Fall Workshop 2009

THEME: LEARNING DESIGN

Check out  what we did by going to the ETUG Workshop cloud in Cloudworks and our photos in Flickr: #etugdesign
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Oct. 20 (Tuesday) & Oct. 21 (Wednesday), 2009

Segal School of Business, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC

This year we were very pleased to present an expanded 2 day program for the ETUG Fall workshop.
Day 1: Grainne Conole from the Open University, UK, helped participants explore Compendium LD and Cloudworks – tools developed by the Open University Learning Design Initiativeto help educators with the design process and sharing of design methods and approaches.
Day 2: Grainne gave the opening plenary which was followed by an exciting lineup of speakers  on the following topics:

• Collaborative learning models – Tannis Morgan and Amanda Coolidge, BCIT
• Learning space design – Justin Marples, UBC and Alyssa Wise, SFU
• Large scale learning design – Karen Belfer, VCC
• Designing for engagement – Denise Withers and Esther Hsu, UBC

Also at the workshop:

• Information about the BC Innovation Awards in Educational Technology
• Institutional updates from ETUG members around BC
• Pub Social Tuesday night:(no host event) at the St. Regis Bar & Grill Regis Room. We connected with ETUG colleagues old and new!
• Induction of Member Emeritus: Randy Bruce