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.

As we head towards the end of 2018, CALRG aims to finish the year on a high with a month devoted to IET’s Professional and Digital Learning group. November kicked off yesterday with a seminar detailing four projects that the group are involved: how energy companies learn following incidents, strategies employed by finance professionals to learn during times of uncertainty, tensions arising in large-scale changes of higher educational institutes, and the use of social media by medical students as a way of learning.

The schedule is slightly changed from the normal CALRG format this month to avoid clashes with other events. But be sure to come along and take part in the rest of the PDL CALRG month:

• 8th November – Cake week: This time the theme will be balloon debates
• 15th November – Workshop: PDL will present various ideas on upcoming bids for people to discuss and get involved in
• 29th November – Panel discussion: We invite academics from various backgrounds within the learning sciences to discuss a question central to the PDL group – ‘what is learning’

Looking forward to seeing you all then.
Doug, Wayne, Vicky, Jake – your CALRG organising committee

We are excited to announce the start of the new programme for 2018-2019! This year we will be aiming on delivering a mixture of informative updates from around the university, practical workshops, interactive panels, and of course cake.

Last year the CALRG team invited a huge range of speakers to spread fresh ideas and approaches to research. The team this year aims to continue and build on that theme, with a focus on varying the format of the weekly sessions.

In October you can look forward to:

• Thursday 11th – Kick-off and seminar from visiting PhD student Laura Thomas: Beginning teachers’ professional support: A mixed methods social network study
• Friday 19th – CALRG 40th anniversary conference
• Thursday 25th – Cake drop featuring some getting-to-know-you-and-your-research games facilitated by Doug Clow

Looking forward to an engaging year,
Doug, Wayne, Vicky, Jake – your new CALRG organising committee

In preparation for the upcoming CALRG 2018 conference, the PDF of the conference programme and proceedings and details of the keynote speakers are now available.

Full details of the conference can be found on the official conference website. Please direct any queries regarding the conference to calrg@open.ac.uk.