The Open University and Jisc present: The Change Agents’ Network (CAN)

Hosted by The Open University, supported by Jisc, the Change Agents’ Network (CAN) promotes student-staff partnership in higher and further education. It’s a community of staff and students working together as change agents, pioneers, ambassadors, or in other roles in partnership on a huge variety of teaching and learning projects.

The CAN conference is an opportunity to showcase this groundbreaking partnership work, and engage staff and students from HE and FE institutions in a community of experience and best practice. In 2019 the CAN conference theme will be ‘The evolving landscape of staff-student partnerships’.

The full conference programme for the 2019 Change Agents’ Network conference has now been published online. The conference title, ‘The evolving landscape of staff-student partnership’, covers six key areas or themes:

1.     Informed Innovation: Working with Students

2.     Partnerships in Curriculum Innovation/Design

3.     Engaging Students in Change

4.     Landscape of Student Voice

5.     Positioning Ourselves for Future Success

6.     Engaging a Diverse Student Body

The mix of presentations, posters, workshops and demonstrations will give delegates some great insight into and experience of the staff-student partnership work being engaged in across the HE and FE sectors.

Highlights:

·       Four keynote sessions, including ‘studytuber’ and vlogger Ruby Granger, change consultant Julian Stodd, innovator and lecturer Scott Hayden, and OU interim Pro-Vice Chancellor (Students) Dr Liz Marr

·       Parallel sessions featuring presentations and workshops

·       Parallel sessions featuring posters and demonstrations in the exhibition space

·       A student-led and student-facilitated panel discussion

·       Sessions celebrating the launch of the 2018 Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change, which features the proceedings of last year’s CAN Conference in Winchester, as well as sessions to help delegates write for the journal

·       A session featuring the ideas from Jisc’s Summer Hackathon, which will be happening at the conference. There’s up to £1,000 in prizes up for grabs (encourage your students to enter here).

·       A gala dinner, to celebrate the event and its delegates, and give delegates a chance to rub elbows and network.

Buy your tickets now:

There are a variety of ticket types available, for one or two days, at staff and student rates. This includes lunch and refreshments. If you would like to attend the Gala Dinner on 29 May, please add this to your ticket purchase. Accommodation can be booked separately with The Open University’s preferred partner using a discount code. All the details and tickets are available from the conference website.

If you have any questions about CAN 2019, you can drop us a line using our details below:
You can contact us by email at CAN-Conference-2019@open.ac.uk
Or find us on Twitter @CANagogy #CAN19 #jisccan

Livestreaming

The keynote sessions and Student Panel will all be livestreamed via Stadium.