The Open University (OU)

Courses & Material

• Knowledge technologies in context (B823_2)

Course Material*

Lab Space (now: OpenLearn Create)

• Developing communities of eco business practice
• Knowledge technologies in context (B823_2_1.0)
• Knowledge technologies in context (B823_2_2.0)
• Managing Organisational Knowledge for Sustainability and Competitive Advantage

Graduate Degrees/Programs

• Postgraduate Certificate in Creative and Knowledge Management**
  Creativity, innovation and change (B822) (or version BZX822)
  Managing knowledge (B823) (or version BZX823)
• Postgraduate Certificate in Knowledge Transfer**
  Managing knowledge (B823)
  AURIL knowledge transfer work-based project (CAUM829)
• MSc in Strategic Management of Information Systems (Spcialization: Information and Knowledge Management)**

Department for People and Organisations

• PhD Program (Research area: Management and organisational learning, processes, change and innovation > Knowledge management)

Centre for Knowledge in Organisations and Professions (CKOP)* ²⁾

• PhD Programme** (research themes: Organisational knowledge and learning; Practices of knowledge production; Critical and reflexive pedagogy; Ethics, knowledge and practice; Knowledge, innovation and entrepreneurship)

Centre for Innovation, Knowledge and Enterprise (IKE) > Knowledge, innovation and entrepreneurship (KIE) Research Unit* ³⁾

• MRes in Management and Business** (Research area: Management of Knowledge & Innovation)
• PhD Program** (Research area: Management of Knowledge & Innovation)

Conferences

Centre for Knowledge in Organisations and Professions (CKOP)* ²⁾

• What is the Future of Professional Knowledge and Learning? Unconference, 13 June 2018, The Open University, London, United Kingdom

Workshops

Centre for Knowledge in Organisations and Professions (CKOP)* ²⁾

• Apr 2019: Learning, leadership and ethical practice in professional contexts

Courses

• Managing knowledge – online version (BZX823)**
• Managing knowledge (B823)**

Seminars

OUBS Research Seminars

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Apr 2005: The Nature and Possibilities of Knowledge Management
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Research Centre on Innovation, Knowledge and Development (IKD) ⁴⁾ Seminars

International Development Seminar Series: (since 2012)

Nov 2013: Knowledge, learning and communication in community development

IKD (Lunchtime) Seminars: (2005-2011)

May 2011: Knowledge-based Bio-econom
Mar 2011: Finance-Dominated Accumulation, the Knowledge-Based Economy, and the Green New Deal: a Cultural Political Economy of Crisis-Management

Apr 2009: Culture and Innovation Dynamics: Explaining the uneven evolution of human knowledge (CANCELLED)

Nov 2008: Culture and Innovation Dynamics : Explaining the uneven evolution of human knowledge
May 2008: Innovation in Late Development: Incentives for Knowledge Creation and Use in Least Developed Countries

Jun 2005: Divisions of Knowledge; Grounding knowledge and technology flows: Issues in African S&T Capacity building
May 2005: The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship

Management of Knowledge and Innovation Research Unit (MKIRU) Seminar Series

Jun 2003: Entering a New Era: How can Europe become the most World’s Most Competitive Dynamic and Knowledge-based Economy?

Feb 2002: Accountants and knowledge management: a study in deprofessionalisation?

Graduate Degrees/Programs

• Phd Program (Research area: Learning Sciences⁵⁾)

Seminars

KMi Seminars (selection)

Mar 2021: Augmenting Human Performance at Scale with Interactive Technologies

Mar 2020: Promoting the Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge in India

Mar 2019: Deep Learning for Information Extraction from Cancer Pathology Reports

Oct 2018: Knowledge-Powered Model Integration in Environmental and Social Sciences: Challenges and Solutions; Machine learning and natural language processing for humanitarian response: a view from the field
Sep 2018: las2peer: Innovation on the Fringe Next Generation Open Source Service Development for Communities of Practice
Apr 2018: Semantic Mapping

Nov 2017: Understanding Stories with Large-Scale Commonsense
Oct 2017: Learning word representations with deep learning
Apr 2017: We’re Seeking Relevance: Ideology, Pedagogy and Psychology in Learning Analytics

May 2016: Diagrammatic Ontology Engineering

Jul 2015: Extending the World Wide Web Without Internet

May 2014: Abstracting patterns of civic online deliberation from field experiences and their evaluation; Dedalo: looking for Clusters Explanations in a Labyrinth of Linked Data
Apr 2014: The power of informal learning: A social network perspective
Mar 2014: Taking Control of Learning Data
Feb 2014: Personal Learning Environments and Emergent Educational Practices

