ONLINE PEDAGOGY CONFERENCE
May 24th-25th 2018
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Thursday 24th
9.30-10.00
Coffee and pastries
10-11.00
Sian Bayne (Keynote)
A Manifesto for Online Teaching
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11.00-11.15
Break
11.15-12.15
Finley Lawson, Mehdi Nassaji and Berry Billingsley
Teaching Science and Religion in the Digital Age
12.15-13.30
Barb Oakley (live online talk)
Learning How to Learn: Powerful Mental Tools to Help You Master Tough Subjects
13.30-14.15
Lunch
14.15-15.15
Ben Kotzee (Keynote)
Big Data and Online Pedagogy: Pitfalls and Prospects
15.15-16.00
Emma Gordon and Simon Fokt
Designing MOOCs: What Works and What Doesn't
16.00-17.00
Coffee/Video presentations/poster session
17.00-18.00
Coffee/Video presentations/poster session
18.00-18:30
Dinner and wine
18.30-19.15
Neil McDonnell
Immersive Technology in Teaching: Hardware, Software, and Strategy
19.15-20:30
Reception and VR demonstrations
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Friday 25th
9.30-10.00
Coffee and pastries
10-11.00
Su White (Keynote)
Scholars No More?
11.00-11.15
Break
11.15-12.00
Erik Olsson
Using Google Search in Education: the Need for a Critical Perspective
12.00-12.45
Michelle Maiese
Online Education as a 'Mental Institution'
12.45-13.30
Dave Ward
Learning Skills Online: What, Why and How?
13.30-14.15
Lunch
14.15-15.15
Paul Smart (Keynote)
A Predictive View of Generative Learning
15.15-16.00
Ian Church
Online Learning, The Problem of Disagreement, and “Fake News”
16.00-16.15
Coffee
16.15-17.00
Adam Carter
Educating for Know-How through VR
17.00-17.45
Orestis Palermos
From xMOOCs to cMOOCs: The ‘teacher bandwidth’ problem and collaborative knowledge
17.45-18.30
Andrea English
Is Listening a Necessary Condition for Virtual Pedagogy?