Fwd: Lifewide Learning Conference

Dear colleagues

 

SCEPTrE is running its annual conference on the theme of Life-Wide Learning in Higher Education on April 13/14^th in the Lecture Theatre Block. We have a good selection of invited speakers (times and topics given below) and you are very welcome to join us via the live streaming links on the conference wiki. Full details of the programme and the e-proceedings can be found on the conference website. http://lifewidelearningconference.pbworks.com/

 

Norman

 

 

INVITED SPEAKERS

 

Tuesday April 13

 

11-45-12.40 Griffiths Lecture Theatre – Lecture Theatre Block

                                     Life-Wide Education: a new and transformative concept for higher education?                                      

Professor Ron Barnett, Institute of Education, University of London 

 

16.40-17.40 Griffiths Lecture Theatre – Lecture Theatre Block 

                                                                           Life-wide Learning; 'What matters to me as a teacher?'                                                                                

Professor John Cowan, Heriot-Watt University

 

16.40-17.40 Learning in a Complex World: creating meaning through narrative

and the role of technology in augmenting human sense-making

Dave Snowden, Founder & Chief Scientific Officer, Cognitive Edge Pte Ltd

 

 

Wednesday April 14th

 

11.35-12.30 Griffiths Lecture Theatre – Lecture Theatre Block 

                                       The Balance between Communities and Personal Agency: Transferring and                                             

integrating knowledge and know-how between different communities and contexts

Professor Michael Eraut University of Sussex

 

14.15-15.10 Griffiths Lecture Theatre – Lecture Theatre Block 

How can technology help us realize the learning potential of a life-wide curriculum?

Towards a curriculum for resilience 

Dr Richard Hall, De Montfort University and NTF 

 

14.15 -15.10 Room A Lecture Theatre Block

Beyond the Curriculum:opportunities to enhance employability and future life choices 

Tom Norton, Director, Internal Policy Development, 1994 Group 

 

 

PANEL DISCUSSIONS

 

Tuesday April 13^th

 

13.45-14.55 Institutional Leaders– Opportunities and challenges of valuing and recognizing informal learning.

 

15.00-16.00 Students' Voices– Valuing and recognising our life-wide learning.

 

Wednesday April 14^th

 

09.00-09.55 Award Leaders – What have we learnt about assuring the quality and standards of our extra- and co-curricular awards?

 

10.00-10.55 Employer Perspectives - Are these forms of learning valuable to employers?

 

13.15-14.10 PDP-e-portfolio practitioners- Making informal learning explicit: the challenge of integrating PDP, technology and HEAR