Sldies prepared to introduce ELESIG NW and its inaugural meeting, at our ALT NWE SIG meeting, 7th May 2014, University of Liverpool

1. ELESIG NW
Roger Harrison, University of Manchester
Jim Turner, Liverpool John Moores University
Tunde Varga-Atkins, University of Liverpool
and …?

2. Proposed Regional
Special Interest Group
http://elesig.net

3. Aims
The proposed regional ELESIG North West
group would exist to build on ELESIG’s aims to
benefit and nurture shared knowledge and
practice of the learner experience research.

4. Aims and objectives
• keeping up to date with advances in learner
experience research, including learner experience with
technology;
• disseminating our own work in a collegial setting;
• exploring methodologies suitable for learner
experience research;
• gaining feedback on our research projects from
colleagues;
• being sounding-boards for each other offering informal
support;
• networking with other researchers;
• opportunities for collaborating across institutions and
bid for funding together.

5. As a regional group, we will:
• circulate and advertise the SIG so that others
in the North West area can join.
• invite and welcome members in to our
ELESIG North West regional group on
elesig.ning.com.
• organise themed events and webinars within
the scope of ELESIG, and at each of those
events leaving some space for discussing our
own work.
• contribute to the ELESIG committee’s work
and its annual 3 meetings and activities.

6. 15 May 2014, 12.00-16.30

7. Schedule
12.00 - 12.45 Arrival, lunch and networking
12.45 - 13.00 Welcome and introduction
13.00 - 14.30 Session led by Dr Paul Ashwin, University of Lancaster
on ‘Researching the learner experience: developing
your approach’
14.30 – 15.00 Coffee break
15.00 – 15.45 Short Presentations
‘Experience of having done research into learner
experience’: Susanne Voelkel and Luciane Vieira de Mello,
University of Liverpool
‘What resources exist to help and where are they?’: Vicki
Dale, UCL
15.45 – 16.15 Round table discussion: What can ELESIG do for you?
16.15 - 16.30 Taking things forward. Close

8. What you can do
• Advertise ELESIG NW in your institution
• Express an interest in becoming a committee
member
• Blog/tweet about our upcoming May 15th event
• Use #elesignw #elesig
• Sign up to elesig.net and to the ELESIG NW
group on the ELESIG site