Conference Themes

Background
Institutions of higher education are moving to support learning and teaching beyond the campus. Delivery of content ‘beyond the campus’ supports many agendas and policy initiatives – access, distance learning, foreign student support, open learning, social learning and flexible learning. These developments, which have been driven partly by technological progress, are gaining momentum, especially in the current economic and political climate.

Learning on Screen 2010 – Conference Themes
The conference focused on the use of moving image and sound in learning and research and looked at examples of good practice in support of learning ‘off campus’.  Learning on Screen 2010 took place at The Open University, one of the most innovative and successful universities in the UK and an institution which has championed open and distance learning for more than 40 years. Colleagues from the Knowledge Media Institute and from the Multi-Platform Broadcasting Department are collaborating in the organisation of this event which promises huge opportunities for participants.

Themes explored by LoS 2010 were:

• how to take lecture capture beyond the mundane?
• how best to use video conferencing and online meeting spaces in teaching, assessment and collaboration while retaining the energy of live discussion?
• how can existing resources be reused and released openly and sustainably?
• how ‘open’ can universities afford to be with course content that may be subject to licensing and copyright?
• as more institutions deliver their course material as an ‘open resource’ is there a business case to be made for giving materials away and is iTunesU bringing real benefits, if so how?