Friday 9 July 2010, Kensington Close Hotel, Kensington, London. W8 5SP (11am - 1pm)
Universities and the higher education sector are entering a rapid period of change. Shifts are occurring in terms of our relationships with students, parents, enhancement, assurance, funding bodies and government the very nature and importance of a university experience is being questioned.
We invite you to join us at an open symposium to discuss the themes of power, principles and pressure in Higher Education. Presentations will be made by Clare Fox http://www.instituteofideas.com/people/claire_fox.html, Director of the Institute of Ideas, Mike Boxall http://www.praxiscourses.org.uk/about/Mike_Boxall.asp Senior Management Consultant, PA Consulting Group.
This event is free to attend but you will need to register using the online link from the events page on our website: www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk
Alternatively contact Frances Worrall mailto:f.l.worrall@bham.ac.uk
Friday 30 April 2010
C-SAP e-Learning Forum: Sharing Materials and Practice in the Social Sciences
Thursday 8 July 2010, Kensington Close Hotel, Kensington, London. W8 5SP (10am 0 4.30pm).
This event will provide a forum for presenting some of our recent project work around the sharing of electronic educational resources, and explore the processes, methods and practices of sharing and using e-learning materials and tools which engage our colleagues in the social sciences.
The scope of the day will include presentations from the C-SAP Open Educational Resources project, findings from current C-SAP mini-project focused around e-learning, and a 'show and share' session in the afternoon offering an opportunity to disseminate examples of practice from across our disciplinary networks.
If you would like to offer a show and share presentation, please email a 500 word abstract to Darren Marsh darren.marsh@c-sap.bham.ac.uk by 14 June 2010 including your name and contact details.
This event is free to attend but you will need to register using the online link from the events page on our website: www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk
Alternatively contact Frances Worrall mailto:f.l.worrall@bham.ac.uk
This event will provide a forum for presenting some of our recent project work around the sharing of electronic educational resources, and explore the processes, methods and practices of sharing and using e-learning materials and tools which engage our colleagues in the social sciences.
The scope of the day will include presentations from the C-SAP Open Educational Resources project, findings from current C-SAP mini-project focused around e-learning, and a 'show and share' session in the afternoon offering an opportunity to disseminate examples of practice from across our disciplinary networks.
If you would like to offer a show and share presentation, please email a 500 word abstract to Darren Marsh darren.marsh@c-sap.bham.ac.uk
This event is free to attend but you will need to register using the online link from the events page on our website: www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk
Alternatively contact Frances Worrall mailto:f.l.worrall@bham.ac.uk
Thursday 29 April 2010
K12 Online Conference 2009 - Bridging the Divide
This was an interesting event to take part in. We created a short video showing some of our work in Second Life concentrating on the issue of how long it takes people to get used to a system before they can begin to get something out of it. The video was a group task, Virtually Linked - a London based media company creating a Second Life London, Lawal Mohammed - one of my MSc students, and me making the visuals and editing it all together. I rather stupidly decided to upgrade to Windows 7 just before begining the work so the final product was made in great haste. However, the whole process was done without the three of us meeting, everything was swapped via online repositories and the planning was all online too.
The conference as a whole is well worth looking at. http://k12onlineconference.org/ Some obscure Australian FE colleges are doing some realy fantastic work but there was perhaps far too much technology used to run the conference.
As presenters we had to load our videos to two online sites, then create entries in the Ning, create forums and put the embed video code in a whole variety of places. At best it was confusing and some presenters apparently needed a lot of help. I think this is a comon e-learning problem - we want one faciltiy form one system and another from a very different one. Then we attempt to 'seamlessly' link them!
I've experienced similar problems as a student on a course with Cornwall College. They used Second Life, Ning, MOODLE and a web site! Repeatedly students would say - "just tell me where to go to find out what to do."
The conference as a whole is well worth looking at. http://k12onlineconference.org/ Some obscure Australian FE colleges are doing some realy fantastic work but there was perhaps far too much technology used to run the conference.
As presenters we had to load our videos to two online sites, then create entries in the Ning, create forums and put the embed video code in a whole variety of places. At best it was confusing and some presenters apparently needed a lot of help. I think this is a comon e-learning problem - we want one faciltiy form one system and another from a very different one. Then we attempt to 'seamlessly' link them!
I've experienced similar problems as a student on a course with Cornwall College. They used Second Life, Ning, MOODLE and a web site! Repeatedly students would say - "just tell me where to go to find out what to do."
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