The Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University (UK) host a series of technology coffee mornings each year from April to December excluding August.  A new list of speakers and subjects to be presented are uploaded in the early part of each year. We will be publishing documents and pictures about the events as they progress so please keep checking for updates.

Each event is recorded live and a podcast is created for each event  for those unable to attend or those that would like to view the session again.  The link to the podcasts can be found at the bottom of the schedule.  Please click on the relevant title for the live links. 

We welcome your feedback and there is a discussion area where you can post your views, so please feel free to post your comments.

The presentations will be held in the Jennie Lee Building Meeting Room 1 Ground Floor or occasionally in the Jennie Lee Building Main Ambient Lab Ground floor.  Please check the schedule below for their location. 

The coffee mornings run from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. with up to an hour for the presentation, and up to 30 minutes for questions,depending on the presenter.

Technology Coffee Morning Schedule 2013

03 April 2013 - Jacek Kopecky (KMi)
ParkJam: Crowdsourcing Parking Availability Information with Linked Data

17 April 2013 - Professor Agnes Kukulska-Hulme (IET)
Mobile phones, migrants and incidental learning

01 May 2013 - Dr Chetz Colwell, Dr Anne Jelfs, Graham Healing, Phil Downs (IET)
Conducting usability evaluations remotely

15 May 2013 - Dr Elizabeth FitzGerald and Dr Anne Adams (IET)
Catwalk technologies and researching in the wild

5 June 2013 - Dr Clara Mancini (MCT)
ACI - Animal-~Computer Interaction

19 June 2013 - Dr Anne Adams, Dr Gill Clough, Dr Simon Cross, Dr Liz Hartnett, Professor Eileen Scanlon, Dr Mike Sharples  (IET) and Professor Steve Swithenby (Science)
JUXTALEARN: Overcoming 'I don't understand why they don't understand'

03 July 2013 - Dr Doug Clow) (IET)
iSpot Project

17 July 2013 - Professor Patrick McAndrew (IET)
What makes openness work?

04 September 2013 - Andrew McDermott (LTS)
Digital ventures-interactive eBooks and iTunesU courses

18 September 2013 - Dr Simon Cross (IET)
Learner experiences and the personalising of paths through a (massive) open online course

02 October 2013 - Professor John Domingue (KMi)
NoTube: supporting the future of Internet TV via services and Linked Data

16 October 2013 - Professor Helen Sharp and Dr Mark Woodroffe (MCT) 
Novice Interaction designers' behaviour in different cultures

06 November 2013 - Guy Carberry (Student Services) 
Responsive Web Design

20 November 2013 - Dr Kat Garrow (Science) 
The OpenScience Laboratory: at the cutting edge of practical science

04 December 2013 - Will Woods (IET)
iSpot Mobile Presentation 

11 December 2013 - TBA
Details to be advised

To access past TCM podcasts please click on link    

How do I become a member?

Reflecting the informal nature of the TCM's, to 'join' all you have to do is subscribe to the TCM mailing list.

For members of staff at the OU, go to the OU mailing lists, look for 'iet-techcoffee-list' and click on 'Subscribe'. If you are a tutor you should use your OU email address without the final 'open.ac.uk' - for example 'xyz123@tutor'.

For anyone else, please contact Lynda Davies l.h.davies@open.ac.uk to subscribe to the mailing list