With apologies for cross-posting, the Subject Centre for History, 
Classics and Archaeology would like to bring to your attention two 
events on interest to all those interested in e-learning and the use and 
creation of e-resources to support it. Both events include discussions. 
The first also includes an advance notification of funding for case 
studies and resource creation and the second an opportunity to define 
the kind of resources you would like to have created (or would create 
yourself if only you had the time/expertise).

1) Using and Sharing Online Resources in History, Classics, and Archaeology

8th November YORK

JISC: DeLII - results of DeLI for History, Classics and Archaeology and 
an introduction to DeLII - focusing on the use of RLOs (Reuseable 
Learning Objects) in teaching and funding for case studies and RLO 
creation. More details on www.hca.heacademy.ac.uk/events
Or contact
Cary MacMahon
E-Learning Project Officer
JISC Distributed e-Learning Project
Higher Education Academy
Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology
Tel.: 0141 330 6953, 079 2005 1850
Email: [log in to unmask]

2) Sharing the LOAD Learning Design Workshops

Thurs 9 November - University of London (Goldsmith's)
Wed 15 November - University of Cambridge
Tues 21 November - University of Nottingham
Wed 6 December - University of Oxford

Booking now at: http://www.ucel.ac.uk/load/

As part of the Sharing the LOAD project, JISC Design for Learning 
Programme, we are holding a series of one-day hands-on, engaging and
practical workshops focused on real-world learning designs and we invite 
you and your colleagues to come and join us.

The workshops will be of interest to educators, developers, educational 
technologists, IT and support staff, staff developers, administrators
and anyone with an interest in the pedagogical effectiveness of 
e-learning. Importantly, we also invite students and offer bursaries of 
£50 each (plus travel) to incentivise them.

The workshops are free of charge and we will refund your travel 
expenses. Refreshments, lunch and all materials will be provided - you 
need only bring your own interest and expertise. No technical knowledge 
is required and the only computer we use is our laptop to demo learning
objects currently in use by RLO-CETL (The Centre for Excellence in 
Reusable Learning Objects) and to present our work so far on the 
pedagogical attributes of learning objects. There will be
plenty of time for group work, feedback and lively discussion as well as 
learning design capture.

The intention is to identify two or three reusable learning designs that 
generalise across subjects and that we can exemplify by developing
a small suite of learning objects. These will then be evaluated for 
pedagogical effectiveness.

So it's free, it's fun, and you may even get some valuable e-learning 
resources created out of the fruits of your labours. Do please publicise 
this to anyone you think would like to attend.

Places are limited to 20 participants plus 5 students per workshop, so 
book soon! We shall post this invitation out to the more general
lists later this week and expect them to fill up fairly quickly.
Or contact
Nicola Mellor,
CETL Liaison,
Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology.
01189 674083 Tue-Thu.

Many thanks for your attention,
Eleanor

Eleanor OKell
Classics Project Officer,
HCA Subject Centre