Future Partners and Policy

Changes in the sector are likely to bring new partners and new policy to the sector. This track aims to look at how we can make the most of these partnerships and technology associated with it. Topics include creativity, innovations, (OER) open educational resources, , working with business and employers and productive relationships, HEAR (Higher Education Achievement Report), the Professional Standards Framework, Post Graduate Review, Burgess, Education for Sustainable Development and future finance.

Tuesday 22 June

12:30-13:00

• SMEs as future partners: lessons learnt from EU projects for SMEs and HEIs - Elly Philpott, University of Bedfordshire
• Open educational resources: the future of sharing - Tracey Madden, UK Physical Sciences Centre

14:15-15:15

• Conceptual framework development for future open educational resources (OER PHORUS project) - Margaret Sills, Kwansuree Jiamton and Marion Helme, Health Sciences and Practice Subject Centre

15:45-16:15

• Partnerships with local religious communities - Opinderjit Takhar and Deirdre Burke, University of Wolverhampton
• Employers as learning partners: work as learning, and learning what works - Jane Kettle, Judith Smith and Isla Brown, The Higher Education Academy

16:30-17:15

• Managing the quality of e-learning: a consultation on the QAA Code of practice Section 2 - Dr Helen Barfeoot, University of Hertfordshire, Maria-Christiana Papefthimiou, University of Reading and Mark Gamble, University of Bedfordshire
• OER: legal lessons learned - Jackie Milne, University of Strathclyde
• Quality enhancement: mapping the evolving landscape across the UK - Alastair Robertson, Gabriel Jezierski and Elaine Payne, The Higher Education Academy

Wednesday 23 June

08:45-09:15

• Re-orientation of Pharmacy education to sustainable development: reflections on workshop development - Beverley Lucas, University of Bradford

11:15-11:45

• Publish and be damned? Real issues of copyright and IPR when publishing open educational resources in the humanities - Erika Corradini, Subject Centre for Language, Linguistics and Area Studies and Oren Stone, University of Southampton
• Simshare: Open educational resources in simulation learning - Patricia McKellar, UK Centre for Legal Education, Paul Maharg, University of Northumbria and Karen Barton, University of Stratclyde

12:00-12:30

• Jorum and open educational resources (OER): why share? - Nicola Siminson, University of Manchester
• BringITon - Stephen Hagan, Information and Computer Sciences Subject Centre