Tuesday, 21 July 2009

First seminar

The date and venue for the first seminar has been finalised. It will be at Edinburgh University on Friday October 16th 2009.

The overall theme addressed in this seminar is: The relation of new media practices to traditional literacy practice in the academy and the professions.

Prospective papers and discussion topics include:
  • Academic Literacies in the Digital University (contributors from the Open University)
  • Academic values and web cultures: points of rupture (contributors from Glasgow Caledonian U)
  • Academics writing and new technologies (contributors from Lancaster U)
  • Assessing the new texts (contributors from Edinburgh)

Anyone who would like to attend, who is not already a member of the seminar group, should contact Janice Felce j.felce@open.ac.uk

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