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Alexander Mikroyannidis (The Open University, UK) has given an invited talk at an event organised...

Alexander Mikroyannidis (The Open University, UK) has co-authored a journal editorial on the current state...

Alexander Mikroyannidis (The Open University, UK) has given an invited talk at the EmpowerED webinar...

Alexander Mikroyannidis (The Open University, UK) gave an invited talk at the event “The Future...

Alexander Mikroyannidis (The Open University, UK) gave a keynote talk at the 7th panhellenic scientific...

PT Anywhere, led by Alexander Mikroyannidis (The Open University, UK), has played a vital role...

Last week saw the final review of the QualiChain project. Starting in January 2019, QualiChain...

A series of articles authored by John Domingue and Alexander Mikroyannidis (The Open University, UK)...

The Multiplier Event of the Erasmus+ project OPENLang Network , entitled: “Open Educational Resources and...

MoodleMoot Greece 2021 took place online on November 26-27, 2021. The purpose of this annual...

The Innovate Learning Summit took place online on November 9-11, 2021. The conference was organised by...

Alexander Mikroyannidis (The Open University, UK) has developed the new badged open course: Decentralising Education...

A new project between the Open University and the BlueScreenIT company is leveraging Blockchain technology for...

The 24th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL2021) took place as a hybrid event...

The ALT Annual Conference took place online on September 7-9, 2021. The conference was organised...

Alexander Mikroyannidis (The Open University, UK) recently gave two invited talks at the SLERD 2021...

On 26 May 2021, Alexander Mikroyannidis (The Open University, UK) delivered the webinar Facilitating lifelong...

Alexander Mikroyannidis is the managing guest editor of a special issue on Blockchain-Based Decentralised Solutions...

The OERxDomains Conference took place online on April 21-22 as a special edition of the 12th annual...

The Association for Learning Technology (ALT) blog has initiated a COVID special collection, featuring the latest news about...

The 12th International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning (eLmL 2020) took place online on November...

The Open Education Global 2020 conference took place online on November 16-20. The Open Education Global...

October 15, 16 & 17, 2020 marked three days of celebration of the Erasmus+ Programme...

The 23rd International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL2020) took place online on September 23-25. This interdisciplinary...

Blockchain technology provides a decentralised peer-to-peer infrastructure, supporting openness, transparency, accountability, identity management and trust...

The first virtual Summer Summit of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) took place on...

On July 13th 2020, the work of the Open Blockchain group was presented to the W3C Credentials Community Group...

The first formal review of the QualiChain project took place on June 18th, 2020. The...

The OpenLearn course Discovering Computer Networks has been included in the UK Government Digital Skills...

The 9th eSTEeM conference took place online on April 29-30, 2020. The conference is organised...

Alexander Mikroyannidis has co-edited the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and...

In the UK, there are over 2 million people with sight loss, with 360,000 registered...

The latest meeting of the Erasmus+ project OpenLang Network took place at the Open University...

The Open Education Global Conference (OE Global 2019) took place in Politecnico di Milano, Milan...

The annual Ufi VocTech Showcase took place on November 21, 2019 in IET London. The event...

The Open Networking Lab project has launched a free online course entitled “Discovering computer networks: hands on in...

The Online, Open and Flexible Higher Education Conference (OOFHEC2019) took place on October 16-18 in...

The consortium of the QualiChain project has met in Madrid, Spain on September 19-20, 2019...

UPDATE: This event has been postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. New dates: November 21-25...

Alexander Mikroyannidis (The Open University, UK) joined the Association for Learning Technology Conference (ALTC) last...

Last week saw the second plenary face-to-face meeting of the Erasmus+ project OpenLang Network, which...

The 15th EATEL Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning (JTELSS 2019) took place on June 1-8...

The consortium of the QualiChain project has met in Lisbon, Portugal on May 9-10. This has been...

The SlideWiki project has been formally concluded with its final review, which was held on February 27...

Last week saw the final review of the HUB4NGI project in Brussels. Starting in January 2017, HUB4NGI was the...

The latest STEM newsletter of the Open University features the collaboration of the Open Networking Lab with...

The new H2020 project QualiChain has had its kick-off meeting on January 22-23, hosted by the coordinator...

