Webcast@OU

11:30 Dr Dorothy Faulkner (AD, Academic Professional Development) The Open University Dr Kate Mahoney (Project Manager, IGGY) University of Warwick "Preparing for the Viva"

15:15 Catrin Davies (Careers and Employability Advisor) The Open University "Academic job hunting"

10:00 Meeting the needs of OpenLearn Learners - Patrina Law (OMU) and Leigh-Anne Perryman (IET)

11:00 Designing Massive Open Social Learning - Mike Sharples (IET/FutureLearn)

Ways of life and expressions of identity, typical of the Brazilian interior, at the beginning of the 21st century. Brazilian photographer, Noélia Albuquerque, talks about her photography of north-east Brazil, which is inspired by anthropological and documentary photography approaches. This talk accompanies the Exhibition in the Library running from 1st July to 30th September 2014.

‘Into the Open’ will take attendees through the early days of TV broadcast and the BBC onto online open education resources, ItunesU and through the MOOCs – how we use open media to attract students and in our teaching. Event Programme: 12:00 Welcome 12:05 About the OU – Dawn Turpin and Dagmara Rochowski, AUA @ The OU Advocates 12:15 Into the Open – Andrew Law, Director of Open Media Unit will take attendees through the early days of TV broadcast and the BBC onto online open education resources, ITunesU and through to MOOCs – how we use open media to attract students and in our teaching. 13:00 Lunch This is part of Professional Services Staff (PSS) (Previously Core Competencies for Professional Services Staff) and is a joint L&OD and AUA @the OU event. AUA_ext.pdf

    Kevin Smith from the arts and activist organisation Platform. Kevin has led their campaigns against the oil industry's sponsorship of the arts   Kellie Payne, a PhD student on culture and climate change, will talk about the intense cultural activity that paralleled the peak of international political negotiations at COP15 in 2009   Robert Butler, Editor of the Economist Magazine's Intelligent Life Online, who has also led the Ashden Trust's work on culture and climate change, particularly theatre, since the mid 1990s   Mike Perry is a photographer. Increasingly his landscapes contain an underlying environmental narrative behind his painterly surfaces. His latest show, Môr Plastig, takes a forensic look at plastic detritus washed up on the west coast of Waleswhere he now lives and works.

Senior figures in the science and policy community have summoned 'culture' to support action on climate change. Some view the arts and humanities as a kind of communications finishing school for the outputs of the climate change research and policy community - a cultural lubricant that might fix public and political apathy or opposition. To which some have replied 'be careful what you wish for'. The workshop will explore some of the questions, dilemmas and direct challenges that can be posed by artistic work on climate change.

13:15 Dr Andrew Wilkins The University of Roehampton: The Shadow of Inspection: School Governance, Accountability and Governing Practices

11:15 Professor John Clarke The Open University UK: The Uncertainty Principle: governing schooling through inspection.

10:30 Welcome and introductions Dr Jacqueline Baxter Convenor 10:30 Dr Melanie Ehren The Institute of Education: The Impact of School Inspections on Improvement of Schools

14:15 Dr Jacqueline Baxter The Open University UK: Working knowledge: shifting criteria in inspection

15:15 Opening session: ‘Understanding Changing Cultural Value at BBC World Service’, followed by questions and debate.

1630  Keynote speech: Peter Horrocks, Director, BBC Global News

1700 Panel discussion: Global Networks: a new era for BBC World Service

Art talk by Pam Foley about her life and work in conjunction with her exhibition currently in the library which is called exploring the human form Art Talk.ppt

10:45 Update from the CCIG Director, Jef Huysmans Introductions by Paul Stenner and Nick Mahony. 11:00 Miquel Domènech and Francisco Tirado (Autonomous University of Barcelona): From institution to extitution?

12:45 Janet Newman: All that is solid melts into air? Mobility, creativity and institutional power.

14:30 Roundtable discussion organized around empirical vignettes. Hilde Stephansen and Nick Mahony (OU) Steve Brown (University of Leicester) Megan Clinch (Queen Mary, University of London) Discussants: Miquel Domènech and Francisco Tirado (Autonomous University of Barcelona)

This Mediating Change workshop explores how social and other online media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and blogging have altered the landscape of communication and engagement around climate change science and policy in recent years. The workshop will feature: Tamsin Edwards, Earth System Modeller (Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences); @flimsin, http://blogs.plos.org/models/ Mark Brandon, Polar Oceanographer (OU science); @icey_mark, http://mallemaroking.org/ Richard Holliman, OU Champion for Public Engagement with Research (Research, Scholarship and Quality Unit); http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/per/ Warren Pearce, Research Fellow (University of Nottingham) on Making Science Public programme, focusing on the relationship between scepticism and science, with a particular emphasis on the online debates around climate change; @warrenpearce Barry Woods, Member of the public blogging and tweeting on the policies, politics, economics and science of climate change (man made & natural); @barryjwoods blog at www.unsettledclimate.org They joined media and environment researcher Joe Smith (OU geography, @citizenjoesmith) and director of the Making Science Public programme Brigitte Nerlich (University of Nottingham, @bnehrlich) who will bring their experience to bear on a question that is of relevance to all researchers engaged in complex or contentious issues: How are these now well established media platforms influencing public debates, and how can researchers best make use of them?   The workshop will be chaired by Melissa Butcher (OU geography), former radio producer who is currently leading two projects, Hackney as Home (https://twitter.com/hackneyashome) and Creating the 'New' Asian Woman.  Registration: Please email [email protected] to reserve a place at this event. Please specify in your email if you are not an Open University employee; further details on getting to the OU campus and on the location of the meeting room will be provided. Click here for Podcast version

