The 12th e-Assessment Question Conference - 'Numeracy, Literacy and IT Skills, the Challenge for e-Assessment' - America Square Conference Centre, City of London 26th and 27th March 2014
www.e-assessment-question.co.uk
The programme for the 12th year of the e-Assessment Question has been announced. This is the key Conference and Exhibition examining the practical aspects of e-Assessment and Computer Based Assessment and its use from the classroom to the workplace.
The main theme for 2014 will concern using e-Assessment for underpinning skills across qualifications and learning programmes, and for the assessment of functional skills, core, key and basic skills, numeracy, literacy, IT, employability and other skills at the heart of many qualifications and programmes.
As the use of e-Assessment becomes increasingly widespread, we are seeing greater innovation in the use of these tools and technologies, in the breadth of assessment undertaken, in the range of item-types and qualifications and in the innovatory tools and techniques available to deliver e-assessment. The challenge amidst all the innovation and development is how to maintain quality, reliability and validity and ensure fitness for purpose. The conference will provide an excellent opportunity to hear and see practical guidance and advice about e-Assessment and e-Assessment systems.
Speakers this year include representatives from Awarding Organisations, Sector Skills Councils, Professional Bodies and systems and service providers.
The first day will focus on the e-Assessment of skills at the heart of all qualifications and the challenges they raise. Day two will focus on developing solutions to deliver e-Assessment for the delivery of these underpinning skills, Functional Skills and the like, developing robust, reliable and cost-effective solutions.
Bookings may be made for either day or both days of the event, with a discount for Charities, Schools, Colleges, Universities and those in the public sector.
We trust you or one of your colleagues will be able to join us for what will certainly prove to be an invaluable and thought-provoking two days.
Jeff Ross
Director, Assessment Tomorrow
Email: jeff@assessmenttomorrow.com
Telephone: +44 (0) 7785 920392
www.e-assessment-question.co.uk
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
FW: PedRIO Annual Conference 2014 Registration Open
From: Online forum for SEDA, the Staff & Educational Development Association [mailto:SEDA@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Debby Cotton
Sent: 26 February 2014 12:50
To: SEDA@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: PedRIO Annual Conference 2014 Registration Open
Please see information below about an upcoming (free) conference in Plymouth. Despite all the flooding, it really is still a lovely place to visit, so do come along!
Best wishes,
Debby
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PedRIO Annual Conference 2014 – Registration Open
Wednesday 2nd April 2014, Plymouth University
Keynote speakers Professor Jack Miller (University of Toronto) and Simon Kemp (University of Southampton)
The Pedagogic Research Institute and Observatory (PedRIO) at Plymouth University is hosting its third annual one day conference in 2014. Aimed at bringing together leading academics from across the UK and beyond, the conference will present high quality papers, workshops, show and tell sessions, and posters. The conference will be themed around six key areas and welcomes contributions based on research from across and between disciplines:
· Education for sustainable development
· Medical education
· Masters level teaching
· Spaces to think
· Digital innovations
· Inclusivity and engagement
**Click here for more Information and to Register**
Debby Cotton
Professor of Higher Education Pedagogy & Head of Educational Development,
Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA),
PedRIO Fellow,
Room 107, 3 Endsleigh Place,
Plymouth University,
Devon PL4 8AA
Tel: 01752 587614
http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/dcotton
http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/view.asp?page=28108
Follow me on Twitter: @profdcotton
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Thursday, 20 February 2014
FW: 8th Excellence in Teaching Conference - King's College London
From: Online forum for SEDA, the Staff & Educational Development Association [mailto:SEDA@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Cracknell, Lauren
Sent: 18 February 2014 11:05
To: SEDA@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: 8th Excellence in Teaching Conference - King's College London
8th EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING CONFERENCE
Keynote: Dr Simon Bates, Academic Director of the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology at the University of British Columbia, Canada
King’s Learning Institute would like to invite you to participate in the 8th Excellence in Teaching Conference to be held at the Strand Campus of King’s College London on Monday 16th June 2014. Recognising that the roles and responsibilities of teachers and their students in universities are shifting significantly, our aim in this conference is to refocus on what it now means to be a teacher. While the role of students in shaping their learning experience is expanding, the dominant discourses of teaching quality can increasingly promote a normative and instrumental model of what excellent teaching should be. In this year’s conference we want to explore how inspiring teachers understand and bring their whole identity to the contemporary classroom, virtual as well as physical, with an emphasis on reclaiming teaching as an art not just a craft. An ongoing theme of the annual conference is how technology enhanced learning (TEL) is also innovating academic practice. Possible topics that could contribute to research vibrancy in TEL are evaluating the impact of learning technologies on staff and student identities, the enhancing of digital literacies and the innovating of practice using learning technologies. We would like to invite you to consider what teaching and learning can look like when we seek to embrace the values of imagination, individuality, innovation and risk-taking as teacher?
