[1] From: Stuart Lee <stuart@vax.ox.ac.uk> (145)
Subject: 'Beyond the Classroom', Oxford Colloquium,
REGISTRATION FORM & PROGRAMME
ANNOUNCEMENT
BEYOND THE CLASSROOM
http://www.ox.ac.uk/depts/humanities/beyond/beyond.html
DRAFT PROGRAMME
A One-Day Colloquium
Organised by the Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford
1 May 1996,
Habbakuk Room, Jesus College, Oxford
Can Information Technology really help us to extend teaching and
learning beyond the classroom? What are the practical and pedagogic
implications of the Virtual Seminar? What modes of learning will be
expected by the next generation of students?
Following on from last year's 'Beyond the Book' this one-day colloquium will
address these and similar questions. Our aim is to bring together both
practitioners and visionaries in an attempt to tackle both the practical and
the theoretical implications of using IT to extend teaching and learning beyond
the walls of the classroom. Digital technologies are already being
enthusiastically applied in such areas as distance learning and lifelong
learning, for which they seem to offer unique advantages and opportunities.
However, the pedagogical implications of this rush to "be digital" may be as
rarely discussed as the practical problems which IT may present.
9.15 - 9.30 Registration in the Habbakuk Room, Jesus College, Oxford
9.30 - 9.45 Introduction and Welcome
9.45 - 10.30 'Information Technology and Learning Futures: From School
to University'
Sally Tweddle, NCET/University of Birmingham
10.30 - 11.15 'Grammar: Four Legs; Poetry: Two'
Des O'Brien, STELLA Project, University of Glasgow
11.15 - 11.45 Coffee
11.45 - 12.30 'Re-engineering the Campus for the Internet'
Paul Bacsich, Knowledge Media Institute, Open University
12.30 - 2.00 Lunch (Not Provided)
2.00 - 2.45 'Data Archives and Distance Learning: Making Connections?'
Daniel Greenstein, Director, Arts and Humanities Data Service,
Executive, King's College London
2.45 - 3.30 'Building learning for the future from lessons in the past'
Richard Millwood, ULTRALAB Project,
Anglia Polytechnic University
3.30 - 3.45 Tea
3.45 - 4.15 Round Table Discussion
Abstracts Received
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'Information Technology and Learning Futures: From School to University' Sally
Tweddle, NCET/University of Birmingham
This paper will discuss the recent developments in using IT in the school
classroom, and future possibilities. The speaker worked for some years with the
National Council for Educational Technology, and is now affiliated to the
Institute for Cancer Studies at the University of Birmingham.
'Grammar: Four Legs; Poetry: Two' Des O'Brien, STELLA Project, University of
Glasgow
The study of language (whether theoretical- or corpus-based) works well in the
computer environment - literature, on the other hand, presents formidable
problems that we have hardly begun to articulate, and on the occasions that we
do try to express them we seem to be stuck in a paradigm of close or inventive
reading that are almost by definition inimical to computers and their rigid
formalism. Something must give. It may well be the way we read. [The speaker
is based at the Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow, and
is the Director of Project STELLA - Software for Teaching English Language and
Literature and its Assessment]
'Re-engineering the Campus for the Internet' Paul Bacsich, Knowledge Media
Institute, Open University
This paper will summarise a methodology for moving from on-campus to off-campus
teaching (including but not restricted to OU-style distance education) using
telematics in general and the Internet in particular. As the main case study it
will take the use by the OU of computer conferencing with now 15000 students
and draw some lessons for other UK universities. [The speaker is currently
Assistant Director of the Knowledge Media Institute at the OU but will soon be
Professor of Telematics in the School of Computing and Management Science at
Sheffield Hallam University.]
'Data Archives and Distance Learning: Making Connections?' Daniel Greenstein,
Director, Arts and Humanities Data Service, Executive, King's College London
This talk will introduce JISC's new Arts and Humanities Data Service.
Connected with this the paper will discuss the problems and possible solutions
in adapting large data resources for distance learning.
'Building learning for the future from lessons in the past' Richard Millwood,
ULTRALAB Project, Anglia Polytechnic University
In this interactive multimedia presentation, the speaker will debate with the
audience some of the strengths and weaknesses of traditional classroom-based
learning and how new teaching approaches must cater for learners' needs. The
cognitive and communicative aspects of multimedia and Internet technologies
and their place in learning are not to act as 'teacher-replacements' but may
affect the pedagogy, curriculum, and scope of education.
Cost [sterling]: The day will cost #35.00 for academics, #100.00 for
non-academics. This includes tea and coffee, but lunch will not be provided.
Please book early as spaces are limited. [A small number of free places will be
available for members of Oxford University]. Cheques should be made payable to
'Oxford University Computing Services' and sent to the organisors below.
Booking: Please print-out the tear-off form at the end of this message and
return it, with your cheque, to the organisors below. N.B. CLOSING DATE FOR
REGISTRATION IS WEDNESDAY 24th APRIL.
Organisors:
Stuart Lee
(Stuart.Lee@oucs.ox.ac.uk; tel: 01865-283403)
or
Paul Groves
(Paul.Groves@oucs.ox.ac.uk; tel: 01865-273226)
FAX: 01865-273221.
Oxford University Computing Services
13 Banbury Road
Oxford
OX2 6NN
UK
http://www.ox.ac.uk/depts/humanities/beyond/beyond.html
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REGISTRATION FORM
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'Beyond the Classroom', 1 May 1996, University of Oxford
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1996. PLEASE COMPLETE A SEPARATE FORM FOR EACH DELEGATE.
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