14:00 Presentations from the Hub Theatre

This session sees the launch of a programme of events across the South East Midlands being delivered by the AUA at The Open University in collaboration with their colleagues at Cranfield University, the University of Northampton and the University of Buckingham. There will be opportunity to find out what makes each institution interesting and to build new external networks with those attending from these institutions. It will also outline the events taking place in 2013/14. If you needed any further incentive there will be a prize for success in one of the activities as well! AUA at the OU

  13:00 Mair Lloyd (PhD Student CREET) 13:30 Dr John Keating (EdD Student)

  10:00 Welcome 10:10 Dr Regine Hampel, Director of Postgraduate Studies 10:30 Maria Aristidou (PhD Student CREET) 11:00 Clare Mumford (PhD Student Business School) (replay not available) 11:30 Break with Tea / Coffee 11:45 Theron Muller (PhD Student CREET)

11.00 Welcome and introductions: Jef Huysmans (CCIG Director), Nick Mahony & Hilde Stephansen (Creating Publics project) 11.15 Re-enacting the public university: Professor Rebecca Boden (University of Roehampton): Rethinking an “open university"', embedding the academy in a social economy; Dr Joel Lazarus (People’s Political Economy and University College, Oxford): An analysis of the recent flourishing of critical education initiatives in the UK: critical education at the heart of social transformation

13.30 Co-production and the making of public knowledge: Dr Morag McDermont (University of Bristol): Productive Margins? Problematics of academics and community organisations co-producing research; Dr Aristea Fotopoulou & Dr Kate O'Riordan (University of Sussex): Sustaining networked knowledge: expertise, feminist media production, art and activism; Dr Nick Mahony & Dr Hilde Stephansen (Open University): Making participation public: building agendas and sites for collective action

15.15 Tea/coffee and collective reflections on the day

  10:00– Presenter: Martin Weller (IET)  MOOCs - the future of education or old wine in new bottles? This talk will look at the history of MOOCs, and explore their potential, the issues that surround them and draw on the experience of opening up part of IET's MA as a MOOC. 10:30– Presenters: Simon Cross and Yishay Mor (IET ) OLDS MOOC: design, evaluation and badges. The Open Learning Design Studio MOOC 'Learning Design for a 21st Century Curriculum' was funded by JISC as part of a benefits realisation programme and is intended to build on the success of the Open University Learning Design Initiative (OULDI) and other JISC funded curriculum design and delivery projects. The structure of the MOOC reflects a proposed process for a design inquiry project. In such a process, designers identify a (learning/curriculum) design challenge, explore it to gain an understanding of its context and driving forces, generate possible solutions, implement a solution and reflect on the process as a whole and its outputs. In this talk we will give a quick overview of the MOOC design and presentation, and focus on initial outcomes from our evaluation and the badging strategy we implemented. 

  11:15– Presenters: Tita Beaven, Anna Comas-Quinn, Mirjam Hauck, Tim Lewis and Bea de los Arcos The Open Translation MOOC. This talk describes the design and first presentation of an open online course in Open Translation offered to nearly 300 participants in the autumn of 2012. The course explored the potential of open translation tools for enabling communities to transcend the linguistic barriers that might limit access to and reusability of Open Educational Resources. Data from pre- and post-course surveys is used to understand the motivation and expectations of participants and their evaluation of this experience. 11:45 - Presenter:  Mike Sharples (IET) FutureLearn, the story so far. I shall give an overview of the development of the Futurelearn proposition from the perspective of Lead Academic. The talk will cover the need for a new MOOC platform, its design principles and pedagogy. Futurelearn is actively building on more than 40 years of OU expertise in design and delivery of supported open learning. This is not simply re-purposing existing OU methods and content. The challenge is to create an engaging platform that enables innovative methods of learning from a diverse set of courses, while supporting large-scale participation. The talk will describe how the Futurelearn team is addressing this challenge through a process of iterative pedagogy-informed design and testing.

  10.30 - Introduction & welcome. Nicky Whitsed, The Open University. 10.40 - The evolving use of data in university research assessment and management. Jonathan Adams, Thomson Reuters.

11.25 - Snowball Metrics. Lisa Colledge, Snowball Metrics Project Director, Global Academic Relations, Elsevier.

  12.10 - Bibliometrics in the library : Wageningen UR library experience. Wouter Gerritsma, Wageningen University. 12.40 - General questions & discussion.

14.00 - An introduction to Plum Analytics. Andrea Michalek, Plum Analytics.

