IET January 2011
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JLB Lab Studies January 2011
10th January Lab Tour for Mark Palmer & Richard Herbert (RBS Banking) IET
12th January Podcast Recording L197 Joanne Fallows (FELS)
13th - 14th January Podcast (K216) Ingrid Nix (HSC)
13th January JISC-OULDI Focus group Rebecca Galley (IET)
17th January Podcast (K216) Ingrid Nix (HSC)
17th January EU4ALL Focus Group Natalie Pollard (IET)
18th - 19th January Mobile Learning Winter Festival Agnes Kukulska-Hulme (IET)
20th - 28th January Ambient Wine Shop Sheep Dalton (MCT)
21st January testing HTML5 and date-picker widgets Nick Freear (IET)
25th - 26th January VLE RAP Usability Testing Anne Jelfs (IET)
25th - 26th January Student Support Review workshop Anne Jelfs (IET)
27th January PodCast (L197) Joanne Fallows (KMi)
28th January Lab Tour (Reema Tawfiq, BDU and Pauline Prow, Monarch Airlines) Anna Page (IET)
External Engagement (including seminars, talks and workshops)
Ann Jones and Eileen Scanlon developed an impact summary of the Personal Inquiry project in response to a request by the DfE for the schools research newsletter.
Canan Blake and Ann Jones represented the Personal Inquiry project at the TEL stand at the BETT exhibition on the 14th January.
Agnes Kukulska-Hulme is giving a keynote speech at the E-Learning Symposium 2011, organized by the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies, University of Southampton, 28 January 2011.
New initiatives
A second meeting was held with Institute of Education (London Knowledge Lab) and University of Nottingham (LSRI) to discuss working together as "Centre for Technology Enhanced Learning" (C-TEL) in order help provide policy message to government organisations such as BIS and DfE, and to consider opportunities for funding. A further meeting is planned for mid February.
IET's first Mobile Learning Winter Festival took place in Jennie Lee on 18-19 January, attended by academics and other staff from across the university. Over 30 presenters from various OU units were involved. Agnes Kukulska-Hulme gave a welcome address on both days.
IET (Agnes Kukulska-Hulme) is collaborating with the Library on preparing an m-libraries workshop, "Evolving content delivery for mobile learners", aimed primarily at the publishing industry, due to be held on 7th March 2011. The workshop addresses the difficulty of supplying content to an increasingly mobile student body, due to lack of appropriate mobile-friendly academic content to meet learners’ needs.
Visitors
Two OLnet/TESSA Fellows are visiting in January (from 24/1 to 5/2). These are:
- Priti Auckloo and Anuradha Gungadeen both from Mauritius Institute of Education
Note there is a call currently out on http://olnet.org/fellowships for further fellows (close 14/2).
Issues
Upcoming Conferences
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