DRAFT AGENDA Time for a New Paradigm in Education: Student Centered Learning Launching Conference IBIS Hotel Gara de Nord, Bucharest, Romania 20-23 May 2010 Thursday, 20th of May - Arrival day Morning: Arrival of participants 12.30 Lunch 14.00 Registration of participants 15.30 Welcome of participants and introduction to T4SCL project Ligia Deca Angele Attard Carmen Dobocan 16.00 Keynote speech and discussion Opening keynote – Lee Harvey - discussion 17.00 Presentation of literature review, survey and discussion Results of initial research on the issue of Student Centred Learning, conducted within the project framework, are presented. Robert Santa Angele Attard Responses from OH (Sigrid Maurer) Responses from FECCOO (Maria Luisa Sanchez Simon) 18.00 End of conference day 19.00 Conference dinner and cocktail Friday, 21st of May 08.00 - 09.00 Breakfast 09.15 Panel Quality Assurance and Student Centered Learning – is QA a tool that can bring about more incentives in shifting the paradigm? Lena Adamson Christian Schneijderberg 10.45 Coffee break 11.00 Working group sessions Group 1 – Professional development, working conditions and teacher training - Angele Attard Group 2 – Use of Bologna tools for the development of Student Centred Learning - Allan Pall Group 3 – Pedagogy - Jean-Herve Cohen Group 4 – Students role in developing SCL - Robert Santa 13.30 Lunch 14.30 Plenary session: national policies Discussion on examples of national and international policies that are impacting the implementation of Student Centered Learning in education - case of Romania. Razvan Bobulescu Carmen Dobocan 15.30 End of conference day 16.00 Sightseeing tour of Bucharest 20.30 Dinner at the restaurant Saturday 22nd May 08.00 - 09.00 Breakfast 09.45 Presentation Local examples of SCL application and of projects aimed at supporting teachers and staff who are implementing new forms of teaching and learning within institutions. Case study: ANOSR Romania's favourite professor project Speaking: ANOSR project organizers (Vlad Atanasiu) 10.45 Coffee break 11.00 Workshop sessions - II 13.30 Lunch 15.00 Plenary session: the institutional dimension A look on how institutions are tackling the paradigm shift. What are they doing? What can they do? What are the obstacles and challenges? Radu Damian – CNFIS/CoE Francis W. George - University of Bergen 16.00 Working group reports and debate 17.30 End of conference day 20.00 Dinner Hotel IBIS Sunday: 23 May – Departure day 08.00 - 09.00 Breakfast 10.00 Speed debate – SCL – ideal that will never work in practice!? 10.45 Speed debate – SCL - has nothing to do with the Bologna process! 11.30 Conclusions and goodbyes 12.30 Lunch Departure