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  • Dr Martin Weddel
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    Dr Martin Wedell (University of Leeds) lists all that has been researched and established in the fields of language learning and educational change, and challenges the audience to work together to form coherent theories and practices of ELT for development.
  • Helen Pinnock
    23 sec ago
    Helen Pinnock, Independent Education Consultant, speaks about her experience of working with Save the Children on various projects to promote multilingual education, and provided examples of how project interventions attempted to prioritise the languages familiar to children while also countering the aspirations and fears of stakeholders.
  • Hywel Coleman OBE
    23 sec ago
    Hywel Coleman OBE, (University of Leeds), delivers the key note speech at a joint Open University and British Council Symposium on English Language Teaching in International Development. Hywel speaks about the role of language skills in economic and human development, and while he notes the importance of English for things like peace-keeping missions, disaster relief and local trade, he reminds us of the importance of other factors, like governance, which keep certain countries from reaching development goals.
  • John Knagg, Head of Research and Consultancy for English, British Council
    23 sec ago
    John Knagg (British Council) recounts the experience of working together with academics from across sub-Saharan Africa and experts from ACALAN UNESCO, UNICEF and SIL to formulate a statement of general principles for Language-in-Education in Africa, to be applied in South Sudan and elsewhere.
  • Lesley-Anne Long
    23 sec ago
    Lesley-Anne Long, Deputy Director of International Development inspires the audience to move forward from the event to work towards enabling better dialogue between researchers, practitioners and policy makers in the fields of language and development and to reinforce global connections between people working in various development contexts.
  • Dr Elizabeth Erling
    23 sec ago
    Dr Elizabeth Erling, Lecturer of International Teacher Education at The Open University offers a summary of recent research that links language learning to economic gain. In this podcast, recorded at a joint Open University and British Council Symposium on English Language Teaching in International Development in London in December 2012, Dr Erling argues that while we are starting to gain a picture of the relationship between English language learning and economic value, this relationship is complex and different for each context, and thus requires new, nuanced means of investigation.
  • LASI13 Dispositional Learning Analytics Workshop
    Tue, 30/07/2013 - 11:45
    This workshop was held at Stanford University as part of the week-long Learning Analytics Summer Institute (LASI), a global network of events: http://learningemergence.net/events/lasi-dla-wkshp The workshop goals were to: * introduce research on how students’ and educators’ dispositions to learning can shape outcomes * describe software tools grounded in that research, which enable the techniques to be deployed at scale * review the impact of such tools on learners and educators show how, as a by-product of web delivery, one can build quality datasets * describe how this data is amenable not only to traditional educational analysis, but explore the prospects for using machine learning and big data approaches * consider user interfaces which enable different stakeholders (eg. learners; educators; researchers) to interact with that data coherently * looking to the future, what ideas can we brainstorm for the tough questions this field faces, e.g. Can we develop dispositional analytics based on learners’ activity traces (rather than self-report)? Can we move from analytics, to recommendation engines able to make timely interventions for educators, or guidance to learners?
  • DTMD 2013
    Mon, 13/05/2013 - 13:35
    Videos from the DTMD conference, 2013
  • Learning to Teach
    Thu, 09/05/2013 - 11:20
    Would you give up a successful broadcasting career to become a teacher? What are the challenges facing modern teachers? Becoming a teacher requires learning a variety of skills, from reflective learning to mentoring, and in this series we follow two student teachers currently on the Open University PGCE course as they learn about their profession. We hear personal testimony and actuality from classrooms, mentoring and tutoring sessions, giving an insight into how teachers can develop their skills throughout their careers. The series Learning to Teach also includes the personal testimony from former Radio 2 broadcaster Jonny Saunders, who gave up his career working alongside Chris Evans to become a teacher, and reflections from broadcaster and author Tom Holland, children's television presenter Sidney Sloane and actor Mark Williams on the teachers that inspired them.
  • TEL2020: Technology and knowledge in the future
    Thu, 25/04/2013 - 04:06
    The Open University and the TEL-map project have asked the top grant getters of European ICT funding to present a vision of what – from their perspective – is possible today and to map out the key elements that will drive us to such likely and desired future of learning with technology. The visions presented have a strong disposition for impacting on all our lives – in social, educational, technological, or economical terms. They bring innovation and progress to a range of areas: they change the way we perceive awareness of each other and of knowledge. They make engagement in learning (and teaching) more passionate. And – last but not least – they pave the way to open collaboration at scale. Together they paint a picture of the future of learning with technology.