Monthly Archives: November 2009

How do I know my ‘e’ module has the Q-factor?

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As part of the SOLSTICE Seminar Series Brian Smith (Senior SOLSTICE Fellow) will be running  a workshop on Wednesday 9th December:
 
How do I know my ‘e’ module has the Q-factor?
 
This workshop aims to assist academic-designers in pin-pointing quality or ‘value added’ within the design, delivery and re-engineering of their ‘e’ module.
 
The workshop will look at where you started with the design, what information was used to make the pedagogical choices, what evidence was drawn upon before choosing the technology, what signposts where set and measured within the delivery phase and how did you meet the QAA precepts.
 
Interested?  Book a place by emailing: staffdevelopment@edgehill.ac.uk
  

Small grants for researchers

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Looking for a small grant to help fund research into learners’ experiences and uses of technology? The ELESIG Small Grants scheme closes on 1 December 2009.

ELESIG is the Evaluation of Learners’ Experiences of e-learning Special Interest Group.  It consists of an international community of researchers and practitioners from higher and further education who are involved in investigations of learners’ experiences and uses of technology in learning.  The small grants scheme has been supported by the UK Higher Education Academy.

ELESIG is offering small grants to community members to engage in activities in line with its aim to:

  • develop a shared repertoire of resources which will be of benefit to the community and the sector and which build on shared knowledge and practice about learner experience research.

Proposals are invited from individuals or groups, which lead to the production of outputs which will help ELESIG meet its aims.

 The link is through the ELESIG website http://elesig.ning.com

 

SOLSTICE 2010 Conference – Call for Proposals

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SOLSTICE, Edge Hill University’s Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, announces its 5th international conference:

‘Innovation, Research and Development: Technology Enhanced Learning and the Student Experience’

Thursday 3rd June 2010, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk Campus

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Gilly Salmon, Professor of eLearning & Learning Technologies, University of Leicester 

Professor Peter Hartley, Professor of Education Development, University of Bradford

Call for Proposals:

SOLSTICE is committed to TEL practices that are informed by and generative of research. To that end, proposals for papers, workshops, presentations and posters are invited which consider:

  •  knowledge that has been applied and integrated to inform practices
  •  how we know and predict that practices may work through using evidence?
  •  what has been learned that may positively influence the student experience in the future?
  •  insights gained into existing challenges and into new research agendas that are unfolding

The deadline for receipt of proposals (up to 300 words) is 5pm on Tuesday 26th January 2010 and should be submitted via the electronic proposal form 

Further details are available on the conference website