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Conference Programme
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Friday 7 April |
| 9:30 |
Registration |
| 10:00 |
Opening Remarks |
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10.30-12.00 |
Session One: Paradigms of
Literary Studies in ODL
Chair: Dennis Walder, Professor of
Literature , The Open University, UK |
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A Comparative Survey of Nine ODL Literature and Culture Programs:
Curricula, Educational Material and Educational Procedures"
by
Anastasia Natsina, Post-doctoral Researcher-Tutor of Modern Greek Literature, The Hellenic Open University
- "To Teach Literature in a Virtual
University: A Way to Enhance
Imagination!"
by
Laura Borràs Castanyer,
Professor of Humanities and Philology
Studies, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

- "Masters-level Study in
Literature at the Open University:
Pedagogic Challenges and Solutions"
by
Bob Owens, Professor of
English Literature and Head of the
Literature Department, The Open
University, UK

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12:15-13:45 |
Session Two:
Literary Theory in ODL
Chair: Takis Kayalis, Associate Professor of
Modern Greek Literature,
The Hellenic Open University |
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| 18:00-19:30 |
Session Three: Pedagogical
Challenges for Literary Instruction in ODL
Chair:
Antonis Lionarakis, Assistant
Professor of Open and Distance Learning, The
Hellenic Open University |
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| 19:30-20:30 |
Presentation of the exhibition
“Educational Material for Literary Studies
in ODL University Programmes” |
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Saturday
8 April |
| 10:00-11:15 |
Session Four: Advanced
Technologies in ODL Literary Instruction
Chair:
Laura Borràs Castanyer, Professor of
Humanities and Philology Studies,
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya |
- "Advanced Technologies:
Towards a Future Paradigm of Thinking
and Representing Reality in ODL
Literature Studies"
by
Alessandra Briganti, Professor
of Italian Literature and Rector,
Università Telematica “Guglielmo
Marconi”, Rome, Italy

- "Walk TALL! (Technology
Assisted Language/literature Learning):
Teaching English Literature Online"
by Ayesha Heble, Assistant
Professor of English, Sultan Qaboos
University, Sultanate of Oman

- "The Windmills of Your Mind:
Teaching Literature Imaginatively with
Technology"
by Barbara Kolan, Lecturer in
English Literature, Bar-Ilan University
and Achva College of Education, Israel

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11:30-13:30 |
Session Five: Hypertext and Digital
Literature in ODL
Chair:
Ellie Chambers, Professor of
Humanities Higher Education, The Open
University, UK |
- "The UOC Experience: Teaching Literature in a
Virtual Campus, 1998-2005"
by
Laura Borràs Castanyer, Professor of
Humanities and Philology Studies,
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, and
Joan Elies Adell,
Professor of Literary
Theory, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

- "The Art of the Elegantly
Folded Text: Hypertext, Literary Theory
and ODL Practices"
by
Theodoros Chiotis, D.Phil Candidate in
Modern Greek Literature, The University of
Oxford, UK

- "Hypertextual Spaces of
Representation: Learning and Thinking
Differently"
by Asunción López-Varela, Associate Professor
of Comparative Literature, Universidad
Complutense, Madrid

- "Teaching Digital Literature: Code and
Culture"
by
Raine Koskimaa, Professor of Digital
Literature, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland

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18:30-20:00 |
Session Six: Re-thinking the Canon in
ODL
Chair: Bob Owens, Professor of English
Literature and Head of the Literature
Department, The Open University, UK |
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Sunday
9 April |
| 9:30-11:30 |
Session Seven: Digital and
Audiovisual Tools in ODL Literary Studies
Chair:
Raine Koskimaa, Professor of Digital
Literature, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland |
- "Teaching Russian Literature: Uses of the
Internet "
by
Alexandra Ioannidou, Lecturer
in Slavic Languages and Literatures,
University of Macedonia

- "A Database of Filmed Novels: Methodology
and Didactic Use"
by
Panagiotis Arvanitis, Lecturer in
Multimedia Educational Applications, The
University of Thessaloniki, and
Despoina Kaklamanidou, Instructor of
Film History, The University of
Thessaloniki

- "Audiovisual Technology in ODL Literary
Studies: Educational Video and DVD"
by
Michalis Lykoudis, Film Director, Ph.D.
Candidate in Political Communication,
The University of Athens

- "Freshmen Literature Students in a DEL
Training Program for Developing
Alternative Ways of Teaching Literature
in a Teachers’ College: A Better
Connection between Technological and
Pedagogical Issues Is Needed"
by
Sara Hauptman, Professor and Head of the
Literature Department, Achva College,
Israel

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11:45-13:15 |
Session Eight: Making Sense of
Literary Texts in ODL
Chair: Martin Huber, Professor of Modern
German Literature and Media Research,
FernUniversität – University of Hagen,
Germany |
- "Teaching Modern Greek
Literature in ODL: Literary Theory and
the Example of Autobiographical Writing"
by
Ourania Polycandrioti,
Assistant Research Professor, Institute
for Neohellenic Research, The National
Hellenic Research Foundation,
and
Theoharoula Niftanidou, Lecturer in
Modern Greek Literature, The University
of Patras

- "Constraints and
Potentialities in Understanding and
Evaluating Literature: Flexible
Instructions and the Role of Literary
Theory"
by
Evi Voyiatzaki, Tutor
of Modern Greek Literature, The Hellenic
Open University

- "The Evolution of Insight:
Collaborative Reading in Distance
Learning "
by
Colin Marlaire, Assistant
professor of English, National
University, USA

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13:30-14:30 |
Concluding Remarks - Discussion |
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