EduCampLondon is taking place at Central Saint Martins
What is EduCampLondon?
EduCampLondon is the first un-conference on teaching and learning within the UK HE sector. Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design is hosting EduCampLondon at the Innovation Centre in March 2010
EduCampLondon is an informal and collaborative event which includes academic staff, technical staff, senior managers and students sharing ideas and perceptions of present and future learning technologies.
The day aims to provide a focus on pedagogical issues around eLearning/blended-learning scenarios through a series of participant driven discussion, demos and interaction.
EduCampLondon is styled around the BarCamp format as an ad-hoc unconference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment.
Attendees must give a presentation, or help with one, or otherwise volunteer / contribute in some way to support the event. All presentations are scheduled the day they happen.
"BarCamp style of participatory-informal learning offers a terrific opportunity for collaboration across communities of practice. Exchanging knowledge and ideas that inform pedagogy and technology is a central element to prepare us for the challenges of a sustainable connected world."
We would like to thank Malcolm Johnston, Jo Morrsion and staff at CSM who kindly support and make EduCampLondon@CSM possible.
educamplondon@csm
When
11 March 2010 from 1000 to 1700
Where
Central Saint Martins
Innovation Centre
Southampton Row
London
WC1B 4AP
Entrance off Red Lion Square click here for map and directions
www.csm.arts.ac.uk
How to get there
Undreground Station Holborn
Buses 159 68 91 168 171 188 243 521 X68
Go to TfL Journey Planner
Where to stay?
EduCampLondon@CSM is a one day event, for those of you travelling the day before we will have a list of suitable accomodation shortly.
What started the idea for EduCampLondon?
EduCampLondon was imagined in a coffee shop during a development meeting, with a few scribbles and rough drawings in February 2009.
Tim proposed the idea of organising an un-conference under the name of EduCamp given his familiarity with barcamp style of networking. Harold instinctively knew that an unconference had potential and suggested calling it EduCampLondon as a way of giving it a geographical identiy.
From the start they imagined an event that would include student's participation in sharing their experience with senior management, academic and support staff.
This starting point enthused them to identify an organisation to host the un-conference and team-up with suitable sponsors.
Most of their work results from engaging with Web2.0 technologies, in particular social media, not only used as poweful collaboration and sharing tools to communicate with audiences, but more importantly to enhance the learner's experience.
Tim Bush and Harold Fricker collaborate across a number succesful initiatives promoting the adoption of learning technologies as well as providing advice and support to develop a range of creative learning solutions for HE.
"We are delighted that Central Saint Martins is hosting EduCampLondon. The Innovation Centre is the perfect place to share best practice in an informal, dynamic and productive style of learning, this is a refreshing way to network and meet new ideas and people. Learning is about interacting and engaging with people and ideas across a range of platforms. And we just love it!"
Sponsors
EduCampLondon is looking for sponsors of the first UK HE unconference.
This is a landmark event that sets a precedent for recognised informal learning in HE.
Schedule
Day 1
Day 2
Proposed Sessions
Topics I would like to hear about
Planners
Harold Fricker & Tim Bush
Volunteers
Participants (aka Campers)
Task List
(please -cross out- when it's done)
Tech
Wifi
Projector, White Boards
Photo
Video
Audio
Streaming or Stickam or Skype
Non-tech
Breakfast
Lunch
Coffee/Tea
Tables and chairs
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