Fwd: 17th Annual SEDA Conference

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Subject:	17th Annual SEDA Conference
Date:	Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:14:56 +0000
From:	SEDA - Ann Aitken <Ann.Aitken@SEDA.AC.UK>
Reply-To:	SEDA - Ann Aitken <Ann.Aitken@SEDA.AC.UK>
To:	SEDA@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Dear Colleagues

 

17^th Annual SEDA Conference: Excellence in Teaching: recognising, enhancing, evaluating and achieving impact

 

We are now taking bookings for the above conference. See the  SEDA website for the programme and registration – www.seda.ac.uk. 

 

All the session abstracts are now on the website and so you can make your choices when you register.

 

Last year we were oversubscribed and so if you plan to come we recommend that you book early.

 

Kind regards

 

SEDA Office

 

 

Ann Aitken

SEDA

Woburn House

20-24 Tavistock Square

London WC1H 9HF

 

Tel: 020 7380 6731

 

www.seda.ac.uk

 

 

 

 

 

 

David Andrew, 
Head of Academic Practice
Senior Tutor
 

The Learning Institute 
Queen Mary, University of London

Mile End, London E1 4NS

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Fwd: EduWiki conference

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Subject:	EduWiki conference
Date:	Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:35:35 +0000
From:	SEDA - Roz Grimmitt <Roz.Grimmitt@SEDA.AC.UK>
Reply-To:	SEDA - Roz Grimmitt <Roz.Grimmitt@SEDA.AC.UK>
To:	SEDA@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

A conference on the 5th and 6th of September is bringing together university teaching and support staff with people from Wikipedia and other online learning communities.

 

The EduWiki conference will be the first of its kind in the UK, building on the success of university assignments in the US, Canada, Germany and other countries where students improve Wikipedia for course credit. This requires them to read reliable sources, summarise them for Wikipedia's global audience, and respond to feedback from other editors.

 

Over one and a half days at the University of Leicester's Stamford Hall, there will be speakers from the Wikimedia Foundation, the JISC, and various educational wiki projects, as well as academics from the UK and abroad. As well as the big picture of open education, we will look at the experiences of staff running wiki assignments in their own institutions.

 

There is a reduced conference rate of 30 pounds for staff at educational institutions. Further information and booking are available at http://bit.ly/eduwiki

 

Dr Martin L Poulter

Wikipedia contributor         http://enwp.org/User:MartinPoulter

Associate, Wikimedia UK  http://uk.wikimedia.org/

Musician                          http://myspace.com/comapilot

Person                             http://infobomb.org/

Roz Grimmitt
SEDA Administrator
Staff and Educational Development Association
Woburn House
20-24 Tavistock Square
London WC1H 9HF
United Kingdom

Telephone: +44 (0)20 7380 6754
Fax: +44 (0)20 7387 2655
Roz.Grimmitt@seda.ac.uk

www.seda.ac.uk

This email and any attachments to it are confidential to the intended recipient and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this email from your system and notify the sender.

SEDA is a UK registered charity and company (registered charity number 1089537; registered company no. 3709481).

 

David Andrew, 
Head of Academic Practice
Senior Tutor
 

The Learning Institute 
Queen Mary, University of London

Mile End, London E1 4NS

02078822803

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Fwd: CPD Opportunity for Staff and Educational Developers

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Subject:	CPD Opportunity for Staff and Educational Developers
Date:	Fri, 24 Aug 2012 12:50:16 +0100
From:	Lawrie Phipps <l.phipps@JISC.AC.UK>
Reply-To:	Lawrie Phipps <l.phipps@JISC.AC.UK>
To:	SEDA@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Dear SEDA colleagues,

 

One of the projects in JISC Transformations Programme, Leicester's  P2.0PLE project (Peer-2.0-Peer Learning Enhancement), is offering a free, short online course called Designing for collaborative learning. The course is free to members of the JISC community (first come, first serve basis) and will run for two weeks from 15 October 2012. It will require a total of 12 to 16 hours of study time in total.

 

A course overview can be found below, including instructions on how to register. You may wish to circulate this information to relevant colleagues who could benefit from this course.

 

Regards,

Lawrie Phipps

 

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Designing for collaborative learning

An online course for members of the JISC community

 

 

Who is this course for?

• Anyone with responsibility for online course design, moderating online student groups, or is interested in setting up participative online groups of students or researchers.
• Colleagues who need to maximise student participation via asynchronous online tools in their learning designs.
• Distance learning tutors who want to provide cost-effective environments for student support and engagement.
• Associate Tutors who teach on established or new online courses.

 

What will I get out of it?

