Augmented reality
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 … Continue reading
A Question of Boundaries
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 … Continue reading
Sakai 2011 Conference
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 … Continue reading
Does it make a difference? The impact of OERs and repositories in teaching and learning
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’ … Continue reading
Assessment ‘born digital’
Thursday 24 February 2011 Dr Sian Bayne, University of Edinburgh The session will consider how we go about encouraging students to think about constructing academic knowledge for the digital age via the formal assessment frameworks we use. Even in highly … Continue reading
Digital Research and Teaching: A 20 Year Voyage in Humanities Computing
Dr Stuart Lee, University of Oxford Thursday 10 February 2011 Oxford Learning Institute The application of IT to research and teaching over the past twenty years in the field of humanities has changed dramatically. In 1991 there was no mention … Continue reading
The value of forgetting
Monday 7 February 2011 16:00 – 17:00 Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, OII What are the emerging threats to the security of networks and personal computers and how can they be addressed through social as well as technical initiatives? What role … Continue reading
Thriving in a colder and more challenging climate
The ALT-C 2011 themes will be: Research and rigour – creating, marshalling and making effective use of evidence Making things happen – systematic design, planning, and implementation Broad tents and strange bedfellows – collaborating, scavenging and sharing to increase value … Continue reading
OER Hackdays
A free two-day developer event related to Open Educational Resources to be held in Manchester on 31 Mar – 1 Apr. The OER Hackdays will bring together software developers, project managers, learning technologists and users for two days of hacking content, … Continue reading
Sailing against the trade winds? How online distance learning could help maintain the character of higher education in stormy seas.
24 November 2010 17:00 – 18:30, Dept Education, Norham Gardens Dave White, TALL Earlier this year Technology Assisted Lifelong Learning was commissioned to undertake a study of online learning for the HEFCE Online Learning Task Force. Our research showed that … Continue reading