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
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- 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