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The H890 ‘Research and Scholarship in Digital Education’ online module<\/a> is part of the MA in Online Teaching<\/a> programme run by the Institute of Educational Technology (IET) at the Open University UK. This online conference is presented using the Open University\u2019s Online Rooms, powered by Adobe Connect.<\/p>\n Each H890 student contributed a short presentation to one of the conference sessions – the Conference Programme is shown below.<\/p>\n We are delighted that Professor Neil Selwyn<\/strong> of Monash University, Australia, delivered our opening keynote presentation on Friday 11th April, on the topic of “Ten things I’ve learnt about researching digital education”.<\/p>\n We were equally delighted that on the second day of our conference, we heard a keynote presentation from Professor Shailey Minocha<\/strong>, Emeritus Professor of Learning Technologies and Social Computing at The Open University, UK. The theme of this presentation was “Planning and conducting impactful scholarship<\/strong>“. Professor Minocha spoke about the impact of scholarship implying demonstrable benefits to learning and teaching that are directly attributable to a scholarship project. She said “In my keynote, I will discuss on why impact matters to the funders, for student outcome and experience, and for scholarly practice and career progression of educators. I will outline the key values and strategies that can help guide scholarship practice for possible impact. Finally, I will describe the role of Evaluative Thinking for impactful scholarship and the tools for developing evaluative thinking skills.”<\/p>\n As the conference has now taken place, registration is closed. Please make a note to check back in January 2026 to register for next year’s conference.<\/p>\n Click on the presentation titles<\/strong> to read the abstracts for each of the student presentations. Comments or questions on their abstracts would be welcomed using the comments feature at the foot of each page.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"Portrait](\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/H890Conference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Neil_2021_portrait_face_on-265x300.webp\")
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