09:50 - 10.00

Opening Notes
Ann Jones

Session I

10:00 - 11:30

Andrew Brasher, Simon Cross, Gráinne Conole
Designing Learning activities: processes, tools and research issues.

11:30 - 11:45

COFFEE

Session II

11:45 - 12:15

Stylianos Hatzipanagos
Feedback in formative e-assessment; closing the loop in distance learning

12:15 - 12:40

Adrian Kirkwood
Improving spoken English with ICT? ‘English in Action’ in Bangladesh

Fernando Rosell-Aguilar
Navigate through materials: redesigning a language course with a modular flexible approach

13:05 - 14:00

LUNCH BREAK

Session III

14:00 - 14:25

Chris Pegler and Chetz Colwell
Chris and Chetz in the Datacapture Suite with wikis, blogs and learning objects

14:25 - 14:50

Jon Rosewell and Tony Hirst
Equability and dominance in online forums

Canan Blake and Eileen Scanlon
Using computer tools to scaffold argumentation: A case study in a postgraduate science community

15:15 - 15:30

TEA - COFFEE

Session IV

15:30 - 15:55

Jenni Carr, Elizabeth Whitelegg Richard Holliman, Eileen Scanlon and Barbara Hodgson
The (In)visible Witnesses project: working with children and young people to explore gendered representations of science, technology, engineering and mathematics

15:55 - 16:20

David Hawkridge
Recent e-learning research and development at the University of Leicester

16:20 - 16:45

Chris Douce and Wendy Porch
Evaluating the Accessibility of a Virtual Learning Environment within ALPE

16:45 - 17:15

Discussants’ summaries - End of Day one

Programme for Day Two - Thursday, 19 June 2008

Discussant:

• Chris Pegler, IET, The Open University
  

9:50 - 10:00

Opening notes
Canan Blake 

Session I

10:00 - 11:00

Eileen Scanlon and OU PI Team
Personal Inquiry Project: Inquiry Learning models and Milton Keynes field trials

11:00 - 11:30

Stamatina Anastoupouolu and Michael Wright
The Personal Inquiry project; First Case study at University of Nottingham

11:30 - 11:45

COFFEE

Session II

11:45 - 12:10

Tina Wilson
International proposals for supporting individual and group work within OpenLearn units and forums

12:10 - 12:35

Teresa Connolly and Alexandra Okada
Developing Open Educational Resources through knowledge maps to enhance meaningful learning

Alexandra Okada, Ana Hessel, Giovanni Farias, Leonel Tractenberg
Using OpenLearn Tools for Collaborative Learning

13:00 - 14:00

LUNCH BREAK

Session III

14:00 - 14:25

Tony Hirst
Digital Worlds – A Self-disaggregating Blogged Course Experiment

14:25 - 14:50

Gill Clough, Ann Jones, Patrick McAndrew Eileen Scanlon
Geolearners: Informal Learning in the Wild

14:50 - 15:15

Daisy Mwanza-Simwami, Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, John Pettit, Mariano Rico
Using mobile instant messaging to enhance collaborative learning in informal settings

15:15 - 15:30

TEA - COFFEE

Session IV

15:30 - 15:55

Anesa Hosein, James Aczel, Doug Clow, John T. E. Richardson
Which problem solving software for promoting Conceptual Understanding?

Kathy Robinson, Debbie McGregor, Chrissy Phillips
Supporting students with a disability and additional requirements profile online: so many decisions to make

Alice Peasgood
The experiences of older learners with computers: contexts and challenges

16:45 - 17:15

Discussant's summaries and finish