WORKSHOPS AT THE OPEN UNIVERSITY
Please find below details of two of our workshops to be held in February.
Apologies if you receive this more than once.
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Evaluating student satisfaction in open and distance learning
A 1-day workshop
What's going on in your learning system? Who wants to know, and why? How can you find out? How might you use the information you gather?
Date: 10th February 1999, 09.30 - 17.00
Venue: The Open University Training Centre, Cofferidge Close, Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes
Who will benefit: Teachers, trainers, managers and course developers interested in improving their open learning provision with the help of planned evaluation.
Workshop aims: The workshop should help you to:
1 Identify the purposes that evaluation might serve within your organisation.
2 Decide what aspects of your system you need to evaluate.
3 Decide how your evaluation might need to be carried out and followed through‹and who your ³interested parties² are.
4 Draft an evaluation strategy for a learning programme or an area of activity in your organisation.
Workshop leaders Pat Fung
Pat Fung has been with the Open University for 10 years. Her background in distance education has given her an understanding of the need for any learning experience to be positive. For those providing that experience through open and distance systems it is essential to evaluate and update the quality of their support for student learning on a regular basis. Her work at the Open University includes evaluation projects relating to individual courses and programmes in open and distance learning.
Anne Jelfs
Anne Jelfs is a Lecturer in the Student Research Centre, and her work includes evaluations and surveys for quality assurance, particularly in the area of new technologies. Her main area of interest is evaluation strategy, and her previous research includes both qualitative and quantitative studies. She is currently involved in course evaluations for the OU, and has published on a variety of topics including the changing roles for tutors in Distance Education and interactive satellite video-conferencing.
Fee £195‹less 10% discount if you book more than one place on this or any of our other workshops or courses.(Each workshop member will receive a copy of Programme Evaluation and Quality)
Implementing open and distance learning
A 1-day workshop
It is tempting to view the introduction of open and distance learning methods simply as changes in teaching technology. At a time when processing power is doubling roughly every eighteen months, the main issues tend to be human factors related rather than technical feasibility: the availability and willingness of individuals to get involved and promote new approaches and the capability of organisations to adapt to changing needs, opportunities and pressures. This workshop will help you to think through the people issues in your own organisation.
Date: 12th February 1999, 09.30 - 17.00
Venue: Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes
Who will benefit: Training managers, trainers, chief executives of small and medium sized enterprises, University Vice Chancellors, deans and heads of departments, school and college heads, lecturers and teachers.
Workshop aims: This workshop will help you to think in new ways about the delivery and support of learning and provide practical guidance on the implications of trying to introduce distance learning methods into more traditional learning contexts and organisations. In particular it addresses the following questions:
What options do companies and educational organisations have in fostering the development and implementation of such approaches?
What are the likely pitfalls and how can they best be avoided?
How can I develop a successful implementation strategy?
The workshop will be based on real, practical, examples described in Stephen Brown's most recent book, Open and Distance Learning: Case Studies from Industry and Education (Kogan Page 1997) which reviews the lessons to be learned from trying to integrate distance learning strategies with established face to face teaching methods and organisations.
Workshop leader: Professor Stephen Brown
Stephen Brown is Head of the Department of Learning Technologies at De Montfort University. Prior to that he worked for BT for six years in a variety of positions including Head of Distance Learning, the British Open University, Leicester Polytechnic, the University of Ulster and Queens University Belfast. He has produced learning materials in a broad range of media including text, video, broadcast TV and radio, Interactive Video, CD and World Wide Web based MultiMedia and published widely in the fields of distance learning, training and design education.
Fee: £195‹less 10% discount if you book more than one place on this or any of our other workshops or courses. (Each workshop member will receive a copy of Open and Distance Learning: Case Studies from Industry and Education.)
For further information or to book a place on a workshop please contact Brenda Parish , tel: 01908 653055, fax: 01908 654173, email: [log in to unmask]
Christine Wellard
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