Events
The Centre for Distance Education runs special interest seminars, workshops and an annual conference throughout the year, related to all aspects of distance learning. Below you can see details of upcoming and previous events.
If you have any specific requirements for seminars or workshops that could benefit your practice (or you have some expertise to share) please contact the CDE and we may be able to help with the event.
UPCOMING CDE EVENTS:
The CDE will be running a series of distance learning seminars and workshops in 2013 on subjects such as assessment practices, virtual worlds, student support and innovative technologies. To see more details, dates and how to register please visit our latest events news page.
The next CDE annual research conference will be held on 1 November 2013. For more details sign up to our regular mailings via the contact us page.
EVENTS ARCHIVE:
2013 events
Opportunities and policy challenges of distance learning in the Western Balkans
This session focused on how ICT can have a positive impact in a developing context and how online learning can be related to policies for development, in particular as experienced in the Western Balkans.
In this session Dr Gwyneth Hughes drew on her CDE research on ipsative assessment and a JISC funded project that she is leading at the IOE to explore why it is useful to analyse feedback for distance learners. It demonstrated a feedback analysis tool that has been developed as part of the project.
Triumphs and disasters in distance learning, but mostly disasters
Ormond Simpson, CDE Fellow and Educational Consultant, revisited his attempts over the years to find new ways of supporting students to succeed better.
2012 events
Mobile Applications and eReader Showcase
A technology showcase looking at the use of Mobile Applications and and eReaders in higher education, with a special focus on distance and online learning.
A talk from Professor Daphne Koller (Stanford University, a co-founder of Coursera) on “The Online Revolution: Education for Everyone”, MOOCs and particularly the pedagogy/platform that sits behind Coursera.
Developing teachers from a distance
This seminar explored the process of teaching observations in the two different modes: face-to-face and at a distance.
Changing pedagogies, changing technology and changing organisational systems for ODL
A special seminar on the future of open and distance learning (ODL) from Professor Michael G. Moore, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Education at Penn State University and Editor of The American Journal of Distance Education
A chance to find out more about open educational resources (OERs). A discussion of work undertaken to develop and release open educational resources, including a CDE funded project at KCL and a JISC / HEA project at LSE.
A workshop aimed at helping attendees to develop effective strategies for achieving large scale lasting change within their institutions, examining the implications of different levels of stakeholder engagement for the success of sustainable institutional change and demonstrating how to employ a participatory design approach.
2011 events
Releasing teaching materials as OERs: lessons from the DELILA project
OpenSim: an alternative platform for immersive education
Personalised learning: a framework for e-learning
Science teaching at a distance
Engaging students with Statistics – the VLE way
Conferences:
Research and Innovation in Distance Education and E-learning 2012
Research in Distance Education 2011
Research in Distance Education: impact on practice
Research in Distance Educaton (past conferences)
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