Farewell Nicola

So, Nicola van den Berg has left the building. The work that Nicola has done over the last 18 months has been appreciated by many, as you can see here on the wiki created by various members of staff.
http://4nicola.pbwiki.com/?full_access=yJbI44jHTw&l=S

However, Nicola isn't gone completely, as she is still has a presence in the Emerge community - http://elgg.jiscemerge.org.uk/nvdb/profile/

So long Nicola and thanks for the fish.

Event: Blended Learning at the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice

This is the latest in the Blended Learning Seminar series from the Glamorgan Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching.


This will be held on Wednesday 19th September at 12pm.

Blended Learning at the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice
Presented by Jonathan Wardle of Bournemouth University.

Jon Wardle is Deputy Director of The Centre for Excellence in Media Practice (CEMP), and is responsible for pioneering a range of new techniques and technologies to support and enhance media practice learning and teaching. His session will focus on two areas of development related to blended learning by The Centre for Excellence.

Curriculum Development

Two years ago CEMP developed a new and innovative online MA. The MA Creative Media Practice does not provide subject specific knowledge or training in production skills, but rather works with its students to develop solutions to complex problems, drawing upon their work experiences and working in collaboration with other professionals from a range of related disciplines.

Tools and Techniques

The pedagogy underpinning new curriculum models requires new tools and techniques to support learners. CEMP has developed a number of reusable learning objects and open source resources, these will be demonstrated.


Go here to register for this event.

Events are open to all with an interest in Blended Learning and / or e-Learning and are free of charge to staff at University of Glamorgan and colleagues who hold RTS status at Partner Colleges although prior booking is essential.

What would you like to see in your community?

The concept behind the Learning Lab is to build up a community of e-learning practitioners throughout the University, which includes academics librarians, IT staff, support staff, learning technologists etc. According to Etienne Wenger communities of practice are at their best when the community is driven by the community members themselves. So, how would you like the Learning Lab community to develop? At the moment the community is supported by this site (with its mix of news and information, blog, wiki and podcasts), e-learning and cakes and the lunch and learn sessions. Is there anything you would like to do or see that isn't part of the community?

There is a new community section of the site where you can add thoughts and comments on how you would like the project to develop.

Event ALT-C 2007 - Beyond Control

The 2007 ALT-C conference entitled 'Beyond Control Learning: Technology for the social network generation' takes place at Nottingham University from 4-6th September 2007.

The conference has four themes -

• Learning and internationalisation
• Learning technology for the social network generation
• Designing learning spaces
• Large-scale implementation

The keynote speakers include -

• Dr Peter Norvig - Director of Research, Google
• Dr Micjelles Selinger - Education Strategist, Cisco Systems.
• Professor Sir Colin Campbell - Vice Chancellor of the university of Nottingham

Spaces are going very quickly so go to the ALT-C pages if you want to go.

Latest Podcast Available

For those who don't subscribe to the Podcast feed, the latest "Tales from the Lab" Podcast is now available here.

Don't forget we also have a Blog documenting the processes we use, and our experiences as we create these Podcasts.

Personal Learning Environments

Talk of Personal Learning Environments (PLE's) is increasing within the education sector.

This slideshow gives an overview of the changing nature of learning, learners and technology, and how personalisation is key.