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KMi runs MOOC Analytics Workshop for Future Learning Academic Network
Last week I ran the first MOOC Analytics workshop for the Future Learning Academic Network (FLAN), the research network around the OU's FutureLearn...
MK:Smart – on track for supporting the future of Milton Keynes
The inaugural plenary meeting of the MK:Smart project was hosted at The Open University on the 22 January. All partners were involved in a project...
Minister of State introduced to MK:Smart
Greg Clark was appointed Minister of State (Cities and Constitution) in October 2013. As part of a visit to The Open University he spent some time...
Two new interactive iBooks produced by KMi
The Open University has published two new interactive iBooks produced by KMi. The iBooks are available to download for free from Apple’s iBook...
A robust finale to ROBUST
ROBUST glided through its third and final year review in Luxembourg on December 12. The reviewers highlighted the numerous and successful...
MK:SMART mentioned at despatch box
During Prime Minister’s Questions on 15th January, Prime Minister David Cameron congratulated the Open University on the MK:SMART initiative...
CORE becomes the official UK Open Access Aggregator after winning a Jisc-commissioned tender
In June 2013, Jisc invited in a closed tender selected teams to bid for the UK National Open Access aggregator. The wide set of requirements...
Prof Beth Plale on the work at Hathi Trust Research Center, Big data, Aggregations and Text Mining
On December 12th, Prof. Beth Plale, co-director and chair of the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) and Indiana University visited KMi. HTRC is a...
CORE hosted the national UKCoRR meeting
On December 3rd 2013, the members’ meeting of The United Kingdom Council of Research Repositories (UKCoRR), which is recognised as the...
KMi @ 1st MOOC Research Conference
I recently joined several hundred researchers and practitioners in Arlington, TX, for the inaugural research conference on MOOCs. I joined an...
Special Issue: Cloud Education Environments
Alexander Mikroyannidis is the guest editor of the special issue on Cloud Education Environments published by the Journal of Universal Computer...
Listening Experience Database launches
The Listening Experience Database (LED), a crowd-sourced collection of documented evidence of listening to music, went public this week. LED is a...