunch at the Knowledge Media Institute. In the afternoon they visited Bletchley Park and the Central Milton Keynes where they spoke with representatives of Canadian Companies in the City. In the evening…
Today Mr Adam Ingram, MP and Dr Phyllis Starkey visited the the Open University to explore its leading edge research in science and technology. After an initial meeting with Sir John Daniel (Vice-Chancellor) they were taken on tours of Science and Technology, the BBC OU Production centre and the university’s Knowledge Media Institute. In the…
