Where are we with online learning and what opportunites lie ahead?

["Debbie Stoddart" <marketing@alpsp.org>]

Following last year's successful conference on the JISC Information
Environment, the PA/ ALPSP/JISC 'PALS' group, is pleased to announce this
year's conference.

Innovations in Online Learning and Teaching:
Challenges and Opportunities for Publishers

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London NW1.
Friday 27th June 2003

As universities and colleges extend their use of online content to support
teaching and learning there will be substantial changes in their
requirements for externally-sourced content - and new opportunities for
publishers to supply some of that content. This timely conference offers a
forum for publishers, academics and librarians to keep up to date with new
innovations in online learning and teaching, and to debate which
developments will be strategically important in the future.

Dr Gilly Salmon, the well-known pioneer on e-learning from the Open
University Business School will provide a visionary start to the day, with
knowledge business consultant Liz Horne bringing us up to date on current
developments in HE, FE, and with publishers. We will then hear case
studies from Glasgow and Coventry Universities, where online learning is
now well established, and look at what role third party content might have
in these initiatives.

The afternoon session will focus on the practical issues involved in
implementing e-learning, with Chistoph Chesher from Taylor & Francis and
Alun Hughes from the University of Highlands and Islands Millennium
Institute looking at the challenges from the publisher and HEI
perspective.

For more information and to download the full conference brochure and
registration form go to the PALS website (www.palsgroup.org.uk).
Alternatively, contact Michele Cork (mcork@publishers.org.uk) to book or
to obtain hard copies of the brochure.

Debbie Stoddart
Email: marketing@alpsp.org
Telephone:+44  (0)1780 757005
Fax: +44 (0) 1780 762057