| LTRI news - January to April 2007
January 2007
New journal paper
Ray Jones and Tom Boyle have had a paper accepted on “Learning Object Patterns for Programming” by the Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects.
Andrew Ravenscroft invited to programme committee
Andrew has been invited on to the Programme Committee for the "2nd Pragmatic Web Conference: the sematic web and beyond". The conference will be held in Tilburg, The Netherlands in October 2007. For more information and for the call for papers see: http://www.PragmaticWeb.info
Tom Boyle invited to join the advisory board for a book series
Tom Boyle has accepted an invitation to join the International Advisory Board for the book series “Contemporary Approaches to Research in Learning Innovations”.
Invited workshop contribution
Cook, J., Haynes, R., Smith, C. and Bradley, C. (2007). Mobile Learning Solutions: Using SMS, Learner Generated Content and Learning Objects. ALT Workshop Series, June 13, London Metropolitan University.
Tom Boyle invited to editorial board
Tom Boyle has been invited to join the Editorial Board of the new journal “The International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning”. See http://www.inderscience.com/ijtel
e-books from the JISC Innovating e-learning online conference now available
The e-books from the proceedings of the JISC Innovating e-learning online conference last March are now available, from: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/elp_conference06.html
John Cook contributes Chapter 5 (Symposium – Design in the Disciplines) in the Designing for Learning: Proceedings of Theme 1 (A4) book. See Chapter 5
John Cook invited onto Program Committee of Mobile Learning 2007
Following John Cook's participation last year as a member of the Program Committee of Mobile Learning 2006, he has been re-invited to take part in this year’s conference. See http://www.mlearning-conf.org/
Papers accepted for ICE3
LTRI members have 3 papers accepted for the third ICE symposium Ideas in Cyberspace Education, being held in Loch Lomond, Scotland, March 21-23. This year the symposium will address the question of 'digital difference'. The papers are:
> John Cook: Smells Like Teen Spirit: Generation CX.
> Debbie Holley and Martin Oliver: Negotiating the digital divide: narratives from the have and the have-nots.
> Andrew Ravenscroft: The internet and learning: From Cyberspace to cyborgs and hyper-interactions.
Details for ICE3 http://www.education.ed.ac.uk/ice3/index.html
LTRI members on the Programme Committee for the 2nd TenCompetence Workshop
Andrew Ravenscroft and Tom Boyle have been invited on to the Programme Committee for the '2nd TenCompetence Workshop: Service Oriented Approaches and Lifelong Competence Development Infrastructures'. The workshop will be held in Manchester January 11-12 2007, and is chaired by Rob Koper (OUNL, Netherlands) and co-chaired by Oleg Liber (JISC-CETIS, UK). The aim of TENCompetence is "Building the European Network for Lifelong Competence Development". Full details of the workshop are available at: http://www.ask.iti.gr/tenc/2007/
Peter Oriogun invited to give seminar at Cranfield
Peter has been invited to give a 2 hour seminar to MSc students at Cranfield on ‘software engineering process models with particular emphasis on software project planning and costings’, on Friday 19th January 2007.
London Met to host a JISC/HE Academy Innovative Practice workshop on mobile learning
Because of our growing reputation in the area of mobile learning, we have been asked by JISC and the HE Academy to host one of their Innovative Practice workshops. The theme of the day is mobile learning and the event takes place on March 7 in the Graduate Centre. We have been invited to run a session by the title 'Blue skies and mobile futures'.
February 2007
New journal article published
Jones R. and Boyle T. (2007). Learning object patterns for programming. Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects, Volume 3, pages 19-28. Accessible at: http://ijklo.org/Volume3/IJKLOv3p019-028Jones.pdf
John Cook has been invited to join G1:1
Through his work on User Generated Contexts for mobile phones, John Cook has been invited to join G1:1 (globally, one computer for one person). G1:1 is an International community of researchers from more than twenty countries around the world, that is exploring a future in which everyone will have access to a computer for learning. Project details.
Andrew Ravenscroft invited onto conference committee
Andrew has been invited on to the committee for the IADIS international conference on the e-Society, in Lisbon, July 2007. For info go to: http://www.esociety-conf.org/
Peter Oriogun to review for AJET
Peter has been invited to act as a peer reviewer for an article that has been submitted to AJET, the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology. For more information about AJET go to: http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/
Andrew Ravenscroft Guest Editor of a Special Issue of JCAL
Andrew is Guest Editor of a Special Issue of JCAL (Journal of Computer Assisted Learning), on ‘Web 2.0 and learning: a new paradigm or a development of CSCL?’, that is due to be published in early 2008.
