Colleagues
If you are involved in development of assessment design, grading and feedback Then this biannual conference in Birmingham may be of interest The deadline for submission of a paper has now passed But posters are still welcome Best wishes Pete
The 5th International Assessment in Higher Education Conference
24 & 25 June 2015, Birmingham, England
*Early Bird Registration is now open for this international event*
Conference themes: Student responses to assessment; Assessment literacies; Assessment research: theory, method and critique; Diversity and Inclusion; Institutional change and assessment; Overcoming specific assessment challenges
Posters: We are still accepting proposals for posters on the conference themes.
Please see the conference and the attached flyer for further details.
http://aheconference.com/
We look forward to you joining us there. The deadline for Earlybird registration is 1st May 2015.
Linda Shore
Conference Administrator
Tel: (01228) 616338
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Friday, 23 January 2015
FW: Providing good quality, learner centred feedback
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Wednesday, 21 January 2015
FW: [ALT-ANNOUNCE] ALT Annual Conference 2015: Shaping the future of learning together - Call for Programme Committee
Annual Conference 2015: Shaping the Future of Learning Together #altc, 8-10 September 2015, University of Manchester, UK.
As the leading Learning Technology conference in the UK, the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) annual conference brings together practitioners, researchers and policy makers from across education to share their research and experience.
The 2015 conference will be chaired by Amanda Jefferies, University of Hertfordshire and Liz Masterman, University of Oxford, under the theme 'Shaping the Future of Learning Together #altc'. The programme will reflect the theme of shaping and sharing learning through breaking down the traditional divisions between stakeholders and between their roles, with a focus on:
Harnessing the power of the crowd – collaboration and connectivist learning; Social media in learning and teaching; Open educational practice; Learners as agents of change; Participatory approaches to the development of learning technologies.
The Annual Conference will give you the opportunity to network, explore new learning technologies at the exhibition, attend the presentation of the Learning Technologist of the Year Award, take part in the ALT AGM and participate in a variety of community-led activities including meetings of ALT's regional and special interest groups.
ALT has recently issued a call for members of the 2015 Programme Committee this is summarised below and available in full at the link.
*Join the Programme Committee*
If you are a member of ALT, or affiliated with an institutional member or sister body of ALT, we would like to encourage you to apply to become a member of the Programme Committee for this conference. Members play an important role helping to encourage submissions from amongst their networks as well as taking an active part in shaping the programme and running of the conference.
While we ensure that the membership of the Programme Committee reflects all themes of the conference and sectors from which participants come, we give preference to individuals who are able to participate in the conference itself.
View the full call at http://go.alt.ac.uk/1x4ugrq
Deadline for expressions of interest: 27 February 2015.
More information about the 2015 Annual Conference is at http://go.alt.ac.uk/1Eqhqc6
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As the leading Learning Technology conference in the UK, the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) annual conference brings together practitioners, researchers and policy makers from across education to share their research and experience.
The 2015 conference will be chaired by Amanda Jefferies, University of Hertfordshire and Liz Masterman, University of Oxford, under the theme 'Shaping the Future of Learning Together #altc'. The programme will reflect the theme of shaping and sharing learning through breaking down the traditional divisions between stakeholders and between their roles, with a focus on:
Harnessing the power of the crowd – collaboration and connectivist learning; Social media in learning and teaching; Open educational practice; Learners as agents of change; Participatory approaches to the development of learning technologies.
The Annual Conference will give you the opportunity to network, explore new learning technologies at the exhibition, attend the presentation of the Learning Technologist of the Year Award, take part in the ALT AGM and participate in a variety of community-led activities including meetings of ALT's regional and special interest groups.
ALT has recently issued a call for members of the 2015 Programme Committee this is summarised below and available in full at the link.
*Join the Programme Committee*
If you are a member of ALT, or affiliated with an institutional member or sister body of ALT, we would like to encourage you to apply to become a member of the Programme Committee for this conference. Members play an important role helping to encourage submissions from amongst their networks as well as taking an active part in shaping the programme and running of the conference.
While we ensure that the membership of the Programme Committee reflects all themes of the conference and sectors from which participants come, we give preference to individuals who are able to participate in the conference itself.
View the full call at http://go.alt.ac.uk/1x4ugrq
Deadline for expressions of interest: 27 February 2015.
