CALRG will be finishing 2019 on a high note with two great sessions planned before we break for Christmas.

• • Dec 5th: Power, roles and adding value reflecting on the challengers of working between universities and small community activist groups on an international research project
    Dr. Mark Gavad will talk about the balance, benefits, and blockers that came with a highly diverse project team in the three year EU funded MAZI project.

• Dec 12th: The EDUCATE Project
  Dr.s Kim Issroff and Canan Blake join us from UCL to discuss their work on EDUCATE, a business and research training programme for emerging London based EdTech companies.

Due to the UCU strike observed by the Open University next week’s CALRG session will be cancelled. The advertised session on intelligent assisstants and language learning will be rescheduled for early 2020. Please check the events page for the most recent calendar of events.

CALRG has a great line-up scheduled for November. Please join us for the following sessions:

– 7th: Nashwa Ismail will tells us about her experiences in Thailand in ‘Tricky Topics: Removing the Stumbling Blocks in Learning and Teaching’
– 14th: Our monthly informal event. This time CALRG will be hosting research themed speed chatting.
– 21st: In our regular ‘you heard it hear first’ series Irina Rets will present her research on the accessibility of OERs to non-native English speakers
– 28th: Agnes Kukulska-Hulme finishes the month with a presentation on intelligent assisstants like Alexa and Google Home and their potential for language learners

Join us tomorrow as Jo Buxton conducts the first workshop of the academic year on ‘Designing for inclusivity: making tutorials and group work accessible for students with sight and/or hearing impairments’.

Our 2019 Autumn term CALRG programme starts on the 10th October when we kick off with an informal get together – particularly for our new students to get to meet other CALRG members. So a big welcome back to all CALRG members and a particular welcome to our new research students.
More information about CALRG can be found at https://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/CALRG/

The official schedule for the CALRG 2019 Conference has now been released. It can be download using the follow link:CALRG 2019 Conference proceedings.

There is still time to register for the conference via Eventbrite.