Claire Bradley invited onto Program Committee of Mobile Learning 2007
Claire has been invited to be part of the program committee of the Mobile Learning conference 2007. She has presented co-authored papers at the previous 2 conferences. This year's conference will be held in Lisbon on July 5-7, and the deadline for the call for papers is February 26. See http://www.mlearning-conf.org/
New member of staff
 Welcome to Musbah Sagar, who has recently joined the LTRI as a Research Fellow from Oxford Brookes University. He is working on the JISC funded Digital Dialogue Game project within the Learning Interaction and Dialogue Design (LIDD) research theme - but of course, aspects of that work (Open Source methods and applications, developing 'state of the art' e-learning tools and games, mobile technologies etc.) and his skills and experience in software development have many links to other work ongoing in the Institute and the University.
Presentation at M-learning Symposium
John Cook has been invited to speak at the M-learning Symposium at the WLE Centre for Excellence, Institute of Education. The intention of the day is to focus on learning rather than technology, on the definitional bases of m-learning and on the potential of handheld devices for teaching and learning. The event will take place on February 9th 2007, attendance is by invitation only. The day will start off with 30 minute keynotes by Gunter Kress on the theme of learning and by Diana Laurillard on the theme of pedagogical implications/application of hand-held technology. John's talk will be called ‘Configuring learning contexts with mobile devices’. See details [PDF file]
Tom Boyle gave keynote presentation
Tom Boyle gave the keynote presentation at the seminar “Enhancing teaching and learning of Threshold Concepts with technology” held in Saint John's College Cambridge on February 22. This is one of a series of seminars held under the Technology Enhanced Learning Programme sponsored by the ESRC and EPSRC.
Invited talk at the E-Learning conference
Cecile Tschirhart and John Cook gave a well received invited talk last Thursday on ‘Mobile learning and the e-generation’ at the E-Learning conference. The conference was hosted by the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies, and took place on February 1-2, 2007, University of Southampton. Click here for slides. For details see here.
March 2007
JISC/HEA Innovative Practice Workshops on Mobile and Wireless Technologies
Registrations are now open for these JISC and Higher Education Academy workshops on Planning and Implementing Innovative Practice with Mobile and Wireless Technologies. There are 4 venues and dates to choose from - London Met is hosting and contributing to the first one on March 7, with John Cook facilitating, and the London Met M-Learning team doing a session on survey work, and using Nokia N91s and mediaBoard.
For a full programme of each workshop see here. Each workshop will explore the practicalities of implementing mobile and wireless technologies in an institution. As a participant you will explore technical, pedagogical and organisational change issues around implementation. A practical demonstration the hosting institution will provide an insight into the latest developments in mobile and wireless technologies at the venue.
Register at the separate form for the event you wish to attend. Each workshop is limited to 50 participants so early booking is advised.
CAL 07, March 26-28, Trinity College, Dublin
LTRI members gave a number of papers and symposia contributions accepted for this conference, the theme of which is ‘Development, Disruption & Debate - D3’.
- Symposium entitled “Mobile learning and creative disruption in learning organisations and pedagogy”: John Cook (convenor), Angela Kukulska-Hulme, John Traxler and Tom Boyle (discussants). Papers accepted for presentation in the symposium include:
> Tom Boyle "Minimising disruption in the transition of multimedia learning from desktop to mobile device"
> John Cook, “Putting control into the hands of the learner: M-Learner generated contexts"
- "Introducing theory to practice in pedagogical planning" has been accepted as part of the symposium "Designing for Learning - revolution or evolution"
- John Cook with Fred Garnett, Rose Luckin and N. Ecclesfield, "Learner generated contexts - changing the learning process and the learning context" - paper presentation
- Debbie Holley and Dr Martin Oliver, "A private revolution - How technology is enabling students to take their work home" - paper presentation
- Nigel Medhurst, Focusing on the visual: Creating meaning, knowledge and understanding through visual literacy in online collaborative communities - poster presentation
- Andrew Ravenscroft, Simon McAlister & Enzian Baur: Developing digital dialogue games for personalised learning: towards pervasive interactions - paper presentation
For more info go to: http://www.cal-conference.elsevier.com
ICE3, March 21-23, Loch Lomond, Scotland
LTRI members gave 3 papers at the third ICE symposium Ideas in Cyberspace Education:
> John Cook: Smells Like Teen Spirit: Generation CX.
