16th & 17th December 2004

Conference Details

The 5th annual Durham Blackboard Conference will be held on December the 16th and 17th, 2004. This year’s theme is ‘Interactive Blackboard’; and there is a varied programme of papers and demonstrations given by learning technologists, FE and HE practitioners, systems administrators and library professionals. The conference will celebrate both our community of practice and the deeper embedding of Blackboard within our learning and teaching.

Keynote

We are delighted to announce that We are delighted to announce that the keynote speaker will be Lord (Ron) Dearing, Chairman of the Higher Education Policy Institute.

Programme 

There will be parallel sessions, to allow delegates to select the conference path most appropriate to them. You will be able to hear at least seven papers.

The Learning Technologies Team at Durham would like to invite a small selection of new Blackboard users attending the conference for the first time to lunch. This will be from 12 noon on Thursday the 16th – just before proceedings start. Invitations will be emailed to delegates.

There will be staff from Blackboard on hand throughout the conference to answer your questions and listen to your suggestions…

JISC UK Building Block Developers List Launch

The new JISC UK Building Block Developers List will be launched at the Conference – including details of a collaborative project to get you started.

 
Conference Sponsors

We are pleased to acknowledge the support of the following sponsors: