Fwd: Judging Quality in Disciplinary Writing

Thinking Writing warmly invites you to this Higher Education Academy workshop -

Judging quality in disciplinary writing: what can students learn from peer assessment and composing feedback?

On 30 May 2012 10.00 – 15.30

In G.O. Jones Building Room 6.02, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London , E1 4NS

This workshop will look at reasons for using peer assessment, ways of implementing it, typical problems and how students respond. It draws on work by academics in Queen Mary’s School of Engineering and Material Sciences to engage their students in reading, judging and proving feedback on writing tasks, such as technical reports and literature reviews.  

Paul Orsmond (University of Staffordshire) will provide an overview of thinking and research on self and peer assessment practices. Queen Mary colleagues will describe their practice and how their thinking has developed. Together we’ll then draw on case studies as well as interview data gathered in evaluations to focus on what (we think) students learn from peer assessment and composing peer feedback. In particular we will discuss these questions:

• What do students learn about judging quality from composing peer feedback?
• How does peer assessment facilitate the development of assessment literacy?
• What is the purpose of peer assessment; a way of clarifying tutor values or a way of eliciting student values?
• To what extent is there room for negotiation between tutors and students over how, and on what, judgements are made?

Do come and share your interests in and experiences of peer assessment and help us explore the potential for improving students’ writing.

Refreshments and lunch will be provided. To book a place go to: http://www.qmul.ac.uk/events/items/2012/62053.html

Please pass this information on to any disciplinary colleagues you feel may be interested.

This event is part of the Higher Education Academy's Workshop and Seminar Series 2012. Thinking Writing is in the Library and Employability Directorate at QMUL and works with academic Schools to develop students’ experiences of writing in their disciplines. 

--   Sally Mitchell  Thinking Writing   Queen Mary, University of London  Mile End Road  London E1 4NS    Tel: 020 7882 2833  www.thinkingwriting.qmul.ac.uk    

--   David Andrew,   Head of Academic Practice  Senior Tutor         The Learning Institute   Queen Mary, University of London  Mile End, London E1 4NS      02078822803  02081446753     Book an appointment with me at http://doodle.com/DavidAndrew

Fwd: The Higher Education Academy's First Annual Social Sciences Conference

BOOKING NOW OPEN:
The Higher Education Academy's First Annual Social Sciences Conference

Ways of Knowing, Ways of Learning
The HEA's First Annual Social Sciences Conference
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Liverpool
28-29 May 2012

***Apologies for cross-posting***

In the face of unprecedented changes, students are asking whether and how best higher education can equip them for their future.

Ways of Knowing, Ways of Learning is the HEA's first annual conference dedicated solely to enhancing student outcomes and learning and teaching in the Social Sciences.

Over two days and 40 sessions, the conference will present examples of innovative and effective practice and applications of the very latest technology.

* Presentations
* Micro-teach sessions
* Virtual gallery

Key notes speakers: Professor Malcolm Tight, Professor in Higher Education, University of Lancaster and Professor Diana Laurillard, London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education

To find out more and book, please visit: www.heacademy.ac.uk/events

For details about assistance with travel costs, please see: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/travel-fund

Please share this message with colleagues who may be interested.



--
David Andrew,
Head of Academic Practice
Senior Tutor



The Learning Institute
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End, London E1 4NS


02078822803
02081446753

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Fwd: ASKe Feedback Event 2012 'New Perspectives on Feedback' 28 June

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Subject:	ASKe Feedback Event 2012 'New Perspectives on Feedback' 28 June
Date:	Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:38:28 +0100
From:	Margaret Price <meprice@BROOKES.AC.UK>
Reply-To:	Improving Student Learning <ISL@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
To:	ISL@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

  

ASKe Feedback Event 2012:  'New Perspectives on Feedback'

 

Date: Thursday 28 June, 09:45-16:30

Venue: Oxford Brookes University, Wheatley Campus

Fee: £140

Programme & Registration: www.brookes.ac.uk/aske/events

Enquiries to: Nicola Ranjit nranjit@brookes.ac.uk

 

Feedback continues to disappoint students in higher education and this seems likely to intensify with the new fees regime. However, improvement in feedback practices remains largely elusive especially in an environment with finite resources. Institutions and their staff are being challenged to find the solution to a complex problem.