By the end of the course, participants will have:

• Played an active role, as students, in a task-based online course.
• Identified practical design ideas that they can quickly apply across their own programmes.
• Experienced and applied specific strategies to maximise purposeful learner motivation and engagement.
• Experimented with techniques to develop, inspire and retain learners.
• Been exposed to a range of resources relevant to participative online learning and teaching, assessment and feedback.
• Acquired a number of e-moderating skills, including the ability to write concise and personable online messages, enable and support contributions, weave and summarise.

 

Duration

Two weeks. The course involves approximately 6 to 8 hours of online work per participant per week.

 

Start date

15 October 2012.

 

Platform

The course will be run on Blackboard's Course Sites (www.coursesites.com). Participants will be asked to sign up for a free account. Their usernames will then be added to the relevant course on Course Sites.

Registration

To register, please email your name, role, institution, telephone number and Course Sites username (see previous point) to Jen Beard (jb478@le.ac.uk) by 7 September 2012.

 

Moderators

Jen Beard and other e-moderators from the Beyond Distance Research Alliance, University of Leicester.

 

Completion

An electronic certificate of completion will be sent to participants who demonstrate achievement of the stated learning outcomes, by satisfactorily completing all of the course e-tivities and evaluation form. The course does not attract HE credits.

 

Use of course materials

The course materials (including all e-tivities) are open educational resources. They have been released under a Creative Commons BY (attribution) licence, which means you can repurpose and reuse them in your own teaching, with appropriate attribution (see below).

 

Cost

The is no cost to members of the JISC and HE Academy community. However, the University of Leicester reserves the right to charge a fee of £100 to any individual who registers on the course and fails to take part in it.

 

Research

Research data will be collected and analysed as part of the course. By joining the course, you agree for the data (including participants’ contributions to wikis, forums and blogs) to be used anonymously for research purposes. Earlier versions of this course have been run and researched at the University of Leicester and elsewhere.

 

Attribution

The courses were designed and piloted by Alejandro Armellini and Simon Kear, with input from Jennifer Beard and other colleagues at the Beyond Distance Research Alliance, University of Leicester. This is a refined version of the course and forms part of the JISC-funded P2.0PLE project (Peer-2.0-Peer Learning Enhancement), led by the Beyond Distance Research Alliance, University of Leicester.

 

Questions

Questions related to this course may be sent to Jen Beard (jb478@le.ac.uk), Simon Kear (spk7@le.ac.uk) or Dr Alejandro Armellini (aa277@le.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

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Fwd: Events e-bulletin

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Subject:	Events e-bulletin
Date:	Tue, 21 Aug 2012 11:52:56 +0100
From:	HEA STEM <news@mail.heacademy.ac.uk>
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To:	d.andrew@qmul.ac.uk <d.andrew@qmul.ac.uk>

Email not displaying correctly? Click here to view it in your browser. HEA STEM Events e-bulletin 21 August 2012 News Dear Colleagues The new academic year is nearly upon us and we have some exciting workshops running at the beginning of next month, we would be delighted if you could join us; 1. HEA STEM: Transitions, employability and professional identity: case study in Architecture Date: 4 Sep 2012 Start Time: 11:00 am Location/venue: University of Ulster, York Street, Belfast   2. Talent 2030/HEA Young women engineers network event - Sponsored by HEA STEM Date: 10 Sep 2012 Start Time: 2:00 pm Location/venue: Lakeside Centre, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham, B4 7ET The event will hear presentations from leading figures in industry and higher education, exploring how we can best encourage and support young women to pursue further study and employment in engineering, manufacturing and related fields.   3. HEA STEM: "New to Teaching" Workshop for the Engineering and Materials Disciplines Date: 13 Sep 2012 - 14 Sep 2012 Start Time: 10:30 am Location/venue: University of Liverpool   4. Feedback Blog Please feel free to join us at; http://blogs.heacademy.ac.uk/stem-feedback/   Keep in touch Email: karen.fraser@heacademy.ac.uk Visit the website: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/stem Twitter: # HEASTEM Want to unsubscribe or change your details? 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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The Learning Institute 
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Fwd: Call for Papers: London International Conference on Education (LICE-2012)!

Kindly email this call for papers to your colleagues,
faculty members and postgraduate students.


CALL FOR PAPERS

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London International Conference on Education (LICE-2012)
November 19-22, 2012, London, UK
(www.liceducation.org)
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The London International Conference on Education (LICE) is an international
refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices
in education. The LICE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians
and professionals from Education.

The aim of LICE is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals
from various educational fields with cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the
knowledge gap, promote research esteem and the evolution of pedagogy.
The LICE-2012 invites research papers that encompass conceptual analysis,
design implementation and performance evaluation. All accepted papers will
appear in the proceedings and modified version of selected papers will be
published in special issues peer reviewed journals.


