“This popular symposium combines practical activities and guidance with inspiring ideas to fuel the imagination.
The Subject Centre’s 5th Annual e-Learning symposium will feature the following keynote speakers:
- Professor Wendy Hall DBE, FRS, FREng Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton
- Russell Stannard, principal lecturer in Multimedia/ICT at the University of Westminster and winner of the Times Higher Award for ‘Outstanding Achievement in ICT, 2008.’
Topics to be covered will include:
- discussion of the future of the Higher Education landscape in the online world
- exploration of how Twitter can be used for educational purposes
- Using wikis as a non-linear method of assessment
- investigation into the use of Facebook for informal language learning
- description and analysis of a university island in Second Life and how different departments make use of the virtual world
- review of the potential for using Second Life with EFL students
- presentation of an innovative blended language course reaching distant students by use of Wimba classroom and Moodle
- description and presentation of the creation of an online tutorial which explores issues around ELF (English as a lingua franca) in ELT
- analysis of two projects involved in collaboratively creating, sharing and publishing teaching and learning resources”
See more here. I will be attending this event tomorrow, and the event can be followed on LiveStream if you’re not able to attend.