 

This one day event aims to support those grappling with this problem by bringing together expertise in research, innovative approaches and the student voice in order to generate debate, analysis and ideas to take away.  There will be contributions from researchers, the HEA and the NUS.

 

It will appeal to leaders with responsibility for driving feedback improvement in institutions, departments and programmes as well as practitioners and student representatives seeking to improve feedback practices.  

 

The event will include keynotes, presentations and workshops, and cover:

• Input on the key messages from research literature

• New ideas on practice and resources to use 
• Student perspectives on developing feedback practice
• Opportunities to ask questions of experts
• Time and space for participants to share and develop ideas about improving feedback

 

Keynote speakers

David Nicol, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education, Expert Associate to JISC for Assessment and Feedback Programme, Centre for Academic Practice and Learning Enhancement, University of Strathclyde

Margaret Price, Professor of Learning and Assessment, Oxford Brookes University

 

Venue and travel

We are pleased to host the event at our Wheatley Campus in order to take advantage of the excellent facilities including lecture theatre and workshop rooms in our Postgraduate Centre in the Faculty of Business (http://www.brookes.ac.uk/about/findus). We therefore encourage car sharing and planning your travel in good time. Please note details on the registration form regarding car parking and taxis from Oxford Rail Station.

 

 

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Professor Margaret Price

Director Pedagogy Research Centre, including ASKe

Faculty of Business, Room N413

Oxford Brookes University

Wheatley Campus

Oxford OX33 1HX

 

t. 01865 485944

f. 01865 485830

www.brookes.ac.uk/aske
 

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Fwd: [Issotl-discuss] REMINDER: NAIRTL's International Threshold Concepts Conference, 28-29 June

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4th Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference and 6th NAIRTL Annual Conference

THRESHOLD CONCEPTS:
from personal practice to communities of practice

The 4th Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference takes place in Dublin from 28-29 June and will be hosted by the National Academy.  The conference programme is now finalised and includes 60 oral presentations, 7 workshops, 40 Pecha Kucha presentations and 50 posters addressing the following sub-themes

·  Engaging Students with Threshold Concepts
·  Interdisciplinary Threshold Concepts
·  Threshold Concepts in Professional Development
·  New Developments in Threshold Concepts

A pre-conference ‘Student Symposium’ will be held on June 27 for those new to the area of Threshold Concepts. Delegates are invited to attend either of the two Symposium workshops. Full details of the conference programme, the keynote speakers’ biographies, and related information are included on the conference webpage.

While registration is close to full capacity, some spaces still remain. Register online to attend the conference and the pre-conference workshops at  www.nairtl.ie/conference2012 

Please note: Staff in the 37 Higher Education Institutions linked to NAIRTL are eligible for a fee waiver.

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Goldsmiths Learning and Teaching conference

Here's a conversation I thought you might find interesting!

 

Future Tense - the Goldsmiths Learning and Teaching Conference, 2012.
When: Friday 18th May 2012, 9.00 - 5.00

Where: New Academic Building, Goldsmiths University of London
(http://www.gold.ac.uk/find-us/)

Free to attend; you do need to register at
http://www.futuretense.eventbrite.com

Goldsmiths Learning and Enhancement Unit is hosting an international
conference to profile individuals or groups of staff and projects, that
have shaped, challenged or shifted learning and teaching in their higher
education contexts.

There will be space and opportunity for engaging with potential futures
of technology-enhanced learning as well as interrogating what familiar
concepts such as 'interdisciplinarity' and 'research-based teaching'
really mean in practice.

In an exciting collaboration, Martin Conreen, who lectures in
Goldsmiths' Design Department, and Mark Miodownik, Professor of
Materials and Society at University College and Royal Institute
Christmas Lecturer, will be giving the keynote.

Other key speakers include education campaigner and journalist Melissa
Benn, Glasgow School of Arts education leader Professor Linda Drew,
Goldsmiths cultural scholar Professor John Hutnyk, audio learning
innovator Andrew Middleton and Kings College neuroscientist and Wellcome
adviser Richard Wingate.

