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Cast your mind back to 1996… the Web’s shiny and new, and we’re trying to figure out what this means for scholarly publishing in EdTech… The Web is a 3 year old toddler, we’ve just figured out how to embed multimedia in Mosaic and Netscape browsers (hello Apple QuickTime, MacroMind Shockwave, Java applets…), Paul Ginsparg’s … Continue reading “JIME is 30! Editorial retrospective”
A JIME submission was made by Simon Buckingham Shum to the Royal Society Working Group on communicating the results of new scientific research. The Royal Society has set up a working group to carry out a study on best practice in communicating the results of new scientific research to the public. The study has been … Continue reading “JIME submission to Royal Society inquiry”
Reusable Learning Resources on the net is the topic of the latest issue of the award-winning e-Journal of Interactive Media in Education. The huge amounts of global activity currently being invested in 'Learning Objects' envision a world where learning resources and activities can be effectively found on the net and even sequenced in appropriate ways. … Continue reading “Learning Objects: JIME special issue launched for global debate”
KMi was invited to present its innovative Journal of Interactive Media in Education to an expert conference, Change & Continuity in Scientific Publishing, convened under the auspices of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Simon Buckingham Shum joined other Editors of leading electronic journals covering diverse disciplines to share experiences, and discuss future … Continue reading “JIME at eJournal Expert Conference”
In the birthplace of the World Wide Web – CERN, Geneva – an international workshop was held last week to discuss future models for disseminating and validating scholarly research over the Web. Simon Buckingham Shum and Gary Li were invited to present their work on Web-based, conversational peer review, as used in the Journal of … Continue reading “JIME/D3E Demonstrated at CERN to OAi Community”
A special issue of JIME went live today for open peer review, following several months' intensive author-reviewer debate: . An integrating concept is the sharing and extension of educational Java applets via an Educational Object Economy This issue has been submitted by the East/West Group, a research consortium of US publishers, universities and educational software … Continue reading “Authoring Tools & the Educ. Object Economy: JIME Special Issue”
Anna De Liddo and I spent an intensive 4 days in Germany last week working with leading figures to envisage the future of research communication. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics is a premier venue for hosting invitational informatics workshops. “FORC: The Future of Research Communication” was a Perspectives Workshop, bringing together leading people … Continue reading “Future of Research Communication”
The British Council has awarded a follow-on grant to KMi's D3E Project and the Universite de Provence. The Council's Alliance Programme was set up to foster Franco-British research, and this grant will enable KMi to continue its 1998 collaboration with Nathalie Bonnardel's research team who specialise in cognitive ergonomics. They will be evaluating the usability … Continue reading “British Council 'Alliance' grant for D3E Project”
A special issue of the Journal of Interactive Media in Education (JIME) is published today focusing on Educational Authoring Tools & The Educational Object Economy This issue reports the work of the East/West Group, a research consortium of US publishers, universities and educational software companies. It addresses concerns ranging from multimedia authoring tools for educational … Continue reading “Published today: 'Educational Authoring Tools and the Educational Object Economy'”
The London Mathematical Society has launched its flagship electronic journal, the “LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics” [http://www.lms.ac.uk/jcm]. KMi's D3E Project (Tammy Sumner, Simon Buckingham Shum, Mike Wright and Malcolm Story) worked with the LMS in defining requirements (e.g. internet infrastructure, journal design and staffing), and interviewing programmers. During 1997, the LMS web programmer Adam … Continue reading “KMi helps London Mathematical Society launch e-journal”
The London Mathematical Society has chosen KMi's D3E (Digital Document Discourse Environment) as the environment for their new flagship e-journal, “The Journal of Computation and Mathematics”. D3E is the tailorable shell on which KMi's experimental “Journal of Interactive Media in Education” is built. The D3E team will be training an LMS programmer in D3E beginning … Continue reading “London Math. Soc. choose D3E for new e-journal”