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For Higher Education Institutions How to Develop and Combine IT based Teaching & Learning Tools in Practice Digital Learning Environments Learning Analytics MOOCs 23 rd 24 th February 2015, Berlin Brochure With experts from: University of Cambridge, Director of Teaching and Learning, United Kingdom Newcastle University, Director of University IT, United Kingdom University of Helsinki, IT Center, Local IT Support Team Manager/Project Leader, Finland University Paris Descartes, Digital Pedagogy Executive Director, France University Paris Descartes, E-learning Instructional Designer, France Autonomous University of Barcelona, Information Systems Planning Area Manager, Spain University of Porto, Software Developer, Portugal With workshops on: Interactive lectures with BYOD, Moodle and flipped classroom Integrating MOOCs into the strategy of your institution 1

FOR HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS How to Develop and Combine IT based Teaching & Learning Tools in Practice Higher Education Institutions Under Increasing Pressure to Achieve Academic Excellence Higher education institutions are under increasing pressure to guarantee the highest possible quality of teaching and learning. IT for education has the potential to enhance and support the teaching and learning process. Therefore, higher education institutions need to use innovative new technologies which help boost academic performance. Here, IT staff and elearning Developers are constantly being faced with a variety of problems: elearning often does not penetrate beyond the early adopters and innovators. Barriers at an institutional level seem to delay its smooth adoption. IT staff, teachers and students do not always speak the same language. elearning Developers sometimes fail to exhaust the technical and pedagogical possibilities offered by BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), Moodle, flipped classroom and mobile devices. Difficulties in predicting the success or failure of a student further complicates the already challenging situation. Finally, higher education institutions cannot ignore the MOOC phenomenon and have to decide how to integrate MOOCs into their overall strategy. Towards Academic Excellence by Means of IT This interactive seminar will offer IT staff, elearning Developers and Educational Technologists from European higher education institutions the possibility to network, exchange experience and find solutions for the quality issue in teaching and learning. It will show them how to achieve academic excellence by means of IT and answer the following questions: How to engage educational staff in elearning and translate the technical side of it into a language that enthuses non-technical colleagues. How to establish an ICT Academic Support Centre and organise a (central) IT Service in such a way that it delivers what teachers and students really need. How to create engaging environments for teaching and learning and especially interactive lectures by implementing and combining different tools. How to support students in the process of reaching their goals by means of learning analytics and data mining. How to implement and benefit from MOOCs. Who is this seminar for? Educational Technologists ICT staff E-Learning Developers responsible for increasing academic performance (teaching and learning) by means of ICT in institutions such as: Universities and other Higher Education Institutions Research and Technology Institutes Libraries interested in using new teaching technologies 2

What will you learn at this seminar? How to make sure that your IT Service delivers what your teaching staff and your students really need? How to effectively break the barrier between IT and pedagogy? What is particularly important when creating new and innovative (digital) environments for learning and teaching? How to support the adoption of technology-enabled learning by teaching staff? What are the main challenges during the process of setting up and running an ICT Academic Support Department? What do you need to consider for an effective use of mobile devices (ipad, Android etc.) for teaching and learning. How to handle security for mobile devices? How to implement BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), Moodle and flipped classroom into the teaching and learning process? Your benefits Increase the effectiveness of your ICT Academic Support Department or your (central) IT Service Find solutions for the quality issue in teaching and learning that higher education institutions are facing Benefit from many practical examples and workshops on IT tools to increase academic performance Learn how to use tailor-made IT instruments in order to boost the quality of your teaching and learning Network with experts and peers from leading European Higher Education Institutions How to delevop tools for modelling students performance? What has to taken into account when developing and integrating MOOCs into the overall strategy of your institution? 3