More information about the 2015 Annual Conference is at http://go.alt.ac.uk/1Eqhqc6
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Monday, 19 January 2015
FW: next TLC event, 27 January, all welcome
Teaching and Learning Conversations (TLC)
Dear colleagues,
Haleh Moravej from MMU will lead an exciting webinar on Tuesday the 27th of January, 12-1pm GMT* during which we will discuss “Student Engagement” who won recently the International Green Gown Award for Student Engagement https://celtmmu.wordpress.com/2014/11/06/congratulations-to-haleh-moravej-and-all-metmunch-ers-for-their-international-green-gown-award-for-student-engagement/. We hope you will be able to join us.
How to join the webinar
To attend and take part in the webinar access the TLC webinar room here: https://mmu.adobeconnect.com/tlc/
To login: Enter as a guest and add your name, institution and country.
We highly recommend that you access the webinar room about 30 mins in advance to test the technology. For further help with this, please check http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/flex/tlc.php
Webinars enable active participation using audio, video, text and the whiteboard. A headset is required to fully participate. If you are not planning to speak you will just need headphones to listen to the discussion. When you have entered the webinar room, start the Audio Setup Wizard under Meeting at the top left to check your headset.
Please note
A recording of the webinar will be made available at the same URL under a creative commons licence.
About Teaching & Learning Conversations
TLC is an exciting cross-institutional collaboration to provide open CPD opportunities for everybody teaching and/or supporting learning in Higher Education. TLC brings together colleagues from different disciplines, institutions and countries. TLCs are also open to students in HE and we are very interested in including students’ contributions to the programme.
Together, we discuss and debate a variety of current teaching and learning topics in a series of webinars which provide a great opportunity to reflect on and share good practice and to find out what is happening beyond your own institution the more global HE landscape.
All webinars are open to the wider community to join.
Please feel free to share the link to the TLC programme and individual webinars with others who might also be interested. Further information can be found at http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/flex/tlc.php
We hope you will be able to join us for this exciting webinar.
The TLC team
Participating institutions and contacts
Manchester Metropolitan University, contact Chrissi Nerantzi & Dr Rod Cullen
University Campus Suffolk, contact Dr Chris Smith
University of Surrey, contact Dr Simon Lygo-Baker
Sheffield Hallam University, contact Andrew Middleton
University of Northampton, contact Prof. Ale Armellini
London Metropolitan University, contact Sandra Sinfield
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Thursday, 15 January 2015
FW: Open Lectures at the University of Greenwich
The University of Greenwich holds monthly open lectures in teaching and learning.
The next open lecture will be on the 4th February, from 17:00-18:00 at our new Stockwell Street Building.
Title: Is competition good for learning? Exploring ipsative (self-referential) assessment as an alternative.
Speaker: Dr Gwyneth Hughes, UCL Institute of Education
Abstract
Ipsative assessment is a powerful and under-used approach that provokes a radical rethink of the purposes and methods of assessment. Ipsative assessment means making comparisons with a learner's previous work to mark progress and enable learners from all backgrounds to achieve a personal best. The seminar presents a case for partially replacing highly competitive assessment with ipsative assessment in a dual systems approach, and it explores the possibilities and the practical challenges using examples from case studies.
Biography
Dr Gwyneth Hughes is Reader in Higher Education at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London where she leads and teachers on Masters programmes in higher education and supervises doctoral students. She led a three year JISC funded research project: Assessment Careers: learning pathways through assessment (www.ioe.ac.uk/assessmentcareers). She is on the editorial board for the journal London Review of Education. She has published widely on learning and teaching in higher education and her latest book Ipsative Assessment: Motivation through marking progress was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014.
Location: Lecture room 11_004, Stockwell Street Building, Greenwich. Directions to the campus and campus map can be found here: http://www2.gre.ac.uk/about/travel/greenwich
Anyone with an interest in teaching and learning is warmly invited to attend our Open Lectures.
Registration not necessary and attendance is free of charge.
See http://www2.gre.ac.uk/about/faculty/eddev/study/open-lecture-series for our video archive of other lectures in this series.
Best wishes,
Alice
Dr Alice Lau (FHEA)
Senior Lecturer in Learning, Teaching and Professional Development
Educational Development Unit
University of Greenwich
Queen Mary Court
Greenwich Campus
Old Royal Naval College
Park Row, London.
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Wednesday, 14 January 2015
FW: Bookings now open: PICASA Conference at Roehampton
PICASA Conference 2015: The Internationalisation of Higher Education: Policies, Practices & Pedagogies.
Promoting Internationalisation of HEIs in Eastern Neighbourhood Countries through Cultural and Structural Adaptations
You are warmly invited to join us at the PICASA Conference on Friday 13th February 2015, at the University of Roehampton, London.
