Learn Live HE and FE Agenda

LEARN LIVE: HIGHER EDUCATION AND FURTHER EDUCATION
Wed 21 Jan
10.15 – 10.55
11.00 – 11.15
11.30 – 12.15
13.30 – 14.15
14.40 – 15.25
16.15 – 16.30
Managing the MOOC classroom
Delivered in partnership with FutureLearn, The British Council’s first MOOC,
Exploring English: language and culture, attracted over 110,000 learner
registrations. This talk will look at the ways course design and management
tried to engage and retain students for the duration of the course. We will look
at how the course took off and how we dealt with the huge number of learner
comments and questions. How would learners find answers when there were
so many questions? How could we help them feel like valued members of this
online classroom and help them develop as a community?
Chris Cavey, Product Development Consultant, British Council
Eleanor Clements, Learning Content Development, British Council
Education, Always On'..Removing the Educated Guesswork from Education IT
Infrastructures
David O'Coimin, Global Solution Offer Manager, IT Business, Schneider Electric
The benefits for ICT teachers in joining a MOOC
At this session MirandaNet Fellows will talk about their partnership with EU
colleagues from Catalonia, Greece, Slovenia and The Netherlands in designing
a MOOC. This EU LLL HandsOn ICT project has offered an opportunity to
explore the potential of elearning for educators at HE, FE and school level. The
team will explain what they have discovered about the benefits and the
drawbacks of this MOOC about ICT based on their European experience as well
as the future they envisage for elearning on this international scale
Dr Christina Preston, Founder of the MirandaNet Fellowship, Professor of
Educational Innovation, University of Bedfordshire
Dr Sarah Younie, Reader in Education, Innovation & Technology, De Montfort
University
Dr Patricia Charlton, London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education
Creating innovative learning spaces
The iZone is the new innovative flexible learning space at Redbridge College
that provides opportunities to engage students with their courses in state-ofthe-art learning suites. We will be sharing our experiences and impact made
for using the iZone to deliver blended and flipped learning within FE
Costa Calcanis, E-Learning &Innovation Manager, Redbridge College
Moodle and Microsoft: Better together
Join us for a first look at how Microsoft and Moodle are better together for
enhancing teaching and learning. In this 40 minute presentation, we'll
demonstrate how you can use Moodle with Office 365, OneNote, Outlook
Calendar, OneDrive for Business and Azure Active Directory to create a
seamless experience for teachers and students. We'll explore how faculty can
use Moodle and Microsoft products and services together to create new
learning opportunities and explore the future roadmap.
Jason Cole, CEO, Remote-Learner.net, Inc
Doug Mahugh, Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.
Reinventing the Personal Learning Environment: Mobile, Visual and
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16.45 – 17.15
Information-Centric Experience
Mobile technologies enable a new, fresh approach to the personal learning
environment paradigm. Let's go for a journey and imagine how such an
environment, designed for the modern student and educator could look like
Sergey Zabaluev , Business Development Director, Infolio
A Framework for TEL support implementation
The session will Illustrate and discuss a proposed institutional framework for
successful TEL support implementation, as it emerged from a doctoral research
and the study of the literature in the area of staff development in TEL
Timos Almpanis, Learning Technologist, Southampton Solent University
Thurs 22 Jan
10.15 – 10.55
11.00 – 11.15
11.30 – 12.15
12.30 – 13.15
The state of Digital Capabilities in HE
The session will present the findings of the first ever UCISA Digital Capabilities
Survey which benchmarked UK higher education institutions. Questions looked
at strategies; delivery, implementation and practice of digital capabilities/skills;
bring your own; differentiation and inclusion; and what institutions are looking
at in the future. The survey took place over summer 2014 and the report was
launched in December 2014
Gillian Fielding, Digital Skills Manager, University of Salford/UCISA
How to write great assignments using myBTEC
Good assignments drive good learner outcomes. We will give an overview of
myBTEC and demonstrate how it can help you to consistently create
assignments that are tailored to your learners’ needs and meeting the highest
quality standards.
Sarah Wilman, Head of Digital Qualification Services, Pearson
Aligning higher education learning
When educational developers talk about constructive alignment, activating
learning and the SOLO taxonomy it all sounds great. However, many course
developers and lectures find difficulties in converting the ideas of educational
developers into real course descriptions and activating learning experiences.
With background in a change perspective this session will present experiences
from university of Southern Denmark and discuss why it is so difficult to
change the routines of higher education learning. The session will present
different course descriptions and discuss the role and legitimacy of course
descriptions. Finally the session will present a template for course descriptions
that has been developed at The Faculty of Business and Social Sciences in
order to secure a constructive alignment approach when developing new
courses
Thomas Gulløv Longhi, Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark
Educating digital citizens with global interaction
In this session we will discuss some specific ideas and projects designed for
your students to interact with other teenagers from Mexico.
