Voted for by the FOTE community, this year’s panel will be discussed challenges associated with ‘Bring Your Own Device – BYOD’. Just as colleges and universities do no provide students with paper, pens and stationery items but expect them t...

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Panel Discussion – Bring your own Device

Sue Beckingham of Sheffield Hallam University discusses how our graduates of tomorrow face an increasingly competitive job market. Competing for jobs will no longer be confined to the communication channels we have traditionally used for decades and th...

Social media and Employability: The age of sharing and ‘publicness’

Andrew Bollington, Chief Operating Officer for the University of London International Programmes looks at the changes in higher education funding that have re-written the rule book , with the full consequences yet to be understood. From next year, as ...

The Student is Broke!

At FOTE11 Dr Su White, University of Southampton looks at how the world is changing and universities must respond to students’ needs and expectations in agile and effective ways. Learners enter university with an inevitable diversity of technological...

Making it rich and personal: The personal path to institutional learning environments

At FOTE11 Emily-Ann Nash of the NUS Higher Education Committee explored how students have differing expectations and motivations of higher education and how they may change in light of an increase in fees. She then explores how using technology effect...

Student Expectations

Lee Scott, an Academic Evangelist within the Developer and Platform Evangelism ‘DPE’ Group at Microsoft UK discussed the Microsoft Kinect within teaching, learning and research at FOTE11. Since its release of Kinect, there has been tremendous e...

Microsoft Kinect

At FOTE11 James Clay from Gloucestershire College discusses that in many institutions the structures, processes and procedures we have in place are there for many reasons; these may be for security, safety, financial, prevention, health and safety. Of...

The student as the agent of change

We set aside 5 slots in total for people to get up on stage and share their views on the future of technology in education in 140 seconds in an elevator style pitch. The participants who stepped up to share their views were - Martin King – Flippi...

140Challenge

Nick Skelton is Assistant Director of IT Services (Infrastructure) at the University of Bristol and in his FOTE11 talk looked at: What do students actually expect from University? One long party? To pass a few exams? Or something more than that? And...

Pervasive Media in Education

Jan-Martin Lowendahl, Ph.D (Chemistry) is a research director in Gartner Research and his FOTE11 talk takes the vantage point of the CIO who is expected to navigate the tsunami of technology and deliver learning capabilities. He takes a dive into some ...

The CIO and finding the future (eco-system) of education

Cailean Hargrave of IBM at FOTE11 discussed that, although investment in education has steadily risen over the last decade, we have not seen a corresponding rise in student attainment levels. Students still fall behind and drop out, yet officials la...

Student Analytics for Success

FOTE11 was held on 7 October 2011 at Senate House and as always we worked hard to put on another great event to showcase trends and technologies that will impact teaching and learning in the coming 1 to 3 years.

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