Preparations Begin For Our National Conference March 19, 2010
Posted by vickimcgarvey in : Comms , trackbackWe had our start-up meeting this week to discuss the nation conference that we will be holding here at NTU next March 2011. We already have a draft proposal the aim of the conference is to focus on transitions in academic practice that support open educational resource sharing and re-use, in particular:
- processes and workflows
- policy review
- the impact of Web 2.0 and informal sharing
The objective is to share illustrations of learning and teaching repository implementation. Including
- Processes for depositing content
- Obtaining a better understanding of interoperability
- An overview of copyright licence policy and the use of creative commons
- Discussion of the impact of web 2.0 and the sharing a repurposing of teaching resources.
The target audience are colleagues within JISC IE 2009-11 programme and the OER community as well as:
- Repository managers
- HEI managers involved in policy development
- Academics interested in educational resource sharing
- Librarians
- Educational and E-Learning Devevelopers
- Learning Technologists
- Copyright advisors
In the start-up group we had some useful advice from the person who is involved in organising our university’s annual learning and teaching conference. She recommended that we consider the following
- Who should lead the organising
- Whether we want to invite speakers or have an open invitation
- To involve the administrator from the start
- To involve somebody from university marketing
- Be clear about our audience and our focus
- And last by no means least have an action plan
We also need to consider how we want to advertise the conference. Given that we have a domain name and our blog has become the gateway to our other forms of communication for this project this seems to be possibly the most appropriate place.
We are all extremely excited about this event it will be an opportunity to show case some exciting work that is taking place in the HE community. We are also are excited about the venue because it will take place in our new conference facilities.
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