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Programme and more information at http://www.gold.ac.uk/gleu/futuretense/
Register at http://www.futuretense.eventbrite.com

Esther Saxey
Academic Developer
Learning Enhancement Unit
Goldsmiths, University of London
Warmington Tower 305
Ext. 7332

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Fwd: Invitation to HEA Data Seminar at NTU

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Subject:	Invitation to HEA Data Seminar at NTU
Date:	Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:21:17 +0000
From:	Lawther, Sarah <sarah.salzano@NTU.AC.UK>
Reply-To:	Lawther, Sarah <sarah.salzano@NTU.AC.UK>
To:	LDHEN@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Dear all,

 

I would like to invite colleagues to the following event at Nottingham Trent University.

 

 

Digging for Gold: Exploring the use of institutional data and how it may be used effectively in combination with less formal data to enhance student retention and success.

15^th June 2012

This interactive seminar aims to explore the use of institutional data, by looking at how to understand and interpret existing institutional data and how it may be used effectively in combination with informal data that is collected from multiple sources within institutions.

This one day event is being hosted as part of the Higher Education Academy's Workshop and Seminar Series 2012. Further details can be found at http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2012/seminars/themes/TS060_Nottingham_Trent. 

There is no charge to attend the seminar, but a place must be reserved. To register, please email Sarah Lawther (sarah.lawther@ntu.ac.uk). 

Details about how to apply for funding to cover the cost of your travel can be found at http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/travel-fund

 

If you have any further questions about the event please do get in touch.

With best wishes,

Sarah.

 

 

Sarah Lawther | Learning and Teaching Officer | Learning Development Team | Nottingham Trent University | 0115 848 8210 | sarah.lawther@ntu.ac.uk

 

The findings of the HERE Project, a three year project looking at student retention and engagement in Higher Education, can be found on the HERE Project website.

 

Study Skills Workshops to support students in transition are now being run by the Learning Development Team. To view the current programme, visit  Study Skills Workshops or http://www.ntu.ac.uk/llr/news_events/ to book a place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Fwd: Public Seminar list - Trinity term 2012

The Oxford Learning Institute has a regular public seminar programme
each term, which is open to anyone interested in aspects of higher
education. The seminars take place on Thursdays from 4pm to 5.30pm in
the Seminar Room on Level 2 of Littlegate House, St Ebbe's Street,
Oxford. If you would like to attend any of the seminars or wish to be
added to the e-mail list please contact research@learning.ox.ac.uk or
telephone 01865 286811. The full seminar programme for Trinity Term 2012
can be found on our website at http://www.learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/public/

Fwd: Free workshops

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Subject:	Free workshops
Date:	Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:46:56 +0100
From:	HEA STEM <news@mail.heacademy.ac.uk>
Reply-To:	HEA STEM <re-12ZA-RC80-5FMKHW-BZ90G@mail.heacademy.ac.uk>
To:	d.andrew@qmul.ac.uk <d.andrew@qmul.ac.uk>

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Email not displaying correctly? Click here to view it in your browser. HEA STEM FREE WORKSHOPS April 2012 HEA TRAVEL FUNDS AVAILABLE TO STAFF & STUDENTS Visit the HEA website for more information   HEA STEM: The phenomena of social media and the use of social technology in higher education (in STEM) Date: 04 Apr 12 Location/venue: University of Manchester We are delighted to invite you to join us at a workshop at the University of Manchester that focuses on using Web 2.0 in teaching and learning, within the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. HEA STEM: Innovative Approaches to Student Engagement Date: 11 Apr 12 Location/venue: University of Liverpool This workshop aims to identify and examine some of the factors that impact on student engagement - both positively and negatively, share experiences of novel attempts at promoting student engagement and explore the potential for radically new strategies to promote student engagement.   HEA STEM: Getting Started in Pedagogic Research Date: 26 April 2012 Location/venue: University of Huddersfield This workshop will be aimed at staff from STEM Subjects interested in developing their teaching activities and their understanding of student learning with a view to research leading to publication. The event will provide attendees with an opportunity to consider educational (pedagogic) research in a scientific context and how this relates to their own practice.   Hope to see you at some of our events Karen Fraser Academic Development Officer STEM T +44 (0)1904 717500 M +44 (0)7720 968853 karen.fraser@heacademy.ac.uk HEA STEM has created this mailing list to keep you informed of the opportunities we are offering to the STEM community, both academics and students, in the upcoming weeks. This short newsletter will be sent every two weeks, if you would prefer not to receive it please click unsubscribe and type unsubscribe into the subject line.   About the Higher Education Academy The HEA is a national body for enhancing learning and teaching in higher education in the UK. We work with institutions across the HE system to help bring about change in learning and teaching to improve the outcomes for students. We do this by recognising and rewarding excellent teaching, bringing together people and resources to research and share best practice and by helping influence, shape and implement policy. The HEA supports staff in higher education throughout their career from those who are new to teaching through to senior management. We offer services in 28 disciplines and throughout the UK, and have offices in England, Wales and Scotland. Through the partnership management team we work directly with institutions to understand individual circumstances and priorities and bring together resources to meet them. Owned by Universities UK and Guild HE, the HEA is funded by the four national funding councils, institutional subscriptions and project income. For more recent news, events and funding opportunities, subscribe to Academy Update. The Higher Education Academy, Company Limited by Guarantee Registered Number 4931031. Registered Office: The Higher Education Academy, Innovation Way, York Science Park, Heslington, York, YO10 5BR, United Kingdom. Registered as Charity Number 1101607.

