HEA: Events

New to teaching workshop: Strategies to enhance learning and teaching for home and international students, 31 May 2012, University of Glamorgan

This workshop is intended for staff new to teaching who have students from a range of cultural and educational backgrounds. Getting students engaged with the subject matter has always been a key challenge, but the increased diversity of students can help to open up new ways of involving them all. Participants will be asked to think about their own expectations and to compare them with alternative views and interpretations of commonly experienced teaching situations. Practical strategies will be introduced to help develop teaching practices that include all students in the learning process.

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HEPI-HEA Spring Conference – bookings open

The HEA is to be the partner for the Higher Education Policy Institute’s Spring conference: “What students want – the student learning experience in the changing world of higher education.” This conference, which will be held at the British Academy in London on 22 May, brings together those at the very heart of the debate about the student experience in the UK, and will also hear from Professor Alexander C. McCormick, Director of the American National Student Engagement Survey. Professor Stephanie Marshall, Deputy Chief Executive (Research & Policy) at the HEA comments: “We are delighted to be working so closely with HEPI on this conference. The HEA works to enhance learning and teaching to improve the experience that students have while they are in higher education. This conference will help to facilitate debate around many of the key issues”.

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 Bookings open for HEA discipline cluster conferences
The HEA’s first annual STEM learning and teaching conference kicked off on Thursday at Imperial College, and the HEA has now opened bookings for the three remaining HEA discipline cluster conferences – the Health Sciences Conferences, the Social Sciences Conference, and the Arts and Humanities Conference. Visit our website for further details and booking.

HEA: New to teaching workshop

New to teaching workshop: Strategies to enhance learning and teaching for home and international students

31 May 2012, University of Glamorgan

This workshop is intended for staff new to teaching who have students from a range of cultural and educational backgrounds.

Getting students engaged with the subject matter has always been a key challenge, but the increased diversity of students can help to open up new ways of involving them all. Participants will be asked to think about their own expectations and to compare them with alternative views and interpretations of commonly experienced teaching situations. Practical strategies will be introduced to help develop teaching practices that include all students in the learning process.

By the end of the workshop participants will be able to:

• explain how previous educational experience can impact on student expectations;

• identify their own assumptions and preferences;

• plan for introducing new teaching strategies in their own practice.

Register online at http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2012/academyevents/31_May_New_to_teaching_workshop

JISC: Webinars

Please find below a list of upcoming webinars relating to assessment and feedback, that have been organised as part of the JISC Assessment and Feedback programme. These are open however to anyone with an interest in this area.

• Friday 11 May (12:00-13:00) - Tools to support effective assessment and feedback: Viewpoints project (University of Ulster) .  Further details and booking 
• Monday 14 May (12.30-13.30) - Managing learning-scale institutional change: lessons and approaches from the curriculum design programme. Further details and booking.
• Wednesday 16 May (13:00-14:00) - The role of coaching in supporting assessment and feedback: lessons from the PC3 project (Leeds Met University).  Further details and booking.
• Monday 25 June (13:00-14:00) - University of Dundee EFFECT project (Strand B) project 'show and tell' (further details to follow)
• Monday 23 July ((13:00-14:00) - University of Edinburgh SGC4L project (Strand B) project 'show and tell' (further details to follow)

Supporting Digital Practice in a Digital Age

On the 17th May  the University of Exeter would like to invite  you to an exciting and informative day, where people in different academic skills positions can come together and both share and gain some perspective about how digital technologies are affecting academic practice and about working with these changes. For more information about this event, and to book a space online, please go here:

http://as.exeter.ac.uk/support/educationenhancementprojects/current_projects/cascade.html/academicpracticeinadigitalageevent/

*Launch of CELT Teaching Innovation Grants & CELT Learning Innovation Grants*

Since 2008, the CELT Learning and Teaching Grants have enabled over 100 individual and group projects to be developed, resulting in innovation in academic and professional practice, enhancements in the student learning experience and research contributions.

Continuing this focus, the new CELT Teaching Innovation Grants and the CELT Learning Innovation Grants will promote the collaboration between staff and students while also promoting opportunities for students to gain work-experience and enhancing their work-focused skills.

CELT Teaching Innovation Grants are one year, staff-led grants of up to £3000 (£2500 per project + £500 bursary for student work-experience) to support team projects involving staff and at least one student.  CELT Learning Innovation Grants are student-led grants of up to 100 hours of student work-experience to support team projects involving students and at least one staff member.

Workshops to support the development of bids will take place on April 24th, 11am - 12noon (Caerleon) and April 25th, 11am - 12noon (City).  The closing date for the submission of bids is Wednesday, 2nd May 2012.  Application forms and further details are available at CELT Enterprise (https://my.newport.ac.uk/moodle/course/view.php?id=2329) or through CELT Activities (https://my.newport.ac.uk/moodle/course/view.php?id=2323).  

Any queries, please email celt@newport.ac.uk or telephone Amanda Lawrence (extension 2670).