May 21 2007
Learning Communities Event
Monday June 4th 2007 1:30pm – 4:00pm
Seminar Room 15, CPD Building, Glasgow Caledonian University
The Caledonian Academy is pleased to announce an international Learning Communities Forum event on June 4th 2007. This event is open to all staff with an interest in e-learning, giving opportunity to discuss ideas with visiting scholar, Dr Geraldine Lefoe, from the University of Wollongong in Australia (further details below). We hope you can join in the debate on issues in supporting international learning communities in sharing and reusing learning resources.
Itinerary
1.30-2pm – Coffee
2.00-2.15pm – Introduction – Allison Littlejohn
2.15-2.45pm – Community Dimensions of Learning Object Repositories, Anoush Margaryan, Glasgow
Caledonian University
2.45-3.00pm – Open discussion
3.00-3.45pm – Not just another repository: Developing a National Teaching and Learning Resource Exchange, Gerry Lefoe, University of Wollongong
3.45-4.00pm – Open discussion
Details of the presentations
Not just another repository: Developing a National Teaching and Learning Resource Exchange – Dr Gerry Lefoe, University of Wollongong
The establishment of the Carrick Institute for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (www.carrickinstitute.edu.au/), an institute with a similar role to that of the Higher Education Academy, has seen a remarkable rise in interest and priority for improving teaching. One aspect of the role of this institution is to “develop effective mechanisms for the identification, dissemination and embedding of good individual practice and institutional practice into the higher education sector and to support networking and the formation of effective communities of practice”. The Carrick Exchange will provide the primary means for this to occur by providing a combination of networking opportunities and resource access to engage the higher education sector in sharing aspects of teaching and learning. This presentation will provide an overview of the research into user needs conducted by a team from ASCILITE (the Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education) www.ascilite.org.au
Community Dimensions of Learning Object Repositories – Dr Anoush Margaryan,Glasgow
Caledonian University
The Caledonian Academy at Glasgow Caledonian University has been leading a major initiative exploring mechanisms for sharing and reusing learning resources within digital repositories http://academy.gcal.ac.uk/cd-lor/ This initiative, in collaboration with the University of Strathclyde and Intrallect Ltd., has identified and analysed socio-cultural, organisational, pedagogical and technological factors that influence adoption of repositories within a range of different learning communities. The project team recently published a set of structures guidelines for setting up a range of different types of repositories. The guidelines are based around integrated dimensions of e-learning tools and learning communities. This presentation will give an overview of the project findings and recommendations for future international developments.
About the presenters
Dr Geraldine Lefoe is Senior Lecturer and Coordinator, Academic Development Program for the Centre for Educational Development and Interactive Resources, University of Wollongong, Australia. She is currently Vice President, ASCILITE (Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education) www.ascilite.org.au
Dr Anoush Margaryan is Lecturer in Learning Technology in the Caledonian Academy,Glasgow Caledonian
University. Anoush is currently advising the Government of the Republic of Armenia on e-learning initiatives. www.academy.gcal.ac.uk/anoush/index.html