eLearning at the Cusp Conference

eLearning at the Cusp Conference
Technology Supported Learning in Higher Education: paradigms for practice and emergent futures.

http://www.staffs.ac.uk/elearnconf

Staffordshire University warmly invites you to this exciting international conference on May 30th 2007.

Conference topics include: models of best practice in eLearning; emerging Web 2.0 technologies and e-portfolios; facilitating learner autonomy and learning communities online; managing emerging organisational issues of quality, ownership and control.

Internationally renowned keynote speakers and presenters include: Professor Gilly Salmon, Professor John Stephenson; Professor Mark Stiles, Professor Robin Mason.

More Information
This conference is focused on learners and learning in Higher Education and exploring the challenge of retaining that focus amidst the unavoidable wave of new technologies to support learning. It will be of interest to Higher Education academic developers, managers and policy makers. Its aim is to explore key paradigms emerging from eLearning in order to help both Universities and practitioners understand and shape the future presented by nascent technologies such as “Web 2.0” tools.

Conference Themes

• eLearning paradigms for practice: guiding the present, informing the future
• sloughing the ‘e’: how do we continue to shift the focus towards learning and submerged technologies as new, challenging technologies emerge?
• Balancing learner autonomy and learning communities: pedagogy, quality, ownership and control

The conference will be opened by Professor Christine King; Vice Chancellor, Staffordshire University.

Keynote speakers include:

• Professor Gilly Salmon
• Professor John Stephenson
• Professor Mark Stiles

Workshop presenters include

• Professor Robin Mason
• Dr Sian Bayne
• Helen Walmsley
• Professor Steve Molyneux
• Dr Pat Jefferies
• Liz Hart
• Kevin Thompson

Book your place
To see more of the conference programme and details of how to book your place, please visit the conference website at http://www.staffs.ac.uk/elearnconf