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The programme

Extended abstracts and presentations are being added to this site.
Currently available: Frances Condron, Jonathan Darby, Nick Hammond, Karl Harrison, and Emma Place

Monday 26th March - Integrating IT into teaching and learning

09:00 - 09:30 Registration

09:30 - 09:40 Welcome from Glenn Black, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic), University of Oxford

09:40 - 11:10 Supporting communication and discussion

Using email to support non-textual communication: 'a sense of place'
Sue Gollifer, School of Arts and Communication, University of Brighton, and LTSN Art, Design and Communication | read the abstract

Good and bad things about virtual tutorials
Liz Somerville, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex | read the abstract

Discussing psychology: virtual seminars for psychology and the impact on the rôle of the teaching staff
Anne Jelfs and Chris Colbourn, ASTER, and Psychology Division, School of Behavioural Studies, University College Northampton | read the abstract

11:10 - 11:30 tea/coffee

11:30 - 12:30 Acquiring research methods and practices

Virtual experiments and laboratory work
Karl Harrison, Dept of Chemistry, University of Oxford | read the abstract | read the online presentation

Supporting the development of expertise through research-based methods
Mick Roach, Centre for Academic Practice, University of Warwick, and TELRI | read the abstract

12:30 - 13:30 lunch

13:30 - 14:30 Assessment

Learning from formative feedback
Dick Bacon, Dept of Physics, University of Surrey, and LTSN Physical Sciences | read the abstract

The CASTLE Project
Richard Mobbs, CASTLE project, University of Leicester | read the abstract

14:30 - 15:00 tea/coffee

15:00 - 17:00 Managing teaching

Selecting resources for psychology
Catherine Bennett, Dept of Psychology, University of York and ASTER | read the abstract

Management of teaching provision through the interactive Web-based database, OxWeb
Mark Fricker, Peter Darrah, Dept of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford | read the abstract

Managed Learning Environments: the future of learning and teaching in HE?
Sarah Porter, JISC Committee for Integrated Environments for Learners | read the abstract

Managing change
Lewis Elton, Professor of Higher Education, University College London | read the abstract

17:00 - 18:00 Wine reception, sponsored by ASTER

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Tuesday 27th March - Managing change and strategies for change

09:00 - 09:30 Registration

09:30 - 11:00 Integrating research and teaching

Working with multimedia archives
Stuart Lee, Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford | read the abstract

Introducing undergraduates to archaeological research data
Lucia Nixon, Classics, University of Oxford | read the abstract

Teaching undergraduates how to become researchers
Emma Clery, School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University | read the abstract

11:00 - 11:30 tea/coffee

11:30 - 12:30 Changing teaching and learning practices

Attempts to bring IT into the normal work of a humanities faculty
Jeremy Duff, Theology Faculty, University of Oxford

Similarities and differences between traditional and distance/online delivery of courses
Jonathan Darby, Technology-Assisted Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford | read the abstract | open the PowerPoint presentation

12:30 - 13:30 lunch

13:30 - 15:30 National and local strategies for IT - meeting disciplinary needs

The use of IT in teaching and learning at Oxford: the OxTALENT survey
Elizabeth Solopova, OxTALENT, University of Oxford | read the abstract

Teaching Internet skills for different subjects: the RDN Virtual Training Suite
Emma Place, Institute for Learning and Research Technology, University of Bristol | read the abstract | open the PowerPoint presentation

Enhancing small-group teaching through IT: the ASTER Project
Nick Hammond, ASTER, and LTSN Psychology | read the abstract | open the PowerPoint presentation

Using IT to support seminars, tutorials and lab-based teaching - exploring the reasons for different practices
Frances Condron, ASTER, and Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford | read the abstract | open the PowerPoint presentation

15:30 - 16:00 tea/coffee

16:00 - 17:30 Plenary - meeting generic and discipline-specific teaching and learning needs with IT

The last part of the conference is devoted to a discussion of the practices and needs of individual disciplines and how information technology can support these. To start the discussion, distinguished speakers will outline traditions and good practice in their discipline:

• Suzanne Shale, Director, Institute for the Advancement of University Learning, University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in Law, New College
• Tristram Wyatt, Director, Distance and Online Learning, University of Oxford, Dean of Kellogg College, and University Lecturer in Biological Sciences
• Nick Hammond, Director, LTSN Psychology and ASTER