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Fwd: NUS/HEA Student Engagement Conference

Dear all,

 

Please see below for a message from Usman Ali, Vice President (Higher Education), NUS, with details of the 2012 NUS/HEA Student Engagement Conference and a call for session proposals. NUS would welcome proposals from institutional staff with an interest in student engagement. Any questions, please contact Oliver Williams at NUS (oliver.williams@nus.org.uk).

 

Best wishes,

 

Lucy Buchanan-Parker        

National Union of Students

 

 

 

 

 

Dear all,

NUS and Higher Education Academy Student Engagement Conference: The Powers and Perils of Partnership, 12-13 June 2012, Nottingham

A great deal has been written, spoken and done about student engagement by us all. In fact, it is the rationale behind a lot of what NUS and other sector organisations do. But what has it all been for? Are we really ensuring students are at ‘the heart of the system?’ If not, what needs to change? 

NUS and the Higher Education Academy are delighted to announce a two-day conference on student engagement held on 12-13 June 2012. The conference will: 

• Highlight some of the ways that NUS and the Higher Education Academy have been working to embed student engagement at the heart of each and every institution, including its projects on student-led teaching awards and widening engagement
• Showcase some of the work being done by students, students’ unions and institutions across the UK to ensure student engagement is not merely tokenistic
• Reflect on the research and evidence-base for student engagement
• Explore the debates underpinning student engagement
• Bring together voices from across the sector to look to the future of student engagement and how we can continue to ensure that it is meaningful and accessible to all

There is, as yet, only a template agenda available. That is because we want you to suggest and deliver the sessions on student engagement that you want to hear! For more information, and to submit a session, click here.

Registration is now open! Our last student engagement conference reached capacity well before the closing date, so we strongly suggest booking now to avoid disappointment. Click here to register!

Dates

12-13 June 2012

Times

11am on 12 June until 3.30pm on 13 June

Location

Radisson by Park Inn Hotel, Mansfield Road, Nottingham NG5 2BT

For prices, session submission, and more information, visit www.nusconnect.org.uk/seconference

In unity,

 

Usman Ali

Vice-President (Higher Education)

NUS

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Fwd: Physical Sciences Newsletter- including events and workshops

