Fwd: Last Chance to Register

Are you Viewing this Email on Your Phone? View the Mobile Website Here Alicia Greally, Marketing Executive agreally@p-s-delegate.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)161 831 7111 Innovative Learning: Efficiency, effectiveness and value for money 02 July 2013, Central Hall Westminster, London The modern learning landscape is transforming at an unprecedented pace and scale Higher learning institutions are under increased pressure to demonstrate efficiency, effectiveness and value for money Do you want to enhance traditional learning paradigms? Are you interested in developing flexible and personalised anytime anywhere learning? Register Your Place Today Confirmed Speakers Include: Chris Hale Deputy Director of Policy, Universities UK Dr Julia Moore OBE National Director, e-Learning for Healthcare, Department of Health Rajay Naik Director of Government Relations, The Open University Gill White Head of Training, The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development Dr Richard Hall Head of Enhancing Learning through Technology, DeMontfort University View full details of programme and speakers Innovative Learning: Efficiency, effectiveness and value for money features a high-profile panel of speakers who will offer insight into the tools and solutions necessary to tackle the contemporary challenges facing teaching, training and learning. They will draw from their own experience and successful case studies to furnish delegates with inspiration and understanding to transform their own working practice. Free digital subscription to Public Service Review: Local Government and the Regions to all recipients of this email please click here PS Events, City Wharf, New Bailey St, Manchester, M3 5ER Tel: +44 (0)161 831 7111, Fax: +44 (0)161 832 7396 Registered in England Co. Reg No. 4521155 Vat Reg No. 902 1814 62 If you don't want to receive these emails from Public Service Events in the future, please use the link below to unsubscribe. If the link does not work try copying and pasting the entire link directly into your web browser address bar http://www.p-s-delegate.co.uk/unsubscribe.aspx?subemail=d.andrew@qmul.ac.uk

 

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Fwd: Middlesex University's Annual Learning and Teaching Conference- Death of the Dissertation? 21 Century approaches to Critical Enquiry- Places available

Dear Colleagues, 

 

If I could draw your attention to the Annual Learning and Teaching Conference at Middlesex University (Hendon Campus). There are a few places currently still available.

 

Many thanks,

 

Dr Deeba Gallacher,

Centre for Learning and Teaching Enhancement

Middlesex University

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Middlesex University’s Annual Learning and Teaching Conference  2013

 

Death of the Dissertation? 21 Century approaches to Critical Enquiry

 

Date:                     11 July 2013

Time:                    09.15 – 16.15

Venue:                  College Building - Quadrangle

                                Middlesex University (Hendon Campus)

                                London

                                NW4 4BT

Information about the event:

The focus for this year is ‘Death of the Dissertation? 21st Century Approaches to Critical Enquiry’.  During the day we will explore whether the dissertation is still considered as standard in undergraduate programmes, alternative approaches to critical enquiry and the benefits and challenges of using different approaches. Professor Mick Healey, HE Consultant and Researcher and Emeritus Professor at the University of Gloucestershire, will provide a keynote presentation in addition to expertise from Middlesex University including Professor Carole-Anne Upton and Professor Ifan Shepherd. The conference aims to provide participants with an opportunity to discuss the issues surrounding embedding critical enquiry, share different approaches, celebrate success and develop understanding of the nature of critical enquiry in different disciplines drawing on examples from Middlesex and across the HE sector.

 

Bookings

Online registration and further information can be found at  
http://elearn.mdx.ac.uk/criticalenquiry/index.htm

 

Places are free and available on first-come, first-served basis.

 

Any queries please contact Joanne Mullarkey j.mullarkey@mdx.ac.uk

 

 

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Fwd: The National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement and the SRHE, Postgraduate Issues Network are hosting a joint seminar to explore the impact of public engagement on Postgraduate Researchers and their institutions.

View Web Version | Forward To A Colleague Share Events Public Engagement – what's in it for PGRs and HEIs? Date - 19th June 2013, 13:00 – 16:00 Venue - SRHE, 73 Collier Street, London N1 9BE Network - Postgraduate Issues Network The National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement and the SRHE, Postgraduate Issues Network are hosting a joint seminar to explore the impact of public engagement on Postgraduate Researchers and their institutions.   Few would disagree with the widely held view in the Higher Education sector that engaging with the public is good for research as well as the 'public', but what is in it for Postgraduate Researchers (PGRs), their supervisors and Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)?  Clearly Public Engagement is central to the impact agenda and highly topical, in terms of informing the environment section of the REF, but what do we understand about this kind of activity, what do we need to know and what insights can we share?  Through presentations and group discussion, this seminar will explore and provide insights into public engagement - the challenges and opportunities – from both the postgraduate and the HEI perspective. Key questions include: • How does public engagement activity benefit PGRs?  • Should they get involved or does it interfere with their research?  • If HEIs and funders want to encourage more of this activity, what kind of support do they need to provide?  • What do supervisors and institutions get out of this, via their PGRs, and do we need more evidence to support the case for public engagement activity? Speakers Dr Andy Jackson, Head of Business Development, the UK Higher Education Academy Paul Manners, Director of the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement Dr Kath Woods-Townsend, Research Fellow and LifeLab Programme Manager, Southampton Education School, University of Southampton Julie Worrall, Postgraduate Researcher and Community University Engagement Manager, the University of East Anglia To be confirmed - Jennifer Chubb, Postgraduate Researcher and Research Innovation Officer, University of York Note: Unless otherwise stated SRHE events are free to members, there is a charge of £45 for non-members. Unsubscribe from SRHE updates You are receiving this email as our records indicate that you are interested in SRHE updates. Unsubscribing from SRHE updates will not impact SRHE membership administration emails, membership reminders etc. SRHE is a registered charity No. 313850. Company No. 00868820 Limited by Guarantee. Registered office 73 Collier Street, London N1 9BE Newsletter developed and delivered by clickandsend.biz

