British HCI Group's HCI Educators' Workshops

The British HCI Group holds two HCI Educators' Workshops each year - a two-day event in the spring (held in 2003 in Edinburgh), and a one-day event at the annual HCI conference in September (in Bath in 2003).

Dates are being discussed for the 2004 Spring Workshop - two days in late March or early April in Preston University of Central Lancashire (chair: Barbara McManus).

Materials from the most recent workshops are listed here, with archives of the calls for papers etc below

Sept 2003:

Summary of outcomes (-draft- Word document ~33kB)

Powerpoint Presentation (~2MB)

HCI Learning Objects - draft usage scenarios (Word document ~30kB)

Mar/Apr 2003:

Proceedings (published by LTSN-ICS - links available here to earlier years' proceedings as well)

Archive of Past Workshops' Webpages

September 2003 workshop at HCI2003 in Bath

Participants are now invited for "Making Learning Standards Invisible", a workshop to be held at HCI2003 in Bath, England, on September 9th 2003.

OVERVIEW

The workshop considers the role of learning standards from an HCI perspective. Participants will focus on some of the issues surrounding the development and reuse of learning objects and will go on to apply some techniques deriving from HCI practice to the problem of conceptualising a software product that supports the development of standards-compliant reusable learning objects.

By considering the role of learning objects and the implications for different user populations (teachers, students, authors of learning materials and learning scenarios) the workshop will identify the kinds of tasks performed by these users and develop corresponding usage scenarios and a prototype model of software that may be used to produce reusable learning objects. We assume that the users of such software need no detailed understanding of the technical nature of the underlying learning standards. An analogy is that developers of web pages need no detailed understanding of HTML, or more strongly a user of email needs no understanding of SMTP.

WORKSHOP GOALS

This workshop aims to

• inform participants about the nature and role of reusable learning objects (RLOs) in HCI education, from an HCI perspective
• deliver something useful by the end of the day.

This may take the form of:

• one or more prototypes for a software system designed to help authors create reusable learning objects which are output by the system in a standards compliant form;
• a “white paper” that will inform the E-Learning standards community;
• usage scenarios describing how RLOs may figure in the tasks carried out by teachers, students, and authors of learning materials or learning scenarios;
• feed back results of workshop to main HCI 2003 conference as a poster

The results / discussion will be taken forward to the HCI Educators’s workshop in April 2004

HOW TO REGISTER

This workshop is limited in size to 20 people (plus organisers).

Interested participants do not need to submit a position statement in order to confirm attendance – rather the organisers are looking for people who are interested in coming along and taking an active role in the workshop. If you are interested then please contact the workshop chair who will be able to advise if there are places left. This should be done by Friday 11th July.

Once a place is allocated participants will have to register via the main conference web-site (www.hci2003.org).

You do not need to register for the full conference to take part in this workshop, although we anticipate that most participants will.

CONTACT

Further information can be found on this site from June 15th 2003.

Declarations of interest and queries should be directed to the Workshop Chair:
John Rosbottom
University of Portsmouth
John.Rosbottom@port.ac.uk

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Sandra Cairncross, Jonathan Crellin, Janet Finlay, Tom McEwan, Barbara McManus, Shailey Minocha, John Rosbottom (Chair)

Outcomes:

By participating in the workshop, delegates will

• develop a greater awareness of key topics issues facing HCI educators and trainers;
• exchange best practice with colleagues from other institutions;
• identify new ideas to inform their own teaching practice thereby enhancing the learning of their students.