Thursday, 19 November 2015 |
How can we create the future we want? How can we solve sustainability challenges we face today? In this SRHE network event we want to explore the different ways online teaching and learning could contribute to frame and solve sustainability challenges such as climate change or food security. Participants will gain an overview about sustainability as conceptualised for the digital university. We will also explore ‘crowdsourcing’ in its own right but also as a tool to gain various ideas from several minds in order to design sustainable solutions. We will have two keynote speakers addressing and reflecting these two topics in turn and some input from the organizers as well. Programme 10.00 Arrival and coffee 10.30 Welcome from Professor Eunice Simmons PVC (Academic) at Nottingham Trent University: The ‘Sustainability in Practice Online Certificate’ – insights from a whole university approach to embedding sustainability across the curricula 10.45-11.30 Keynote: Making an Impact: MOOCS for ESD by Dr Steve Cayzer, University of Bath MOOCs seem to promise a rich, diverse, global and educated conversation about sustainability. To what extent can they deliver on this promise? Drawing on his experiences of the University of Bath’s Futurelearn offering, Steve will reflect on whether MOOCS are qualitatively different to traditional offerings, and what lessons we can learn for ESD. Contributions: 11.30-11.45 Professor Sarah Speight, Academic Director of Online Learning, University of Nottingham: Shaping the Digital University: Intercultural learning for sustainability 11.45-12.00 Dr Petra Molthan-Hill, Team Leader NTU Green Academy, NTU: Practical projects and creative solutions to sustainable challenges within online education: Findings from research with student focus groups 12.15 – 13.00 Keynote: Crowdsourcing by Dr Grant Miller, Zooniverse Communications and Project Manager, University of Oxford 13.00-14.00 Lunch and networking (Poster exhibition) 14.00-15.30 Presentations For the afternoon we encourage participants to send in novel ideas on how the digital university in all its forms (not only but also crowdsourcing) can contribute to a sustainable future. We welcome poster submissions on theoretical and practical perspectives. Please send your posters to petra.molthan-hill@ntu.ac.uk by 31.10.2015. ( A powerpoint slide will suffice.)They will be peer reviewed and the best ones selected. The presenters will be informed by 10.11.2015. They will have ten minutes each to present their poster. We will also give a special prize to the most innovative contribution! There will be 60 minutes at lunch and also 30 minutes during the coffee break in the afternoon to look at all posters submitted, so please be prepared to talk about your poster even if you have not been chosen as one of the main presenters with a dedicated ten minute slot. 15.30-16.00 Coffee and networking (poster exhibition) Organizing committee: Dr Kelly Coate, King’s College London Dr Petra Molthan-Hill, Nottingham Trent University Professor Sarah Speight, University of Nottingham |
Network: Digital University |
Date(s): Thursday, 19 November 2015 |
Times: 10.30 -16.00 |
Location: Nottingham Trent University , Conference Cent |
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Dr Farrelly presentation The Devil is in the Detail - Sustainable Development & Delivery of Blended Learning Programmes |
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Shaping the Digital University: Intercultural learning for sustainability Shaping the Digital University: Intercultural learning for sustainabilityNTU Nov 19th 2015sarah.speight@nottingham.ac.uk |
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Photos Link to photos at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b93sfq75ulivt11/AACBqJau9t58tMygcoTRRRbua?dl=0 |
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Making an Impact: MOOCS for ESD Steve Cayzer, Univesersity of Bath |
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Crossing Boundaries: the Introduction of New Technology with Post-Graduate Students in Hong Kong and Dr Helen Boulton, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom National Teaching Fellow |
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Practical projects and creative solutions to sustainable challenges within online education - Findin Dr Petra Molthan-Hill, Team Leader NTU Green Academy, NTU |
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The ‘Sustainability in Practice’ Online Certificate- insights from a whole university approach Professor Eunice Simmons Senior Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic) |
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