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Augmented Reality App for Students Studying SK299

07 Feb 2018

The SK299 Human biology app is the second Augmented Reality (AR) application developed by Paul Hogan in KMi that is used by students studying an Open University module and is…

Chinese@OU Mobile And Desktop Apps

06 Feb 2018

Mobile Applications Developer Paul Hogan in KMI is currently developing Chinese@OU, a mobile and desktop application to accompany The Open University course: L197: Beginners’ Chinese. The application is being developed in collaboration…

Open Call: Collaborative OpenCourseWare Authoring Using SlideWiki

05 Feb 2018

Within the SlideWiki project we have launched an open call, looking for external partners that will produce educational content in the SlideWiki platform and will evaluate the platform with learners.…

OU Go version 2.0

31 Jan 2018

Due to the underlying mapping API OU Go currently uses being discontinued from 1st February 2018 an urgent update was required. Mobile Applications Developer Paul Hogan in KMI has taken the…

OU to play lead role in new Institute of Coding

25 Jan 2018

The Open University (OU) has been announced as a major partner in the UK’s Institute of Coding. Led by the University of Bath, the world-leading consortium has been established to…

One of our papers was one of the top 5 most viewed in its areas

13 Jan 2018

Great news for some KMiers! A paper authored by Angelo A. Salatino, Francesco Osborne and Enrico Motta, published last June to PeerJ Computer Science journal, was one of the top 5 most viewed in the…

Drahomira Herrmannova successfully passes her PhD viva

02 Jan 2018

A KMi research student Drahomira Herrmannova (Dasha) has successfully defended her PhD thesis titled: "Mining Scholarly Publications for Research Evaluation." While current research metrics evaluate the excellence of a publication…

CORE, a KMi service, partners with ProQuest

18 Dec 2017

The CORE service is working in partnership with ProQuest to deliver more content within their library discovery services (Ex Libris Primo and Ex Libris Summon). What does this mean for the end…

Driverless/Autonomous vehicles in MK – come and tell us what you think on the 13th December

29 Nov 2017

UK Autodrive is a project in which The Open University are a partner. One of the things we are doing is supporting the work stream understanding public attitudes towards driverless/autonomous…

KMi PhD student kicks off new Jisc blog on Open Metrics

28 Nov 2017

A new blog launched yesterday by Jisc focuses on their Open Metrics project which aims to support the development of new research metrics. Following the publication of The Metric Tide…

KMi researcher visits Ethiopia and participates in an Open Science training session

14 Nov 2017

EIFL’s invitation to KMi’s CORE project to take part in a workshop for researchers from developing countries pays dividends for participants and for CORE. In June 2017, EIFL invited the…

OU case study featured in EU Policy Report: Blockchain in Education

14 Nov 2017

An interview with KMi Director John Domingue about KMi’s blockchain research at Open University is one of four use case studies featured in a new EU Policy Report: Blockchain in Education. The…