Conference Programme and Abstracts
The draft programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Programme

Friday 12th September
9.30am
Arrivals, Registration and Coffee

10:00am
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and David Preston

10.15am
Keynote Address
Professor Mark Stiles
Embedding eLearning in a Higher Education Institution

11.30am
Coffee

12.00pm
Session 1: Issues of Virtuality in Higher Education I
Chair: Daithi O Murchu

Peter Williams
Plotting Virtuality: Dimensions of eLearning Space

David Johnson
Retaining the Integrity of the Academy on the Virtual Campus

1:00pm
Lunch

2.00pm
Session 2: Issues of Virtuality in Higher Education II
Chair: Joan Abarbanel

Lynda Ross, Pete Holt & Julia Johnson
Reproducing the Male Computing “Culture” in Open and Distance Leaning Environments

Jenny Prior
CAL: Panacea or Pandora’s Box?

Daithi O Murchu
Mentoring, Technology and the 21st Century’s New Perspectives, Challenges and Possibilities

William Bostock
The Challenge of the Paperless Thesis: Issues in the Implementation of a Regime of Electronic Theses and Dissertations.

4.00pm
Tea

4.30pm
Session 3: Evaluating Virtuality in Higher Education
Chair: Mark Stiles

Simon Bates and Judy Hardy
An Evaluation of an e-Learning Strategy; Watching the e-Learners Learn

Adrian Bromage
Exploring the Relationship between Students’ Approaches to Learning and their Use and Feelings about a VLE

Barbara Crossouard, Amapola Alama and John Prior
Online Learning at Organizacion de Estados IberoAmericanos

Loykie Lomine
I’m a Virtual lecturer but I Need Real Help

6.30pm
Wine Reception

7.00pm
Dinner

13th September 2003
9:30am
Session 4: Case Studies in Virtuality and Higher Education I
Chair: Vicki Angliss

Lorraine Walsh and Margaret Adamson
Swapping Chalk for Blackboard

C. Giorgi and D. Schürch
From Theory to Practice in Distance Learning

Charmaine Villet
First you Must Believe: Partnering in the On-Line Enviroment

11:00am
Coffee

11:30am
Session 5: Case Studies in Virtuality and Higher Education II
Chair: Charmaine Villet

Vicki Angliss
Building Professional Practice Online

Andreas Hett and Tobias Schubert
The Mobile Hardware Lab

Aine McHugh, Alison Clancy, Jonathan Drennan, Gerard Fealy and Tom O’Connor
Developing and Implementing an E-learning Strategy in a School of Nursing and Midwifery in the Republic of Ireland

1:00pm
Lunch

2.00pm
Session 6: Case Studies in Virtuality and Higher Education III
Chair: Lorraine Walsh

Joan Abarbanel
Experimentations in Foreign Language eLearning

Justin Macklin and Audrey Blenkham
Reinventing Intensive Care Nurse Education

Ratu Marika T.T. Qalomai and T.T. Qalomai
ICT development in the South Pacific for Distance and Flexible Learning. The Case of USPNet 2000 Upgrade at the University of the South Pacific

Reza Simbar
The Islamic Asad University: The Successful Sample of Privatization of HE in Iran

4:00pm
Tea

4.30pm
Development Meeting

5.00pm Conference Close