C1 An Intensive Study Programme for teaching staff
Welcome to C1, the introduction to the central theme of the CONSTRUIT! project: "Making Construals (MC)". The theme of C1, as set out in the proposal is "Familiarisation with making construals".
The principal objective of C1 is to give all members of the project team sufficient background and practical experience to contribute to the design and development of the resources for making construals to be deployed in an open online course, to appreciate how and where this course might be usefully deployed, and to assess the six claims for Making Construals ("MC") that were set out on p24 of the proposal. These resources take the form of a curriculum ("the MCC"), an environment ("the MCE") and online materials ("the MCM"). The current prototypes for the MCC and MCM can be found amongst the resources for the Introduction to Empirical Modelling course (aka "CS405") that has been taught to 4th year undergraduate and masters level students of Computer Science here at Warwick over more than ten years. The current prototype for the MCE is the 'construit' variant of the JS-EDEN interpreter.
C1 takes place in conjunction with the initial Transnational Project Meeting M1. The rationale for the M1 meeting is summarised on p30 of the proposal. This includes a reference to a 'pilot project' concerned with making a construal of Donald Michie's Matchbox Educable Noughts and Crosses Engine (MENACE) which did not take place in the form anticipated. Appropriate resources relating to MENACE have nevertheless been developed, and these will be the focus for further work over the course of C1. The plan for C1 sessions will be developed in an empirical style, drawing on existing teaching resources to be critically assessed and adapted in the light of feedback from the participants. Links to resources will be introduced into the timetable below as they become relevant.
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| S1 Thursday | 17.00 - 18.30 | CS0.07 |
Welcome and Intro to C1 (Mike, Meurig, Steve) Orientation on Making Construals - basic orientation and concepts |
AW, RB | |
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S2 Thursday 23/10 |
19.45 - 21.00 | CS0.07 |
The Fundamental Diagram of Empirical Modelling Practical experiments in installing tkeden on personal laptops (!) and reflections on oxoGardner1999 |
AW, RB | |
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S3 Friday 24/10 |
09.30 - 11.00 | CS0.07 | From observables, dependency and agency to functions, definitions and actions | AW, JF | |
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S4 Friday 24/10 |
11.30 - 12.30 | CS101 |
Scripts as texts and as 'fuzzy blobs' |
AW, JF | |
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S5 Friday 24/10 |
13.30 - 15.00 | CS0.07 |
Introducing JS-EDEN in the 'master' version - Lab 3 from CS405 October 2013 |
EH, JF, KK | MCE |
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S6 Friday 24/10 |
15.30 - 16.45 | CS0.07 |
An exercise in construal comprehension - noughts-and-crosses in JS-EDEN The MENACE project conception |
EH, JF, KK | |
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S7 Friday 24/10 |
17.00 - 18.15 |
CS0.07 CS101 |
Review of some existing construals (Russell and Ashley) Welcome for TPM1* (Mike, Meurig, Steve) |
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S8 Friday 24/10 |
19.30 - 21.00 | CS0.07 |
Intro to MC/EM + Project for all, overview of people and activities Presentation on CaS from Sue Sentance [We had originally proposed to introduce some EM alumni, including the members of the 'MC Quartet', at this point in the programme, but time was too short. Here are links to invited CS405 lectures by Antony Harfield, Charles Care and Karl King.] |
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S9 Saturday 25/10 |
09.30 - 11.00 |
CS0.07 |
TPM1 Strategy: perspectives from Piet Kommers, Dimitris Alimisis, Erkki Sutinen, Peter Tomcsanyi, Hamish Macleod, Steve Russ, Karl King |
JF+ |
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S10 Saturday 25/10 |
11.30 - 12.30 | CS0.07 | Rene Alimisi: The dissemination strategy | ||
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S11 Saturday 25/10 |
14.00 - 15.30 |
CS0.07
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TPM1*: Management Integrating the partners, the grant agreement and logistics, contingency plans |
EH + |
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| S12 Saturday | 16.00 | End of session | |||
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S13 Sunday 26/10 |
09.30 - 11.00 | CS0.07 |
TPM1: Implementation Identifying 'workpackages' and teams (e.g. SciFest, Website,), brainstorming etc |
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S14 Sunday 26/10 |
11.30 - 12.30 | CS0.07 | TPM1*: Review and closing session | EH, AW | |
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S15 Sunday 26/10 |
13.30 - 15.00 | CS0.07 |
Subgroup discussions: Making Construals issues, the MCE and the website |
EH, AW
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S16 Sunday 26/10 |
15.30 - 17.00 | CS1.01 | The construal of CONSTRUIIT! - adding a personal slide (and controversies!) | ||
| 17.30 - | chez Beynon |
Supper and social Violin sonatas Brahms no 1 in G Major / Mozart no 15 in B flat |
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S17 Monday 27/10 |
09.30 - 11.00 | H1.48 |
Peter Tomcsanyi: informatics Education at Comenius UNiversity Andres Moreno: EdTech research at UEF and SciFest |
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S18 Monday 27/10 |
11.30 - 12.30 | C006 |
The Jugs variations / Clayton Tunnel Railway Animation / Erlkoenig posters As exhibited at a Kaleidoscope meeting in 2005 |
JF, CC | |
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S19 Monday 27/10 |
13.45 - 17.00 | T & L Grid |
A session devoted to assessment and evaluation incorporating a seminar by Dr Hamish Macleod (University of Edinburgh) relating to the Manifesto for Teaching Online + Piet Kommers on Learning the Unknown Slides for these presentations are available here |
Jeff Hayward on the future of online HE | |
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S20 Monday 27/10 |
17.30 - 18.30 | C006 |
Reviewing the Intellectual Outputs Framing the curriculum and the setting for evaluating making construals - what educational context(s) and target groups? |
JF, CC | |
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S21 Monday 27/10 |
20.00 - 21.00 | C007/6 | Further discussion of the framing problem | AW, RB | |
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S22 Tuesday 28/10 |
09.30 - 11.30 | CS1.01 |
More about EM resources Next steps ... , review and feedback |
WMB's personal perspective on "Matters arising" |
ERASMUS+ Programme 2014
Key Action 2
Project number
2014-1-UK01-KA200-001818
This page is a "working document" containing both public information about the project and private resources for the use of project members.
The public website for the project, which contains the official outputs from the project, is hosted at construit.org
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