For us as educators this is a great opportunity to “tear down― the walls
in our classroom and let our students become genuine digital learners using
social media for educational purposes
Universidad Panamericana Preparatoria (grades 10-12) is one of the top
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private secondary schools in Mexico City: 1st in Math and top-10 in Language
Proficiency for the last 6 years.
13.30 – 14.15
14.30 – 15.15
What can be better than having this conversation at the beginning of the Year
of Mexico in the UK?
Lic. Gustavo EchevarrÃ-a, Comprehensive Education Head, Universidad
Panamericana
How themed days and an innovative space can launch STEM careers
Barking and Dagenham College’s Gazelle Regional STEM Centre offers an
innovative facility to inspire minds from Key Stage 2 right the way through to
HE into STEM careers. The facility offers 3 key areas: an Investigative lab, IT
Lab and 3D Cinema which are paired up with themed workshops such as CSI
and Directors Cut. These workshops are also tailored to draw out the STEM
content in other curriculum areas such as Beauty and Law to enhance the
learner experience in an experiential vocational context
Rushpal Bihal, STEM Centre Manager, Barking & Dagenham College
Alan Lazell, STEM Project Manager, Barking & Dagenham College
Building the ‘Perfect’ Wi-Fi Network, Can it even be done?
Did you know that the average university has about the same broadband
access speed as a large business, yet hundreds of times as many users?
The demands of 3+ devices per student and government mandates for
connectivity are swiftly necessitating high-performance Wi-Fi networks as the
new norm on campus. This is easier said than done as mobile usage is
exploding, education and personal applications are competing for bandwidth,
802.11ac is a must-have, and IT budgets are still constrained. But settling for
networks that are “good enough” is no longer an option, careful planning of
the next Wi-Fi design and upgrade is paramount as it must be capable of
supporting the dramatic increases in device density and data usage, plus have
the longevity to last into the next decade. i.e. “the Perfect Wi-Fi Network’
This session will examine the technical requirement as well as the financial
value of building the perfect Wi-Fi network. If your sleep quality, reputation or
job depends on the reliability of the network, then this is the session you can’t
afford to miss.
15.30 – 16.00
Perry Correll, Principal Technologist, Xirrus
Beyond the flipped classroom
We are good at providing content for participants to consume but information
is everywhere, do we really have anything new to say? How do we provide
deep learning experiences that create new knowledge and the means to
enable change in the world outside academia?
The NHS Leadership Academy showcases its blended learning methods and
online learning environments.
The NHS Leadership Academy's purpose is to develop outstanding leadership
in health, to improve people's health and their experience of the NHS
Jason Brewster, Programme Lead for Digital Learning, NHS Leadership
Academy
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16.15 – 16.30
16.45 – 17.15
17.20 – 17.45
Rethinking the Personal Learning Network and Study Groups
Mobile devices allow students to find and access any information anywhere.
Let's explore and imagine together how study groups can dynamically
organize, visualize and share that information using touch technologies
Tom Shaked , Education Product Development, Infolio
Multiple Choice tests without the guess work
The key idea is that there are better ways to do multiple-choice testing than
the traditional 'choose-one-from-four' method.
This will be a longer version of my recent TEDx talk www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACB2B2EdiXs - in which I will also present the
results of our trial of the 'subset selection' test format. This allows test takers
to get credit for partial knowledge - i.e. for successfully identifying *wrong*
answers. I will also talk about our new QuizSlides platform, which supports
some of the novel test formats I will be describing.
Dr Martin Bush, Principal Lecturer, London South Bank University
Micro Learning in the Learning Intensive Society
In a digital society, micro learning is emerging as a tool to fragment and
reassemble learning. How will mobile micro learning support ideas of
collaborative and continuous learning? The session will address the case of
micro learning in a learning intensive society and look at how mobile micro
learning is adapted to the executive higher education environment. The
session will describe the mobile micro learning project at BI Norwegian School
of Business, our findings and a demonstration of the platform used
Martin H. Andresen, Learning Project Manager, BI Nowegian School of
Business
Fri 23 Jan
10.15 – 10.55
11.00 – 11.15
11.30 – 12.15
Private Cloud Computing / Infrastructure as a Service
The University of Sao Paulo’s USP Cloud supports 5,000 virtual machines in six
datacenters in five locations, and delivers virtual desktops and apps to
thousands of employees, teachers, researchers and students.. This session will
describe how software with graphical requirements is being hosted and
delivered by USP Cloud using GPU provisioning
Cyrano Rizzo, Datacenter Vertical Director, University of Sao Paulo
Providing an interactive Study Programme to 16-18 year olds
Find out how Learning Curve Group have supported FE Colleges improve their
Study Programme by:
Providing a balanced and effective offer through a suite of short life, work
and study skill enhancing e-Learning courses
Creating delivery efficiencies
Developing robust learner tracking systems
Ensuring compliance with FELTAG
Sharing Safeguarding best practice
Jon Cummins, Group Commercial Director, Learning Curve Group
Creating an action plan for learning analytics
Learning analytics has great potential. By using data more effectively, we can
understand and improve learning and the learning environment. Trail-blazing
projects, exciting demonstrations and earnest strategy papers set out a
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compelling vision for data in HE.
