Date (tbc: Feb/Mar 2010)
What staff development needs arise when a new learning technology is being introduced into an institution? How can we manage the multiple, and often conflicting, expectations of what needs to be delivered?
This Assembly will focus on lecture capture and podcasting but will be relevant to other learning technologies.
It will be a workshop-style day [...]
The ECCILES project is using the TRIZ innovation methodology to find green solutions for computer teaching environments which reduce the carbon footprint and improve the working environment.
The purpose of the assembly will be to introduce TRIZ and the tools of systematic innovation (including the 40 inventive principles, perception mapping and the use of the contradiction [...]
XCRi Seminar – 7 September 2009, at MMU
Introduction to XCRi( Exchanging Course Related Information).
The XCRi seminar, like the schema was excellent as an effective exchange of practical experience and ideas.
For the CCLiP partners, we are engaged in our first full XCRi implementation experience and Patrick O’Reilly, Bolton, gave some very practical pointers, such as different [...]
The assembly will focus on teaching administration software and
especially on different distribution models of such software.
At 4pm following the end of the assembly there will be a visit to the nearby Fitzwilliam Museum to see the exhibition entitled “Hidden Depths” which features works by Sargent, Sickert and Spencer. Further details are in this URL:
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/whatson/exhibitions/article.html?2047
Assembly draft [...]
TAG is hosting a Retention Show and Tell, funded by JISC, to showcase some of the work going on around retention and in particular students transition in to higher Education.
The Event will take place on Wednesday Dec 9, 2009 at UCLan in Preston 09.30 – 17.00
http://www.uclan.ac.uk/health/research/tag/retention_show_tell.php
The morning session of the assembly will consist [...]
On 30th September 2009 the University of East Anglia, Norwich hosted a workshop assembly with counterparts from the HE/FE community to discuss the options of shared services and the feasibility of regionally hosted data centres.
The two key objectives for the day were:
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<li>To produce a framework which could be used by other institutions who are considering [...]
STEEPLE Unconference / Assembly – 7 October 2009
This was a very successful event. It was hosted by Oxford University (STEEPLE) and attended by representatives of ELTAC (Coventry University), Cambridge University, Reading University, Nottingham University, Oxford Brookes University, University College London, Harper Adams University College Shropshire, the Open University and the Executive Director of the Sakai [...]
Introduction
Modular E-Administration of Teaching (MEAoT) is a JISC-funded project in the Institutional Innovation programme, run as a joint venture between the Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies (CARET) and the departments of Engineering and Physics, at the University of Cambridge. The BRII project hosted an assembly in Oxford on 9 June 2009 to discuss [...]
The SSBR team will facilitate a series of up to 26 thematic project cluster-group meetings or “assemblies”.Assemblies may take many different forms: seminars, workshops, mini-conferences, shared planning activities, site visits, etc. What they must do is bring projects together in an assembly. Each project will be asked to host one assembly in the duration of [...]
Participants
i-Borrow Team: Phil Poole, Adrian Wheal,
weCAMP Team: Chengzhi Peng, Leo Care, Darren Roberts, Panagiotis Patlakas, Puja Basu and Adrian Powell
Introduction
The weCAMP project team hosted the i-Borrow team in Sheffield on Friday 29th May 2009. The assembly provided a great opportunity for the groups to learn more about each other’s research and project development and achieved [...]
