The Financial Times published an article at the weekend on how universities, including The Open University, are using student data to predict academic performance. Our former Director, Peter Scott, introduced journalist, Helen Warrell to OU Analyse, a project led by Zdenek Zdrahal (see photo). The data collected by the technology created by Zdenek’s team includes how…
The Open University’s Charter Day celebrations concluded with the Learn About Fair yesterday. People from all over the OU found out more about a variety KMi projects, including Engage and EDV. It was a particularly good opportunity for the latter to showcase the Democratic Replay tool, as we quickly approach the UK General Election next month….
A group of KMIers have just returned from the 5th ACM Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK) conference, this year held in Poughkeepsie, New York. Zdenek Zdrahal, Martin Hlosta, and Jakub Kuzilek were attending to present work on OU Analyse, which as well as attracting interest from participants was highlighted in OU PVC Belinda Tynan’s keynote…
Students’ engagement with the Virtual Learning Environment Students Live: The AA100 course activities* Addition / Subtraction: [?] Add 567 Subtract 567 You can also add and subtract a value to/from the counter using the add and subtract methods: myCounter.add(567); myCounter.subtract(567); Set Value: [?] Set value of counter to 12,345 You can manually set the value…
Last week saw the DIP Executive Management Board confirm KMi’s Deputy Director, John Domingue, as the project’s Scientific Director. In this role as head of the project he will be supported by the project’s previous head Christoph Bussler and the project manager Sigurd Harand, both from the Digital Enterprise Research Institute in Galway, Ireland. DIP…
Today marks the official start of a £650K KMi-led European project entitled "ENRICH: Enriching representations of work to support organizational learning." The project, conceived and written by KMi’s Tammy Sumner, John Domingue, and Zdenek Zdrahal, will bring more than £300K directly into KMi. The full ENRICH project, to be managed by Dr. Zdrahal, will support…