PROGRAMME DAY 1 How to Develop and Combine IT based Teaching & Learning Tools in Practice 8.30-9.00 Registration and Handout of Seminar Material 9.00-9.05 Opening Remarks from the European Academy for Taxes, Economics & Law 9.05-9.30 Welcome Note from the Chair and Round of Introductions Jonathan Baldwin, Director of Teaching and Learning, Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Strategic and Organisational Decisions 9.30-10.15 Against the Natural Order of Things How to Get Academics to Get into elearning Dramatic change of technology in the past 15 years Slow adoption of elearning by certain parts of academic staff Challenges for breaking the barrier between elearning and academics and possible solutions Building a community and sharing ideas and skills between departments and institutions Jonathan Baldwin, Director of Teaching and Learning, Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 10.15-10.30 10.30-11.00 Coffee Break and Networking Opportunity 11.00-11.45 How to Set up an ICT Academic Support Department Missions of an ICT Academic Support Department Interactions with other academic departments Definition of the job: Instructional designer a. k. a. pedagogical engineer Issues raised by training the teachers Thierry Koscielniak, Digital Pedagogy Executive Director, elearning and Academic Support Office (ICT for Education), University Paris Descartes, France JONATHAN BALDWIN Director of Teaching and Learning, Institute of Continuing Learning, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Jonathan Baldwin is Director of Teaching and Learning at the University of Cambridge s Institute of Continuing Education. From 2006 to 2013, he was Lecturer in Design at the University of Dundee in Scotland. From 2001 to 2002, he worked as an Academic Developer at the Higher Education Academy at the University of Brighton. His previous work experience includes being Programme Leader at the Reading College and School of Art & Design and being Designer and Marketing Assistant at Wolseley Centers in Ripon, England. Jonathan Baldwin is the co-author of Visual Communication: From Theory to Practice. THIERRY KOSCIELNIAK Digital Pedagogy Executive Director, elearning and Academic Support Office (ICT for Education), University Paris Descartes, France Thierry Koscielniak is Executive Director of the elearning & Academic Support Office (ICT for Education) and Research Engineer at the Paris Descartes University in Paris. As a member of the IT Strategic Steering Board, he plays a role in strategic planning and policy development for information system, infrastructure and programs. He is in charge of a team of 15 engineers dedicated to help the faculty to improve the use of digital pedagogical services. His office is responsible for the elearning platform Moodle and for the university social network based on Elgg. He is member of the board of the French association of ICT for Education and Multimedia Services in Higher Education. He is also a member of the French association of IT engineers for Higher Education. He was strongly dedicated to open source communities such as JASIG and SAKAI in his former position until 2010. He is now involved in Moodle and Mahara open source communities. Thierry completed his PhD in Computational Chemistry at the Pierre et Marie Curie University. 11.45-12.00 4

12.00-12.45 How to Make Sure Your IT Service Delivers What Your University Needs Teaching, Research and Value for Money Developing the IT strategy to mirror the University strategy teaching, research, engagement and internationalisation Organising your IT Service How will you know that you are succeeding? Steve Williams, Director of University IT, Newcastle University, United Kingdom 12.45-13.00 13.00-14.30 Lunch Break and Networking Opportunity 14.30-15.15 Hand in Hand with the Pedagogy An Innovative Programme Management Approach to Delivering Educational Technology in a Large UK University Newcastle University s Project 2012 Why we chose the technologies we did, and how they benefit our students How we delivered the programme, and the results Steve Williams, Director of University IT, Newcastle University, United Kingdom 15.15-15.30 15.30-16.00 Coffee Break and Networking Opportunity STEVE WILLIAMS Director of University IT, Newcastle University, United Kingdom Steve Williams is Director of University IT at the Newcastle University. He has held this position since 2008. His team supports and enables teaching and learning, research and the business of the University. His work interests are in transforming organisations with IT, developing high performing teams, creativity, risk delivering benefits from projects and providing services to complex international stakeholders. Prior to this role, from 2002 to 2008, Steve Williams was Corporate Head of ICT at Sunderland City Council. From 1999 to 2002, he held IT Director roles in a retailer and an electronics company. Prior to that, he held business and project management, finance, IT and organisation roles at ICI PLC, a German software company and Mercedes-Benz UK. MARIA KALSKE Local IT Support Team Manager/ Project Leader, IT Center, University of Helsinki, Finland Maria Kalske has been managing IT support teams since 2004. Currently, she is an IT Support Team Manager and Project Leader at the IT Center of the University of Helsinki. She has been holding this position for the last five years. Prior to that, she worked for several private companies in Finland and has gathered experience in the fields of IT support and infrastructure maintenance. Digital Environments for Teaching and Learning 16.00-16.45 Effective Mobile Device Usage in Learning Environments (ipad, Android etc.) Benefits for teaching and learning Challenges for IT Challenges for IT security Maria Kalske, Local IT Support Team Manager/Project Leader, IT Center, University of Helsinki, Finland 16.45-17.00 17.00 End of Day One 5

