The document summarizes the agenda and topics for Day 1 of the Benefits Realisation Workshops event. The day included discussions on quantifying and qualifying educational research outputs, a model for community development using Web 2.0 technologies, and considering benefits for individuals, institutions, and control within new communities. The agenda also listed several showcase workshops on using virtual worlds in education, encouraging staff e-portfolios, and personal learning environments.

1. Benefits Realisation Workshops Day 1: Next Generations Technologies in Practice – 10 March 2009

2. Welcome George Roberts Director, Emerge Project Oxford Brookes University

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7. A model of software development Explicitly adapted to community development

8. The aim of R&D is to bring about change; R&Dhas a transforming effect Rigorous, anti-essentialist, critical foundation as a research method and evaluation methodology. Appreciative inquiry

11. Thank you, all! George Roberts Director, Emerge Project

12. Programme 10.10 - 10.20 Realising the benefits: embedding and supporting - Paul Bailey 10.20 - 10.50 Plenary: Critical Friends Benefits Realisation - Jill Jameson 10:50 Coffee (sign up for sessions – if not already) 11:10 – 12:30 Showcase Workshops a) The Potential for, and barriers to, using MUVEs in learning and teaching - Dave White and Steven Warburton b) Encouraging staff to use an e-portfolio for their own professional development - Sarah Chesney, Elaine Tan, Paul Chin c) The Manchester Personal Learning Environment- Mark van Harmelen 12:30 Lunch

13. Programme 13.20 - 14.40 Showcase Workshops a) The Potential for, and barriers to, using MUVEs in learning and teaching - Dave White and Steven Warburton b) Encouraging staff to use an e-portfolio for their own professional development - Sarah Chesney, Elaine Tan, Paul Chin c) The Manchester Personal Learning Environment - Mark van Harmelen 14:40 Coffee 15:00 – 17:00 Open Space Technology sustaining emergent networks from the JISC Users & Innovation Programme - George Roberts

14. Realising the benefits: embedding and supporting Paul Bailey Benefits Realisation Coordinator Emerge Project

15. Benefits Realisation “… . validation and transfer to non-native institutional contexts, and building upon of outputs developed by innovation projects in order to embed them in their intended (and other) communities, thereby helping to ensure that they are useful, usable and used by users” .

16. Benefits Realisation Supporting projects building capacity increasing take-up…