Next Generation Environments Conference 2008

Understanding needs, unravelling complexities and applying practice

Audience Representatives from institutions seeking to know more about some of the new developments enabled by the U&I programme, as well as how institutions can adapt to take them on board.

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Over the past two years the Jisc Users and Innovation programme has nurtured a number of ideas related to next generation technologies through its highly active and ground-breaking community of practice, comprising more than 50 institutions. More recently, a number of projects and partnerships arising from that community have been funded to bring the best of these ideas to fruition.

This highly interactive, two-day, lunchtime-to-lunchtime conference will:

• explore the challenges around today’s learner and researcher needs;
• demonstrate some of the new technologies being brought to light through the U&I programme and how they respond to these needs;
• discuss how institutions as well as individuals can ready themselves to take on these technologies and the issues they bring forward.

It is a chance for educational developers across learning, teaching, research and administration to:

• hear directly from users what they really need and the challenges they face
• hear the latest on the development of new technologies in higher education
• take part in discussions that will contribute to the formulation of practice, policy and future development

Programme

Tuesday 29 April 2008

12.30
Registration and buffet lunch

13.30
Welcome from the Chair: Mark Schofield, Edge Hill University

Part One - Understanding needs and unravelling complexities 

14:00

Keynote: Eric Hamilton, Pepperdine University, USA & until earlier this year, Director, US Air Force Academy Centre for Research on Learning and Teaching at the US Air Force Academy, Colorado

Learners, teachers and researchers of today, and the learning environments of tomorrow

14.45

Parallel sessions

A range of projects emerging from the Jisc Users and Innovation Community of Practice, and newly funded in phase II of the programme, demonstrate their progress so far, and share their thoughts and invite discussion on the needs and challenges users face in today's Higher Education.

• RSS, information overload and the 21st Century researcher, Simon Hodson, ticTOCs and Gold Dust  Presentation (PDF)
• Multimedia social technologies for engagement (MUVEs), Dave White, Open Habitat
• CPD and e-portfolios for lecturers, Sarah Chesney, Flourish: the ecpd project
• Using Induction Games in learning, Scott Wilson, Alternate Reality Games for Orientation, Socialisation and Induction (ARGOSI)
• Hear, hear: using audio to enhance the student learning experience through feedback, self-reflection and collaborative learning, Will Stewart, Bob Rotheram and Martina Doolan, Audio Supported Enhanced Learning (ASEL) and Sounds Good

15.30
Coffee

16.15

Parallel sessions repeated as above

17.00

Users' Discussion panel one:

A discussion with three student users (undergraduate and postgraduate) and delegates on broader user needs and the challenges we all face in meeting those.

Led by Paul Bailey, Benefits Realisation facilitator for the U&I team

18.00
Structured discussion and networking

19.00
Pre-dinner drinks

19.30
Dinner

Wednesday 30 April

09.00
Welcome back: Mark Schofield

09.15

Parallel sessions:

A range of programmes, projects and partners share their thoughts and invite discussion on finding solutions and applying practice.

• Managing your online identity, Lawrie Phipps and James Farnhill, Jisc Innovation Team  Presentation (PDF)
• How do staff, educational developers and institutions rise to the challenge? Will Allen and Steve Boneham, Netskills
• New technologies, IPR and copyright, Naomi Korn and Neil Witt, IPR Consultancy, Web2Rights Project Presentation (PDF)
• New research solutions, Dave de Roure, myExperiment

10.15
Coffee and posters

10.30

Users' discussion panel two:

A panel discussion comprised of a range of staff, both teaching and administrative, across various subject disciplines, focussing on applying practice in reality in institutions. 

Led by Paul Bailey, Benefits Realisation facilitator for the U&I team

11.30

Closing Plenary:

Overall summing up - Mark Schofield

Tackling current and future challenges - Eric Hamilton

Onto the Next Generation Environments Conference 2009: Evaluation, impact and effect - Lawrie Phipps (Jisc)

12.30
Close and buffet lunch