Next Generation Technologies in Practice Conference - Day Two: 11 March 2009
| Time |
Showcase, discussion and embedding |
| 10.00 |
Welcome from the Chair
Lawrie Phipps, Users and Innovation Programme Manager, JISC |
| 10.05 - 10.30 |
Opening Keynote
Gwen van der Velden, Director of Learning and Teaching Enhancement, University of Bath
Engaging the sector: An institutional perspective on raising awareness to embedding new and emerging technologies |
| 10.30 - 11.30 |
Parallel Session One
Embedding new technologies: ways forward
In each session, two projects from the Users and Innovation programme showcase their technologies and suggest practical ways to embed them in today’s institutions.
- Multimedia social technologies - led by Janet Finlay, Planet, Streamline and Persona Projects
- Alternate Reality and Annotation: Annotating Video in Second Life - MOOSE and MACFOB Projects
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| 11.30 - 11.45 |
Coffee break |
| 11.45 - 12.45 |
Parallel Session Two
Better, leaner, faster skills development and communication: ways forward
In each session, two projects from the Users and Innovation programme showcase their technologies and suggest practical ways to embed them in today’s institutions.
- Student skills - Paul Mayes, UKAN - SKILLS Project and Sarah Sherman, APT STAIRS project
- Social networking - Members of the AWESOME Project and George Roberts, Emerge Project
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| 12.45 - 14.00 |
Lunch and networking |
| 14.00 - 15.00 |
Parallel Session Three
Communities in Action: the role of communities in user and institutional engagement with new technologies
- Technology deployment via communities - Paul Chin, Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Physical Sciences
- Communities, innovative change and institutional policies: tightening the connection - Will Allen and Steve Boneham, Netskills & James Cornford, Newcastle University
- User engagement in communities of practice: a case study - George Roberts, Senior Lecturer in Educational Development at Oxford Brookes University and Emerge Project Director
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| 15.00 - 15.15 |
Comfort break |
| 15.15 - 15.45 |
Discussion
The Users and Innovation programme legacy: where next for communities and new technologies?
Lawrie Phipps, Users and Innovation Programme Manager, JISC
Paul Bailey, Benefits Realisation, Emerge Community |
| 15.45 - 16.00 |
Closing comments from the Chair |