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Research Day, Birmingham, Tuesday 10th June 2008
Shared Innovation in Higher Education
If you have a keen interest in learning, teaching and research and are excited by emerging technologies, we welcome you to join us. Free to attend, this Research Day will be held at our Birmingham office on the 10th June 2008.
Agenda
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09:00 Coffee & Registration
09:30 Welcome & Introduction
09:45 Peter Murray-Rust, University of Cambridge - Data-Driven research.
10:30 Andy Powell, Eduserv - Web 2.0 and repositories - have we got our repository architecture right?
11:15 Coffee
11:30 Carsten Ulrich, Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Why Web 2.0 is Good for Learning and for Research: Principles and Prototypes.
12:15 Alan Masson, Senior Lecturer in Learning Technologies, University of Ulster - Formalising the informal - using a Hybrid Learning Model to Describe Learning Practices.
13:00 Lunch
13:45 Chris Clarke, Talis - Project Xulu - Creating a Social Network from a Web of Scholarly Data.
14.15 Alan Trow-Poole and Ian Corns, Talis - Project Zephyr: Letting Students Weave Their Own Path.
14:45 Attendee discussion and feedback
16.00 Close
What to expect?
- Hear our thoughts on the importance of connections
- See prototypes that illustrate what might be
- Step beyond the confines of the LMS, the repository, the VLE, the portal
- Share your ideas and experiences
- Challenge and debate, robustly
- Make a difference.