Dec 2013: In the quest for the city of knowledge: challenges and developments
Nov 2013: Open access, open source and OpenClinical: a knowledge commons for healthcare?
Oct 2013: Explaining data patterns using background knowledge from Linked Data
Jul 2013: The Grand Challenges in Technology-Enhanced Learning
May 2013: Peer Supported Problem Solving and Mathematical Knowledge; Interpreting Linked Data as ontologies: doctrines and creeping issues
Apr 2013: Harnessing Linked Knowledge Sources for Topic Classification in Social Media

Oct 2012: Learning Analytics symposium (part of SoLAR Storm)
Sep 2012: Knowledge Architecture (Free and in Flow) in a Social Network

Apr 2011: Contextualized Knowledge Repositories for the Semantic Web

Dec 2010: Problem solving and mathematical knowledge; Wisdom of Crowds vs. Wisdom of Linguists
Nov 2010: Dynamics of online peer production and collaborative sensemaking
Jun 2010: Flexible learning: Student perspective
Mar 2010: A Debate Dashboard to Support the Adoption of Online Knowledge Mapping Tools; The SocialLearn Project

Nov 2009: The Wolfram|Alpha approach to knowledge

Dec 2008: Semantic annotation and Semantic search in Cultural Heritage
Feb 2008: Just In Time Learning

Jul 2007: OpenKnowledge
Aor 2007: How to Combine Web2.0 and the Semantic Web
Mar 2007: A Study of Knowledge Management Practices in Selected Industries in India
Feb 2007: Semantic Multimedia Information: Mining, Fusion and Extraction

Nov 2006: Modelling Knowledge Management Systems of a Distance Education Institution, supported by Semantic Web Technology
Sep 2006: Using the Semantic Web as Background Knowledge for Ontology Mapping
Aug 2006: Wikis of Locality

Dec 2005: Innovative Information and Knowledge Infrastructures
Mar 2005: An investigation of the use of semantic web technologies to support learning
Jan 2005: Mining Knowledge from Textual Databases: An Approach using Ontology-based Context Vectors

Dec 2004: Aligning learning and creativity in education: Music composition as a domain to explore creative learning
Nov 2004: Learning Ontologies by Processing Natural Language Text
Oct 2004: Learning Web Service Ontologies: Two Extraction Methods and their Evaluation; Building Collaborative Knowledge Representations in Real Time
Apr 2004: Grassroots initiated networked communities: a viable method of overcoming multiple digital inequalities within communities of locality?

Oct 2003: Logics, tasks and agents: towards a unified model for delivering knowledge services
Jun 2003: BuddySpace: Instant Messaging, Maps, and Enhanced Presence For Knowledge Workers
May 2003: Practising Knowledge Art

Oct 2001: Topic Maps in Knowledge Systems

Jul 2000: Interweaving Real-Time Collaborative Knowledge Construction Methods

Dec 1998: Software Reuse for Knowledge-Based Systems
Jul 1998: Empathic Communities: Online Communities for Support and Information Exchange

Apr 1997: Evolution Of Complex Systems by Collaborating Communities Of Practice; Collaborative Learning using Mind Bridges: An Asian Experience
Jan 1997: Support for Learning Conversations

Dec 1996: Learning Environments and Learning Societies
Jun 1996: Be aware of your ignorance: robust learning of bayesian networks from incomplete data
May 1996: Designing Organisational Memory: Preserving Intellectual Assets in a Knowledge Economy

Communities

• UK Multimedia Knowledge Management Network (MMKM) ⁶⁾

Workshops

MMKM sponsored events

• MMKM Workshop on Future Directions in Multimedia Knowledge Management, 14 Feb 2008, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
• Workshop on Semantic Image Retrieval – The User Perspective, 26-27 March 2007, University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
• MMKM Workshop on Multimedia Knowledge Management: Industry meets academia, 8 January 2007, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
• First International Workshop on Adaptive Information Retrieval (AIR), 14th October 2006, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom
  (as part of the Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval ((SPIRE), 11-13 Oct)
• Visual Categorisation and Image Management Systems Workshop, 28th June 2006, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, United Kingdom
• Semantic Interoperability for e-Research in the Sciences, Arts and Humanities, 30 March 2006, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
• Oral & Poster Session “Semantic multimedia applications”, 30 November 2005, London, United Kingdom
  (as part of the European Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantics and Digital Media Technology, 30 Nov – 1 Dec)
• 3rd International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR), 28-29 July 2005, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
  (as part of the Glasgow Information Retrieval Festival, 24-30 Jul)
• MMKM launch workshop, 10th September 2004, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom