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Beyond Distance Research Alliance Learning Futures conference
'The Campus and Beyond'
Day 2 - 9 January 2008
Research into Practice
- The day will provide opportunities to showcase
briefly current plans and developments in e-learning
research and seek support, collaboration and ideas. If
you want to showcase your research, please email
learningfutures2008@le.ac.uk.
A proforma will be provided.
See the Programme for Wednesday 9 January 2008
Professor Gilly Salmon will hold a 'research surgery' by sign up appointment to talk through questions participants have on planned research. In addition, there will be a series of research workshops, including:
Podcasting - IMPALA stories - This session will enable practitioners and researchers from all areas of further and higher education to learn about a range of empirically-tested transferable models for using podcasts in higher education and to consider options for developing podcasts and evaluating student learning. Practitioners from a range of academic disciplines who are involved in the HEA-funded IMPALA project will present their approaches to developing and using podcasts to address key teaching and learning challenges.
Web 2.0 and mobile learning by Teaching Assistants - WoLF stories - This session is based on a JISC funded project investigating how Pocket PCs and Web 2.0 tools support portfolio development by teaching assistants (TAs) on foundation degree courses. WoLF aims to develop a model for integrating institutional VLE, personal mobile devices and Web 2.0 technologies for the purpose of work-based learning by non-traditional learners. In this session, teaching assistants will tell their stories of how the technology made an impact on their learning in a work-based setting.
- Embedding good e-learning practice - The
ADELIE project was a one year
HEA-funded Pathfinder project to October
2007. ADELIE worked with academic staff to
embed good e-learning practice across the
University of Leicester, with a focus on course redesign
to meet the e-learning needs of specific
departments. The ADDER project,
which started in October 2007, builds on ADELIE
research but focuses on developing departmental
assessment practices as part of e-learning design
across 4 disciplines at 4 universities.
The session will focus on lessons learned from ADELIE
and its key messages to the sector, the interaction
between capacity building and research work as part
of both ADELIE and ADDER, and design and
assessment for learning in Higher Education.
Seal: Second Environment Advanced Learning - The SEAL project will elicit viable and preferred futures for learning in education through creating and researching interactive events with communities of learners, teachers, technologists and creative practitioners in Second Life. The potential for 'freeing up' existing mindsets could enable visioning of advanced approaches to learning - and SEAL will work out what is new and how educators can draw on existing frameworks and models. SEAL addresses imagining, evaluating, choosing and disseminating appropriate approaches that will meet, and perhaps exceed, the expectations of the learners of the future.
Programme for Wednesday 9 January 2008
| 0900 | Arrivals, coffee registration & sign up. Posters: poster presenters available |
| 0930 | Conference chair: Professor David Hawkridge Introduction to the day: The Zoo and other platforms, Professor Gilly Salmon. |
Choosing sessions: participants can choose between the Workshop ‘tasters’ for the afternoon’s longer Research to Practice sessions, a seminar or the 1:1
Research Surgery with Gilly Salmon.
Research posters will be on display during the morning – with poster presenters available at break times for informal discussion.
| 1000 | Parallel sessions 1 a) Workshop 'tasters': CALF, WOLF, ADELIE, IMPALA and SEAL b) Seminar: The work of the HEA, Professor Lee Harvey, Research Director |
| 1035 | Parallel sessions 2 a) Workshop 'tasters': CALF, WOLF, ADELIE, IMPALA and SEAL b) Seminar: The Beyond Distance flexible PhD programme: Roger Dence with Carol Russell c) Research surgery 1:1 with Prof Salmon - Booking Essential |
| 1110 | Coffee |
| 1135 |
Parallel sessions 3 a) 'Workshop tasters': CALF, WOLF, ADELIE, IMPALA and SEAL b) Seminar: The Beyond Distance flexible PhD programme: Roger Dence with Carol Russell c) Research surgery 1:1 with Prof Salmon - Booking Essential d) Poster presenters available & judging of posters. |
| 1215 | Lunch |
| 1330 |
Choose from: a) ADELIE/ADDER/CHEETAH b) CALF c) IMPALA d) WOLF e) SEAL |
| 1600 | Tea and close |
A printable version of Day 2 programme and further details