PROGRAMME DAY 2 How to Develop and Combine IT based Teaching & Learning Tools in Practice 9.00-9.15 Welcome Note from the Chair and Brief Review of Day 1 Jonathan Baldwin, Director of Teaching and Learning, Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Digital Environments for Teaching and Learning Workshop 9.15-11.30 How to Develop Interactive Sessions: BYOD, Moodle and Flipped Classroom In this workshop the participants will learn how to design and set-up an interactive session in a BYOD mode, how to create innovative and engaging learning environments for BYOD sessions (using e-learning platforms; using new teaching methods like flipped classroom) and how to create an engaging and compelling content, or use existing pedagogical materials in an interactive session. Goals of the workshop: Present and explain the concept of BYOD in the instructional field Describe the process for setting up an interactive session in a BYOD Mode Present some examples and feedback of experiments made in Paris Descartes University Group work Presentation of group work results Discussion of group work results A coffee break and networking opportunity is integrated in this workshop. Sonia Badeau-Mahmoud, E-learning Instructional Designer, elearning and Academic Support Office (ICT for Education), University Paris Descartes, France 6 SONIA BADEAU- MAHMOUD E-learning Instructional Designer, elearning and Academic Support Office (ICT for Education), University Paris Descartes, France Sonia Badeau currently works as an Instructional Designer in the elearning and Academic Support Office of Paris Descartes University in Paris, France, and specialises in Instructional Design and elearning. She is in charge of the elearning platform Moodle for the College of Law and Economics. Sonia Badeau assists and supports teachers in integrating ICT in education and helps them to develop digital educational resources. She previously served as a senior E-learning Designer and Project Manager in a publishing group and as a Digital Research and Development Engineer at an engineering school. PEDRO STRECHT Software Developer, Prof. Correia de Araújo Computer Centre, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal Pedro Strecht is a Software Developer in the technical team of the University of Porto information system, where he collaborates with requirements elicitation, database design, and development. He has received his M.Sc. degree in Informatics and Computing Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP). Currently, he is a researcher at INESC TEC and also a Ph.D. student in Informatics Engineering at FEUP, focusing on educational data mining in Higher Education Institutions. Learning Analytics 11.30-12.15 Successfully Developing Tools for Academic Support to Model Students Performance Different types of educational data (administrative, pedagogical and other) How can educational data analysis tools be used to improve students performance (current trends)? Overview of research (educational data mining & learning analytics) Examples of research projects carried out in the University of Porto (students performance modelling and BI) An illustrative example of an educational data mining task (system to model students performance at course level) Demonstration of the use of the system (offline demo) Strategies to merge models for academic management support at university level Pedro Strecht, Software Developer, Prof. Correia de Araújo Computer Centre, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal 12.15-12.30 12.30-13.30 Lunch Break and Networking Opportunity

MOOCS Workshop 13.30-15.00 Integrating MOOCs into HEI s Strategy In this workshop the participants will learn how to define a strategic plan for MOOCs and elearning for HEIs. MOOCs general context MOOCs at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) UAB partnership with Coursera UAB decision making and delivery model Experiences after two years of teaching with MOOCs Towards sustainability: Looking for business models JOAQUIM CAMPUZANO Information Systems Planning Area Manager, ICT Directorate, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain Joaquim Campuzano currently works as Information Systems Planning Area Manager at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is responsible for analysing and ensuring the quality and coordination processes related to information and communication technology (ICT) and systems information. Prior to that, he used to be part of the Technical Direction of the university s elearning Office. From 2006 to 2011, Joaquim Campuzano was an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His previous work experience includes being an AECID (Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo) Project Member, responsible for teaching innovation at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua, and being a Technology Consultant in the European Programme Lifelong Learning Programme (Leonardo da Vinci) LICOS project (Learning Infrastructure for Correctional Services), where he was responsible for the development of an European elearning and organisational infrastructure for prisons. New challenges Group work Presentation of group work results Discussion of group work results A coffee break and networking opportunity of is integrated in this workshop. Joaquim Campuzano, Information Systems Planning Area Manager, ICT Directorate, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain 15.00 End of Seminar and Handout of Certificates 7

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