Dear colleagues we hope that this event and the process it supports will
be of interest to you.

Best wishes
Norman



Learning for a Complex World:  Appreciating the Power of Immersive
Experience

Wednesday 9th January 13.00 - Thursday 10th January 16.00
Surrey Centre for Excellence in Professional Training and Education
(SCEPTrE)
University of Surrey, Guildford   


This innovative event provides a starting point for a year long
collaborative enquiry aimed at discovering how we currently provide
opportunities for immersive experiences in higher education and whether
there are more and better ways of doing it. 


The event will be formed around an Appreciative Inquiry drawing on
participants' own immersive experiences and we will try to embody some
of the characteristics of immersive experience in the process.
 

Professor David Boud, University of Technology Sydney, an expert in
experiential learning, and Dr Glynis Cousin, who is responsible for
pedagogic research at the HE Academy, will help stimulate our thinking
and act as observer commentators throughout the process. We will also
involve an artist to help us visualise and represent ideas. There will
be lots of scope for emergent (rather than planned) conversation.


Who might be interested in participating?

The experience will appeal to anyone who is interested in encouraging
higher education to move towards a more experiential, 'real world'
curriculum and who is interested in their own professional learning. It
will also appeal to people who enjoy participating in experiences that
are rich, challenging and a bit messy, who enjoy a bit of risk but also
the opportunity to be creative.


Further information and registration forms please visit.
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/sceptre/ImmersiveExperienceConference910thJan200
8.htm

And if you have the time, please also visit our complex world wiki
http://complexworld.pbwiki.com/Immersive+experience