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eLearning Regions and Cities Conference: Oxford 2005

Programme

Download the conference flyer and registration form here (196k)This page provides information on the shape of the programme, and on the different speakers and titles of their presentations.
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Tuesday 21 June 2005

09:30 Coffee
10:00 Welcome and Introduction Professor Graham Upton

Vice Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University,
Chair of the Oxfordshire Community Partnership

Serge Ravet European Institute for E-Learning
10:10 Keynotes Professor David Wolfe (University of Toronto) Strategies to promote economic development in learning regions 
Dr Anne Wright (DfES) The DfES e-Strategy: Harnessing Technology : Transforming Learning and Children’s Services
11.10 Panel Discussion Questions to the panel
11:30 Break - visit to Exhibition and Poster Area
12:00   Parallel Sessions   Large scale policy initiatives Laura Overton: (e-Skills UK) Work based e-learning – responding to employer demand
Rheinallt Jones (Careers Wales Online): A country-wide eLearning Strategy
James Uhomoibhi (University of Ulster) Developments in e-learning in Northern Ireland
eLearning policy implementation in further and adult education Chris West (NILTA): Supporting the government eLearning Strategy
Alastair Clark (NIACE): Encouraging the take-up of E-Learning with staff in Adult and Community Learning
Bob Powell (JISC) eLearning Strategy / Choosing and Using Platforms in Adult and Community Learning
Ensuring Quality in eLearning Provision Kathryn Barker (FutureEd): Open EQLS
Brian Merison (British Learning Association): Quality Guidelines for eLearning Regions and Cities
Angela Richards (UFI) e-Generation: online learning and local and regional change
Maureen Layte (EIfEL): An international benchmarking tool for eLearning Regions and Cities
13:00 Lunch - Regional Networking Meetings
14:00   Workshops and Open Space Meetings Facilitated discussions and workshops – some possible topics listed, other suggestions welcome from delegates at any time (facilitators to introduce a topic / question) Models for Regional Collaboration and Partnership Working [Nigel Ecclesfield]
Pilot session for the new Becta Matrix ‘Using ICT to Enable Effective Partnerships for Education Providers’ (in the Games Room) [Terri Kinnison]
Are educational institutions effectively shouldering their responsibility for the improvement of their staff's ICT skills? [Rebecca Eynon]
Instructional Design [Emma Goss]: an approach for designing engaging e-learning
This is a hands-on session that takes you through an approach for designing e-learning that is engaging, visual and interactive.
15:00 Break - visit to Exhibition and Poster Area
15:30   Parallel Sessions   eLearning and Knowledge Management Blanca Garcia (IDPM/University of Manchester): e-Learning in a Knowledge City
Andrew Ettinger (Ashridge): E-Learning, the findings and the future
Andrzej Wodecki (Lubin) Intellectual Capital Measurement of the region versus Knowledge City strategy: the experience of Lublin (Poland)
Implementation issues for eLearning Regions and cities Justin Reay (The Business Campus Ltd): Enhancing Cultural Diversity
Manon van Leeuwen (FUNDECYT) BENTLI: BENchmarking regional strategies for Technological LIteracy
Emma Goss (Improvement and Development Agency for Local Government): Benchmarking
Opportunities and challenges for implementation of regional elearning strategy Eta de Cicco (NIACE) : Obstacles and enablers in setting up an eLearning strategy and in implementing an eLearning policy
Helen McNamara (learndirect Scotland) Achieving the Vision for Scotland: Dissemination of elearning activity in Scotland
Paul McKey (Redbean) Online learning for the Brisbane City Council Customer Services
17:00 Closing Keynote Patrick Towell (Simulacra) "Think globally, act locally"
17:30 Close    

19:00 Drinks Reception
19:30: Gala Dinner at Sommerville College
Sponsored by The Virtual-Workspace is a new, dynamic Web portal designed to engage learners between 14 and 19 years old, in and out of school/college (years 10 to 13). The aim is to raise attainment at all levels through helping them to become confident, independent and motivated learners.

Wednesday 22 June 2005

08:30 Coffee - visit to Exhibition and Poster Area
09:00

Keynote
(Chair: Professor Bill Dutton)

Fabrizio Giorgini
(Giunti Interactive Labs)
Back to the Agora': empowering personal learning communities using ubiquitous, mobile learning and Digital TV technologies. Trends and Case studies.

Margaret Bell,
(Virtual-Workspace)

The Secret Lives of 14-19 Year Olds
Dr Steve Lucey
(Becta)
Developing an ICT Architecture for Education
10:30 Break - visit to Exhibition and Poster Area
11:00   Parallel Sessions  The ePortfolio as a tool for transforming eLearning George Roberts (Oxford Brookes University): Beyond Flexibility: flexible distributed learning (FDL) and e-portfolios
Professor Richard Kimbell (Qualifications and Curriculum Authority): ePortfolios in Qualifications
Jonathan Dick (Media Corp): On line portfolios for work based learning
Inovative elearning for education Jim Shelston (Sheffield LEA) and Barry Phillips (Sheffield LEA): Embedding e-Learning in an institution, a city, a region
Daryl Hemmingway (Desire to Learn) Revolutionizing K12 and Higher Ed Virtual Learning
Sarah Le Masurier (Microsoft Education Group): Innovative Teachers Programme
Re-thinking educational approaches David Potter (e-Learning Networks): A proven sustainable model for adding, within the current operating budget of any school, 20 subjects taught live
Peter Maggs (Kahootz and the ACTF ) Integrating Collaboration across the Curriculum
Chris Brannigan Caspian Learning: Learning Based Games – Coming to a classroom near you
12:30 Lunch - Regional Networking Meetings
13:30   Parallel Sessions   Linking business
with eLearning
opportunities

Rebecca Eynon (Oxford Internet Institute): Tales from the chalk face: how academics experiences of e-learning inform regional e-learning strategies
Dr. Jean-Anne Stewart (Henley Management College): How to engage SMEs in an eLearning programme
Margaret Simmonds (MRS Consultancy) Territorial Virtual Centres supporting businesses to adopt e-learning
Implementation strategies for regional eLearning Paul Bailey (JISC): Joining up eLearning across Regions
Jon Turner Oxford eLearning: Using regional expertise to deliver powerful elearning
Jane Harris (Virtual Workspace): e-Mentoring : Implementing the e-Strategy
Designing and delivering eLearning programmes Joe Quilter (AdVal KeyKnowledge): An accredited elearning programme for management staff - case study from Coventry City Council
Martin Bazley (South East Museum, Library and Archive Council ): Local, low cost, low tech learning: why small institutions have it easy- and why they don’t
Alan Vanstone (City and Guilds) online learning for unpaid carers
15:00 Break - visit to Exhibition and Poster Area
15:30   Round Table and Feedback Question Time Panel What is the next step for eLearning regions and cities?
16:00 Keynote Serge Ravet The European Foundations for Quality in eLearning: working together to support regions
16:30 Close  

Exhibition and Coffee Service in Entrance Hall – Wednesday 09:30 (set up from 08:00) to Thursday 15:30 (break down from 15:30)

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