This blog is a (much!) less-than-formal outlining of recent travels, events, happenings, thoughts and comments which tend to have some occupational relevance, but are on occasion nothing more than a means of passing the time while waiting for trains, planes & automobiles...

Saturday, 30 August 2008

ICS Annual Conference, Liverpool



26 - 28 August 2008,
Liverpool Hope University
As usual, the necessity to travel on a bank holiday did nothing to dampen anybody's enthusiasm for what is always an enjoyable conference experience (as evidenced by the majority of delegates attending year-on-year).
After 4 preliminary workshops and a formal opening by ICS's Pr G.McAllister, the first keynote by Stanford University's Eric Roberts entertained over 100 Computer and Information Science lecturers with "Rediscovering the Passion, Beauty, Joy, and Awe: Making Computing Fun Again".
Multiple sessions (including ones chaired by me) covered themes such as:


  • Supporting New Academic Staff

  • Emerging Technologies

  • Evaluating Learning and Teaching

  • Pedagogic Innovation

  • Groupwork and Collaborative Learning

  • Improving Assessment and Student Feedback

  • Managing Change

  • First Year Experience

  • Enhancing Employer Engagement

  • Internationalisation

  • Outreach and Widening Participation

  • Responding to National Policy

  • Computer Ethics and Social Responsibility

  • Teaching and Research Nexus

More details of the conference programme can be found on the ICS website, but if you want to know about wine & Klimt at the Albert Dock, wine & a harpist in the Sefton Park Palm House, wine & beer at the Cavern club....sorry, you'll need to fill in your own blanks!

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