Planning for the BITE Workshop

To make the planning process easier towards the 25th March, the date of our BITE Workshop, I have compiled some of the agreements from the Athens meeting and from Haralds reminder from last week.

What the programme says about our workshop (W1a and W1b)
Please look at the plan, the schedule etc, discuss it on the mailing list and I will put the conclusion on this page.
I suggest there should be made som material for the workshop (slides, articles etc). Please inform me of what type you are going to make, and eventually send it to me to be published in this web-page.

Our programme so far (quoted from Haralds reminder):

New proposals are written in blue and italic! Please discuss in mailing list!

The morning session from 0830-1230:

		Subject	In charge	Material
1	0830-0850	Intro to MECPOL and DoODL	Harald and Thorleif	slides?
2	0850-0900	Organisational structures for a VLI	Keywords by Peter	slides?
3	0900-0910	Pedagogical models for ICT based VLI	Keywords by Peter	slides?
4	0910-0925	Experiences, user trials and evaluation from MECPOL and DoODL	David and Geir	Geirs slides demo?
	15 min?	A case: NTUA's experiences from participation in the User Trials	Simos and Skordalakis	presentation
5	0925-1030	Group activities. Given the intro to theme 2, 3, 4 (above) for a group work covering all topics. Plastic or paper posters?	All	Some written text for each group to start with?
	1030-1100	Break
6	1100-1130	Presentation of group work (item 5 above)
7	1130-1230	Plenary discussion: Visions for a future Networked University, national or international.	Intro by Harald David leading the discussion

The afternoon session from 1330-1730:
A 'hands-on' session

		Subject	In charge	Material
1	1330-1400	Technical background for ODL	Henk	slides
2	1400-1430	Intro to user trials (Geir) (repeted from morning session) The NITOL courses (Thorleif) Intro to the PiODL course (Harald)	Harald, Geir, Thorleif	slides? demo
3	1430-1500	An introduction to ODL-management	Petra
3	1500-1600	Hands-on workshop where the people can take a look at some DoODL-courses. Participants working through some lessons in PiOL, download material, look at the discussion-forum	All	Should someone make a guided tour for this session?
4	1600-1630	Should we end the hands-om session by pinpoint som key issues of what they have experienced during a busy workshop?	???	slides
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From the programme (i.e. what we have to do):
W1a Virtual Learning Institute (T1): The workshop will cover the experience from several European projects in the area of open and distance learning. Both organisational structures and pedagogical models for an ICT based Virtual Learning Institute will be addressed. Guidelines for implementation and dissemination will be discussed as well as the marketing of NICT based organisations. Examples will be drawn from the European research projects MECPOL and Do ODL and be presented by researchers from the UK, Norway and The Netherlands.

W1b (Hands-on), Virtual Learning Institute (T2): Participants will have the opportunity to investigate some of the present courses, and discuss the transferability of this approach to other situations.