 

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Fwd: Engineering and Materials Forthcoming Events

HEA STEM: Engineering and Materials Forthcoming Events Building Confident Engineers: New to Teaching (NTT) Workshop Tuesday 10 September 2013. IET Austin Court, Birmingham Successful engineering graduates require confidence in order to solve new problems, work with colleagues and excel in their careers. It has also been identified that confident engineering graduates are more likely to pursue careers in engineering.  This workshop has been developed to consider how academics can enable engineering students to develop confidence through teaching, learning and assessment.  In addition, the sessions have been designed to align with the appropriate National Student Survey (NSS) questions.  This is a free one day event for subscribing institutions and has a cost of £75 for non-subscribing institutions. Refreshments and lunch will be provided. This event is open to academics with less than five years HE teaching experience. To register for this event please click here.   HEA STEM (Engineering and Materials): Workshop for postgraduate students who teach Monday 8 July 2013.  University College London. The day will include sessions on: Assessment and Feedback, OER (Open Educational Resources), Teaching for Diversity, Facilitating Small Group Teaching, & Professional Development and the HEA. This is a free one day event for subscribing institutions and has a cost of £75 for non-subscribing institutions. Refreshments and lunch will be provided. Further details and registration information can be found here.   Workshop:  Issues, challenges and benefits of using student owned technology in classrooms 11 July 2013. University of Portsmouth This one day workshop will share the lessons learnt from an institution wide deployment of a student's web-enabled device-based classroom response system. STEM delegates will receive free access to the system for their school/department. Therefore this workshop is a chargeable at £75 for subscribing institutions and £150 for non-subscribing. To find out more information and register for this workshop click here.                                         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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Fwd: Re: HEA/SEEC Flexible Learning Conference 2013 - Event workshops and seminars now confirmed

'Can we do it? Yes we can!' Recognising, promoting and developing flexible learning in HE

A two-day conference organised by the HEA and SEEC

22-23 July 2013

University of Westminster

Event workshops and seminars now confirmed

We are offering a number of sessions at this event which will explore ideas from key strands within the flexible learning theme including part-time learners, work-based learning, technology-enhanced learning, credit accumulation and transfer, and new pedagogical ideas.

For more details, please click the link below for an updated programme:

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/flexiblelearning/FLSEECconference/programmes/HEASEECFLconf_provisional_programme5.pdf

This conference aims both to inform and inspire delegates about flexible learning on a number of levels: global, national, institutional and programme. More information about the event, including rates and booking details, can be found via the link below.

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2013/22_23_July_Flexible_Learning

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Chris Vincent

Administrator (Leadership and Strategy)

The Higher Education Academy 

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Fwd: Digital pedagogies: e-learning and digital humanities unconference

LAST CHANCE TO BOOK
Digital pedagogies: E-learning and digital humanities unconference
University College London,
13 June 2013

***Apologies for cross-posting***

UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, in partnership with the Higher Education Academy, are hosting a FREE 'unconference'* focusing on bringing together the e-learning and digital humanities communities to discuss the development of 'Digital Pedagogies' in University teaching.

'Digital Pedagogies' are innovative methods of teaching - using ICT tools to facilitate and foster a high quality digital learning space. There are big questions around how teaching techniques can be modified and digital enhanced to meet the needs of 21st century virtual learning. The objective of this unconference will be firstly to bring together these e-learning and digital humanities communities with what are often similar research objectives, and secondly provide a space to speak about current digital teaching techniques, defining areas for improvement and enhancement.

As an 'unconference' structure is delegate-driven with the agenda created by the attendees on the day there is no programme, but you can see proposed sessions via the unconference webpage at http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2013/13_June_digital_pedagogies_UCL

This event is free to attend, but please book a place via the website at http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2013/13_June_digital_pedagogies_UCL

or you can follow us on Twitter @digipedagogies #DPUK13.

Booking closes tomorrow.

Jennie Osborn
(Academic Development Officer, Arts and Humanities, Higher Education Academy)

Fwd: [ALT-ANNOUNCE] altc2013 - early bird deadline approaching

*altc2013: Building new cultures of learning*

The 20th annual conference of the Association for Learning Technology will be held at the East Midlands Conference Centre, University of Nottingham from 10-12 September 2013.

