Reminder - few places left on Technology Supported Learning Conference (apologies for cross-posting). Please pass on this information to interested colleagues.

Staffordshire University 9 June 2008

Conference themes include:

• Social Learning and Communities of Practice
• Situated and Work-Based Learning
• Web 2.0 and emerging technologies: exploiting their affordances for active, creative and participative learning
• Digital Literacy: identity, agency, personal and social learning efficacy

Confirmed speakers include:

·         Professor John Stephenson - Middlesex University: E-learning support for learners learning-through-work

·         Professor David Nicol - University of Strathclyde: Transforming formative feedback from engagement to empowerment

·         Professor Dr. Betty Collis - University of Twente: Pedagogy 2.0 Learning by Contribution

·         Dave Parkes - Staffordshire University: Web 2.0 and Digital Literacy

·         Professor Derek Longhurst - Director of Foundation Degree Forward: Making Foundation Degrees Work

·         Professor Mark Stiles - Staffordshire University: Policy Implications: Enabling participative learning,

Full details and booking form here: http://www.staffs.ac.uk/tsl08conference/

Helen Walmsley

E-learning Models Co-ordinator

Learning Development and Innovation

Thompson Library

College Road

Staffordshire University

Stoke on Trent

ST4 2DE

01782 295738

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