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Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 13:08:19 +0100
From: "Nicholas Bowskill" N.Bowskill@sheffield.ac.uk
To: "Collaborate" <collaborate@sheffield.ac.uk>
THE COMPUTER BASED COLLABORATIVE GROUP WORK (CBCGW) PROJECT, CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF NETWORKED LEARNING & DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD, UK ----INVITES YOU TO JOIN A 3-WEEK INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL GUEST SEMINAR
COST: FREE OF CHARGE
DATE: MAY 22nd - June 9th 2000
VENUE: COLLABORATE DISCUSSION LIST (Details below)
We invite you, as part of an International audience, to participate in a forthcoming virtual guest seminar to be delivered on the Collaborate discussion list. This seminar will be of interest to all those wishing to discuss the work of an established practitioner in the use of online group learning. It will also appeal to a wider audience wishing to experience a virtual seminar as a possible model for your own practice. No charge is made for this professional development event lasting 3 weeks and entirely online.
The online seminar is the second in our occasional professional development series of online events offered by the Computer Based Collaborative Group Work Project web site <http://collaborate.shef.ac.uk> The project aims to research and support the development of networked group learning.
VIRTUAL SEMINAR DETAILS
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MR SEFTON BLOXHAM, TEACHING FELLOW IN LAW, UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER, UK WILL HOST AN ONLINE SEMINAR ON HIS WORK ENTITLED
"THE UPS AND DOWNS OF DELIVERING A NETWORKED LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR COLLABORATIVE LEARNING -SOME REFLECTIONS ON PRACTICE"
Mr. Bloxham is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Law at the University of Lancaster, UK. He has been involved in the use of technology as a key part of his work and has developed the use of computer conferencing for undergraduate team-based learning. In the seminar, Mr Bloxham will present aspects of his work and also host a discussion of his practice for 3 weeks only on the Collaborate discussion list. Further details of some of his work are available on the Computer Based Collaborative Group Work Project Web site at <http://collaborate.shef.ac.uk/cases/bloxham.htm> Details of how to join the list are given below.
JOINING THE LIST FOR THE SEMINAR
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To join the list send a message with no subject/header to
<mailto:mlistproc@sheffield.ac.uk> In the body of the message put :
subscribe firstname lastname collaborate
example: subscribe Safraz Aziz collaborate
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Nicholas Bowskill
Computer Based Collaborative Group Work Project & Centre for the Study of Networked
Learning (CSNL)
Department of Educational Studies
University of Sheffield
Western Bank
Sheffield
S10 2TN
Tel: +44 (0)114-222 8155
Fax: +44 (0)114-279 6236
E-mail: N.Bowskill@shef.ac.uk
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