To Register: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/learningteaching/kli/conferences/eitc/eitcreg.aspx
To submit a contribution: Full call for contributions attached with submission form.
Deadline: 5pm Friday 14th March 2014
Lauren Cracknell
PA to the Director Professor Paul Blackmore/Institute Administrator
King's Learning Institute
King's College London
57 Waterloo Road
London
SE1 8WA
Tel: 020 7848 3905
Tuesday, 11 February 2014
FW: Pedagogical Criticism Workshop II: Teaching Theory 21 Feb
Friday, 21st February 2014, 14:00 - 17:00, Senate House
Pedagogic Criticism Workshop II: Teaching Theory
Pedagogic Criticism argues that bodies of knowledge and pedagogic practices are inextricably linked. Subjects are produced in the dialogues of the corridor and classroom as much as in the monograph or learned journal. Professional debates embed and promote styles of pedagogy: intellectual history is simultaneously the history of educational practices. Disciplines as bodies of knowledge are simultaneously communities of practice, performing their own protocols for argument and dialogue. And for disciplines to thrive and develop, these communities of practice need to be interrogated and developed.
These workshops are not ‘educational development’ but aim to think about and open up parts of the disciplines of English that are central but rarely discussed. Designed with dialogue and investigation in mind, these workshops will investigate the meeting of institutions, teaching practices and theories.
Workshop II: Teaching Theory
How do we teach theory? What intellectual, cultural and political questions do our pedagogical choices beg? How do we teach theory ‘after theory’, or after the widespread acceptance of theory into critical practice? What ‘theories’ do we teach and why? What new or emergent theories do we teach? How is teaching theory changing as the discourses of theory develop?
Speakers leading the workshop are: Professor Pat Waugh (Durham), Dr Pam Thurschwell (Sussex), Professor Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway, University of London).
http://events.sas.ac.uk/ies/seminars/392/Pedagogic+Criticism+Workshops
If you would like to attend please email IESEvents@sas.ac.uk.
A brief digest of the first workshop is available on request.
Workshop III: Pedagogic Criticism and the Future, 9th May 2014
Speakers: Kristen Kreider, Susan Bruce and Angela Woods
Organiser: Professor Bob Eaglestone r.eaglestone@rhul.ac.uk
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FW: HEA workshop and seminar series 2013-14 – places still available
Subject: HEA workshop and seminar series 2013-14 – places still available
There is no charge to attend these events, but a place must be reserved using the online booking facilities. More details and to book.
Integrating 'sustainability' within degree programmes: towards a student handbook
28 February 2014, University of East Anglia
This thematic workshop will bring together students and staff from a range of HEIs in order to consolidate understanding of 'sustainability' and how it can be successfully embedded not only in the education, learning experience and practice of students and staff alike within the sector, but also within the 'DNA' of HE institutions themselves. One of the goals of the Workshop is to develop the basic framework of an ESD Student Handbook for HEIs.
Educating global citizens: Green Academy as a vehicle for students and staff partnerships for education for sustainable development
25 February 2014, University of Southampton
The event will bring together national experts, students and staff with an interest in exploring sustainable development in the curriculum. The event will begin with a national perspective on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), and with an introduction to how sustainability is being embedded within the curriculum in Southampton. The focus of the day however is to provide a platform for students and staff to work together to shape the embedding of ESD within the teaching and learning of topic areas not traditionally associated with ESD, as well as exploring the use of technology, the campus as a living lab, and extra-curricular learning. This will include exploring curriculum design and learning materials, enhancing student employability and graduate capabilities, potential open educational resources.
