6th Durham BB Users Conference

6th Durham BB Users Conference

Conference Details

The Sixth Durham Blackboard Users’ Conference took place on Thursday the 15th and Friday the 16th December 2005 at Elvet Riverside, Durham University, Durham. For this year’s event we particularly encouraged submissions on the following themes:

  • Online Assessment
  • Student Centered Learning (eg, E-portfolios, Groupwork)
  • System Administration (eg, Snapshot, Custom Authentication)
  • Building Block Development

 

Keynote

Gilly SalmonWe are delighted to announce that Professor Gilly Salmon will be giving the keynote speech by live video-conference. She describes her talk, entitled “Beyond Blackboard…around the world in one sleigh ride” as an exploration of the extraordinary position of e-learning as 2005 comes to a close, and how we need to unpack the wrapped box and make it our very own …a chance to strategize and vision in a seasonal sort of way.

 

Programme

An outline of some of the presentations are given below:

 

THURSDAY, 15TH DECEMBER 2005
PARALLEL STRAND : SESSION A
“The Impact Of Blended or Flexible Learning: Observations From A Comparative Study Of Postgraduate Drugs and Alcohol Studies Students from 2001 to 2004”
Iain McPhee (University of Paisley)
Thursday, 15th December 2005 : 1.30 – 2.15 pm
PARALLEL STRAND : SESSION A
“Blackboard For The X-Box Generation”
Andrew Cree (Teesside Business School)
Thursday, 15th December 2005 : 1.30 – 2.15 pm
PARALLEL STRAND : SESSION B
“Medium Affecting Mode: Continuous Assessment & Groupwork in Blackboard”
Phil Poole [& Nicole Kipar ] (Canterbury Christ Church University)
Thursday, 15th December 2005 : 2.15 – 3.00 pm
PARALLEL STRAND : SESSION B
“What Are We Doing When We Lecture?
Valerie Will (University of Paisley)
Thursday, 15th December 2005 : 2.15 – 3.00 pm
PARALLEL STRAND : SESSION C
“Some Tasty Blocks and Pieces”
Mark Northover (Auckland University of Technology)
Thursday, 15th December 2005 : 3.30 – 4.15 pm
PARALLEL STRAND : SESSION C
“The Use of ePortfolios to Address Professional Competencies in Teacher Education Courses”
Joe McLuckie (University of Dundee)
Thursday, 15th December 2005 : 3.30 – 4.15 pm
PARALLEL STRAND : SESSION D
“Custom Tag Libraries In Blackboard”
Marios N Stamoulos (Newcastle College)
Thursday, 15th December 2005 : 4.15 – 5.00 pm
PARALLEL STRAND : SESSION D
“Changing Experiences: From Innovation To Practice”
Stuart Hepplestone & Brian Irwin (Sheffield Hallam University)
Thursday, 15th December 2005 : 4.15 – 5.00 pm
“WebCT – The Users View”
Matt Lingard (London School of Economics) & Steven Watts (University of Birmingham)
Thursday, 15th December 2005 : 5.00 – 5.30 pm
FRIDAY, 16TH DECEMBER 2005

“Keynote Speech: Beyond Blackboard…around the world in one sleigh ride”

Professor Gilly Salmon (University of Leicester)
Friday, 16th December 2005 : 9.45 – 10.45 am
PARALLEL STRAND : SESSION E
“Learner-Centred Design Models for Successful Building Block Development”
Hannah Whaley (University of Dundee)
Friday, 16th December 2005 : 11.30 am – 12.15 pm
PARALLEL STRAND : SESSION E
“E-Frameworks To Overcome The Barriers To Student Centred E-Learning”
Tony Churchill & Sheetal Chudasama (University of Leicester)
Friday, 16th December 2005 : 11.30 am – 12.15 pm
PARALLEL STRAND : SESSION E
“Reflections On CMS Deployment at the University of York”
Richard Walker (University of York)
Friday, 16th December 2005 : 11.30 am – 12.15 pm
PARALLEL STRAND : SESSION F
“Shibboleth Authentication & Blackboard: Would We Recommend It (Yet)?”
Malcolm Murray (University of Durham), Caleb Racey & Jon Dowland (University of Newcastle)
Friday, 16th December 2005 : 1.40 – 2.25 pm
PARALLEL STRAND : SESSION F
“Using ePortfolios in Planning Education”
Barbara Illsley (University of Dundee)
Friday, 16th December 2005 : 1.40 – 2.25 pm
PARALLEL STRAND : SESSION F
“Theory & Practice into Effective Practice”
Jacquie Kelly (JISC infoNet)
Friday, 16th December 2005 : 1.40 – 2.25 pm
PARALLEL STRAND : SESSION G
“End Of Term Blackboard Maintenance Best Practices – An Interactive Discussion”
Volker Kleinschmidt (Blackboard)
Friday, 16th December 2005 : 2.25 – 3.10 pm
PARALLEL STRAND : SESSION G
“Using Blackboard for Online Assessment & Remedial Teaching”
Mark Arts [& Bart Rienties] (Universiteit Maastricht)
Friday, 16th December 2005 : 2.25 – 3.10 pm
PARALLEL STRAND : SESSION G
“Tutor and Student perspectives of using VoiceIP groupware for Masters Business Courses”
John Beaumont-Kerridge (University of Luton)
Friday, 16th December 2005 : 2.25 – 3.10 pm

 

 

Sponsors

We are very grateful to our sponsors for this event: