I am happy to announce that we've opened this year's conference for paper submissions.
This year's theme is "Make do or Sp£nd: maintaining your VLE in the £9k economy"
In a time of tightening budgets and with the greater scrutiny from students paying large fees, university and college online learning systems are coming under increased internal and external scrutiny. Institutional responses vary. Some are looking to migrate to other systems with a lower up front cost. Others are re-prioritising developments in response to student demand (e.g. for mobile access). Some are still waiting to see how things pan out. We hope they all are remembering the learning and teaching aspects too! At this year’s Annual Durham Blackboard Users’ Conference we encourage presentations, panel discussions and workshops on any topic that relates to this theme. We’d love to hear your stories about how institutions choose to respond – to “make do or spend”. Remember that the spend may be in staff time, rather than hard cash and we welcome stories of responses at any scale.
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Papers can be submitted using the form on this page:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/lt.team/conference/?page_id=248
Note that the deadline for submitting proposals is 4pm (GMT) on the 30th of November.
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More details about the conference can be found from this closely related page:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/lt.team/conference/
We are adding a range of extra shorter session slots this year - so if you have a great point to make in a very concise manner, then these are just for you!
Each proposal is anonymously reviewed by two people from the user community - if you fancy joining our list of reviewers please get in touch too :-)
As an inducement (and in recognition of the time that people put into their presentations) the primary author of every accepted paper will have their name entered into a prize draw, for a suitably technological gift to be presented at the conference (drawn by the keynote).
We'll be opening for registration soon too - just adding the final gloss and service packs to the University Booking System.
Hope to see you there and please consider presenting - your thoughts make our conference.
Malcolm.
Dr Malcolm Murray FRGS FHEA CMALT PG Cert
Learning Technologies Team Leader - Computing and Information Services | Honorary Fellow - School of Education
Durham University | South Road | Durham | DH1 3LE | UK | http://tinyurl.com/durltt | @learntechdurham
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