Early bird registration for altc2013 is now open which gives a 20% discount on all conference fees.

*Did you know that one of your ALT membership benefits is a further discount, in addition to early bird rates, on all conference fees?*

For more information please see the altc2013 booking form at http://goo.gl/6SK67 and book by 2 July 2013 to take advantage of the early bird discount.

If you are using Twitter, you may like to tweet something like:
"Registration for #altc2013 now open http://goo.gl/6SK67"

About the conference:
Over three days, altc2013 will bring together more than 500 participants from all over the world to solve problems, explore, reflect, influence and learn, and features keynote sessions from:

• Stephen Downes - senior researcher for Canada's National Research Council and a leading proponent of the use of online media and services in education
• Dame Wendy Hall - Dean of the University of Southampton's Faculty of Physical and Applied Sciences and former President of the Association for Computing Machinery
• Rachel Wenstone - Vice-President (Higher Education) of the National Union of Students

This year's conference includes a special celebratory evening and awards ceremony on the Wednesday evening to celebrate both the 20th annual conference and the 20th anniversary of ALT.
There are a limited number of exhibitor spaces remaining and opportunities for sponsorship, for more information please see http://goo.gl/61pSK or reply to this email.

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Caroline Greves
Events Manager
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Association for Learning Technology (ALT)
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Fwd: Workshop: Graduate Attributes, Sustainability and Problem-Based Learning

Developing Graduate Attributes through the Sustainability Agenda and Problem-Based Learning

London South Bank University

Monday 15^th July 2013, 10.30am – 4 pm   

This free one day workshop at London South Bank University focuses on the delivery of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and graduate attributes using an interdisciplinary 'Hybrid' Problem-Based Learning (PBL) approach. This workshop is the outcome of a three-year project funded by the Higher Education Academy's National Teaching Fellowship Scheme entitled 'Hybrid problem-based learning: a scalable approach to sustainability education?'; a collaboration between Keele University, The University of Manchester and Staffordshire University. The Hybrid-PBL approach has been developed to enable the delivery of PBL-style teaching to larger cohort numbers in a less resource intensive way for the teaching and learning of sustainability education. This will be explored during the workshop along with links to other pressing agendas in Higher Education including Graduate Attributes, Employability, and Internationalisation amongst others.

This workshop is aimed at educators from any discipline, from university, to FE and college educators, to PhD students with teaching responsibilities, who have interests in developing: 1) problem-based learning approaches, 2) education for sustainability, 3) graduate attributes and 4) the use of social media in teaching. 

Further details about the workshop, a programme for the day and the workshop booking form can be found at: http://www.keele.ac.uk/hybridpbl/ntfsworkshops.

If you are interested in attending then please complete a booking form and return to: Lynn Vickery, vickerl@lsbu.ac.uk

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Sophie Bessant
Sustainability Project Officer

William Smith Building
Keele University
Staffordshire
ST5 5BG
UK

Tel: 01782 734115
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Fwd: Access and Widening Participation Network

View Web Version | Forward To A Colleague Share Events Teaching Inclusively: Changing Pedagogical Spaces Date - 9 July 2013: 12.30-16.00 (lunch included) Venue - SRHE, 73 Collier Street, London N1 9BE Network - Access and Widening Participation Speakers: Professor Penny Jane Burke, University of Sussex Professor Gill Crozier, University of Roehampton Developing inclusive teaching and learning practices in higher education is a key component of widening participation (WP) strategy. Pedagogies in higher education have the potential to contribute to creating inclusive spaces where all students can develop a sense of belonging and fitting in. This is strongly emphasised in the recent HEFCE/OFFA interim report, and is anticipated to form a central dimension of the national strategy for widening participation. This timely seminar will launch Teaching Inclusively: Changing Pedagogical Spaces, a new continuing professional development resource pack that draws on the key findings of the Higher Education Academy funded project: 'Formations of Gender and Higher Education Pedagogies (GaP)'. It is designed for lecturers, academic developers, WP directors and managers and policy makers to critically reflect on the complex processes in which inequalities might unwittingly be reproduced through HE pedagogies.  It offers a range of 'think pieces' as conceptual tools to help address complex issues of difference, diversity and inequalities and to consider the ways that teaching and learning practices are intimately connected with identity formations and the subtle processes of exclusion and misrecognition within different pedagogical spaces. The seminar will provide an overview of the key findings of GaP to illuminate the important relationship between widening participation and HE pedagogies. It will introduce Teaching Inclusively and the ways it has been specifically designed to support HE lecturers in contributing to WP through developing inclusive teaching practices.   Note: Unless otherwise stated SRHE events are free to members, there is a charge of £45 for non-members. Unsubscribe from SRHE updates You are receiving this email as our records indicate that you are interested in SRHE updates. Unsubscribing from SRHE updates will not impact SRHE membership administration emails, membership reminders etc. SRHE is a registered charity No. 313850. Company No. 00868820 Limited by Guarantee. Registered office 73 Collier Street, London N1 9BE Newsletter developed and delivered by clickandsend.biz