The topics in LICE-2012 include but are not confined to
the following areas:

*Academic Advising and Counselling
*Art Education
*Adult Education
*APD/Listening and Acoustics in Education Environment
*Business Education
*Counsellor Education
*Curriculum, Research and Development
*Distance Education
*Early Childhood Education
*Educational Administration
*Educational Foundations
*Educational Psychology
*Educational Technology
*Education Policy and Leadership
*Elementary Education
*E-Learning
*ESL/TESL
*Health Education
*Higher Education
*History
*Human Resource Development
*Indigenous Education
*ICT Education
*Kinesiology & Leisure Science
*K12
*Language Education
*Mathematics Education
*Multi-Virtual Environment
*Music Education
*Pedagogy
*Physical Education (PE)
*Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)
*Reading Education
*Religion and Education Studies
*Rural Education
*Science Education
*Secondary Education
*Second life Educators
*Social Studies Education
*Special Education
*Student Affairs
*Teacher Education
*Cross-disciplinary areas of Education
*E-Society
*Other Areas of Education


SUBMISSION:
Please email your research paper to papers-2012@liceducation.org


IMPORTANT DATES:

Extended Abstract (Work in Progress) Submission Date: August 31, 2012
Research Paper, Student Paper, Case Study, Report Submission Date: August 15, 2012
Proposal for Workshops: August 31, 2012
Notification of Workshop Acceptance/Rejection:  September 10, 2012
Notification of Extended Abstract (Work in Progress) Acceptance/Rejection: September 10, 2012
Notification of Research Paper, Student Paper, Case Study, Report Acceptance /Rejection: September 1, 2012
Camera Ready Paper Due: October 10, 2012
Participant(s) Registration (Open):  May 25, 2012
Early Bird Registration Deadline (Authors only):  August 01 to September 16, 2012
Late Bird Registration Deadline (Authors only):  September 17 to October 30, 2012
Conference Dates:  November 19-22, 2012

For further information, please visit www.liceducation.org

 

David Andrew, 
Head of Academic Practice
Senior Tutor
 

The Learning Institute 
Queen Mary, University of London

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02081446753

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Fwd: Invitation to The Fifth Annual Student Writing in Transition Symposium

Dear all,

 

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

 

The Fifth Annual Student Writing in Transition Symposium

 

A 1-day symposium at Nottingham Trent University

 

Tuesday 11th September 2012

 

The Learning Development Team, in conjunction with the European First Year Experience Network, is hosting a 1-day staff development symposium to look at strategies for helping students adapt to learning and writing in higher education. 

 

Student Writing in Transition offers a space for staff to discuss:

 

• The differences between learning in school, college and university and what impact this might have on the way that students engage with learning in the first year.
• Strategies and approaches for helping students to make the transition to learning at university, both in the curriculum and through professional support.
• Issues and approaches associated with supporting students as they learn how to write in HE.

 

We are pleased to have as our keynote speakers this year:

 

Professor Liz Thomas, The Higher Education Academy (HEA)

Lisa Clughen and Christine Hardy, Nottingham Trent University

 

Delegates will be able to choose from a range of parallel sessions that address the symposium themes such as:

• Amanda French, Senior Lecturer, Wolverhampton University’ ‘Talking about the ‘F’ word’
• Pat Hill, Senior Lecturer/Academic Skills Tutor, University of Huddersfield’ ‘Invisible writing and the link between semi-colons and stupidity’
• Jackie Dunn, Senior Library Assistant, Robinson Library, Newcastle University and Ann-Marie Laws, Librarian/LRC Manager, Ponteland High School, Northumberland, ‘Bridging the Divide: Information Literacy, the forgotten link’

 

Topics from experts within the university include: overcoming some of the barriers to writing academically, transitioning into postgraduate writing and how to scaffold research and writing skills for level 1 students.

 

The day will conclude with a ‘Mentoring/Buddying Show and Tell’; an interactive session that will showcase a variety of schemes.

 

All colleagues are welcome to attend this free event.

 

If you would like to book a place please complete a booking form.

 

If you would like to display a poster at the event, or if you would like any further information, please contact Sarah Lawther or Sarah Johnson.

 

 

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: Workshop: Student-Generated Induction: A Social Identity Approach

Dear All,  We recently ran this event in York and all the places were taken. We  are therefore repeating this workshop in London.  on Thursday September 27th. The workshop is called 'Student-Generated  Induction: A Social Identity Approach.'    This event provides alternative design, theories and practices for  induction.  It should have appeal for those interested  in induction, transition, retention and PDP.    The booking form is attached with more details. There is also an  alternative online booking facility at  http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/4050557326    Best wishes,  Nick      --------------------------------------  Nicholas Bowskill,  Faculty of Education,  University of Glasgow    Shared Thinking - a Collectivist Pedagogy    Web Site: http://www.sharedthinking.info    

 

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Senior Tutor
 

The Learning Institute 
Queen Mary, University of London

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02078822803

02081446753

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