That vision can sometimes seem far from institutional reality. How can we get
some of those benefits for our learners?
12.30 – 13.15
13.30 – 14.15
14.30 – 15.15
15.30 – 16.00
This interactive workshop will help participants assess their institution’s
current capability for making use of learning analytics, and help them plan for
action. The facilitators will draw on a wide range of practical experience,
including from the pan-European Learning Analytics Community Exchange
project
Doug Clow, Senior Lecturer, The Open University
Factors affecting New Technologies use in Saudi classrooms
To successfully integrate CALL technology into EFL classrooms, institutions
need to understand the issues that most strongly affect technology use and to
provide their faculty members with the support required to integrate CALL into
their teaching methods. Based on individual needs analyses and clearly defined
educational goals, institutions can decide on the appropriate number of
computers and scope of CALL facilities required by their particular teachers
and students. The aim of this research is to investigate the overt and covert
factors that affect effective use and integration of CALL in Saudi Arabia
secondary schools.
Saleh Alresheed, PhD Candidate, Bedfordeshire University
Providing efficient feedback
Feedback is a very important tool in the learning process, nevertheless, a
persistent theme in the NSS is the recurrent complaint from students about
feedback. Often students feel that they do not get enough or adequate
feedback to their assessments. Frequently, short, written comments on an
assessment is not perceived as particularly helpful. Students want to know
precisely where they went wrong and how to improve their performance in
the future. Here I will discuss, how I have improved feedback with voice and
video recordings; and incorporated automated feedback to formative
assessments in my teaching
Peter Klappa, Reader in Biochemistry, University of Kent
Managing your print
Schools, colleges and universities are under constant pressure to scrutinise and
reconsider their costs. One of the areas in which efficiencies are particularly
useful is in technology and printing, and Moya will explain what the education
sector should know about managed print and how it can help save money
Moya Kelleher, Education Business Manager, KYOCERA Document Solutions
UK Ltd
The Power of Blogs for Problem Solving
The proposed session presents a methodology approach where blogs are
integrated as tools that promote and facilitate the development of a
collaborative online learning environment where the interdisciplinary
approach is being employed to solve a specific problem. Blogs facilitate and
promote the development of an interdisciplinary forum for the debate and
exchange of ideas concerning theoretical, practical, technical, and social issues.
Through examples and results from classroom settings the sessions aims to
reveal the great potential of blogging in teaching and learning practice, and
explain how the methodology approach can be employed in primary,
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16.45 – 17.15
secondary and higher educational settings
Nikleia Eteokleous, Lecturer Educational Technology, Frederick University
Cyprus
Efi Nisiforou, PhD Candidate, Cyprus University of Technology
Pedagogy and Technology
An exploration in to the conundrum of ensuring that sound pedagogy informs
the choices made whilst using technology in the classroom. In this session we
will explore ways in which we can use technology to take learning outside of
the classroom walls to bring about transformational learning opportunities
because of the technology we have available to us
Mark Anderson, Assistant Headteacher, Director of eLearning and Head of
Computing, Sir Bernard Lovell School
Sat 24 Jan
10.15 – 10.55
11.30 – 12.15
Augmented Learning Environments
The augmented learning environments combine the binding of augmented
reality and mobile devices in classroom. Also with the combination with other
hardware such as interactive whiteboard or augmented reality glasses. We will
demonstrate how to use augmented reality along with all of these other
hardware. Moreover, all this combination of technologies attached to a
specific teaching methodology, will create augmented learning environments
to make our classes something much more significant
Sergio Cabezas, Lecturer, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and CSEU La
Salle
Let's take this outside
Looking at how the use of tablet technologies can change the nature of field
work allowing for more creative and innovative teaching and learning
Paul Hopkins, Lecturer in Education, University of Hull
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