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Email not displaying correctly? Click here to view it in your browser. HE STEM STEM Physical Sciences Newsletter March 2012 March 2012   In this edition: STEM Conference Discipline conferences Forthcoming workshops New to teaching event Teaching development grants New research tenders Resources to review   Introduction Welcome to the second Physical Sciences newsletter. I am now starting to settle into my Higher Education Academy role as the Discipline Lead for the Physical Sciences, and I hope that you will agree after reading the rest of the newsletter that there is plenty going on. I have particularly enjoyed visiting colleagues in forensic science, physics and chemistry, and hope to meet many more of you in the coming months. While I hope to see many of you at the events we are sponsoring, I am also very happy to visit departments so do get in touch via paul.yates@heacademy.ac.uk if you would like me to do this. Paul Yates   STEM Conference The programme for the conference is now available on the HEA website and you will see that there is an excellent programme within the physical sciences. It also worth noting that some of the physical science papers also appear within the STEM Learning and Teaching Issues sessions, so do look out for them there. Although the conference is currently full, you can have your name added to the waiting list by e-mailing externalevents@heacademy.ac.uk with your name, institution and desired booking (e.g. full conference with dinner). Discipline Conferences The Higher Education Academy is pleased to be sponsoring the major UK educational conferences in the physical sciences later this year. FORREST (FORensic RESearch and Teaching) takes place at Abertay University on 26th and 27th June. Further details of the programme and registration are available on their website. The Physics Higher Education Conference and the Variety in Chemistry Education meetings are combining forces this year, and will meeting on 30th and 31st August at the University of Edinburgh. Further details will be available shortly.   Forthcoming Workshops The full workshop programme can be found on the HEA website. Those of most obvious interest to physical scientists are as follows: Improving Learner Experience in Forensic Science Higher Education and Practitioner Training, Tuesday 15th May, Cranfield University Peer Assisted Learning/Student Ownership of Learning/Student Generated Content, Wednesday 16th May, University of Manchester Developing Independent Learning Skills in the Physical Sciences, Thursday 31st May, University of Reading Problem Based Learning, Monday 9th to Wednesday 11th July, University of Leicester Please book for these via the web page above. In addition, on Thursday 14th June we are holding a workshop on "Lectures without Lecturing" at the Higher Education Academy in York. Confirmed speakers are Simon Bates (Edinburgh), Dave McGarvey (Keele) and David Read (Southampton). If you do something other than lecturing in your formal lecture slots we would be interested in hearing about it, so please get in touch via paul.yates@heacademy.ac.uk and consider contributing a talk to this event. New to Teaching Event This is aimed at those who have been teaching for no more than two years, and will take place in Birmingham on 6th and 7th June. Heads of Department are asked to nominate eligible members of staff who they feel would benefit from attending. Nominations should be sent to paul.yates@heacademy.ac.uk. Teaching Development Grants A reminder that the call for Collaborative Teaching Development Grants, which should be in the areas of employability or internationalisation, close on 22nd April. New Research Tenders The Higher Education Academy has put out an invitation to tender for four exciting new projects. The deadline for applications is 2nd April and further details are available on the HEA news pages and on the HEA funding pages. Resources to Review Martin Greenhow and his colleagues have been developing an extensive set of online questions called maths e.g. which are now being hosted at MathCentre.  Although the questions are maths based , they have wide applicability and will be of interest to those teaching the physical sciences. The student interface can be found here. If anyone would like be interested in writing a review of these resources for a subsequent edition of the newsletter, please contact me at paul.yates@heacademy.ac.uk to discuss possible arrangements. I would also be pleased to consider including reviews of other resources for future editions of the newsletter, so please let me know if you are aware of any that you think would be of interest to colleagues. About the Higher Education Academy The HEA is a national body for enhancing learning and teaching in higher education in the UK. We work with institutions across the HE system to help bring about change in learning and teaching to improve the outcomes for students. We do this by recognising and rewarding excellent teaching, bringing together people and resources to research and share best practice and by helping influence, shape and implement policy. The HEA supports staff in higher education throughout their career from those who are new to teaching through to senior management. We offer services in 28 disciplines and throughout the UK, and have offices in England, Wales and Scotland. Through the partnership management team we work directly with institutions to understand individual circumstances and priorities and bring together resources to meet them. Owned by Universities UK and Guild HE, the HEA is funded by the four national funding councils, institutional subscriptions and project income. For more recent news, events and funding opportunities, subscribe to Academy Update. The Higher Education Academy, Company Limited by Guarantee Registered Number 4931031. Registered Office: The Higher Education Academy, Innovation Way, York Science Park, Heslington, York, YO10 5BR, United Kingdom. Registered as Charity Number 1101607.

--  David Andrew,  Head of Academic Practice Senior Tutor     The Learning Institute  Queen Mary, University of London Mile End, London E1 4NS   02078822803 02081446753   Book an appointment with me at http://doodle.com/DavidAndrew