On September 11th, KMi were host to 45 representatives from the Danish Association for Flexible Learning who were on a three day tour of the UK. The group had expressed a particular in interest in e-learning. The OU has a growing number of students in Denmark and delegates heard presentations from Judith Margolis & Mike…
So … back in August we suggested you try out our new experimental office. Which we have called Hex (for obvious reasons). Now, the KMi virtual office has a voice enabled virtual coffee room. You go to coffee by dragging your hex into the room. It drops where you place it in that space, and…
Had a short interview with Jack Schofield just now (Technology Ed. Guardian). He is doing an Education piece on higher education 2033. I said I wouldnt speculate that far ahead – 5 years max. for the sensible window! However, I chatted about some of the interesting things we are doing – esp the emphasis on…
Enrico, John, Peter, Jon and Chris in the Masterclass area. We will be looking at RDF semantic feed from KMi databased and their integration with a new client (probably Flash). Adding services like *make a flash-meeting* seem pretty neat ideas.
You walk up to your computer and it says “Hi Peter”, unlocks the screen saver and lets you in. When you leave it, on comes the screensaver and the lock until your return. How cool is that? Well if you have a bluetooth phone, like the Sony Ericsson T68i and a neat piece of shareware…
Hexagon Virtual Office is the code name of a new proof-of-concept exploring the dimension which runs between presence and telepresence systems. In one model of this the CNM team have prototyped a virtual office concept for interested KMi users to explore. You will need a camera, mic and flash 6+ plugged into your browser (it…
Hexagon Virtual Office is the code name of a new proof-of-concept exploring the dimension which runs between presence and telepresence systems. In one model of this the CNM team have prototyped a virtual office concept for interested KMi users to explore. You will need a camera, mic and flash 6+ plugged into your browser (it…
John Howard, Alison Hunter and Gordon McMullan from the BBC Digilab are visiting today. They are a small team in the BBC that looks at technology to help the BBC's staff share knowledge and communicate more effectively. They do this by bringing communities of practice together – both virtually and in real life – to…
Today, the lab had a joint visit from Shell EP Learning and Development (SIEP) and the University of Twente in the Netherlands. On a previous visit, the new head of SIEP Adam Lomas had suggested that we all really needed to get together! Prof. Dr. Betty Collis is the Shell Professor of Networked Learning and knows…
Dr Paul Clark visited KMi today for a morning of demonstrations and discussions with the team. Dr Clark was appointed as Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Teaching) at the Open University from October 2002. Dr Clark was previously the Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. Canadian by birth, he obtained…
