February 20th, 2008
The Academy has announced that the 2008 e-learning research call is now open and funding to a maximum of £30,000 per project is available for up to 6 successful projects. This years call themes are:
Using technology to support the learning contract between employers, students and higher education institutions
Using technology to support student transition into higher education
Using technology to support assessment and the delivery of student feedback
For further information and a expression of interest form please go the to e-learning research observatory page.
February 20th, 2008
If you already use Second Life in your teaching or are thinking of using it or any other
Massively Multi Learner facility in the future, then this is for you.
Paul Booth, School of History of Art and Design, will demonstrate his project to put a
study skills unit together on Second Life for all Film and Media year 1 students.
Friday 25th April 11.00 to 1.00 in Manton 3.03.
All welcome.
Best wishes,
Bill Johnston
Senior Learning & Teaching Fellow
+44 161 247 3025
February 15th, 2008
The EARLI/Northumbria Assessment Conference takes place in Berlin, 27-29 August 2008. This is a well-established conference appreciated for its clear focus and the high quality of the presentations and discussions.
The deadline for submitting proposals is Friday 22nd February.
Further information.
February 15th, 2008
From the Centre for Bioscience, Higher Education Academy
“You are warmly invited to our forthcoming event ‘Transition Issues for Bioscientists/Scientists’ at University of East Anglia, Norwich on Thursday 13th March 2008.
The event is primarily aimed at bioscience staff but will contain aspects relevant to staff from other science disciplines who are interested in higher education transition issues. The day will provide attendees with an opportunity to consider institutional and departmental strategies to assist with student transition as well as a workshop addressing students’ previous learning experiences. There will be opportunities for discussion, reflection on practice and to hear ‘real-life’ practice from fellow bioscientists and scientists through a swapshop session. There is no charge for registration and refreshments.”
The provisional programme and details of how to register (free) are available on our website
February 15th, 2008
Venue: University of Warwick
2 and 3 April 2008, 10.00am – 5.30pm
“This innovative conference, Podcasting for Education, is designed for all staff in further and higher education with responsibility for teaching and learning, the student experience and marketing and communications.
Don’t let podcasting be something your colleagues do – this new technology has many applications in HE and this conference aims to demystify this new phenomenon. The conference brings together speakers from universities and the commercial world to review podcasting and will show how we can use it to maximum effect. The tracks for both professional service staff and academics will explore the potential in podcasting and the interfaces that lie between the academic learning and research environment and the communications world.”
You can attend over one or two days:
Day one presents the theory and a host of case studies, with a keynote address from Apple.
Day two is the practical and provides you with a unique opportunity to produce your own podcast using Warwick’s facilities.
Review the list of over 20 speakers and view the full agenda and special interest tracks
Other confirmed speakers represent:
Maverick TV
GCap Media plc
Futurelab
UK Podcasters Association
Podcast User Magazine
The universities of Bradford, Exeter, Glamorgan, Kent, Manchester Met, Middlesex, Oxford and Westminster, together with our conference partners, the communications team at Warwick.
February 15th, 2008
9-11 September 2008, Leeds, UK
Second call for papers and abstracts – deadline, 29 February 2008
Keynote speakers:
- David Cavallo, Chief Learning Architect for One Laptop per Child, and Head of the Future of Learning Research Group at MIT Media Lab;
- Dr Itiel Dror, Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Southampton;
- Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health, Karolinska Institute, Sweden, and Director of the Gapminder Foundation.
Proposals should address up to three of the conference dimensions: global or local; institutional or individual; pedagogy or technology; access or exclusion; open or proprietary; private or public; for the learner or by the learner.
More details
The online submission system for ALT-C 2008 is now open
Prior to submitting please read the Guidelines for Research Papers and for Abstracts and download the Research Paper Template if you intend to to submit a research paper.
Important note
Some projects or teams will have more to report in September 2008 than they can summarise in an abstract written in February 2008. To take account of this, the Co-Chairs of the Conference Committee emphasise
that: “in judging proposals, ALT Reviewers will take an understanding attitude regarding proposals referring to or reporting on work taking place between now and the date of the conference”.
Key dates:
Submissions open 14 December 2007
Submissions close 29 February 2008
Presenters’ registration deadline: 6 June 2008
Early bird registration
deadline: 30 June 2008
Registrations close: 15 August 2008
For sponsorship and exhibition opportunities click here or contact Hayley
Willis, Events Administrator: hayley.willis@alt.ac.uk
ALT-C 2008: Rethinking the digital divide
9-11 September 2008, Leeds, England
http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2008/
February 14th, 2008
The HEA Subject Centre for Information and Computer Sciences is holding a workshop on Contract Cheating, which is the outsourcing of academic work, on Friday
7 March 2008 in Birmingham. This is apparently a major “threat to academic integrity in computer related subject areas. The workshop brings together experts in prevention and detection fields to present case studies in this problematic area of plagiarism.”
More information on the HEA website.
February 14th, 2008
The Guardian reports comments by Lady Deech, the higher education independent adjudicator, about universities needing to give concessions to dyslexic students when it comes to unseen exams. According to the report, “It is where universities drag their heels because it is such a fundamental method of testing,” she said. “But universities have to ask themselves whether it is the only way.”
February 13th, 2008
From Alan Fielding in Biological Sciences:
“EU funded eLene-TLC – Teaching and Learning Centre project http://www.elene-tlc.net/ aims to develop an online Teacher Training Centre, which is a Europe-wide collaborative space for teachers, trainers, instructional designers and learners in educational ICT use to meet the skills, needs and expectations of the Internet-generation students. You can see some presentations (download very large MP4 files) from http://www.elene-tt.net/symposium_videos.htm “
February 13th, 2008
An article recommended to the plagiarism mailing list seeks to challenge our ideas about the reuse of resources. “Dr. Mashup; or, Why Educators Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Remix” seeks to ask questions such as “What, exactly, constitutes a valid, original work? What are the implications for how we assess and reward creativity? Can a college or university tap the same sources of innovative talent and energy as Google or Flickr? What are the risks of permitting or opening up to this activity?”.
It should definitely get you thinking….