15.00 - MyRI - A Bibliometrics toolkit: Development and Use. Ellen Breen, Dublin City University.

  15.45 - Why are there differences in citation impact? Michael Norris, University of Surrey. 16.00 - Questions, discussion & wrap-up

  14:10 Keynote lecture: Professor Rachel Pain (University of Durham) 15:00 Response by Clive Barnett (CCIG)

15:15 Q & A and collective discussion

10.30 Welcome, Chair’s Talk and Introduction to the day Sheila Peace, Professor of Social Gerontology, The Open University Rama Gheerawo, Deputy Director, The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design. 11.00 Transitions in Kitchen Living: the Past, the Present and the Future Sheila Peace, Professor of Social Gerontology, The Open University Martin Maguire, Lecturer, Loughborough University Design School The Ambient Kitchen for People with Dementia Stephen Lindsay, Lecturer, University of Swansea. The Future Bathroom Gail Mountain, Professor of Health Services Research (assisted living research)/Principal Director KT-EQUAL, University of Sheffield.

14.00 Safety on the Stairs Emily Kingdon, PhD Student, Manchester Metropolitan University. 14.25 SMART textiles in Garment Design Jane McCann, Principal Investigator Design for Ageing Well, University of Wales, Newport. 15.00 Designing and Developing assistive devices to support ageing continence Eleanor van den Heuvel, Director of Assistive Technology Programme, Brunel Institute for Ageing Studies, Brunel University. 16.00 Feedback Session – report from each table. 16.30 Ways Forward. FINISH.

The aim of the day is to celebrate and show the OU community the dedication it takes to be an athlete, a challenge that we know is also faced by those who undertake OU degrees for them to be successful in their studies. Guests of honour from the London Olympics 2012 Alan Campbell, bronze medal in rowing (Men’s single sculls) Alex Danson, bronze Medal in women’s hockey Helen Richardson, bronze medal in women’s hockey Etienne Stott, gold medal in canoe slalom With Dame Mary Peters DBE LL, pentathlete and honorary graduate of the OU. 10.30 Welcome Lucian Hudson, Director of Communications. Martin Bean, Vice-Chancellor, The Open University. 10:40 ‘Reaching My Olympic Ambition’ Presented by Alan Campbell, OU Alumnus Bronze medal, Rowing, Olympics 2012 10.50 Question and answer session with a panel of athletes from the Olympics 2012. Medallists - Etienne Stott: Canoe Slalom, Alex Danson: Hockey, Helen Richardson: Hockey, Alan Campbell:, Rowing. Hosted by Martin Bean 11:20 “How the Games have changed from 1972 to 2012” Presented by Dame Mary Peters, DBE LL, OU honorary graduate.

This is a charity fund raiser for the BBC Children in Need. The charity performance is by the OU Bellydancing Club

13.15 Supporting employability for mature students: the place of work base learning, Brenda Little - Higher Education Consultant. 14.30 Plenary session

10.30 Welcome Dr Liz Marr - Director, Centre for inclusion and Collaborative Partnerships, The open University. Introduction Dr Erica Morris - Senior Advisor, The Higher Education Academy. 10.45 Internships, university collaboration and career change opportunities. Martha Caddell - Third Sector internships Scotland and the Open University in Scotland. 11.25 Career Development and work based learning - maximising opportunities and learning from work based learning Roger Harrison, Tyrell Golding and Stephen Harrison, The Open university.

  Black Women’s Health and Wellbeing in the UK. ‘Sick and tired of being sick and tired’ Presented by Professor Laura Serrant-Green

  Black Women’s Health and Wellbeing in the UK. ‘Sick and tired of being sick and tired’ Presented by Professor Laura Serrant-Green

16:10 – 17:30 Language learning Health Education Science and statistics teaching OER-supported research skills development Vocational training and employer engagement 17:30 – 17:45 Panel Q & A

14:00 – 14:15 Introduction 14:15 – 15:35 Microsites project OER use and re-use Academic practice Mass use models for OER Student use of OER and assessment Copyright and policy licensing 15:35 – 15:50 Panel Q & A

10:10 Thomas Strasse, Pädagogische Hochschule Wien University of Teacher Education, Vienna ‘Mighty Mahara!? The role of self-organized EFL-learning within the context of Mahara ePortfolio’

11:00Alannah Fitzgerald, Durham University and Support Centre for Open Resources in Education (SCORE)‘Addressing Academic Literacies with Corpus-based Open Educational Resources’

The Creating Publics project was launched in March 2012 with the aim of innovating new ways of engaging publics in the on-going processes of social science research and public life. For the 3d Creating Publics keynote lecture we are delighted to welcome Professor John Holmwood (University of Nottingham). His keynote will adress Markets, Expertise and the Public University: A crisis in knowledge for democracy? Programme: 14:00 Welcome and introduction: Nick Mahony (CCIG) 14:10 Keynote lecture: Professor John Holmwood (University of Nottingham) 15:00 Responses 15:30 Q & A and collective discussion The event will be followed by a drinks reception.