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Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 19:55:46 +0100 From: helen kennedy <[log in to unmask]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] CC: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] Subject: conference: new technologies in education X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit apologies for multiple postings Conference announcement @THENE: practical experience of using new technologies in education a one day conference to explore the lessons learnt from Project @THENE Friday 18 September 1998, Duncan House, University of East London This one-day conference will explore the lessons learned from Project @THENE (Accessing Technology for Higher Education and New Enterprise). This project is intended to enhance access to IT-related higher education for students from non-traditional backgrounds. Its main activity is the delivery and evaluation of a Year Zero foundation course to women from ethnic minority backgrounds in East London involving computer-mediated distance learning. The conference will the explore the outcomes and implications of this educational innovation. The aims of the conference are: · to communicate and reflect on the lessons we have learnt from Project @THENE · to bring together individuals interested in widening access to higher education for non-traditional students and in innovative education. Conference participants will be organised into groups for a pre-conference activity. The aim of the activity is to give conference participants the experience @THENE students and tutors have of communicating at a distance. Each group will contain 2-3 @THENE students, a facilitator from the @THENE project team and other conference participants. The activity will take place during the two weeks preceding the conference and will focus on a discussion of the following question: How does computer-mediated distance communication compare with face-to-face communication? The conference will consist of: · Welcome and introductory speech · The Virtual Community: de-briefing in pre-conference activity groups · Hypothetical: ‘Minerva: Managing Machines, Money and Motivation’, a role play of an imaginary project which highlights some of the decision-making and organisational processes involved in distance learning · Workshops: Doing It Together: Innovation Through Partnership Ethnic minority women and technology education Is There Anybody There? Communicating in a Virtual Learning Community Home Is Where the Heart(ache) Is: Technical Issues Surrounding Home-Based Computer-Mediated Distance Learning · Plenary session. For more information visit our web site at: http://www.uel.ac.uk/research/athene. The cost of registration is £30 before 18th August and £40 after 18th August. To register contact Joan Tremble on 0181 215 0705 (telephone), 0181 849 3619 (fax), [log in to unmask] (e-mail).