BeyondTheory Conference 2003
Programme

9.30-10.00 - Registration

10.00 - Welcome: Stuart Lee, Head of the Learning Technologies Group, University of Oxford

10.05-10.30 - Opening Plenary:

• 'Alone Together - Learning in Higher Education'
• Professor Angela McFarlane, University of Bristol

10.30-12.30 - Round Table Discussion: 'The influence of educational best practice on ICT in teaching and learning'

• Andrew Ravencroft, London Metropolitan University
• Professor David Unwin, Learning Programmes Director, UK eUniversities Worldwide
• Bill Olivier, Director of the Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards (CETIS)
• Vijay Kumar, OCW/OKI, MIT

Including a discussion on 'The impetus behind the development of ICT material and major national projects is always one of two things: advances in technology or economic necessity. The needs of education always come a poor third.'

12.30-1.00 - Second Plenary:

• 'Reclaiming the Teritory'
• Gilly Salmon, Open University Business School

1.00-2.30 - Lunch

2.30-4.30 - Formal Debate: 'This house believes that commercial Virtual Learning Environments (LMS) provide sufficient facilities for the teaching and learning needs of Higher and Further Education'

(Chair: John Stone, JISC Committee for Learning and Teaching)

For:

• Tom Franklin, TechLearn
• Andy Syson, Coventry University

Against:

• Oleg Liber, Bolton Institute
• Andrew Booth, Leeds University

RESULTS:

• 35 FOR
• 96 AGAINST