Category: Conferences and Events

Location Independent Working Conference (April 2009)

“…Work is not a place where you go but rather something you do” Morgan R.E. (2004) Teleworking: An assessment of the benefits and challenges, European Business Review David Morris introduced the day with a series of concise slides explaining the concept and also that his project was a 3 month pilot.  A series of presentations…

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Leeds Learning and Teaching Conference 2009: Keynote Gráinne Conole

At the Leeds teaching and learning conference today, two of the U&I projects are presenting Reflect and Awesome. But the keynote is by Gráinne Conole, Towards Technology Renaissance.  Renaissance – revival or renewed interest, repurposing or rethinking. How does this apply to e-learning. What are the technology trends?  Grainne talked about the increased complexity of…

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FOTE2008: 3rd Session

Mile Metcalfe, Ravensbourne Miles started by discussing the college’s move to Greenwich. The innovative ideas for ICT include: Flexible Learnings Spaces (you had to hear the visualisation) Serendipitous Commons Subsidise personal technology high end reources integrated with user owned workflows Software as a service (google),  opensource alternatives to ‘money grabbing’ proprietory systems The curse of…

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FOTE 2008: 1st Session Google and Second Life

Here at FOTE (Future OF Technology in Education) 2008, Welcome from Tim Bush (organised the event) and David Rippon the Director of ULCC. Sam Peters from Google What’s driving cloud computing: Falling cost of storage Ubiquitous Computing Democratisation of production “We’re all part of the revolution” Sam described how the previous technology paradigm was focused…

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Research 2.0? Risks and Rewards of Using Emergent Technologies

This blog post supports a presentation at the UKGrad Yorkshire & North East Hub, E-Researcher Development Meeting, an e-learning day for trainers and developers. The presentation will open with a brief introduction to the JISC Users and Innovation Programme and discuss the importance of eliciting user needs. This section uses an image from a Flickr…

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Immersion or Augmentation: A culture or just another tool?

As well as developing technology and processes many of the Users and Innovation projects are also engaged in much wider debates, pushing our understanding of the role of technology in the wider education sector. The Habitat project is currently exploring the role of virtual worlds such as Second Life, which may on one hand be…

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