The Colloquium explored the role of pictures and diagrams in learning.

Keynotes from OU and external speakers included:

• Why diagrams are useful? What is special about them?
• How people use Rich Pictures to help them think and act
• Online use of diagrams to help people
• Communities and diagrams

The Colloquium offered the chance to:

• Explore a powerful form of human communication
• Understand how this medium has been used in various cultures and contexts
• Evaluate how technologies can mediate picture drawing and
• Gain first-hand experience  of rich picture making processes 

It has been arranged for the Colloquium’s papers to be published in the Journal: Systemic Practice and Action Research in a special edition in the summer of 2012.

10.00 – 10.15  Welcome and Introduction to the Colloquium, Dr Keith Williams, eSTEeM Director (MCT) and Prof Simon Bell, Senior Lecturer in Information Systems, The Open University

10.15 – 10.30  Keynote presentation -  Livescribes, how we create Rich Pictures through Visual Thinking, Chris Shiptonand Rikki Marr of Livescribes

 10:30 – 11:00  Keynote presentation – How diagrams aid teaching and learning, Prof Andy Lane, Professor of Environmental Systems, The Open University

11:15 – 11:45  Keynote presentation – How people use Rich Pictures, Prof Simon Bell, Senior Lecturer in Information Systems, The Open University andProf Stephen Morse, Chair in Systems Analysis for Sustainability, University of Surrey

13:30 – 14:00 Keynote presentation – Diagrams in making learning happen, Vicky Eves, Media Developer – Graphics, Learning & Teaching Solutions, The Open University

14:00 – 14:30 Keynote presentation - Mapping and Tracking Process: Using CompendiumDS for Design Thinking, Prof Peter Lloyd, Professor of Design Studies, The Open University

14:30 – 15:00 Keynote presentation – Visual Conversations with Data – Dr Tony Hirst, Lecturer in Telematics, The Open University

15:00 – 15:30 Audience Talk Back – panel session

For more information about eSTEeM please visit our website www.open.ac.uk/esteem

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