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Last week I attended the JISC ‘Innovating Learning’ online conference – here’s a blog post I wrote for ‘Letters from the Edge’ – the conference blog: This is a post, as with my ‘live’ blog posts, written as an ‘on the spot reflection’ rather than an agonised-over academic piece! Over the past few years, I [...]

Programming Collaborative Learning (HEA, University of Winchester) View more presentations from Bex Lewis. This will be followed by a 4-6000 word (inc references)  publication shortly. by

Name: Dr Bex Lewis Conference: Exploring collaborative learning in Higher Education media education programmes The HEA funded TESTA (Transforming the Experience of Students through Assessment) has worked across 22 programmes in 8 universities. TESTA has built a community of practice (CoP) interested in assessment and feedback processes at a sector level. FASTECH is a new JISC-funded project [...]

In April, we have the annual Plymouth Enhanced Learning Conference. The following abstract has been accepted: Abstract: FASTECH is a new JISC-funded project building on a new body of knowledge about staff and student experiences of assessment and feedback, collected from over 22 degree programmes in 8 universities through the HEA-funded TESTA (Transforming the Experience [...]

Media, Religion, Culture Conference 2012 http://mrc.anadolu.edu.tr/ Format: Presentation, leading to discussion. I was alerted to this conference at the weekend, and had about 24 hours to pull together a conference proposal. We’ll see if this ticks any of the right boxes…  We live in a ‘digital age’, in a world that is increasingly defined and [...]

One of my favourite e-learning conferences, which interestingly has renamed itself ‘Excellence in Learning’ (rather than electronic learning) has produced it’s website, and you can see blog entries from previous events here: #pelc10, #pelc11. Submit a Paper As in previous years, the conference welcomes proposals for papers, workshops, symposia, panels and demonstrations from across all [...]

Live notes from the session (italics my thoughts, rest my notes):  The danger of so much jargon in the world. I end up in 2 minds about this – sometimes it’s a shorthand that works for the community, but sometimes it excludes people. Simon Cowell – how do we define his success – the amount [...]

It’s nearly that time of year again, for the JISC ‘Innovating E-Learning’ conference, a conference which you could attend in your pyjamas if you like.. last year’s event was excellent! For only £50, there’s the opportunity to listen to a number of experts present about the latest projects in technology enhanced learning, to connect and [...]

Here’s the talk I gave to the Visual Story Network in Edinburgh (14th April), the Prezi is here, and Andrew Flynn’s talk is here. by

Themes: Broad Tents & Strange Bedfellows; Making Things Happen (ALTC11) This paper has been accepted. This paper reports on attempts by a digital steward (Wenger, White and Smith 2009) within a university to increase her expertise in the deployment of social media for education (Conole and Alevizo 2010), through collaboration by means of social media [...]