Programme

Bremen Forum: April 17th - 18th 2008

Atlantic Hotel Universum

...for students, teachers, teacher trainers, instructional designers, educational technologists, decision makers...

The main aims of the Bremen Forum are:

• to encourage dialogue among higher education stakeholders in eLearning, in a European dimension,
• to inform participants about developments in and results from the eLene-TLC project,
• to create the conditions for future involvement and collaboration.

Day 1: Thursday April 17th

Registration opens from 10 a.m with a welcome coffee

11:00 - 11:15     Bremen Forum official opening

Ilse Helbrecht, Vice-President Bremen Unviersity

11:15 - 11:30     Introduction to the eLene-TLC project

Deborah Arnold (User:Arnold), Vidéoscop-Université Nancy 2 & Matteo Uggeri (User:Uggeri), METID-Politecnico di Milano

11:30 - 12:15    Students' needs and expectations

Ineke Lam & Magda Ritzen (User:Ritzen), IVLOS Institute of Education - Utrecht University

12:15 - 13:00    The eLene-TLC competency framework for teachers, students and educational technologists

Teresa Guasch (User:Guasch), UOC & Magdalena Jasinska (User:Jasinska), Maria Curie Sklodowska University in Lublin

13:00 - 14:30   Lunch

14:30 - 15:30     Keynote speeches:

Ne(x)t Generation Universities - making a subculture mainstream
Karsten Wolf (Bremen Forum/Programme/Karsten Wolf), professor for “Didactical Design of Interactive Learning Environments”, Bremen University

Megadigitale - implementing the elearning strategy of the Goethe-University

Claudia Bremer (Bremen Forum/Programme/Claudia Bremer), eLearning expert, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt

        learning and assessment in higher education?"

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00  Parallel sessions:

(A) Knowledge café (Bremen Forum/Programme/Knowledge cafe) for decision makers and students
Informal, structured discussion MC: Andrzej Wodecki, MCSU; moderators Deborah Arnold (User:Arnold) & Ineke Lam

(B) Professional Development Activities for teachers and teacher trainers
Moderated by Teresa Guasch (User:Guasch) and members of the core workgroup : Magda Ritzen, (User:Ritzen)Claire Englund (User:Englund)   and Gérard Casanova (User:Casanova)

(C) Workshop on competencies, guidelines and resources for instructional designers
Moderated by Magdalena Jasinska (User:Jasinska), MCSU & Cécile Chevalier (User:Chevalier), Université Paris Dauphine

Day 2: Friday April 18th

9:00 - 10:00       Summary of previous day and feedback from parallel sessions

Deborah Arnold (User:Arnold), Andrzej Wodecki, Teresa Guasch (User:Guasch) & Magdalena Jasinska (User:Jasinska)

10:00 - 10:30     Feedback from European Commission/EACEA representatives (confirmation expected shortly)

10:30 - 11:15     Presentation of the TLCentre and future evolutions

Spyros Abatielos (User:Abatielos), ZMML - Bremen University

Coffee break

11:30 - 12:30     Meet the eLene team

Informal discussion in small groups with members of the eLene-TLC team

12:30 - 13:00     Closing remarks

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