The Programme

For delegate information and planning, the draft conference programme is provided below. Please note that this may be subject to change.

Tuesday, July 5

Visiting Delegates Welcome - Vice Chancellor’s Official Residence

Wednesday, July 6

	Parallel Session	Parallel Session	Parallel Session
9.30 - 10.30	Registration and Drinks
10.30 - 11.00	Opening and Vice Chancellor’s Welcome Address
11.00 - 12.00	Keynote Professor Glynis Cousin: Co-Inquiry with Students
12.00 -1.30	Lunch
12.00 -1.30	Posters
1.30 - 3.00	Panel Session: Encouraging creativity and engagement in Higher Education (with a focus on the conference themes) Vice Chancellor Martin Hall, Pro-Vice Chancellors Ghassan Aouad and Huw Morris + Glynis / Alec / Norman
3.00 - 3.30	Drinks Break
3.30 - 5.00	Paper Session 1 46: Open access E-portfolios: Student motivations for the digital curation of professional identities for lifelong learning 133: Developments in interactive media practices of young people 134: Connecting experiences - telling stories through a networked environment 165: Designing Social Constructivist Mobile Learning Activities for HEI Courses in Malaysia	Paper Session 2 53: Engaging ethics education - exploring the potential of the Values Exchange decision making software: A case study. 124: Social software, learning and education: new ways to look at and work with the classroom 167: Enhancing Information Systems Literacy Education via the Four Resources Model 168: The global classroom for supply chain management, any time, anywhere!	Pecha Kucha 1 109: Study on Global Citizenship Education and Transformation of College Teachers’ Pedagogy 114: The Whole Thing: a case study in teaching and learning delivery through a partnership project 116: Bringing the Social into the Sciences: Blurring Media Boundaries 139: The Challenge of Authenticity: Learning and Teaching "Professional Skills" 142: 6 mins and 40 seconds on building a network, partnerships, and student engagement 173: TOTeM: The Tale So Far - Partnership and Engagement with the Community

5.30 - 7.00	Drinks Reception at Salford Art Gallery (Optional tour of the Gallery)
7.00	Walking tour to Manchester

Thursday, July

Parallel Session

9.oo - 9.30

Registration and Drinks

9.30 - 10.30

Keynote

Dr Alec Couros: Why Networked Learning Matters

10.30-11.00

Drinks break

11.00-12.00

Paper Session 3

145: Learning, engaging and embedding: an approach to establishing an
integrated commerce internship program

162: Addressing the construction labour market skills mismatch through lifelong learning in higher education institutions

169: Can we make higher education relevant to the needs of the Search & Social Media Marketing industry?

Paper Session 4

57: An assessment of the current Vocational Education and Training in the Government Vocational Training Centers in the Sultanate of Oman

99: Group role-play as a method of facilitating student to student interaction and making theory relevant

160: Connecting with Students for Academic Success: An Examination of the Process Education Model

Demos 1

27: How high fidelity simulation can develop and enhance clinical examination skills

Pecha Kucha 2

16: Managing Teaching, Learning and Assessment with a Large Level 4 BA (Hons) Graphic Design Cohort or Typographic University Challenge - A Case Study.

77: Confident and competent? Helping students to self-assess their
practice-based skills

85: We write to work out what we think: Embedding “writing workouts” in researching

117: Feedback conversations in a blended classroom

12.00 - 1.00

Lunch

Posters

1.00 - 2.30

Paper Session 5

35: Learning to Act Like A Nurse

74: Leveraging learning experiences to promote student engagement in a business ethics class.

113: Evaluating the effectiveness of Skype as a tool for promoting internationalisation of the nursing curriculum

150: Positive student outcomes achieved within a large-cohort health foundation year course in the face of a changing and challenging educational environment

Paper Session 6

34: Student evaluations: do lecturers value them and use them to engage with student learning needs?

