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Innovation, Research and Development: Technology Enhanced Learning and the Student Experience
SOLSTICE, Edge Hill University's Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, announces its 5th international conference and invites proposals for papers, workshops, presentations and posters:
Innovation, Research and Development: Technology Enhanced Learning and the Student Experience
5th International SOLSTICE, Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Conference
Thursday 3rd June 2010,
Edge Hill University,
Ormskirk Campus
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Gilly Salmon, Professor of eLearning & Learning Technologies, University of Leicester
&
Professor Peter Hartley, Professor of Education Development, University of Bradford
Conference Website: www.edgehill.ac.uk/solstice/Conference2010
Universities are dedicated to providing the best possible student experience, characterised by high levels of success, retention and satisfaction on which reputation and recruitment are dependent in the 21st Century HE sector.
This conference will focus on the use of technologies in teaching to support and challenge learners, to bring efficiency and added value to assessment and feedback, to impact on employability and to support research activities that face towards the curriculum. Creative and inclusive deployment of technologies to add value to student support and guidance and communications are an additional focus of interest.
Call for Proposals:
SOLSTICE is committed to TEL practices that are informed by and generative of research. To that end, proposals for papers, workshops, presentations and posters are invited which consider:
The deadline for receipt of proposals (up to 300 words) is 5pm on Tuesday 26th January 2010 and should be submitted via the electronic proposal form at: www.edgehill.ac.uk/solstice/Conference2010/call.htm
Full details of the call for proposals are available from the SOLSTICE Conference website www.edgehill.ac.uk/solstice/Conference2010/call.htm
Innovation, Research and Development: Technology Enhanced Learning and the Student Experience
5th International SOLSTICE, Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Conference
Thursday 3rd June 2010,
Edge Hill University,
Ormskirk Campus
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Gilly Salmon, Professor of eLearning & Learning Technologies, University of Leicester
&
Professor Peter Hartley, Professor of Education Development, University of Bradford
Conference Website: www.edgehill.ac.uk/solstice/Conference2010
Universities are dedicated to providing the best possible student experience, characterised by high levels of success, retention and satisfaction on which reputation and recruitment are dependent in the 21st Century HE sector.
This conference will focus on the use of technologies in teaching to support and challenge learners, to bring efficiency and added value to assessment and feedback, to impact on employability and to support research activities that face towards the curriculum. Creative and inclusive deployment of technologies to add value to student support and guidance and communications are an additional focus of interest.
Call for Proposals:
SOLSTICE is committed to TEL practices that are informed by and generative of research. To that end, proposals for papers, workshops, presentations and posters are invited which consider:
- knowledge that has been applied and integrated to inform practices
- how we know and predict that practices may work through using evidence?
- what has been learned that may positively influence the student experience in the future?
- insights gained into existing challenges and into new research agendas that are unfolding
The deadline for receipt of proposals (up to 300 words) is 5pm on Tuesday 26th January 2010 and should be submitted via the electronic proposal form at: www.edgehill.ac.uk/solstice/Conference2010/call.htm
Full details of the call for proposals are available from the SOLSTICE Conference website www.edgehill.ac.uk/solstice/Conference2010/call.htm
