Herding Tigers II: Best practice in e-Learning development

Programme Information, 17th December 2003

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This timetable may be subject to some further alterations. The start and finish times will not change.

Registration

9:30 Registration tea and coffee available

10.00 Welcome and outline of the day (Sophie Clarke, Oxford)

Evaluation (Session led by Martin Oliver, UCL)

10:15 Break-out sessions and general discussion

We will be considering issues such as:

• What are you looking for when evaluating a project and how do you determine the criteria by which to measure the success of a resource?
• How do we decide which individuals are best suited to evaluate a given project?
• Have you found any good ways of eliciting useful user feedback, and how do you then ensure that there is the opportunity to review and act upon what you have collected?
• Can evaluation be a one size fits all procedure that can be used on every new site?

Learning Technology Standards (Session led by Howard Noble, Oxford)

11:30 Briefing session
The TALL XML development tools project (David Balch, Oxford)

11:50 Tea/coffee

12:10 Get your hands dirty
Practical session with the latest standards-based tools, and discussion of some of the issues and barriers we face when developing using learning technology standards

13:30 Lunch

Accessibility (Session led by Lawrie Phipps, Techdis)

14:30 Break-out sessions and general discussion

We will be looking at issues such as:

• How do you (and your group/institution) define what makes a site “accessible”? Is the emphasis on adhering to a known benchmark, or on providing solutions that work with assistive technology?
• Do we as developers fully understand the range of disabilities which we need to consider and the implications of each?
• Is accessibility a “good thing” in terms of the overall user experience, or does it contribute to a less “effective” site overall?
• What are the strengths and weaknesses of automated checking tools such as BOBBY and LIFT.

15:35 tea/coffee

15:55 Briefing Session
New research at Techdis (Lawrie Phipps)

Close

16.15 General Discussion and Close (Stuart Lee, Oxford)

16.30 Finish