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KMi Showcased at the OU’s STEM Faculty Official Launch

Rachel Coignac-Smith, Thursday 29 Sep 2016

Yesterday saw the official launch of the OU’s STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) Faculty which KMi joined from 1 August. KMi had a stand at the showcase as part of a celebration of some of the researching and teaching that is undertaken by the faculty.

KMi’s stand included some of our projects focussed around the theme ‘Future Technologies for Learning’:

OU Analyse – identifying students that are at risk of failure;

Blockchain – early experiments in placing Open Learn badges onto a blockchain

Stadium Live – embedding interactivity within live webcasts in modules

An Augmented Reality application designed to support students studying human biology here at the OU.

The KMi led project MK:Smart also had its own stand which highlighted a taster of the project and was shared with KMi’ers and other colleagues in STEM.

The event was very busy and both the MK:Smart and KMi stands sparked a lot of interest, including from both our VC and Executive Dean.