The next CDE conference date has now been confirmed as 27 October 2010 and will be held in the recently renovated surroundings of the University of London's Senate House. The title of the conference is Research in Distance Education: impact on practice. Below are some of the discussions that took place around our previous conference in February last year. We will be adding details of our themes and programme for this year in due course, in the me... [read more]

I thought I would just start the ball rolling by asking folk what sorts of e-assessment practices are they using at the moment and if not, what are the barriers to using e-assessment? Would love to hear from you. Regards, Denise

Steven Warburton: hi Denise, nice to see you here. We are trying to use our VLE for submitted electronic coursework and then get the lecturers to comment back electronically on the student work. It all sounds straightforward until you start addressing the logistics - ... [read more]

Denise Whitelock: I agree Steve that the software has to be reliable .It took a while for us at the OU to sort out the electronic submission of TMAs with tutor comments but it works well now and because the ststem is stable we have built Open Mentor which evaluates th... [read more]

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The draft conference report is now available and attached. The presentations can be found at www.slideshare.net/CdeLondon/slideshows and the conference photo album at http://tinyurl.com/cqdjx6. If you can add any missing items to the presentations, please do, or send them to cde@london.ac.uk and we will do it for you. we want to fianlise this report in a week's time, when we will post it as a permanent record on the CDE web site. The core questio... [read more]

#cde or #cde09 Please discuss and follow @LondonUni who should be following you. If not please @ or d LondonUni

Steven Warburton: My vote is for #cde09.

Brendan Fawcett: OK lets go with that.

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Steven Warburton: We also have a Twitter feed: called "LondonUni". What is the conference tag for twitter ... I would suggest #cde09? And where will the twitter stream run?

Brendan Fawcett: These days you can follow a hashtag through search.twitter.com e.g. http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23cde or http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23cde09 You can tidy it by filtering either through modifiers or by running it through a Yahoo Pipe e... [read more]

In some ways I leave my cultural comfort zone when I come to a university setting as I am not an academic. I am a practitioner interested to learn what is happening regarding learning and the Internet from an academic perspective. I also wonder if any academics (or others) share my interests in collaboration. Is anyone interested in collaborating with an Eco-village and related training centre getting underway in rural Nigeria? There are no forma... [read more]

Steven Warburton: hi Pamela - one of the nice things about the CDE conference is that it is a rich mix of both academics and practitioners. One of the aims of the CDE has always been to try and cross the gap between research and practice and stimulate productive encou... [read more]