Online and open: modelling sustainability and 'greening the academy' through E-learning.
5 March 2014, The University of Nottingham
This seminar will be of interest to colleagues developing courses on Sustainability, particularly online but also face to face or blended. It will share the learning arising from the successful running of the first 'Nottingham Open Online Course' ('NOOC') called 'Perspectives on Sustainability'. By March 2014, this course will have run twice as an internal course for Nottingham students and staff and once as an external-facing 'MOOC' via the Futurelearn platform. We will share key insights from both development and delivery, including our models of learning and facilitation, results of evaluation and data analysis, and in particular, feedback from the HE staff who participated as students.
Food4Thought: a whole university approach to embedding ESD
12 March 2014, Nottingham Trent University
The seminar will explore the holistic approach taken by Nottingham Trent University (NTU) to embed Education for Sustainable Development into university curriculum and life using the theme of food. The seminar will also explore the work of the NTU 2013-14 HEA Green Academy Change Programme and its transferability to other institutions.
INSPIRE, the green academy initiative and the sustainability skills survey – 2 years on
19 March 2014, University of Wales Trinity Saint David
The focus of the event will be to provide an insight into the work of embedding embed sustainability throughout all aspects of UW:TSD's delivery over the past two years. The seminar will provide an overview of this work and highlight how it is helping wider organisations develop the in depth knowledge they need to take forward the sustainability agenda. The seminar will also provide an opportunity for university staff to highlight how they have taken sustainability forward within their roles.
Embedding education for sustainability in a creative and multi-disciplinary context
25 March 2014, Bath Spa University
Bath Spa University has developed ESD modules for multi-disciplinary student groups across the undergraduate experience. The 'Bath Spa model' incorporates innovation and creative thinking approaches in a diverse multi-disciplinary context, extensive use of our EcoCampus Platinum rated estate and industry specialists to address sustainability challenges of the 21st century. This event will also showcase the University's new academic building with its many sustainability features.
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Friday, 7 February 2014
FW: Lifewide Learning and Education in Universities & Colleges Conference
Encouraging, Supporting and Recognising 'Lifewide' Learning in Universities & Colleges
Wednesday 26th March 2014
Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck, University of London
The conference and accompanying e-book recognises and celebrates the many different ways in which universities are encouraging, supporting and recognising lifewide learning. The conference will provide a forum for the exchange of knowledge and understanding about lifewide learning and personal development in higher education and consider the practicalities, challenges, opportunities and benefits of these more complete forms of education. The conference will be of particular interest to people who are involved in leading, managing and supporting student development through co- or extra-curricular skill-based awards, or who are involved in learning and development activity outside the academic curriculum.
Speakers include: Dr Christine Redecker, Professor Marcia Baxter Magolda, Professor Ronald Barnett, Harriet Barnes & Professor Norman Jackson PLUS Professor Vivien Jones, Dr Sarah Speight, Joy Perkins and Professor Carol Costley.
For further details and a booking form please visit the conference website. http://www.learninglives.co.uk/
The challenge is to produce a short story in any format - written, audio, video, animation, that describes an experience or set of experiences through which you have gained significant new learning and development in any context and in any aspect of your life.
FW: Global citizens conference - 25 February
As part of the HEA ESD workshop and seminar series, please see below details of a one-day conference exploring student-staff partnerships for sustainability:
Educating global citizens: Green Academy as a vehicle for students and staff partnerships for Education for Sustainable Development
25 February 2014, University of Southampton
This conference combines expert student and staff speakers with the opportunity to simulate a UN Sustainable Development Goals summit, providing a holistic exploration of how students shape their own teaching and learning experience.
The HEA/NUS research on student attitudes to sustainability provides an excellent body of evidence that students believe sustainability should be covered by their university. This event will bring together national experts, students and staff with an interest in exploring sustainable development in the curriculum. The focus of the day however is to provide a platform for students and staff to work together to shape the embedding of ESD within the teaching and learning.
The day will end with participants taking part in an innovative simulated UN Sustainable Development Goals Summit, exploring the challenges in achieving consensus on global sustainability issues.
