Dear colleagues,

See below for information on a Collaborative e-Learning Symposium at 
Cambridge University that I am speaking at on behalf of the Community 
Dimensions of Learning Object Repositories project. It has a strong 
focus on sharing learning resources and learning object repositories. 
Please pass onto your colleagues and networks where you think folk would 
be interested. And apologies for cross-posting!

Warm wishes
Sarah

* Many apologies for cross-posting *
* * Please circulate to all interested parties * *

*Collaborative eLearning: Sustaining communities, supporting processes*
A Symposium
http://www.ucel.ac.uk/symposium/

22-23 June 2006
University of Cambridge

This Symposium will be of interest to academics, learning technologists, 
developers, administrators, e-learning coordinators and managers, 
researchers, staff developers, IT champions, change agents and all those 
in tertiary education who wish to find out more about collaborative 
e-learning and how to support and sustain sharing communities of practice.

The Symposium takes place in midsummer at the Møller Centre, a 
state-of-the-art conference venue in Cambridge with 4-star residential 
accommodation. The gala dinner, in contrast, is in the lovely medieval 
hall of Magdalene College.

The Opening address is by Professor Alison Richard, Vice-Chancellor of 
Cambridge University

Confirmed keynote speakers are:
Professor Tom Boyle, Director of the Learning Technology Research 
Institute and Director of the CETL in Reusable Learning Objects
Sarah Currier, Project Manager, Community Dimensions of LO Repositories 
(CD-LOR)
Neil Ballantyne, Learning Technology Manager, Scottish Institute for 
Excellence in Social Work Education (SIESWE)
Dr Charles Duncan, CEO, Intrallect Ltd

All have first-hand experience of setting-up and/or sustaining 
real-world communities of e-learning practice with a focus on learning 
objects.

Edited highlights of the keynote speeches and key findings of the 
parallel sessions will be published in a special edition on 
Collaborative eLearning with an ISBN. Contributions to the discussions 
by all participants will be actively encouraged and acknowledged.

Themes:
Sustaining communities
Reward & recognition: staff development and support
   Interdisciplinary issues: crossing boundaries
 Rights & responsibilities: ownership and sharing
      Community building: sustainable strategies
    The student voice: learner centric approaches

Supporting processes
     Quality assurance: evaluation, peer-review
    Repositories & content management systems
     Frameworks, templates, methodologies
  Sustainability: towards a permanent home
      Setting up large-scale projects: lessons and successes

Full details and how to book at_ http://www.ucel.ac.uk/symposium/_
Numbers are limited, so please book soon to avoid disappointment

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Dawn Leeder

Director
Universities' Collaboration in eLearning (UCeL)
http://www.ucel.ac.uk

Reward & Development Manager
CETL in Reusable Learning Objects
http://www.rlo-cetl.ac.uk

Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies (CARET)
University of Cambridge
1st Floor, 16 Mill Lane
Cambridge CB2 1SB

T. +44 (0)1223 765363
F. +44 (0)1223 765505
M. +44 (0)7949 588 207
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Ms. Sarah Currier

Project Manager, Community Dimensions of LO Repositories (CD-LOR)
http://www.ic-learning.dundee.ac.uk/projects/CD-LOR/

Support Officer, JISC Digital Repositories Programme (CETIS)
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/

Centre for Academic Practice and Learning Enhancement
University of Strathclyde
Graham Hills Building, 50 George Street
Glasgow G1 1QE, Scotland, United Kingdom
Tel.: +44 (0)141 548 4573   Fax: +44 (0)141 553 2053
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