> Debbie Holley and Martin Oliver: Negotiating the digital divide: narratives from the have and the have-nots.
> Andrew Ravenscroft: The internet and learning: From Cyberspace to cyborgs and hyper-interactions.
Details for ICE3 http://www.education.ed.ac.uk/ice3/index.html
John Cook involved in workshop at Professional Knowledge Management conference
John Cook is co-author (with a LIP project colleague) of an accepted workshop, for which he is taking the Programme Committee lead on informal learning for professionals: Schmidt, A., et al. (2007). Productive Knowledge Work: Management and Technological Challenges (ProKW2007). The workshop is part of the 4th Conference on Professional Knowledge Management, Potsdam, Germany, March 28-30 2007. http://www.wm-tagung.de/ProKW2007
Andrew Ravenscroft has paper published in JCAL
Andrew Ravenscroft's paper ‘Promoting thinking and conceptual change with digital dialogue games’ is now published in JCAL, the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning via their ‘online early’ facility here
Presentation at SQM/INSPIRE conference
Peter Oriogun presented a paper entitled 'Assessing Higher-Order Critical Thinking in Recently Developed Online Learning Tools Using the Critical Inquiry Model as a Framework' at the SQM 2007/INSPIRE conference at Stafford, April 2-4 2007. More info about the conference is at: http://sqm.lboro.ac.uk/SQM2001.html
Claire Bradley invited onto conference Scientific Committee
Claire has been invited to be on the Scientific Committee for the "II International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing: Applications, Technology and Social Issues", to be held at University of Murcia, in Spain, on June 2007. Claire was also on the committee for the first conference, held last year. More info can be found at: http://www.icuc.uah.es/
Extended funding awarded for Pedagogy Planning Project
JISC have agreed to fund this project, full name ‘A User-oriented Planner for Learning Analysis and Design’, for a further 12 months. The project now ends in February 2008. For more info about the project go to: http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/ltri/research/projects/pedplanner.htm
Journal article accepted on RLO-CETL work
This journal article has been accepted, due to be published in the summer.
Cook, J., Wharrad, H., Morales, R., Windle, R. J., Leeder, D., Boyle, T. and Alton, R. (accepted). Implementations, Change Management and Evaluation: A Case Study of the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Reusable Learning Objects. Journal of Organisational Transformation and Social Change.
Online journal article
Peter Oriogun has an article published online in the International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, entitled 'Assessing Critical Thinking in a New Approach to Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) Transcripts'. The article can be read online at: http://www.itdl.org/Journal/Feb_07/article02.htm
April 2007
John Cook invited to join Program Committee
John Cook has been invited to join the Program Committee for the IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2007), 8-10 December 2007, Algarve, Portugal. For details of the conference go to: http://www.celda-conf.org/
 Papers and a symposium accepted for ALT-C
A number of joint papers and a symposium on mobile learning have been accepted at ALT-C this year, the conference for the Association for Learning Technology, to be held at the University of Nottingham, September
4-6.
For full details of the accepted papers see here.
For details of the conference go to: http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2007/
Papers accepted for Mobile Learning 2007, July 5-7, Lisbon
Two papers have been accepted for this year's IADIS International Conference on Mobile Learning. The two papers are:
> Bradley, C., Haynes, R., Boyle, T., Cook, J. and Smith, C. (2007). Multimedia learning objects for mobiles, full paper accepted for IADIS International Conference Mobile Learning 2007, Lisbon, Portugal 5–7 July.
> Cook, J. and Bradley, C. (2007). ‘If I had a phone like that yes! I would use it, obviously, for my assignments’: A study of mobile device appropriation for learning, short paper accepted for IADIS International Conference Mobile Learning 2007, Lisbon, Portugal 5–7 July.
Journal article accepted for the British Journal of Educational Technology
This journal article about CETL work has been accepted: Cook, J., Holley, D. and Andrew, D. A Stakeholder Approach to Implementing E-Learning in a University. British Journal of Education Technology, Volume 38, issue 5, to appear in September 2007.
 Paper accepted for BERA 2007
Raquel Morales and Tom Boyle with two colleagues from Cambridge have a paper accepted for BERA 2007, the conference for the British Educational Research Association, to be held at the Institute of Education in London, September 5-8. For details go to: http://www.beraconference.co.uk/ The full reference of the paper is:
Riddle M., Wilson L., Morales R. and Boyle T. (2007). Study of reuse of learning materials: lessons learned by KRN and application to the RLO-CETL. Paper to be presented at BERA 2007, London, September 2007.
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