The 10th European Conference on E-Learning (ECEL 2011) is being organised in Brighton this year by our friends Sue Greener and Asher Rospigliosi in the Business School. This is a great opportunity to hear the latest European level research in elearning.
Earlybird registration closes on September 1st. More information at the web site: http://www.academic-conferences.org/ecel/ecel2011/ecel11-home.htm
Notes of the Learning and Teaching Forum of the Computing Division of CEM, University of Brighton. Comments on posts are welcome. If you'd like to contribute to the blog by writing your own posts, just contact Lyn Pemberton - lp22@bton.ac.uk - so that I can set you up.
Sunday, 17 July 2011
Learning and Teaching Conference
Friday's Learning and Teaching Conference was a great opportunity to hear about the sorts of small scale research projects carried out by colleagues in other parts of the University. Here's a list of all the abstracts: http://www.brighton.ac.uk/clt/events/learning-and-teaching-conference/
It would be great to see more contributions from Computing next year. This is the time to be thinking about recording a benchmark for this year's student attainment and designing exactly how to introduce and measure the effect of the innovations you're planning. Doing this sort of action research will be a focus for next semester's learning and teaching forums.
It was a packed day, so I missed many fascinating-sounding sessions. A few themes that attracted a lot of attention were student retention, feedback, mobile technology, social networking and peer assisted learning.One highlight was the final plenary speaker, Phil Race, who pointed to some really exciting ideas about assessment, pointing out just how many NSS items this affects. Here's the chapter he recommended on his web site: Assessment as Learning
Here's a link to Phil's books on Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Phil+Race&x=0&y=0
I'm certainly going to think about my assessment tasks in this spirit from now on.
It would be great to see more contributions from Computing next year. This is the time to be thinking about recording a benchmark for this year's student attainment and designing exactly how to introduce and measure the effect of the innovations you're planning. Doing this sort of action research will be a focus for next semester's learning and teaching forums.
It was a packed day, so I missed many fascinating-sounding sessions. A few themes that attracted a lot of attention were student retention, feedback, mobile technology, social networking and peer assisted learning.One highlight was the final plenary speaker, Phil Race, who pointed to some really exciting ideas about assessment, pointing out just how many NSS items this affects. Here's the chapter he recommended on his web site: Assessment as Learning
Here's a link to Phil's books on Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Phil+Race&x=0&y=0
I'm certainly going to think about my assessment tasks in this spirit from now on.
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