Nick FreearAccessibility, internationalization, web dev, Moodle and other stuff

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The Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA).

Using Technology to Enhance Learning
17 November 2011 - 18 November 2011

Participants
"The conference will be of particular interest to all those involved in promoting effective change in HE learning, teaching and educational development. This includes:
Academic and staff developers
Lecturers and teachers in further and higher education
National and institutional teaching fellows
Heads of academic schools and academic development
Learning technologists ..."

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Dan Jellinek, founder of Headstar and Nigel Lewis, Chief Executive of AbilityNet, are co-chairing this year's conference. They have some great speakers lined up to discuss the state of digital inclusion and accessibility. Ed Vaizey, Minister for Communication, Culture and the Creative Industries is giving the keynote. Find out more at,

www.headstar.com / eaccess11

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The Open University is holding its annual conference on learning and technology online. Find out more on Cloudworks.

'How does openness affect learning/content/access/teaching?'

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The Computers and Learning Research Group Annual Conference. I probably won't have time to attend, but the programme looks interesting.

The first ever online conference about the Moodle open source, e-learning software is taking place in February.

And I'm happy to be presenting Enabling accessible multimedia for Moodle.

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10th November

9.00 Registration and networking
10.30 Welcome – Paul Hollins
10.40 Keynote – Chris Cobb, Pro Vice Chancellor, Roehampton University:
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change..."
11.20 Keynote – Oleg Liber, outgoing Director of CETIS
12.00 Introduction to the conference - Paul Hollins
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Parallel sessions
University API
Gazing into the Future: Looking for Weak Signals with iCOPER
Open Educational Resources Technical Roundtable
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The British Stammering Association's annual conference, "Making Connections", takes place next month in west London.

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The Royal National Institute of Blind People's annual web and technology accessibility conference and exhibition is coming up next month. This conference embraces everyone and all topics, not just those with visual impairments.

The e-access '09 conference at Olympia yesterday (Thursday) provided a wide selection of speakers and much food for thought. The organising team at Headstar and the Olympia staff made us very welcome. Below I've tried to capture some key words and phrases, with notes on their context and implications.