Save the dates for the first Joint Jasig/Sakai Annual Conference!
Sunday, June 10 through Friday, June 15, 2012 at the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia. If you are interested in participating in either the Conference Planning Committee (logistics) or the Conference Program Committee (content) please contact Patty Gertz at ed@jasig.org, or Ian Dolphin at iandolphin@sakaifoundation.org .
The Oxford e-Social Science team study how e-Research projects negotiate various social, ethical, legal and organizational forces and constraints, in order to help researchers avoid these problems when building scientific collaborations and tools for research.
Their ‘Social Science and Digital Research: Interdisciplinary Insights’ event will be held on 12 March 2012 in Oxford. If you wish to submit an abstract (around 250 words), please send it to events@oii.ox.ac.uk by 15 December with ‘Interdisciplinary Insights’ in the subject field. Further details about the event are at: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/?id=486
Department of Education, 15 Norham Gardens have research seminars taking place this term. Wednesday 9th November Seminar Room G/H, 5–6.30pm
Facework on Facebook as a new literacy practice
Dr Julia Davies, School of Education, University of Sheffield
Tuesday 22nd November Seminar Room E, 2-3.30pm
Future Proofing or Future Building? Education and the problem of the next 100 years…Professor Keri Facer, Manchester Metropolitan University
Online event: 22-25 November 2011
Want to know more about how advances in digital technology are changing the learning landscape and what this might mean for you? Keep abreast of what’s new and what matters by registering for the JISC Online Conference. Now in its sixth year, the JISC Online Conference offers an invaluable opportunity to engage with the latest developments in technology-enhanced practice in UK further and higher education. Register now
Tuesday 6 December 2011, Austin Court, Birmingham
This UCISA event sets out to explore the future of /everything mobile/, look at ways of delivering applications and services to mobiles, how mobile content can help us learn and teach, and examine some of the current challenges around supporting mobile access such as security and licensing. This event is aimed at anyone with an interest in mobiles within an HE context − senior managers looking to develop their mobile strategy, developers, learning technologists, and support staff.
Thriving in a colder and more challenging climate
University of Leeds, UK, 6-8 September 2011.
In 2011, education systems throughout the world are attempting to do more, better, and often with less. As the political, economic, social, agency and technological landscapes change, it is tempting for people in the learning technology community simply to “go on with vigour, hoping for the best”*. But this would be to miss a major opportunity.
Book to attend The booking deadline is 17.00 BST on 12 August.
Monday 16th May 2011 10.00 – 15.30
University of Exeter
A practical workshop designed to provide hands on experience of developing exciting interactive educational experiences on Smartphones and the latest Tablet PCs using Augmented Reality.
The workshop you will give you:
- An insight into how Augmented Reality can be used to create engaging learning opportunities across a range of teaching practice and subject-related contexts.
- A chance to experience Augmented Reality on a range of mobile devices and see for yourselves how this exciting technology has been applied to reveal the rich biodiversity of the University of Exeter’s beautiful campus.
- The opportunity to explore an Augmented Reality Toolkit which will enable you to create your own Educational resources using Smartphones and Tablets.
What Next for the ‘Edgeless University’? Monday 9 May 2011 10:00 – 14:00, Oxford Internet Institute
This half-day workshop explores the practical opportunities and problems confronting academics and institutions of higher learning in light of the 2009 DEMOS report ‘The Edgeless University’. The focus for the workshop is to ask: what exactly should a modern comprehensive university do that will unleash the creativity of students and staff and maximise the potential of distributed, edgeless learning while, at the same time, also making the most of the physical spaces which will remain critical markers of ‘a university’?
The Sakai Foundation is pleased to share the initial information and call for presentations for the Sakai 2011 conference in Los Angeles. All conference information will be added to www.sakaiproject.org/sakai-conference-2011 as it becomes available.
The growth in projects, partners, adoption and engagement in the Sakai community creates an opportunity to have a remarkable conference this year.
Wednesday 23rd March from 10:15am to 3:45pm, at the Open University headquarters in Milton Keynes.
This “Impact Conference” focuses on the impact of the use of Open Educational Resources on Teaching and Learning. There will be presentations by ‘leading experts’ and a series of workshops in the afternoon.