This year's Durham Blackboard Users' Conference will be held on Thursday
the 6th and Friday the 7th of January 2011 in Durham, North East England
in the UK. The theme is "Location, Location, Location" and approaches
this concept from multiple perspectives:
1. Location as a barrier: traditionally learning opportunities were only
available to those individuals able to attend the event on the date and
time it was delivered.
2. Location as an irrelevance: online delivery and pervasive
technologies should offer learners much more choice when, where and how
they engage with learning activities.
3. Location adding value: particularly with the advent of location aware
devices (GPS, triangulation via wireless or mobile phone signal)
suddenly there is the opportunity to use location as an additional
factor when tailoring a student's learning experience.
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We would love to see papers discussing ANY of these themes (as well as
those exploring ANY innovative use of Blackboard or mobile
technologies). With students expecting seminar rooms bristling with
technologies and mobile learning getting onto the committee agendas, we
hope for a timely, informed, stimulating, challenging debate.
We welcome proposals of presentations, workshops or panel sessions. For
those wanting to talk, you should plan your activity to fit into a 45
minute slot, so talk for no more than 30 minutes to leave plenty of time
for questions. We'll be using the same rooms as last year. These are in
the Calman Learning Centre and are well equipped with digital
projectors, visualizers, cameras, etc.
All submissions will be anonymously reviewed by two members of the user
community. If possible, please relate your submission to the conference
theme. The main author's name will be put into a prize draw.
The call for papers closes on Friday, 19th November 2010.
After submitting your proposal you will receive an email confirming it
has been received. Once the review process is complete you will be
contacted again with details of the reviewers' decision.
If you need more information, don't hesitate to contact us by emailing
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To find out more about the conference and/or submit a paper visit our
blog:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/lt.team/blog and follow the link on the masthead.
You can also follow the pre-conference activity on Twitter - look for
the tag #durbbu
http://twitter.com/#search?q=durbbu
or sign up to our twub: http://twubs.com/durbbu
Hope to see you there!
Malcolm.
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Dr Malcolm Murray
Learning Technologies Team Leader
IT Service
Durham University
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