NIACE E-moot: 5-day online conference

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[Background & Aims] [Audience] [Themes] [Technical Requirements]

Background

NIACE is staging an online e–moot to enable practitioners to engage in discussion and debate on issues around current e-learning practice. It will be of interest to managers and tutors alike.

The conference will be over five days and consist of four themed strands:

Each strand will provide a range of activities and topics throughout the week.

In addition, guest speakers have been invited to speak to provoke questions and to engage in initial debates online, which will include the following topics:

An opportunity to experience the virtual world of Second life will also be available.

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Audience

Who would benefit from participating?

The conference will be of particular interest to those in:

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E-moot Themes

Participants will be able to take an active part in one of the following four strand themes, and observe the other themes

A: E-Maturity: quality and self-review
E-maturity is a key theme of the Department for Education and Skills’ (DfES) e-Strategy ‘Harnessing Technology – Transforming Learning and Children’s Services’. It can be described as the measure of the extent to which technology enhances and transforms the experience of an education and training provider’s learners and staff. It is about how organisations use technology to help them achieve their organisation’s strategic aims.

This themed strand centres will look at the issues associated with planning the use of technology in teaching and learning (the e-strategy), measuring improvement and progress, and embedding technological use into a provider’s organisational practices, in particular its quality improvement process.

B: Guiding and supporting learners
In these workshops we will be discussing ways that people are already, or would like to be in future, able to use e-learning to help guide and support learners from a cross section of society (online learning will be included but only as one method of many). It will include the use of a range of tools such as:

The themed discussions over the five days will focus on working with people in the following groups:; Offender learning and skills , Mental Health, Higher Education (including Distance Learning) and Young People.

C: Effective teaching and learning
This set of workshops will explore the use of technology, particularly learning platforms in support of effective teaching and learning. We will consider issues around the concept of adding value and supporting learners, investigate the relative values of the repository portal and its interactive counterpart, consider the effects of 'corporate' expectation (Government, OfStEd and institutional expectations) on the use of ILT and access to suitable resources. There will also be a consideration of the needs, expectations, successes and failures of staff training and an investigation into the necessity for and benefits from learner training in the use of ILT.

D: e-Assessment
This set of workshops will explore what is really meant by assessment for learning in practical terms. We will consider when we assess our learners, for what purpose and how we use the information we gain to provide personalised learning programmes.
The workshops will provide us with the opportunity to investigate how we assess our learners, in particular focussing on the design, methods and technologies we select and how the assessments themselves might be made more accessible, and finally we will explore the feedback we give to our learners and its potential impact.

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Technical Requirements

What technical requirements are needed to participate?

To obtain the greatest benefit from the conference it is recommended that the computer you are using should have a minimum specification of:

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Also in October 2007...

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