Academy / JISC Collaboration Workshop

The workshop is now at full capacity. To register your interest in attendance please complete the waiting list form. You will receive a confirmation email when a space becomes available.

The theme of the event is Working together to enhance learning, teaching and assessment

Purpose of the event

To share knowledge and expertise, showcase outcomes from the collaboration initiative and identify effective means of disseminating online collaborative developments to encourage their take for the benefit of the HE sector.

Who should attend?

Colleagues from the Collaboration Network i.e. the Higher Education Academy and its network of Subject Centres, JISC and its network of, JISC Services and Regional Support Centres (RSCs).

Please note that places are limited to 2 colleagues per Subject Centre, JISC Service and RSC

Intended Outcomes
  • a shared understanding of the support required by the HE sector to enhance the evolving student learning experience
  • dissemination of collaboration outcomes to date
  • collective advocacy of collaborative online developments
  • identification of effective means of disseminating developments
  • identification of appropriate indicators of success for developments
  • enhancement of inter-working, cultivation and consolidation of collaborative relationships across the Collaboration Network

Draft outline programme

Wednesday 26 November

Time Programme Activity
12.00 - 12.50 Lunch and registration
13.00 - 13.15

Welcome and event overview

Lawrence Hamburg, Assistant Director, Head of e-Learning, Higher Education Academy 

Session 1: the Student Learning Experience
13.15 - 13.45

The Future of the Higher Education Sector - Teaching and the Student Experience: an overview of the recent government review

Elaine Payne, Acting Assistant Director (Policy), Higher Education Academy

Student experiences of ICT, JISC Campaign 2008-09

Philip Pothen, JISC Press and PR Manager

13.45 - 14.15

Group Discussions:

Enhancing the student learning experience: supporting the sector

14.15 - 14.30 Comfort break
Session 2: the story so far...
14.30 - 14.45

Overview of collaboration initiative outcomes

Sharon Waller, Academy/JISC Collaboration Team Leader

14.45 - 15.15

Group Discussions:

Campaign findings: implications for the collaboration network

15.15 - 15.45 Refreshment break

Session 3: presentation of online collaborative developments

Participants to attend 1 presentation from each group

15.45 - 16.15

Tutorial: Using the internet for image searching (TASI)

Tutorial: Supporting the use of the Learning Object Creator (LLAS)

Tutorial: Copyright, accessibility and the law (JISC Legal)

Workshop: Using technology to support: assessment; academic staff (Netskills)

16.15 - 16:20 Shuffle time
16:20 - 16:50

Tutorial: Supporting inclusivity in learning & teaching (JISC Techdis)

Tutorial: Supporting the use of the SIMPLE application (UKCLE)

Guide: Tackling online academic misconduct & internet plagiarism (JISC iPAS)

Unified events calendar: Sharing events information across the Network and beyond Engineering

16:50 - 17:00 Comfort break
17:00 - 18:00

Session 3 cont'd

Hands-on exploration of online developments

Participants to explore up to 3 developments

18.00 - 19.00 Free time
19.00 - 21.00

Dinner with quiz

Quizmaster: Ian Lindsay, HE in FE Academic Advisor, Engineering Subject Centre assisted by Simon Ball, Senior Adviser and Cary MacMahon, Coordinator, JISC TechDis

Thursday 27 November

Time Programme Activity
09.00 - 09.15

Welcome and introduction to Day 2

Norman Wiseman, Head of Services and Outreach, JISC

Session 4: Development of Web Search facilities and TELT taxonomy

09.15 - 10:00

Presentations: Academy/JISC web teams and Glenaffric Ltd

10:00 - 11:00 Hands-on exporation of web-search facilities
11:00 - 11:30 Refreshments

Session 5: Dissemination and impact evaluation

11:30 - 12:30

Group Discussions:

Working together to promote and encourage uptake of online developments/search facilities and evaluate their success.

10.30 - 10.45 Feedback
12.45 - 13.00

Next steps:

Evaluating the collaboration initiative and sustaining the momentum

13.00 onwards Lunch

Registration Information

It is free of charge to attend this workshop, however the Academy and JISC reserve the right to charge a £50 fee to no show delegates. Overnight accommodation will be provided for delegates by the Academy and JISC at Scarman House on the 26 November.

The workshop is now at full capacity.  To register your interest in attendance please complete the waiting list form. You will receive a confirmation email when a space becomes available. Further joining instructions will be sent to you approximately 2 weeks before the event.

If you are unable to attend the whole workshop and only wish to join for one day and will not require accommodation on the 26 November, please register in the normal way but notify the organisers by email immediately after registering: events@jisc.ac.uk

For Session 2, delegates will be asked to select one presentation from Session 2, before and after the break.

Register for waiting list

Enquiries

All enquiries regarding the event can be directed to Georgia Hall or Grace Porter at events@jisc.ac.uk

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Start date
26 Nov 2008 12:00
End date
27 Nov 2008 14:00
Venue
Scarman House, The University of Warwick
City
Coventry
Capacity
50
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