Join in the JISC Conference 09 - online
Read about all the planned amplification activities around the JISC Conference 2009. With free wifi at the venue, we hope that all delegates will bring their laptop/handheld device and join in.
Places still left at JISC Conference 2009 FREE Preconference sessions
There are still some places let for the FREE pre-conference activities taking place on Monday 23 March, the day before the JISC Conference 2009, at the EICC in Edinburgh.
Higher Education in a global economy. The implications for technology and JISC
The pre-conference activities will start on Monday 23 March 2009 with a forum to discuss the changing higher education environment and the implications for JISC and the academic community. The purpose of the forum will be to engage with senior management and policy makers as part of the JISC strategy consultation process. The event will discuss the issues surrounding the future of the higher education environment and the implications this has for JISC and the academic community.
We will have a panel of expert plenary speakers including:
- Rashik Parmar, CTO & Distinguished Engineer, IBM
- Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President & Chief Strategist, OCLC
- Professor Jeff Haywood, Vice Principal Knowledge Management, Chief Information Officer, University of Edinburgh
- Juliet Williams, Chairman, South West Regional Development Agency
The panel will be chaired by Professor David Baker, Principal, University College Plymouth & St Mark & St John (Vice-Chair, JISC)
Following the presentations, there will be a breakout session where the delegates will be asked to discuss in their table groups key questions around the challenges that face higher education in the future and the role that technology will play.
A summary of the outcomes from the pre-conference forum will be reported back to the main conference the following morning by Dr Malcolm Read, Executive Secretary of JISC in the opening plenary welcome speech.
JISC Question Time: Student experiences of technology
The rapid adoption and widespread use of Web 2.0 technologies such as podcasts, blogs, social networking sites and virtual environments is already transforming education and at a pace few could have predicted. For students, practitioners, managers and policy makers alike, the implications are enormous as all come to terms with the impact of new, exciting, but also challenging, technologies and attempt to harness them for the benefit of learning, teaching and research.As part of its ‘Student experiences of technology’ campaign, JISC will be hosting a special ‘Question Time’ debate session at its annual conference in Edinburgh on the 23rd March. The session will be hosted by Guardian Education’s editor Donald MacLeod, and will bring together an expert panel with a range of perspectives on the implications of new technologies for higher education institutions in the UK. Donald will be chairing a panel including:
- The student’s perspective - Sue Beck, Student, University of Northampton
- The lecturer’s perspective - Rob Howe, Head of Learning Technology & Media, University of Northampton
- The senior manager’s perspective - Professor Jeff Haywood, Vice Principal Knowledge Manageement, Chief Information Officer, Edinburgh University
- The policy perspective - Sir David Melville, former VC of the University of Kent and Chairman of the Committee of Inquiry into the Changing Learner Experience
This special event will allow attending delegates to pose questions to the panel and take part in discussion and debate around the theme of Student Experiences.
How to register
The pre-conference sessions are free of charge to attend.
Go to the online booking form to register for the preconference sessions and main conference.
If you are already registered, simply log back in to the Day Planner Service and click on ‘Choose Sessions’ and tick the relevant boxes to update your attendance.
‘Developer Happiness’ event creates useful new tools
JISC’s recent ‘Dev8d Developer Happiness Days’ event in London saw 80 project software developers collaborate with commercial software companies to create many innovative new software tools that will compete for the event’s grand prize in March.
The Developer Decathlon grand prize winner will be selected following a peer review panel at the end of March.
Read the full article at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/Home/news/stories/2009/02/dhd.aspx
Next Generation Technologies in Practice Conference
10 - 11 March 2009
Imago @ Burleigh Court, Loughborough University
If you are interested in new developments in multimedia social technologies, social networking, online communities, virtual worlds and new skills, and want to know more about how you and your staff can benefit from these technologies right now, then the Next Generation Technologies in Practice Conference is for you!
The event falls into two separate but related days:
- Day one on 10th March will feature hands-on workshops focussed on realising the benefits from a number of pilot projects. Day one is aimed predominantly at projects already involved with the Users and Innovation programme and its Emerge community.
- Day two on 11th March focuses on showcasing a number of project outputs together with discussions around actively embedding some of these new technologies into higher and further education today. Day two is aimed predominantly at wider audiences, particularly staff and educational developers, learning technologists and research staff.
For full details and to register online visit the conference webpage.
UK Federation Regional Event - Bristol
Book now while places remain!
There are only a few weeks left to register for the regional UK Federation event that JANET (UK) will be hosting on the 11th March 2009, at Jurys Hotel , Bristol.
