2009 Conference

Computers and Learning Research Group (CALRG)
30th Annual Conference
19 – 20 May 2009
Venue: Jennie Lee Building, The Open University
Programme for Day One – Argumentation Symposium
 Tuesday, 19 May 2009
 Discussant: Richard Joiner
13:00 – 13:10
Opening Remarks – Eileen Scanlon
Session I – Chair: Eileen Scanlon
 
13:10 – 13:30
Marilena Petrou, Cindy Kerawalla & Eileen Scanlon
The Talk Factory Software: Scaffolding Students’ Argumentation around an Interactive Whiteboard in Primary School Science
 
13:30 – 13:50
Shirley Simon
Promoting argumentation in primary science contexts: an analysis of children’s interactions in formal and informal learning environments
 
13:50 – 14:10
Kieran O’Halloran
Reading Group Discourse: a Corpus-based Analysis of Argumentation and Collaboration
14:10 – 14:30
Canan Blake & Eileen Scanlon
Learning to discuss online
14:30 – 14:45
Questions
14:45 – 15:00
COFFEE
Session II – Chair: Ann Jones
 
15:00 – 15:20
Simon Buckingham Shum
Argument Annotation and Mapping Tools for Sensemaking
 
15:20 – 15:40
Karen Littleton
Thinking Together at Key Stage 3
 
15:40 – 16:00
Caroline Coffin
Contemporary Educational Argumentation: what can a multimodal perspective offer?
16:00 – 16:20
Questions
16:20 – 16:45
Discussant’s summaries and End of Day One
Programme for Day Two – Wednesday, 20 May 2009 
Discussant: Kim Issroff &Tina Wilson
 
09:50 – 10:00
Opening Remarks – Canan Blake
Session I – Chair: Daisy Mwanza-Simwami
 
10:00 -10:20
Patrick McAndrew & Tina Wilson
Researching Reuse of Open Educational Resources
 
10:20 – 10:40
Lucia Rapanotti
A Virtual MPhil.
10:40 – 11:00
Adrian Kirkwood & Jan Rae
Knowing Where Your Journey Begins – Baseline Studies to Inform Technology-Enhanced Interventions for ‘English in Action’, Bangladesh
11:00 – 11:15
Coffee and Questions
Session II – Chair: Andrew Brasher
 
11:15 – 11:35
Anne Adams, John Woodthorpe & Pauline Ngimwa
Who Owns the Information or the Knowledge?
 
11:35 – 11:55
Denise Whitelock
e-Assessment: Supporting Student Learning with Constructive Feedback
 
11.55 – 12:15
Jo Iacovides
Digital Games: Engagement, Motivation and Informal Learning
 
12:15 -12:35
Phil Butcher
A Comparison of Human and Computer Marking of Short-Answer Free-Text Student Responses
 
12:35 – 12:50
Questions
12:50 – 13:30
 LUNCH BREAK
Session III – Chair: Canan Blake
 
13:30 – 13:50
Eunice Olakanmi, Canan T. Blake & Eileen Scanlon
Supporting Students with Self-Regulated Learning Skills in a Computer-based Simulation Environment
 
13:50 – 14:10
Nicholas Freear
A Proposal for Software Services to Improve the Accessibility of Online Multimedia for Learning
 
14:10 – 14:30
Pauline Ngimwa & Anne Adams
Collaborative Ownership in Educational Digital Library Design
14:30 – 14:50
Anne Hewling
Designing Learning Activities for Improving Information Skills in the Workplace: the Case of iKnow
14:50 – 15:10
 Questions
15:10 – 15:30
Coffee & Discussant’s summaries
Canan Blake and Kim Issroff  (CALRG Co-convenors)
A link of the conference in the Cloudworks sites can be found here

 

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