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5 Jan 2011 12:16:16
Six students in their final year of the BA (Hons) in Events Management at the University of Bedfordshire are gaining some vital hands-on experience.
The students – Birgul Yuksel, Alison Pengelley, Amira Mohamoud, Nadia Khan, Tim Cakebread and Victoria Vettese – are setting up and running, on a rota basis, the MirandaNet Fellowship exhibition stand at the four-day BETT11 show at Olympia in London from next Wednesday to Saturday (12-15 January).
BETT
is dedicated to showcasing the best in UK and international educational
technology products, resources and practice, enabling thousands of
international educators to enhance their knowledge of learning through
technology. It attracts more than 600 educational suppliers and almost 29,000
visitors - about 20 per cent are international.
The MirandaNet Fellowship (www.mirandanet.ac.uk), often called the ‘Facebook’ of international ICT professionals, is an influential community of educators who have developed a debating programme for delegates.
The Events Management students will be developing their marketing skills by sourcing sweatshirts and leaflet printers, as well as developing and checking copy. They will also be encouraging the teacher delegates to join in the MirandaNet forums on the exhibition stand.
Topics for teachers will include using digital technologies and data for assessment, tracking and intervention, Web 2.0 tools for teaching and learning, and getting the most from ICT tools in the modern classroom. Dr Nazia Ali, a Lecturer in Tourism and Events Management, is hoping to attend on the final day (Saturday, 15 January) of the show.
She said: “The work experience provided by MirandaNet will definitely be of use in developing course participants’ employability skills to work in the events sector.
“For students to experience on-site event operations at the BETT11 event both reinforces lecture themes and prepares the students for their own event planning assessment task.”
The MirandaNet Fellowship is one of more than 5,500 organisations and companies that the University liaises with to provide a broad range of training and industry-accredited courses for its students.
Professor Marilyn Leask, Dean of the Faculty of Education, Sport and Tourism, said: “Innovative educational technologies allow those who want to learn to learn at their own pace and in their own time – revisiting class work and testing their knowledge. University staff have taken a lead in research and development in these areas for decades.”
Professor Leask added: “This year alone, the University’s UCAS applications were up 54 and a half per cent, and the total number of international students taught on the UK campuses has more than doubled.
“In the Government’s recent UK-wide Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008, much of Bedfordshire’s research was described as ‘world-leading’ and of ‘international significance’. As a consequence, our research funding has more than doubled.”
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