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Ever thought about throwing away the VLE Rule Book?

CONFERENCE Announcement

The University of Bristol Learning Technology Support Service (LTSS) team
warmly invite you to their 4th Annual National VLE Conference, 'Thinking
OUTSIDE the VLE Box: Innovative and creative ideas for improving the
student experience'.

Monday 21 June 2004, 10.00am-5.30pm
University of Bristol
URL: www.ltss.bris.ac.uk/vleconf04.htm

We feel confident this conference will provide you with some new and
exciting concepts and ideas regarding the use of VLEs.

Our programme of keynote and invited speakers includes many acknowledged
and acclaimed experts who will discuss how they are using their VLEs
creatively or have developed innovative systems to run alongside VLEs.  The
programme will also include a series of  'How it worked for me' sessions.
At these each speaker will talk for 10-minutes and then have 5-minutes for
questions.  The aim of these short sessions is to give delegates 'tasters'
of some of the creative and easy-to-use work that is being done with VLEs.

Keynote speakers
Dr Tony Bates, Former Director, Distance Education and Technology,
University of British Columbia, Canada Effective teaching with technology
in higher education

Professor David McConnell, Director, Postgraduate Programme in e-learning,
and Director, Network Learning Research Group, University of Sheffield
Learning and teaching and their relationship to designing networked
eLearning

Dr Barbara Newland, Senior Lecturer, Educational Development (Learning
Technologies), University of Bournemouth Do VLEs enhance learning and
teaching?

Opening Address
Professor Ros Sutherland, Professor of Education and Head of the Graduate
School of Education, University of Bristol and Director of the ESRC
InterActive Education Project Its about interactive learning

Invited speakers a-z
Angelo Conti, Head of ILT Development, Swansea College of Further Education
?'if you can think it, you can do it' (probably)

Professor Adam Finn, Professor of Paediatrics, University of Bristol
Paediatrics on the Web: delivering a clinical course on 4 sites using
Blackboard

Andy Ramsden, Learning Technology Adviser, LTSS, University of Bristol
Improving the student experience of your Blackboard course: how and why it
matters

John Sloman, Director, Economics LTSN, and Senior Lecturer, Univ West of
England Incentive mechanisms for students

Dr Roger Suthren, Senior Lecturer in Geology, Oxford Brookes University
Virtual fieldwork with real students

Cost: 125 pounds, includes all refreshments
- online bookings only via the Conference website
- www.ltss.bris.ac.uk/vleconf04.htm

For more information please contact:

Gill Butland, LTSS Information Officer
University of Bristol
Tel: 0117 928 7199
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