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
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
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
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