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Description of event: Title: Open Educational Resources in Languages Date: 1 June 2012 Start Time: 09:30 am Location/venue: Harrington Building, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, Lancashire, UK, PR1 2HE This event is being hosted as part of the Higher Education Academy's OER Workshop and Seminar Series Registration for this free event including lunch can be found here: https://my.heacademy.ac.uk/multievents/displayEvent.asp?Type=Full&Code=AY0875&css=3 Information about the event This event will provide language educators with a thorough overview of open educational resources (OERs) in their discipline by combining a number of perspectives, including staff development, student production, teaching quality and organizational challenges. It is aimed at language educators with no previous experience of the field and will present them with opportunities to reflect on the opportunities as well as the barriers that often accompany the use of OERs. Participants will be introduced to examples of good practice and have the opportunity to network with a range of presenters with experience of designing and implementing OER projects specifically in a language context. It is anticipated that the format of the event will include interactive sessions combining both theory and practice in four main areas of engagement: - Engaging Institutions: Changing the OER Culture in your Institution - Engaging Language Educators: OERs and Staff Development - Engaging Language Students: OERs and the Student as Producer - Engaging Quality Assurance: OERs and Teaching Quality For further information and research on OERs, please take a look at the Open University LORO project on Languages and Open Resources Online:http://www.open.ac.uk/education-and-languages/loro/ Programme: 09:30 - 10:00 Registration & coffee 10:00 - 10:15 Welcome and introduction 10:15 - 11:00 Engaging Institutions: Changing the OER Culture in your Institution, Jonathan Darby, Academic Director of SCORE, Open University 11:00 - 11:15 Coffee 11:15 - 12:00 Engaging Language Educators: OERs and Staff Development, Kate Borthwick, LLAS, University of Southampton 12:00 - 12:45 Engaging Language Students: OERs and the Student as Producer, Miguel Arrebola, University of Portsmouth 12:45 - 13:45 Networking Lunch 13:45 - 14:30 OERs and Research in Languages, Prof. Dr Jozef Colpaert, Editor of Computer Assisted Language Learning (Routledge), University of Antwerp 14:30 - 15:15 Engaging Quality Assurance: OERs and Teaching Quality, Tita Beaven, Associate Head of Languages, Open University 15:15 - 15:30 Coffee and Closing Panel Contact Dr Michael Thomas ([log in to unmask]) Dr Michael Thomas BA (Hons) MEd MBA PhD FHEA Course Leader, MA TESOL with Applied Linguistics by E-Learning Course Leader, BA (Hons) International Digital Business Communication School of Languages and International Studies University of Central Lancashire Preston PR1 2HE United Kingdom T: +44 (0) 1772 893148 E: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Skype: mthomas69 Homepage: http://tiny.cc/mtprofile *********************************** ESOL-Research is a forum for researchers and practitioners with an interest in research into teaching and learning ESOL. ESOL-Research is managed by James Simpson at the Centre for Language Education Research, School of Education, University of Leeds. To join or leave ESOL-Research, visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/ESOL-RESEARCH.html A quick guide to using Jiscmail lists can be found at: http://jiscmail.ac.uk/help/using/quickuser.htm To contact the list owner, send an email to [log in to unmask]