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Hello I'm afraid that there has been a fairly drastic change to the programme previously posted - not my fault, really! - but I hope that this revised programme will still be of interest to you. We regret that the afternoon presentation by Microsoft was cancelled, but we think we have found an interesting replacement. Revised Programme ================= Wednesday 5 May Venue: Heriot-Watt University, Learning Technology Centre 10:00 - 10:15 Arrival and coffee 10:15 - 10:45 Multiverse - Ruth Thomas Multiverse are developing a toolkit to allow academic staff to build simulations for delivery over the web. 10:45 - 11:15 The Nathan Bodington Building - University of Leeds Andrew Booth (Principal Adviser Teaching and Learning Technology) Jon Maber (Learning Systems Development Officer) The Nathan Bodington Building is a WWW-based learning management system that provides facilities for academic staff to produce and manage interactive, on-line learning resources, which include group commmunication rooms, questionnaires and multiple choice tests. To simplify development, training and implementation, all authoring and management is undertaken via form-based templates using any popular Internet browser. 11:15 - 11:20 Quick break to collect some coffee 11:20 - 11:50 Pioneer - Scottish Council for Educational Technology PIONEER provides simple student management and various types of asynchronous communication. Within PIONEER, navigation is particularly good, with colour coding and standard layouts making the structure of the materials transparent. 11:50 - 12:30 Merlin - Nicollete Ellis, University of Hull Merlin is a web-based learning environment for on-line course delivery, teaching and learning support, resource development and collaborative working. Developed originally from a languages discipline Merlin particularly features communication tools. 12:30 - 1:00 General Discussion 1:00 - 2:00 Lunch 2:00 - 3:30 Fretwell-Downing Education, Mark Sampson (Sales Director) Mark has kindly stepped in at very short notice. The Fretwell-Downing environment has recently been selected for adoption by the University of the Highlands and Islands. 3:30 Tea and Close Registration ============ If you would like to attend please let me know by e-mail ([log in to unmask]) or phone(0131 451 3279). There is no charge for attendance. Because of the changes in programme it would be appreciated if those who previously said they were coming could confirm whether or not they still plan to come. Sorry about all the changes. Thanks for bearing with me. Nora ================================================= Nora Mogey LTDI Co-ordinator Learning Technology Dissemination Initiative ICBL, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS Tel : 0131 451 3280 Fax : 0131 451 3283 http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/ltdi LTDI is funded by The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council ================================================= %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%