Dissemination
This page contains details of various publications (both printed and online) plus dissemination events and activities that the DoITPoMS team have been involved with throughout the project's evolution. Where possible, the documents have been made available as pdf files.
Promotional publications
Working in Partnership with Students: The Summer School at Cambridge
A UKCME Case Study of the annual DoITPoMS summer school, where academic staff work in partnership with students to develop e-learning resources (Teaching and Learning Packages - TLPs). Published April 2008.
Journal publications
The DoITPoMS
Project– a web-based initiative for teaching and learning materials
science,
Z.H. Barber, J.A. Leake and T.W. Clyne, Journal of Materials Education,
Vol. 29 (1-2), 7-16 (2007)
Microcomputing in materials research and teaching, T.W. Clyne and P.J. Goodhew, Metallurgist and Materials Technologist (Institute of Materials), pp. 1-5, August 1984
Websites - DoITPoMS resources are listed on the following websites:
UKCME: Resource database (now defunct) - supports and promotes high quality education in Materials and related disciplines.
Intute (now defunct) - a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research.
Meetings attended and key dates for the various funding streams
July 2008
14th -16th EE2008, Integrating Online Resources into
Taught Courses - Workshop, Loughborough, UK (workshop
outline, NAR
presentation)
September 2007
10th - 13th Euromat 2007: Symposium Y11 - Teaching and Learning
of Materials Science and Engineering, Nürnberg, Germany (TWC
presentation)
May 2006
29th May - 2nd June E-MRS Spring Meeting: Symposium W
- Education in Materials Science and Engineering, Nice, France (ZHB
presentation)
September 2005
23rd Cambridge-MIT Institute workshop: ‘Innovations
in the Reuse of Electronic Learning Materials: Enabling Communities of
Practice’, held at the Open University Business School, Milton Keynes
(JAL presentation)
July 2005
3rd - 8th ICMAT 2005: Syposium Z - Education in Materials Science,
Engineering and Technology, Singapore (TWC
presentation)
April 2005
19th UKCME Grant Holders' Workshop, Sheffield Hallam University
(JAL presentation)
January 2005
End of FDTL funding phase
April 2004
20th New Teaching Developments Grantholders Workshop, Sheffield University
4th - 8th ECI Conference: The Future of Materials Science and Engineering
Education, Hawaii (ZHB
presentation)
January 2004
8th Seventh Management Committee meeting,in Cambridge, starting at
10.30 a.m.
November 2003
3rd - 4th Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund National Co-ordination
Team Annual Conference. Nottingham Royal Moat House.
September 2003
8th - 10th ALT-C 2003. Theme: Communities of Practice. Sheffield Hallmam
University.
June 2003
24th Materials Education Workshop - new web-based resources for teaching
Materials Science. National workshop in conjunction with MATTER and the
UK Centre for Materials Education, in Cambridge.
23rd Sixth Management Committee meeting, in Cambridge
April 2003
28th Attendance at seminar on "Ownership and control:
managing intellectual property rights in universities", City University,
London.
February 2003
6th Focus group meeting in Oxford Brookes with students
to obtain evaluation feedback on DoITPoMS resources.
January 2003
9th Fifth Management Committee meeting, in Cambridge.
December 2002
6th Focus group meeting in Cambridge with students to
obtain evaluation feedback on DoITPoMS resources.
November 2002
27th Focus group meeting in Manchester with students
to obtain evaluation feedback on DoITPoMS resources.
October 2002
31st October - 1st November: TQEF Annual Conference 'Learning from
FDTL: Making a Difference'. Manchester Conference Centre.
4th Teaching Aids Seminar - DoITPoMS in conjunction
with CES - Cambridge Engineering Selector. 11 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. in the
Seminar Room, Department of Materials Science, Pembroke St, Cambridge.
September 2002
9th - 11th "ALT-C" - in conjunction with the Association
for Learning Technology's (ALT) conference. University of Sunderland.
July 2002
10th Fourth Management Committee meeting, in Cambridge .
May 2002
28th Meeting between DoITPoMS, MATTER , and UKCME (UK Centre for Materials
Education) staff.
22nd Focus group meeting in Sheffield with students to obtain evaluation
feedback on DoITPoMS prototype resources.