123: Aesthetic development in higher education: An interdisciplinary dialogue

140: Using the urban to span the boundaries between diverse disciplines: Drama Education and Business Management

154: Education through Creativity: A Case for Experience Initiated Learning

Pecha Kucha 3

70: Engaging library staff with Web 2.0 innovations: the Learning 2.0 experience

80: Dropout Bear and other Stories: Toward an Understanding of Non-Completion in Art and Design

81: “Don't normally do Facebook”; Use of Facebook on a large online course

107: An integrated VLE and Social Network for Pre-induction

136: How my lecturers UNinspired me: a student' recommendation on creativity and engagement

137: Glogster in pre-service teacher education

141: Emerging technologies: bridging personal and organizational uses

164: The Utilization of the Cascade Model for the Ambassador Program: Effat University Case

Pecha Kucha 4

41: Designing a social computing course through the use of social computing characteristics -the medium is the message

52: An assessment of the current higher education system in Libya

56: Experiences of problem based learning with a large cohort - the students’ perspective

129: Reflection on Action In Action Research: Introducing E-learning in Ghanaian Rural Community School

2.30 - 3.00

Drinks break

3.00 - 4.00

Emerald

Workshop

23: MoRe (or) reflecting while dusting? Developing reflection on-the-go within Academic Development

Workshop

38: Engaging with the Employability Challenge

Workshop

121

Enhancing employability - an exploration of the potential of
personal development planning (PDP) to support individual
professional development and employers’ workforce development
requirements

4.00 - 4.30

Travel to Media city

4.30 - 5.30

Keynote at Media City - Philharmonic Studio

Saul Nassé: Inspiring a Life Full of Learning

5.30 - 7.30

Things to do at Media City

7.30 - late

Conference Dinner at The Lowry

Friday, July 8

	Parallel Session	Parallel Session	Parallel Session	Parallel Session	Parallel Session
9.00 - 9.30	Drinks break
9.30 - 11.00	Paper session 6 58: Inclusive Education: Enhancing the student experience through simple learning technologies 68: Click happy?: an analysis of the use of an Electronic Voting System (EVS) in large group lectures to improve interaction and engagement 90: Using e-portfolios to support student work placements 100:Could We Innovate In Curriculum Using Traditional Elements For Development? A Revision of Online Practices in The University Of Murcia	Paper session 7 9: E-Learning in Engineering Education – General Challenges And the Egyptian Experience 39: The Extended Case Study Method of Assessment in Marketing Education 120: Introducing Integrated Approach in Undergraduate Blended Learning Environments 146: Using synchronous web conferencing to enhance situated distance learner experience in a built environment context	3 Demos 18:Moodle Deluxe!? The use of the learning platform and Web 2.0- tools in student teacher courses at Vienna University of Education - collaborative symbiosis or temporary hype? 122: Creativity and Engagement through Mobile Film-making 75: Site Visit Assistance through Augmented Reality	Pecha Kucha 5 7: From film to spatial design: contradictions and creativity 26: Creative Expression in Transformative Learning 59: Exploring Evidence-based Practice with External Partners: Engagement, Creativity and the HEA-ADM North West Network 63: Sensitively developing a sensory story: creating leisure opportunities for people with profound learning disabilities 78: Including creative skills in an undergraduate module 103: Out of the Box: Using archives to enhance teaching and learning in the field of Creative Writing	Pecha Kucha 6 62: Learning domains, authentic learning and creativity. 110: Virtual Worlds at QUT: Exploring ways to engage students - whatever you can imagine 119: Enabling mobile technologies for all 127: Using student induction data with final student qualitative data to manage experience and expectations for ‘realistic engagement’ in Higher Education 143: Embedding employability within the curriculum and enabling students to develop networking opportunities 149: IBL: No Half-Way House?
11.00 - 11.30	Drinks break
11.30 - 12.30	Workshop 87 I say multicultural, you say inclusive: Working together to create diverse teaching and learning diversity practices	Workshop 130 How to encourage entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial activity within an academic environment: A REDS workshop	Workshop 135 Heutagogy and Technology Stewardship; Theory, Practice & Mobile Social Media	Publication Workshop
12.30 - 1.30	Lunch
12.30 - 1.30	Posters
1.30 - 2.30	Keynote Professor Norman Jackson: Developing Personal Creativity through Lifewide
2.30 - 3.00	Closing summary & Prizes