The SlideWiki project delivered an info day about “Open and Collaborative Tools and Open Courses”, which took...

The 11th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI) took place on November 12-14 in...

The final plenary meeting of the SlideWiki project took place on November 7-8 in Amsterdam, hosted by...

The kick-off meeting of the new Erasmus+ project OpenLang Network took place on October 29-30...

The 48th IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE) conference took place on October 3-6 in San Jose, California...

The 25th annual conference of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) took place on 11-13...

On August 14th, the SlideWiki project organised a webinar, which was delivered by Alexandra Garatzogianni (L3S Research...

Alexander Mikroyannidis presented the latest work on educational applications of the Blockchain at the World Conference...

The 10th anniversary of the annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (EDULEARN) took place...

The Open Education Global Conference (OE Global) is where the global open education community meets...

Within the SlideWiki project we have launched an open call, looking for external partners that...

Alexander Mikroyannidis was in Berlin last week to present the SlideWiki project at the OEB Global...

The European Big Data Value Forum 2017 took place on November 21-23 in Versailles, Paris...

The 13th Joint European Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning took place last week in...

Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) is a term that can be used to describe an individual’s ability...

The 20th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL 2017) took place last week in...

The latest issue of the International Journal of Technology-Enhanced Learning (IJTEL) is a special issue...

CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology Enhanced Learning (ARTEL...

The latest CALRG event on Personalised Learning took place on May 18th. The event was...

The IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON) 2017 has been the eighth in a series...

The Open Educational Resources conference (OER17) took place on April 5th and 6th in London. In...

The Open Education Global 2017 conference took place last week in the beautiful city of...

The Open Technology Enhanced Learning (openTEL) is a priority research area, bringing together researchers from...

The third plenary meeting of the SlideWiki project took place on November 17th-18th in Genoa...

The 6th Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology Enhanced Learning (ARTEL) took place on September...

A book I have co-edited has reached the top Springer download charts. Since its online...

Call for papers 6th Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology Enhanced Learning (ARTEL 2016)...

The 7th IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON 2016) took place last week in Abu Dhabi...

The FORGE iBook is now live on the Apple iBooks Store and available in 51 stores worldwide. This...

Awareness and reflection are viewed differently across the disciplines informing technology-enhanced learning (including CSCW, psychology...

The FORGE and Go-Lab projects have jointly organised the hands-on workshop “Building Remote Labs for Online Scientific Experimentation”, which was...

The FORGE project has organised the 5th Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology Enhanced Learning...

Representatives from the European projects weSPOT and Go-Lab organised and delivered a joint hands-on workshop at the JTEL summer school...

The FORGE and Go-Lab projects are jointly organising the hands-on workshop “Building Remote Labs for Online Scientific Experimentation” in the 18th...

The 3rd Experiment@International Conference (exp.at’15) took place last week in the beautiful island of Sao Miguel in...

UPDATE: Extended paper submission deadline: July 10th 2015 The 5th Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology...

This is what Nuno Guarda, Head of Corporate Affairs for Cisco in the UK and...

A new book edited by Sylvana Kroop, Martin Wolpers and me has just been published...

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The first issue of the Video Journal of Open Education has just been published. This...

Alexander Mikroyannidis represented the weSPOT project last week at the IEEE International Conference on Web...

The FORGE project has the ambitious aim to transform FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation)...

Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) is a term that describes an individual’s ability to learn how to...

Alexander Mikroyannidis delivered a workshop last week at the PLE 2014 conference, which took place...

New submission deadline: July 10th 4th Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology-Enhanced Learning (ARTEL...

The teaser video of the FORGE iBook gives you a taste of the learning materials...

I was in Seoul last week for the 23rd World Wide Web conference. This year...

The Open University has published two new interactive iBooks, which are available to download for...

Alexander Mikroyannidis is a guest editor of the Special Issue on Cloud Education Environments published...

Alexander Mikroyannidis is organising a tutorial at the 23rd International World Wide Web Conference –...

Last week saw the kick-off meeting of the FORGE project (Forging Online Education through FIRE)...

We have two positions at our lab in two projects which will apply our work...

Alexander Mikroyannidis presented a paper on Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) for Inquiry-Based Learning last week...

