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Conference announcement (apologies for cross-posting) The 8th Improving Student Learning Symposium: Improving Student Learning Strategically will be held at UMIST, Manchester, England on the 4th-6th September, 2000 For a booking form, contact the Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, England, OX3 OBP Telephone: (0)1865 484618 or Fax (0)1865 484622 or an electronic booking form can be found at: http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsd/isl/islabfm2.html The major aim of the Improving Student Learning Symposium is to provide a forum which brings together those who are primarily researchers into learning in higher education and those who are primarily practitioners concerned more pragmatically with improving their practice. However, papers are only accepted if they take a sufficiently scholarly, research-based approach, irrespective of discipline or aim. Over the past seven years the Improving Student Learning Symposium has welcomed a wide international audience with participants from over 25 countries. The 2000 Symposium will focus on attempts to improve student learning strategically and will include papers addressing the following themes: National strategies Insitutional strategies Departmental strategies Teaching and learning strategies Assessment strategies Staff development strategies Strategies to develop student skills/tools to learn with C & IT strategies The three keynotes are: Graham Gibbs, The Open University, UK. 'Strategies for improving student learning on a national scale'. Paul Ramsden, University of Sydney, Australia. 'Strategic management of teaching and learning'. Gloria Rogers, Rose Hulman Institute of Technology, USA. 'Strategies for harnessing IT to facilitate institutional assessment' The detailed programme is included on the booking form, and at the conference website: http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsd/isl/isltop.html %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%