The aim of the event is to provide an opportunity for delegates to identify and discuss the anticipated challenges for participation in the federation; to explore the options available, and share experiences with their peers at different stages of deploying access management.
The event will consist of small discussion groups, making sure everyone has a chance to raise issues and ask questions relevant to their own organisation. Following the discussion sessions, the outcomes will be relayed to the wider group for further consideration. In order to achieve the maximum benefit from this event, numbers will be limited, however it is intended that this event will be part of a regional programme to be held across the UK during the coming months.
For further details and to book onto the event please go to:
http://www.ja.net/services/events/2009/federation_bristol/index.html
Follow JISC on Twitter
If you are a Twitterer and keen on keeping up to date with latest news in the world of JISC including events and the JISC Conference 2009, make sure you are following the official JISC Twitter account:
New sponsors and exhibitors for JISC Conference 2009
JISC are really pleased to announce that the exhibition at the JISC Conference 2009 is now fully booked, including the overflow exhibition area due to the high demand!
Newly confirmed are JANET txt who are sponsoring the conference wifi, helping to ensure that all the delegates attending the conference will have free wifi access. We are also delighted to have DIUS sponsoring the conference blog.
See the full list of exhibitors and sponsors on the conference website.
We look forward to seeing you in Edinburgh!
JISC Conference 2009 - preconference activities
We are pleased to announce some pre-conference events that are taking place the day before the main conference on Monday 23 March at the EICC. To register simply go to the registration booking form online and choose the pre-conference sessions that you want to attend along with the parallel sessions on the main conference day:
Higher Education in a global economy. The implications for technology and JISC
Monday 23 March, 12.30 – 1600
The pre-conference activities will start with a forum to discuss the changing higher education environment and the implications for JISC and the academic community. The purpose of the forum will be to engage with senior management and policy makers as part of the JISC strategy consultation process. Professor David Baker, Vice-Chair, JISC will be chairing a panel of expert speakers including:
- Rashik Parmar, CTO & Distinguised Engineer, IBM
- Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President & Chief Strategist, OCLC
- Professor Jeff Haywood, Vice Principal Knowledge Management, CIO, University of Edinburgh
- Juliet Williams, Chair, South West Regional Development Agency
For full details, see the programme online
JISC Question Time: Student Experiences
Monday 23 March, 1615 - 1745
The forum will be followed by a JISC Question Time event on Student Experiences, chaired by Donald MacLeod, the Guardian HE Editor. Donald will be chairing a panel including:
- Professor Sir David Melville, Chairman of the Committee of Inquiry into the Changing Learner Experience
- Professor Jeff Haywood, Vice Principal Knowledge Mangement, Chief Information Officer, University of Edinburgh
- Rob Howe, Head of Learning Technology & Media, University of Northampton
- Sue Beck, Student, University of Northampton
This special event will allow attending delegates to pose questions to the panel and take part in discussion and debate around the theme of Student Experiences. For full details please refer to the programme online
Join in Online
There will be lots of online amplification activities around the JISC Conference 2009. In the run-up to the conference, delegates will be able to benefit from taking part in online discussion forums around the sessions they are attending. Further information about this will be sent to registered delegates nearer the time. Delegates can also submit questions to session leaders/presenters via the booking form in advance of the conference, this facility is now live on the Day Planner Service.
On the day, make sure you bring your laptop/hand-held device so that you can follow and contribute to the conference blog. There is free wifi throughout the conference venue. Perhaps you have your own blog or are a Twitter fan. The conference tag is: jisc09 – so if you blog or twitter about the JISC Conference 2009 on the day make sure you tag it! We will be showing a live feed of all tagged posts on the day. This will includes any photos you take and post!
We will have official JISC Conference roving bloggers, blogging about all the various aspects of the conference. They might stop you for an interview to find out your experience of the day?!! So we encourage everyone to join in online, if you don’t, you might be missing out!
We will also be live streaming the plenary sessions, so anyone that isn’t able to attend can watch, hear and follow the presentation and slides online, live. Delegates physically attending may also want to do this, as there will be the facility to comment live online whilst the speeches are taking place. You can either follow the commenting or contribute yourself, live.
Finally, we will also be launching the 1-2-1 networking facility 2/3 weeks before the conference; delegates will be sent full details when this happens. Delegates will be able to use the Day Planner Service to search for other delegates that you might want to meet and use the system to book appointments with them in a dedicated networking area at the conference venue.
We hope this will all make for a memorable JISC Conference 2009 and we look forward to seeing you in Edinburgh!
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