HT�01 Doctoral Consortium

The workshop with be co-chaired by Su White and Hugh Davis (IAM Learning Technologies University of Southampton, UK) Welcome and introductions, an invited speaker to set tone for workshop, morning session of 2×3 15 minute presentations with 5 mins each for questions. Afternoon sessions of 4 15 minute presentations with 5 mins each for questions. This will be followed by wash-up plenary discussion.

Two page position papers are invited

People interested in participating should e-mail a two page position paper, indicating your potential contribution to this workshop.

In addition, append to your proposal a cover sheet of summary information, contact details and a brief biography for each proposed attendee (150 words max) which outlines relevant experience beyond the specific case. A template for the cover sheet is at the end of this document. The submission should be sent in the format for short papers (see website for template under short papers http://www.ht01.org/). The preferred format is PDF but otherwise as MS Word, RTF or plain text is acceptable. Send your submission and the cover sheet as attachment to the following address: saw_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk

We expect participants to be prepared to write as well as talk, and we will aim to shape their position statements and the workshop discussion into a final report of the proceedings. This final report plus some longer versions of selected papers may be put forward for publication

Su White has been active in learning and teaching in the UK HE community since 1993. She was formerly manager of the Teaching and Learning Technology Programme (TLTP) Scholar Project which sought to establish “a campus wide structure for multimedia learning” at the University of Southampton through the use of the Microcosm open hypermedia system. She was also Manager of the University of Southampton Interactive Learning Centre. Based in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science she is a member of the Intelligence, Agents and Multimedia Research Group. She is also co-ordinator for the national Electrical and Electronic Engineering Assessment Network (e3an), Learning and Teaching Co-ordinator for the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Southampton.

Hugh Davis has been involved in the uses of Hypertext in Education since the late 1980’s. He was one of the original Microcosm team, and in addition to his open hypertext systems interests, he researches in Learning Technologies. Hugh was general co-chair of Hypertext ‘97 and is programme co-chair for Hypertext ‘01

The Hypertext 2001 Doctoral Consortium (DocCon) will be held this year in Aarhus, Denmark, co-located (as usual) with the Hypertext 2001 conference.

I am the DocCon Chair this year and I’m sending this message hoping to solicit a few more applications from Ph.D. candidates on the technical side of hypermedia. So far I’ve received only one application from a “techi”! (The literati are well represented this year with 4 very strong candidates.) The deadline for application was May 10th, but I’m invoking Chair privilege and extending the deadline until I’ve got a few more technical candidates to balance the consortium.