There is no charge to attend the seminar, but a place must be reserved. Please register online: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2014/Seminars/Themes/GEN972_Southampton
Attached is the programme and more details can be found on the website: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/sustainabilityaction/news/events/2014/02/25_educating_global_citizens.page
We look forward to seeing you on the 25th!
If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Kind regards
Julia Kendal MSc MA(Cantab)
Sustainability Action Officer
Room 4033 Building 7
Highfield Campus
University of Southampton
Tel: 023 8059 2317
Email: J.Kendal@soton.ac.uk
Twitter: @JuliaRKendal
Website: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/sustainabilityaction/
Think of the environment, only print this email if you have to.
FW: Mobile Learning and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD): University of Southampton – 7 March 2014
Changing the Learning Landscape
Mobile Learning and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD): Gaining better use from familiar technologies and those already owned by students
University of Southampton – 7 March 2014
Do you teach or manage degree programmes where the students are all on their iPads or Smartphones? Do you feel bewildered or excited by the vast array of mobile technologies on offer?
'Mobile Learning and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD): Gaining better use from familiar technologies and those already owned by students' is a one-day workshop as part of the successful Changing the Learning Landscape (CLL) programme. The event workshop will introduce the role that mobile learning can play in enhancing the student and teacher experience.
Through a series of presentations, activities and discussions, led by expert speakers, you will be introduced to new mobile learning approaches and get hands-on experience in how to use the latest technologies in your subject area.
Topics will include:
- BYOD: the Easyjet of mobile learning?
- Considering the security issues around students' use of mobile technologies.
The speakers at this event are Tim Cappelli, Senior Project Manager at Manchester Medical School and Prof. Steven Furnell, Head of the Centre for Security, Communications & Network Research at Plymouth University.
To find out more and book onto this and other CLL workshops please visit:
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2014/07_March_CLL_BYOD_Southampton
Please share with colleagues who may be interested in attending.
Changing the Learning Landscape (CLL) is a HEFCE-funded programme supporting and encouraging higher and further education institutions to make a step change in how they adopt effective and strategic uses of online technology in teaching and learning.
The programme is a unique partnership between the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, JISC, the National Union of Students, the Association for Learning Technology and the Higher Education Academy (HEA).
Best wishes
Sandra Jackson
Temporary Project Administrator (Leadership and Strategy)
T +44 (0)1904 717596 sandra.jackson@heacademy.ac.uk
Best wishes
Sandra Jackson
Temporary Project Administrator (Leadership and Strategy)
T +44 (0)1904 717596 sandra.jackson@heacademy.ac.uk
The Higher Education Academy, Innovation Way, York Science Park, Heslington, York, YO10 5BR
www.heacademy.ac.uk – Twitter@HEAcademy
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Tuesday, 4 February 2014
FW: Call for Proposals for the UK's 15th biennial Writing Development in Higher Education (WDHE) Conference
I am pleased to announce that the 15th biennial Writing Development in Higher Education (WDHE) Conference will be hosted by the Centre for Academic Writing (CAW) at Coventry University, England from Wednesday 9th July to Friday 11th July 2014.
The WDHE Network’s listserv and biennial conference have been integral to charting the development of Academic Writing pedagogy and theory in UK universities, and this year’s conference will celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Founding of the WDHE Network. The conference will provide an important opportunity to reflect on how and why the field of Academic Writing has grown, and to consider ‘Future Directions in Academic Writing’.
Longstanding WDHE Network colleagues as well as those who are new to Academic Writing teaching and research are welcome, as the conference is open to all who have an interest in Academic Writing development.
Please see the attached Call for Proposals—the deadline to submit your proposal is 10th March 2014. The conference website provides further details: http://www.coventry.ac.uk/events/WDHE2014/.
My colleagues and I look forward to seeing you in Coventry in July!
Best wishes,
Lisa
Dr. Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams
Head of the Centre for Academic Writing
Coventry University
Priory Street, Coventry, England
CV1 5FB
phone +44 (0)2476 887904
Now recruiting for 2014-15: MA/PG Dip 'Academic Writing Theory & Practice' and PG Cert 'Academic Writing Development': http://www.coventry.ac.uk/maacademicwriting
2009-2011 Chair of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW)
Former Executive Board Member: European & International Writing Centers Associations (EWCA/IWCA)
Editor: Journal of Academic Writing
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