PROVISIONAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

DAY ONE TUESDAY, 8th JANUARY 2013

Start Time Room 9:30 am Registration 406 Early morning tea, coffee, pastries and exhibits & 407 Presenters - this is a good time to upload your slides & check equipment 10:30 am Formal Welcome 013 Malcolm Murray

11:00 am Keynote 1 013 The learning ecology: why the promise of an economy of scale has not been achieved Professor Allison Littlejohn Glasgow Caledonian University 12:00 noon Strand A Sessions - 30 minutes Meeting the Needs of Online Learners, the Challenges of Shaping a 013 New approach to distance Learning Esther Jubb Derby University Being in the Middle (Wo)man – Designing Assessment Workflows 202 that make everyone happy-ish Adel Gordon University of Northampton Integrating a Personal Learning Space with the Institutional VLE 203 Matthew Wheeler & Andy Holmes Brown PebblePad (sponsor) 12.30 pm Lunch & Exhibits 406 & 407 1.30 pm Strand B Sessions - 30 minutes Doing more with Less: Approaches to providing Blackboard support 013 to Academic Staff in the context of reduced staffing Sharon Flynn & Paul Gormley National University of Ireland Enhancing the Learner Experience for 1£$: LTI to the Rescue 202 Simon Booth University of Stirling & Stephen Vickers Title to be confirmed 203 Hal Herzog Learning Objects (sponsor) 2.00 pm Strand C Sessions - 45 minutes Discussion on Blackboard Mobile 013 Richard Lilliker Alex Spiers Liverpool John Moores University Bryony Bramer Regent’s College Richard Glover Peter Rayment Cardiff University Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed – Are we 202 Blue? ‘Make Do & Spend’ our VLE Re-launch Nichola Hayes University of Leicester Improving the Quality of Feedback through the use of Electronic 201 Marking Maureen Readle, Jak Radice & Neil McKeown University of Bradford Over the shoulder 2.0: Options and opportunities for screencast 406 production in learning & teaching Simon Davis & Chris Millson University of York

2:45 pm Strand D Sessions - 30 minutes

Implementing a VLE Threshold at a University. How we did it, how it 013 works and next steps Ashley Wright & Mike Cameron Use of Online Mind Maps in the Enhancement of Student Learning 202 Anja Conradie Durham University Title to be confirmed 203 Sergio Cardoso Kaltura (sponsor) 3.15 pm Tea, Coffee, & Exhibits 407

3:45 pm Strand E Sessions - 30 minutes Walking into Lamp Posts – When Online Discussion & Reality Collides 013 Alex Spiers Liverpool John Moores University Robin Gissing Sheffield Hallam University Getting More from What We’ve Got: Upcycling for Study Skills 202 Bryony Bramer & James Leahy Regent’s College Title to be confirmed 203 Michel Visser Eesysoft (sponsor) 4:15 pm Panel Discussion - 45 minutes 013 What makes a 21st Century teacher? Iain Wheeldon, Mike Cameron Newcastle University Ray Land, Richard Pears, Malcolm Murray (chair) Durham University Richard Walker York University Allison Littlejohn Glasgow Caledonian University Jeremy Knox Edinburgh University Attendees to be Confirmed

EVENING HOSPITALITY

6.00 pm Undercroft Bar (Durham Castle) Castle Conference bar open from 6pm

6:45 pm Guided Tour of Durham Castle Castle Tours must be pre-booked using the Conference Office

7:30 pm Drinks Reception Castle The Senate Room, University College (Durham Castle)

8:15 pm Conference Dinner Castle The Great Hall, University College (Durham Castle)

10:00 pm Undercroft Bar (Durham Castle) Castle The conference bar will remain open until 1 am PROVISIONAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

DAY TWO WEDNESDAY, 9th JANUARY 2013

Start Time Room 9:00 am Refreshments 407 Early morning tea, coffee, pastries and exhibits Presenters - this is a good time to upload your slides & check equipment 9:30 am Welcome Back 013 Malcolm Murray Durham University

9:35 am Blackboard Presentation 013 Title to be confirmed TBC Blackboard Inc. (sponsor) 11.00 am Refreshments 407 Mid morning tea, coffee, pastries and exhibits

11:30 am Keynote 2 013 MOOC pedagogy: the challenges of developing for Coursera Jeremy Knox The University of Edinburgh

12.15 pm Strand F Sessions - 45 minutes Creating Rich Resources with free tools: Customised Google Maps 013 for Learning & Teaching Matt Cornock University of York High Stakes Assessment on a Budget: Is Buying a specialist online 202 assessment software for exams a worthwhile investment if you already have blackboard? Mike Cameron Newcastle University Copyright Workshop 203 Suzanne Hardy Newcastle University 1.00 pm Lunch & Exhibits 406 Blackboard UK User Group Leaders Meeting (Room 203) & 407 2.00 pm Strand G Sessions - 30 minutes Google Portfolios and Google Tools 013 Wayne Britcliffe University of York Nurturing a Community of Learners: Creating a Cost Effective Pre- 202 Arrival Portal Sam Nolan Durham University There & Back Again: A Digital Tale from South Tyneside College 203 Ralph Holland South Tyneside College

2.30 pm Strand H Sessions - 30 minutes Make New or Repin? Creating a Multimedia Anthropology Resource 013 in Pinterest Nick Pearce Durham University SP9 plus XOT equals UX+ or in simpler terms How a Blend of 202 Blackboard and Xerte Boosted student experience Al Holloway & Wendy Turner University of Northampton Content Collection Discussion – Strategies for Managing Content: 203 Where next with Blackboard’s Content Management System Richard Walker, Wayne Britcliffe & David Barratt University of York Developing Engaging Interactions in an Online Environment 406 Candace Nolan-Grant & Allison Bell Durham University 3:00 pm Strand I Sessions - 30 minutes

Recycling Writing: Learning from a Corpus of Student Generated 013 Texts Megan Bruce Durham University Don’t “Make Do” with the old snapshot generator, “spend” time 202 improving things with the new SIS Integration Framework Mark Hodgson UK Blackboard Content System User Group Meeting 203 Bryony Bramer Regent’s College All welcome A simple, minimal MathJax integration in Blackboard VLE 406 Stuart Robinson & Andrew Parkinson University of Leeds 3.30 pm Conference Close 013 Feedback Eurovision style, plus we want your ideas for next year’s format & theme… 4.00 pm Finish Free shuttle bus service from the University to the Railway Station

Please note: This is a provisional programme and may be subject to change.

Updated 16:00 hrs 6 December 2012 by Julie Mulvey *****