CIES Reward Programme - University of Ulster

Here we are back again at the Ross Park Hotel at Kells near Ballymena for another informative and productive two-day event organised by Colette Murphy and colleagues from the University of Ulster. There are 28 participants across five Faculties plus the JISC Regional Support Centre, eight facilitators from RLO-CETL and CIES and three multi-media developers from the Access and Distributed Learning Unit.

The theme this time is Learner-Centred Activities and five teams are working on a range of projects: "Discourses in visual culture"; "A guided process to academic writing"; "The development of a Problem-based learning resource centre"; "Integrating VLEs and virtual worlds for learner-centred, task-based activities"; "A model for multi-media task-based language learning".

Interesting to see how these initial ideas change and evolve over the two-day event as the teams view each others' presentations that inform their thinking and work together on the poster templates as they iteratively refine their content. The process is one of reification as ideas begin to take shape and the boundaries between that which can be realistically achieved and that which simply can't, become more sharply defined.

The teams have 12 weeks to develop their resources. Watch this space!