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Oxford Events 2003: ICT in Teaching and Learning Oxford University's Learning Technologies Group (http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/) is pleased to announce two events to be held in Oxford in 2003 looking at ICT in Teaching and Learning. Further details will follow but please make a note of the dates in your diary! 1. 'Shock of the Old 3' 10th April 2003 [All Day] University of Oxford This event will explore the problems and issues involved in designing and developing learning technologies for particular disciplines and subjects. A call for papers is currently circulating. Please see http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/shock/ for the call for papers. 2. "Beyond Theory: Educational best practice and the use of ICT for teaching and learning" 11th April 2003 Oxford Union Debating Chamber University of Oxford This event has been sponsored by the JISC Committee for Learning and Teaching. 'Beyond Theory' will look at whether pedagogical theory/best practice has fed into the development of ICT material for T&L, and if not, why not? Can this situation be remedied? The event will also include a lengthy debate on the motion: "This house believes that commercial Virtual Learning Environments (LMS) provide sufficient facilities for the teaching and learning needs of Higher and Further Education" Speakers so far for the whole day *include*: Professor Oleg Liber (Bolton), Dr. Gilly Salmon (Open University Business School), Dr. Andrew Ravenscroft (UNL), Professor Angela McFarlane (Bristol), Professor David Unwin (UK eUniversities Worldwide), Bill Olivier (CETIS), and Tom Franklin (TechLearn Centre). Details of last year's event can be found at http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/beyond/chalk/. --------------- Delegates will be able to register for these events separately, or at a reduced rate for both. Details on registration, and fuller programmes will be circulated in due course. If you wish to register preliminary interest then please contact Judy McAuliffe ([log in to unmask]) *************************************************************************** Dr Stuart D Lee | Head of the Learning Technologies Oxford University Computing | Group (http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/) Services | 13 Banbury Road | Member of the English Faculty Oxford OX2 6NN -------------------------------------------------------------------------- E-mail: [log in to unmask]; Tel: +44 1865 283403; Fax: +44 1865 273275; URL: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~stuart/ *************************************************************************** ***************** List information: ***************** Remember - replies go by default to the entire list. Access the list via the web on http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/vle.html The Ferl VLE Focus Area is at http://ferl.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?page=76 To unsubscribe, email [log in to unmask] with the message: leave vle