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Beyond Distance Conference 2007
Learning Futures
9th-10th January 2007
9 January 2007: Learning Futures
The conference was opened by Professor Bob Burgess, Vice Chancellor of the University of Leicester and chaired by Professor John Fothergill, Pro Vice Chancellor, Teaching and Learning, University of Leicester
- Professor Gilly Salmon, Professor of e-learning and Learning Technologies - Positioning the Learning Futures debate
- Professor Bob Fryer, National Director of Widening Participation, Department of Health on competency, creativity and technology in the 21st century
- Dr Robin Goodfellow, Senior Lecturer, Institute of Technology, the Open University on the impact of emerging Web 2.0 practices on future developments in teaching and learning
- Susan Clayton, Director, Future Creation, on the future trends likely to influence universities and e-learning
- Martin Cullen, Student Union President and Chloe Foster, Vice Presidents for Education on the student perspective on e-learning
Discussion Sessions
Distance Learning
- Inclusive Design: what size fits all? - Brain Sayer
- Updating Criminology DL programmes - Tracy Dodman and Dr Hillary Jones
- Sharing Distance Learning experience between institutions - Dr John Dickens and David Christmas
- Learning with Machines - Dr David Bell
- Moving from infrastructure installations to engaging academics - David LeFevre
- Creating effective enduring e-learning resources - Susan Clayton
- Converging and Emerging Online Cultures: creative collaboration and a future for learning - Andy Polaine
Learning Design
- Battery-farming or free-ranging: towards citizen collaboration and a future for learning - Richard Hall
- Watch your language: what a closer look at language tell us about the kinds of interactions and potential for learning that occur in e-tivities - Dr Sylvia Jones
- The Leicester GENIE CETL experience - Dr Annette Cashmore
- A successful use of CD-ROM to support the teaching of trainee doctors - David King, Dr Sue Carr, Dr Matt Williams
- Synchronous online tools and their uses in language teaching and language teacher education - Dr Alejandro Armellini
Web 2.0 technologies and approaches
- So You want to be a Wikibookian? - Prof. Curt Bonk
- Interface between development goals, emerging technologies and relevant research: a case for Africa - Dr Dick Ng'Ambi
- From e-library to e-common room (via th e-classroom) - Tony Churchill
- Training on-line teachers - Paula de Waal
Beyond Distance Learning Futures Conference 2007 - Introduction
Research (S)mart - Day 2 - January 10th - Presenters and Presentations
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