9th Meeting in Sheffield to discuss micrographs and student evaluation
of DoITPoMS prototype resources.
April 2002
10th Attendance at NCT Workshop: Planning for the final
stage of your project (for FDTL3 project), Coventry.
March 2002
27th Disability Discrimination Legislation workshop.
The objective of the event, organised by the Innovations Team, is to assist
you to ensure that your project complies with the legislation. At Universities
UK, London.
21st Attendance at NCT Workshop on evaluation, London.
15th Focus group meeting in Cambridge with students to obtain evaluation
feedback on DoITPoMS prototype resources.
January 2002
15th Third Management Committee Meeting. Oxford Brookes
University.
December 2001
10th Attendance at the Cambridge-MIT Institute 'Copyright
and E-learning' Workshop, Scarman House, Warwick. CMI/UKSEC
Workshops .
5th Attendance at NCT Workshop 'Managing Change', Coventry.
November 2001
28th Meetings with Professor Steve Lerman at MIT.
14th Meetings with MATTER
and UKCME (UK
Centre for Materials Education) staff to discuss links between DoITPoMS,
MATTER and UKCME
7th Meeting with Dr Sue Jackson in Cambridge University Engineering
Department to discuss areas of mutual interest in development of web-based
course materials.
October 2001
29th Attendance at a
FILTER project Focus Group meeting in Birmingham, which included discussions
of image classification and metadata and their use in learning and teaching.
18th Attendance at Signel
(Special Interest Group on eLarning) meeting in Cambridge.
17th Attendance at CARET
(Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology) Open afternoon
in Cambridge.
11th Visit to the Institute of Learning and Research
Technology (ILRT), Bristol for discussions about image and image library
issues with members of the BioMED
and FILTER projects,
and the Technical Advisory
Services for Images (TASI)
September 2001
27th Meeting in Cambridge the project's External Evaluator.
24th Meeting in Cambridge with Dr. David Dunning, University
of North London (project partner)
11th - 13th "ALT-C" - in conjunction with the Association for
Learning Technology's (ALT) conference Changing Learning Environments.
University of Edinburgh.
11th Attendance at workshop: Getting the Message Across
- explore how different forms of dissemination can increase project effectiveness.
July 2001
13th Second Management Committee Meeting. University
of Leeds.
May 2001
22nd - 23rd TQEF Annual Conference for FDTL and TLTP.
'Maximising Impact: working strategically across the sector.' Manchester
Conference Centre.
21st Joint workshop between the UK
Centre for Materials Education and the other FDTL3 Materials projects,
26/99 Tutoring Materials , 41/99
The Keynote Project and 8/99 DoITPoMS, at Imperial College, London.
(TWC presentation)
January 2001
9th First Project Management Group Meeting. In Cambridge.
December 2000
11th Professor Bill Clyne visited colleagues at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. Discussions included MIT's course
management and delivery system.
13th Short presentation at the Annual Department Meeting
November 2000
2nd Meeting representatives of
Materials and Engineering
Subject Centres and Failte (Facilitating Access to Information on
Learning Technology in Engineering) Project staff, at Loughborough to
discuss the development of resource databases.
6th The project welcomed Mrs. Mary MacGinley to the post
of IT Secretarial Administrator.
8th Attandance at FDTL web authoring workshop, Leicester
University.
15th Visit to project partners in Manchester
16th Visit to project partners in North London
24th Visit to project partners at Oxford Brookes and
FDTL3 Food Studies project staff to discuss the creation of an audio visual
library to assist in curriculum design, content and organisation.
29th Visit to project partners at Leeds
30th Meeting in Cambridge with Prof. G. Gibbs from the
National Co-Ordination Team (NCT).
October 2000
18th Visit project partners in Sheffield.
19th FDTL Dissemination workshop, Coventry Technocentre.
September 2000
1st The project welcomed Dr Samantha Burke to the role
of IT Teaching Resources Manager.
18th Attendance at the 'New Technologies in University
Teaching' discussion meeting at the Royal Academy of Engineering, London.
20th FDTL Planning and Project Managment workshop, Coventry
Technocentre.
July 2000
26th Inaugural project group meeting held at the FDTL/LTSN
Materials gathering at the Institute of Materials, London.