Publishing Studies Workshop
30 October - 3 November, Budapest, Hotel Gellert


delegate preparation
draft agenda
workshop leaders

Center for Publishing Development is pleased to announce a Publishing Studies Workshop, which will take place in Budapest on 30 October – 3 November, 2000. The objective of the workshop will be to assist the staff of publishing studies and other publishing provision centers in Eastern Europe and Central Asia in reviewing the functioning of their institutions. The review will be comprehensive including the following issues: the role of publishing training centers, curriculum, learning material, teaching and learning, quality assurance, management (including marketing and financing). The review will also be practical in character as participants will review and redesign their own courses as the workshop progresses. The course director will be Paul Richardson, head of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies.

The workshop will be preceded by a special presentation on the impact of new technologies on publishing on 28 October 2000.

The course is free of charge for participants from Eastern Europe and Central Asia and all local costs will be covered, however, they will be expected to contribute towards the cost of travel.

The registration deadline is 15 September 2000.

Candidates should send their CV and a page-long essay explaining why they want to participate in the workshop. They should also declare how much they will contribute towards the cost of travel. All documents should be in English. They should reach the following address NO LATER than the deadline:

Ms. Monika Horvath
mhorvath@osi.hu
phone (36 1) 327 3137
fax (36 1) 327 3042
Center for Publishing Development
Open Society Institute – Budapest
1397 Budapest
PO Box 519
Hungary

Decisions about their participation in the workshop will be announced by the end of September.

delegate preparation
draft agenda
workshop leaders


 

Publishing Studies Workshop

Delegate preparation

Delegates will have to submit short papers of up to 1,500 words on key issues for Publishing Education, Training and Professional Development in their particular markets. The papers should be submitted electronically and in English to Ms.Monika Horvath (mhorvath@osi.hu) by 13 October. They will be collated and sent out as a bulletin in advance of the workshop.

There is no format for the papers but they may cover some or all of the following:

  • Existing and planned provision of publishing education and training in the country concerned
  • Are there national standards or recognised academic awards in publishing
  • The role of universities and colleges, trade associations, the Ministry of Education, local Soros foundation, etc. in publishing education and training
  • Issues of funding
  • Experience of or opportunity/need for international collaboration
  • The relationship between publishing and bookselling/booktrade education and training
  • Predicted future priorities in terms of content and skills.

Draft Agenda

Saturday 28 October 2000: The new Publishing Environment: new technologies and publishing

Michael Holyoke on e-books, WAP and the future of Electronic Publishing
Adrian Bullock on Print-on-Demand and the revolution in pre-press
Paul Richardson on Internet bookselling Presentation of European Publishing Training Need in the Information Society II (EPTNIS II) results

The main course

Sessions will involve group work where participants will discuss their own experiences and practices. There will be a project running through to produce one or more units of study, which can be recognised transnationally.

Monday 30 October 2000

Course leaders: Paul Richardson and Adrian Bullock: Developing Programmes for Publishing Education and Training

Introduction to the workshop: the new context for publishing in the New Europe

Delegate presentations of their national publishing industry profiles and education/training issues.

  • Pre-entry professional education
  • Post-entry training and professional development
  • Setting standards
  • Research and consultancy

Curriculum Development and course design

  • Content-centered approaches
  • Skills-centered approaches
  • Outcome-centered approaches

Project and independent work

Tuesday 31 October 2000

Course leaders: Paul Richardson and Adrian Bullock: Developing Teaching and Learning Materials

  • Strategies for teaching and learning
  • Teaching theoretical, applied skills elements of the curriculum
  • Developing students as independent learners
  • Providing individual support

Approaches to assessment

  • Formative and summative assessment
  • Learning through coursework assignments
  • Linking assessment and outcomes

Project and independent work

Wednesday 1 November 2000

Course leaders: Paul Richardson, Adrian Bullock and John Whitley: Setting Standards and Awards

  • National standards and vocational qualification
  • Academic awards
  • Credit accumulation and transfer
  • Establishing European standards and qualification
  • Benchmarking
  • Involving industry and establishing credibility
  • Quality Assurance

Supporting Teaching and Learning (running into Thursday)

  • Learning resources: print and electronic
  • Resource-based learning
  • Distance and open learning
  • Using industry as a learning resources
  • Staffing and staff development
  • Transnational collaboration

Project and Independent Work

Thursday 2 November 2000 (Carry on from Wednesday)

Course leaders: Paul Richardson and John Whitley: Establishing Centers for Publishing Development

Role of Higher Education, general training organization, trade bodies

  • Organizational issues
  • Finances and sustainability
  • Marketing
  • Management

Project and Independent Work

Friday 3 November 2000

Course leaders: Paul Richardson and John Whitley

  • Presentation of projects and individual plans
  • Action plans and future support for development
  • EU and other sources of funding
  • International Association of Publishing Educators
  • Association of Bookseller and Publishers Training Organisations in Europe
  • Plans for transnational training - a European Publishing Summer School?



Leaders of the workshop

Professor Paul Richardson

Professor Paul Richardson is the Head of the School of Art, Publishing and Music of the Centre for Publishing Studies at Oxford Brookes University. He has over thirty years of experience as a publisher, including senior management roles in leading educational publishing houses such as Heinemann and Macmillan. He has worked worldwide on projects for the British Government Know-How Fund, the British Council, the World Bank and the Soros Foundations and in particular has worked in almost every country in East and Central Europe. He recently produced a report on the Book Marker of Hungary and is the project co-ordinator for a EU research project on publishing training needs in East and Central Europe and a major Tempus Tacis programme to promote publishing education in Ukraine.

Adrian Bullock

Adrian Bullock is the international liaison manager for the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies and a Senior Lecturer in Publishing. He has worked as a senior manager for OUP in Oxford and in India and has undertaken training and consultancy on textbooks for international agencies including the World Bank, the Asia Development Bank, UNICEF and the British Council. This work has included projects in many parts of East and Central Europe, Spain and Germany.

John Whitley

John Whitley, Chief Executive of the Publishing Training Centre has been running and managing small training companies for most of the last 15 years. He spent his early working life as a teacher of English before moving into commerce in 1985 with DC Gardner, a banking training business. Two years later, with no sales or marketing experience, he found himself appointed Sales and Marketing Director and, as he says, has been "flying by the seat of his pants" ever since! Prior to taking the reins at Publishing Training Centre he was Executive Director of Thomas Telford Training, the training company of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Here he was responsible for turning an ailing division into a star performer within 12 months.

Michael Holyoke

Michael Holyoke studied Art History and Mathematics at Columbia and Philosophy at Cambridge before becoming database programmer and designer for Blackwell Library Services. He was later a multimedia designer, author and animator for a number of publishers and government agencies. He is now On-line Development Manager at Helikon, one of Britain’s leading electronic publishers working on e-books, PDAs (Personal Digital Assistant – a small, hand-held keyboardless device with computing facilities) and WAP (Wireless Application Protocol making access to the internet through mobile phones and PDAs possible). He has developed the first encyclopaedia designed for on-line television which will be launched in August 2000.

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