Inspired to Learn?
A conference offered by the Academic and Professional Publishing Division of The Publishers Association
18 November at the ICO Conference Centre, 22 Berners Street, London W1T 3DD
The conference begins at 2pm and will conclude with a wine reception.
Inspired to Learn? aims to examine the changing resources needs of the communities served by academic publishers; to discover how publishers are addressing these; and to explore how publishers, academics and librarians can work more closely together to continue to develop relevant, cost-effective teaching, learning and research materials in the current economic climate.
The conference will be chaired by David House, Chairman, Board of Management, JISC Collections and formerly Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Brighton.
Some conference highlights:
* Keynote address. David House, Chairman, Board of Management, JISC Collections and formerly Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Brighton, will outline the teaching and funding challenges currently facing universities, and how the provision of inspired resources can help
* Creating, developing and using an e-learning platform. Michelle Neil, VP & Director, Higher Education Digital Programmes, Pearson International, and Elizabeth Jones, Teaching Fellow in Economics, University of Exeter Business School will share insights
* Re-engineering the business model. Caren Milloy, Head of Projects at JISC Collections, will describe new ways of developing business models and how so far they have worked in practice
* Discoverability, Definition, Deployment: the challenges of making e-publishing visible. Sarah Pearson, E-Resources Co-ordinator at the University of Birmingham and Chair of KBART, Robert Faber, Editorial Director of Scholarly and General Reference Publishing at OUP, and Kieron Smith, MD of The Book Depository, will demonstrate how they are rising to the challenges posed by 'discoverability'
* Student panel. Students from several key disciplines will each give short talks on what types of resource they like best or find most useful, and then take questions from the floor.
The formal part of the conference will conclude with an open forum.
Who should attend?
We hope that the conference programme will appeal to a wide constituency of lecturers, librarians, publishers and students of publishing. It is particularly aimed at those working in the development, use, sale or purchase of electronic publications and platforms of all kinds.
Fees
Registration fees, including all refreshments and papers, are as follows:
* PA member/university or college staff: £100 (£117.50 inc. VAT)
* Non-PA member: £150 (176.25 inc. VAT)
* Student: £20 (£23.50 inc. VAT)
Registration
Please visit www.publishers.org.uk/InspiredtoLearn to register. If you have any questions, please contact Nicola Swann at [log in to unmask] (tel 0207 691 1378)
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