Agenda for the #showTEL19 4 & 5 Nov 2019

Day 1: Monday 4th: Berrill Theatre

Day 2: Tuesday 5th: Meeting Room 1, Jennie Lee Building

Day 1  –  4th November 2019 09:30 – 16:40 (Berrill Theatre)

09:30 – 10:00      Coffee

10:00 – 10:10      Welcome and Introduction:

Eileen Scanlon and Denise Whitelock

10:10 – 11:00      Keynote:

Allison Littlejohn

11:00 – 11:20      Coffee Break

11:20 – 11:40      Presentation 1: Evidence cafes: what works for equitable exchange across contexts

Anne Adams

11:40 – 12:00      Presentation 2: Using disadvantage to explore adult learners’ experience of an online distance learning environment

Wendy Fowle

12:00 – 12:20      Presentation 3: Increasing opportunities in online assessment through e-authentication: The TeSLA project

Chris Edwards

12:20 – 13:20      Lunch – will be served in the Berrill Cafe

13:20 – 13:40      Presentation 4: Biodiversity citizen science in today’s context

Advaith Siddarthan

13:40 – 14:00      Presentation 5: Challenges and approaches to community deployments of offline network technologies

Mark Gaved

 14:00 – 14:20      Presentation 6: What Barriers do Students Perceive to Engagement with Automated Immediate Formative Feedback?

Stephen Foster

14:20 – 14:40      Presentation 7: When will inclusion resolve the disability attainment gap?

Trevor Collins

14:40 – 14:50      Coffee Break

14:50 – 15:10      Presentation 7: What are the perceptions of OU students about student-facing analytics? A concept testing case study

Thea Herodotou and Avinash Boroowa

15:10 – 15:30      Presentation 8: The search for collaborative improvements: using learning networks and learning analytics to drive module improvements in OU STEM

                                Lesley Boyd

15:30 – 15:50      Presentation 9: Analytics for Action (A4A): Impact report

Rafael Hidalgo

15:50 – 16:10      Presentation 10: Teaching and Assessing with Jupyter notebooks

Michel Wermelinger

16:10 – 16:40      Presentation 11: Online rooms as a collaborative space for students

Mark Williams and Zoe Gipson

16:40                     Afterword and Close

Day 2  –  5th November 09:30  –  16:30 (Meeting Room 1, Jennie Lee Building)

09:30 – 10:00      Coffee

10:00 – 10:10      Welcome and Introduction:

Eileen Scanlon  

10:10 – 10:30      Keynote:

Eileen Scanlon                  

10:30 – 11:00      Presentation 1: Integrating OU Moodle and Structured Content: lowering barriers to student engagement

Chris Nelson and Ian Blackham 

11:00 – 11:20      Coffee Break

11:20 – 11:40      Presentation 2: MOOCs in the Language Classroom

Barbara Conde

11:40 – 12:00      Presentation 3: Belonging within the ‘elite’

                                Jess Carr

12:00 – 12:20      Presentation 4: What do young volunteers learn from participation in online crowdsourced citizen science? Environmental science learning through Zooniverse

Christothea Herodotou, Tina Papathoma, and Maria Aristeidou

12:20 – 13:20      Lunch – will be served in the Nexus Area (Ground Floor, Jennie Lee Building)

13:20 – 13:40      Presentation 5: Research, Evidence and Learning in a Complex Consortium

Jude Fransman

 13:40 – 14:30      Presentation 6: TIDE project

  1. Adaptive Project Design: Early insights from working on the transformation of the Distance Education System in Myanmar

Jon Gregson, Development Dreamers, Andy Lane, Open University and Matt Foster, Open University

  1. Fostering innovations in pedagogical practices: transforming distance education through a professional development programme using OERs

Andy Lane (The Open University UK) and Jon Gregson, (The Open University UK and Development Dreamers)

  1. Building employability into a traditional curriculum: partnerships and frameworks to help transform distance education curricula in Myanmar

Andy Lane (The Open University UK) and Susan Fawssett (The Open University UK)

  1. Developing a Digital Strategy for Distance Education in Myanmar

Jon Gregson (The Open University, UK / Development Dreamers), Rebecca (Beck) Pitt (The Open University, UK) and Tim Seal (The Open University, UK) 

 

14:30 – 14:50      Coffee Break

14:50 -15:10        Presentation 7: Deriving Interactive, Read/Write Course Materials From OU-XML

                                Tony Hirst

15:10 – 15:30      Presentation 8: Intelligent Assistants in Distance Learning

Agnes Kukulska-Hulme

15:30 – 15:50      Presentation 9: Exploring the impact of institutional scholarship

Elizabeth FitzGerald

15:50 – 16:10      Presentation 10: How to simplify a text to make it more accessible to non-native English readers. English Teachers’ Views and Practices

Irina Rets

16:10 – 16:30      Presentation 11: The Role of Labcasts to Develop Online Learning Communities in Two Stage 2 Practical Science Presentations

                                Venetia Brown

16:30                     Afterword and Close