Conference 2012

This academic year, I have presented at the University of Brighton’s Pedagogy Conference (Feb 2012, Falmer) and am looking forward to presenting at and atttending: DIVAI2012 Slovakia 2-4 May 2012 UFHRD 2012 Portugal 23-25 May 2012 ICICTE 2012 Rhodes 5-7 July 2012. Next academic year I am hoping to attend: ALT-C 2012 Manchester 11-13 September [...]

Counting down to ECEl 2011 at Brighton

The conference website is showing 2 days, 18 hours and 48 minutes to go before Mithras House in Brighton Business School welcomes 200 delegates to ECEL 2011. With three great keynotes and over a hundred academic papers plus a doctoral symposium, we are going to be busy. We have mini-tracks on accessibility awareness in e-learning [...]

Rhodes sunshine and genuine community learning at ICICTE

This year’s ICICTE conference, my second visit but it’s been a while, was a good learning experience. The link here to the conference website shows the visual evidence, photos from every day of the conference and a great way to remember the names of new friends. here are Antonis and Olga from Greece, Andrea and [...]

Events on Faculty e-learning programme

At Brighton Business School we are running a programme of internal and external speakers to address issues around blended and e-learning in HE and to encourage debate plus share ideas. New date for the next external speaker: Keith Smyth from Edinburgh Napier University on Staff Development and e-learning – talking about his 3E model – [...]

“New Pedagogies for the Digital Age”

Looking forward to Steve Wheeler’s session to launch our faculty e-learning programme this year. Six sessions all in all with e-expertise, fun, food, lots of sharing of ideas.

Business Faculty e-learning programme

The Faculty programme is now launched in Brighton. This programme aims to inspire, stimulate and debate technology enhanced learning in the Faculty. The key areas of pedagogy in relation to Studentcentral, Community@Brighton and Web 2.0 applications, will be considered. We hope to stimulate staff engagement with e-learning and raise opportunities for online assessment. Facilitated by [...]

Keynote at Estonian conference on e-learning

Link to Conference website where the video of this keynote can be seen along with other interesting takes on e-learning http://www.ut.ee/547971

Estonia: school from education to learning space euni09tartu

Conference in Tartu from 2-3 April 09. http://conference2009.e-uni.ee/index.php?n=en&do=20 is website for conference. Estonian teachers in vocational and higher education gathered in Tartu for a conference with international speakers. So many shared problems, so many worries and fears around online learning, so many varying definitions. My papers on the changing teacher role and the plasticity of [...]

Crossing the chasm

BeL research group workshop at ALT C 2008 blog link to community@brighton site for outcomes from workshop

ALT C 2008

What is all this talk of different cultures between IT Systems, academics, learning technologists? We seemed to have lots in common at the conference – overlapping interests in making learning happen. We do indeed have different career paths and different vocabularies. But we are not working for a hierarchical business (despite appearances). Universities have been [...]