Alexander Mikroyannidis organised a tutorial about Online Learning and Linked Data on May 13 at...

The 2nd annual International Workshop on Cloud Education Environments (WCLOUD 2013) took place on May...

The final review of the ROLE project took place last month in Luxembourg, and the...

Building on the success of the 1st International Workshop on Cloud Education Environments (WCLOUD 2012)...

Last month, Alexander Mikroyannidis co-organised the 1st International Workshop on Cloud Education Environments (WCLOUD 2012)...

Alexander Mikroyannidis delivered a seminar about Responsive Open Learning Environments on July 18 at the...

Alexander Mikroyannidis is co-organising an international workshop on Cloud Education Environments, on November 15-16 in...

Do you have a cool idea about a learning widget or app that you would...

Would you like to learn about widgets and how you can build your personalised learning...

ROLE project partners delivered a number of sessions in last week’s JTEL Summer School in...

If you’d like to learn more about Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) and how you can become a self-regulated...

Last year Google revolutionised emails with Gmail Motion, this year they went with Gmail Tap. Why bother...

What will be the major social media trends in 2012? According to this article, smartphones...

Christmas eve is coming soon, the busiest day of the year for Santa Claus 🙂...

What is a widget? What is a Personal Learning Environment? How can I start building...

Conversations with chat bots can be quite amusing. Their intelligence hasn’t yet evolved to a...

The ROLE project (Responsive Open Learning Environments) is organising a Widget Enchantment Contest. Build a...

The Open University and the Lucero project have recently launched data.open.ac.uk, an RDF repository of...

Tired of sitting on your desk, typing and clicking? Well, Google is changing this! Try...

If you’re one of the bloggers that love to blog but never seem to find...

Gordon Brown announced yesterday the establishment of a UK Institute of Web Science, aiming to...

In anticipation of the big announcement of the new tablet / e-reader by Apple next...

A year ago, I was starting this blog, after taking a break from loads of...

In anticipation of the Christmas holidays, here’s an intoxicating video I fished on YouTube. Enjoy!...

If you’re lucky enough to hold a Google Wave account, or just want to learn...

…you can ask at the Semantic Overflow. A Semantic Web expert will (hopefully) pick this...

Google has just launched a new search service based on social data: Google Social Search...

As of today, GeoCities belongs to the past. After almost 15 years of offering free...

The implementation of Sir Tim’s “Raw Data Now” vision is well under way in the...

Chances are anyone who has come across the terms ‘Semantic Web’ or ‘Web 3.0’, has...

Who says the Semantic Web exists only in the minds of academics? Last week, at...

Good news from the Raw Data Now front. Tim Berners-Lee has been asked by Gordon...

I’m not much into gaming consoles, but we are talking about a real breakthrough here...

Greg Boutin, founder of Growthroute Ventures, recently posted a series of articles about the latest...

alexmikro.net now has a shiny new look and feel based on the Streamline theme by...

Tim Berners-Lee, father of the World Wide Web and the Semantic Web, talked in TED...

Can the Semantic Web improve the way we send and receive email? Yes, according to...

Cloud Computing is about replacing desktop-based computing resources with internet-based ones. The driving concept is...

I’m not really a fan of Cadbury chocolate, but I love their ads! The latest...

Erick Schonfeld, editor in TechCrunch, is wondering about the kinds of innovative startups we mostly...

The emerging Social Web technologies, such as blogging, micro-blogging, podcasting, etc, can be seen as...

Being a major content owner, the BBC is using Semantic Web technologies to efficiently manipulate...

The Calais initiative by Thomson Reuters is an excellent example of Semantic Web technologies being...

Today’s User Friendly comic strip brings up a rather intriguing question about blogging: Well, that’s...

The Semantic Web aims at expressing web content in machine-processable forms, so that it is...

How is well is our privacy protected on the Social Web? Of course, you can...

The Social Web offers lots of opportunities for social networking. Through sites like Facebook, MySpace...

Web 2.0 can best be described as the accumulation of new web-based collaboration technologies, such...

Being back in Greece for the holidays, I caught a glimpse of New Year’s programmes...

Last day of 2008; first day (and grand opening!) of this blog! As we are...