Draft Programme
Pre-conference workshops
Wednesday 22nd April
This is an optional afternoon open to delegates attending the main two-day event. You have a choice from three sessions on the Wednesday, running from 2 pm until 5 pm. There will be a refreshment break at 3.15 pm and the workshops end with a drinks reception from 5 to 6 pm.
All sessions begin at 2 pm. If you don’t want to attend a workshop, you are also more than welcome to just come to the Teaching and Learning Centre to escape Durham’s legendary sunshine or for the networking opportunities.
Sadly the cafe on the ground floor of the Teaching & Learning Centre will be closed during the Easter vacation, however, there are drinks and snacks machines around the building (payment via card only). There are also hot and cold water taps at the sides of the building which can be used to top up your liquid intake.
Conference Day 1
Thursday 23rd April
9:30 Registration
Ground Floor
- Get your badge and swag, dump your bags and then pop upstairs and enjoy a tea or coffee with fellow attendees.
10.30 Welcome & Opening Keynote
11:00 Strand A
- Small things that Blackboard can do to improve my life and yours (provided that you are a system administrator, that your closest colleague is one, or that you are married to one)
Bert Coenen - Associatie KU Leuven, Belgium - How Blackboard Learn Ultra and MS Teams Classroom Power MiXed Learning
Kristiaan Mesens - PXL University of Applied Sciences & Arts, Belgium - From Feature to Framework: Why an Upgrade Isn’t a Strategy
David Hopkins - Buckinghamshire New University
12: 10 Lunch
1:30 Strand B
- Beyond the Module: ECU’s Blueprint for Programmatic Learning and Learner Agency - Fundamentally Transforming Assessment
Pieter Smits - Portflow by Drieam - Don't You (Forget About Me) - Using Module Templates to Ensure Consistency, Structure Learning, and Ease Migration
Ian Glover - Keele University - Transforming Learning through Blackboard: A Digital Escape Room
Nicole George-St Louis & Susan Driver - Kent and Medway Medical School
2:00 Strand C
- Show me, show me, show me how you do that flip: Low‑Barrier Approaches to Flipped Learning
Yan Nepomucen Pietrzak - University of Leeds - TBC
Luke McLelland - FeedbackFruits - Stand and Deliver (standardised submission areas)
Melanie Barrand, Ellie Dunn & Emma Sykes - University of Leeds
2:30 Strand D
Stephen Taylor - Galileo Global Education/Regent's University London
Alan Hamilton & Andrew Ishak - University of Edinburgh
Nikolaos Galindo - Class
3:00 Coffee and Tea
3:45 Dragon's Den
- Fun and games with the team from Blackboard
Conference Dinner at Hatfield College
Conference Day 2
Friday 24th April
9:30 Tea & Coffee
9:55 Welcome Back
- Malcolm Murray
Durham University
10:00 Blackboard Keynote
11:00 Tea, Coffee & Sugary Snacks
11: 30 Strand E
- Back to the Future (of Assessment!): Reframing Bloom’s Taxonomy for AI-Enabled Learning
Lisa Clark & Sarah Hallam, Blackboard
- Project to practice: Students as co‑creators in the future of Blackboard
Helga Gunnarsdottir & Marieke Guy - University of the West of England
- Don’t Stop Believin’ in Accessible Maths: Our Journey towards Inclusive Content
Maija Koukkari - Aberdeen University - Small changes that support clarity, consistency and inclusion
Shirin Franklyn, Tara Lehane & Muhammad Asif - Reading University
12:45 Lunch
2:00 Strand F
- A Pottered History of Course Catalog: Lessons Learned Across the Years
Ash Lockmun, Blackboard - Back to the Future: Rethinking Course Design in a Blackboard Ultra Transition
Gary Hung - University of West London - Always gonna give you up(dates)
Mel B, Ellie Dunn & Emma Sykes - University of Leeds
2:30 Strand G
- A custom-built report to improve template adherence
Lou Stringer - University of York - Back to the Feature: Navigating the Monthly Update Labyrinth at the University of Edinburgh
Joe Currie - University of Edinburgh - Steven and Kristen’s Excellent Adventure: Desperately Seeking Data
Kristen McCartney-Bulmer & Steven Chippendale - Northumbria University
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