See the PICASA website for more information and a list of our confirmed speakers: http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/Services/Learning-and-Teaching/Research/PICASA/PICASA-Events/
BOOKINGS NOW OPEN at http://estore.roehampton.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=2&catid=147
Our conference themes are:
* Policies and strategies for successful internationalisation – UK and EU examples
* Defining “ international competencies” or “international learning outcomes”
* International and transnational work placements – challenges and benefits
* Using the HEA’s Internationalising Higher Education Framework (or a similar national framework) to develop your own policy and practice
* Virtual internationalisation
* Experiences of international PhD students and supervisors
* Staff development in the international university / Working with international networks
Let me know if you’d like any further information.
Many thanks
Bridget
Bridget Middlemas
PICASA Coodinator & SEDA Programmes Convenor | Academic Enhancement Department
Grove House | University of Roehampton | London SW15 5PJ
(t) 0208 392 3499
PICASA Project at Roehampton - Promoting Internationalisation of HEIs in Eastern Neighbourhood Countries through Cultural and Structural Adaptations
PICASA on Twitter at: UKPICASA
Bridget on Twitter at: bmiddlemas
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FW: Join us in Singapore - Final Call for Abstracts & Early Bird Registration: TP's International Conference on Learning & Teaching (29 Sep - 1 Oct 2015)
Dear Colleagues,
Join us for a higher education conference in Singapore. Temasek Polytechnic's International Conference on Learning & Teaching (29 Sep – 1 Oct 2015) is held in conjunction with our Polytechnic's 25th anniversary.
We have confirmed six internationally renowned speakers: Professor David Boud, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia; Professor Cindy Hmelo-Silver, Indiana University Bloomington, USA; Professor Dai Hounsell, University of Edinburgh, UK; Professor Tan Oon Seng, National Institute of Education, Singapore; Professor Norman Vaughan, Mount Royal University, Canada; and Professor Dylan Wiliam, Institute of Education, University of London, UK.
Submission Deadline for Abstracts: 2 February 2015
Early Bird Registration Closes: 9 March 2015
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Tuesday, 13 January 2015
FW: Inaugural European Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning - call for abstracts
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Inaugural European Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
June 8-9 2015
Many educational development initiatives emphasize a scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL) approach, but what does this mean, in theory and in practice? How can the scholarship of teaching and learning help to tackle some of the key challenges higher education is currently facing, and help institutions and academics stay focused on quality student learning?
The inaugural EuroSoTL conference, a regional event of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, will address these general themes and is open to all Higher Education staff and students and those interested in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
The call for abstracts is just out and registration has recently opened. We welcome submissions of emerging, ongoing, or well-established work, and interested participants are invited to submit a 300 word abstract for a paper, poster, workshop/panel and Pecha-Kucha style presentation to nairtl@ucc.ie.
Questions to be addressed might include:
- How can SoTL help bridge boundaries between languages, cultures, nations, or between academia and society?
- What role does SoTL play in supporting interdisciplinary work?
- How can SoTL inform the changing roles and expectations of students and teachers in higher education?
- Is SoTL assisting the cultural shift involved in building digital literacy?
- How can SoTL inform key transitions in the student’s journey?
The deadline for abstract submission is February 22nd 2015. Please go to www.nairtl.ie/conference2015 for further details and to download the abstract submission form.
Early bird registration rates are available up to March 15th 2015, and there is a further discount available to ISSOTL members.
FW: UK Academic Advising and Personal Tutoring Network One-Day Conference
The first UK Drive-In Event, a one-day conference for the UK Academic Advising and Personal Tutoring Network (APT), will be taking place at the University of Sheffield on 25 March 2015.
The event will include key sessions from noted professionals including Charlie Nutt, the Executive Director of NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising, and Jennifer Joslin, and themes covered will include:
· UK practices and contexts
· Transferability of approaches
· Recording and measuring success
· Staff Development
· Student feedback
The aim is to develop methods of formally sharing good practice and expertise in academic advising and personal tutoring from across the UK and the international HE sector.
Further details and an invite for proposals for short presentation for the day (15 minutes) can be found at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Events-Programs/Events/International-Conference/UK-Drive-In-Event.aspx.
Please forward this on to interested parties and if you have any question please email i.kemp@sheffield.ac.uk.
Many thanks,
Rupert Ward
National Teaching Fellow & Head of Informatics
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FW: CfP for the 2015 APT conference 'Flipping the Institution' @ Greenwich 7th July 2015
Academic Practice and Technology Conference 2015
Flipping the Institution: Higher Education in the Post-Digital Age
Call for papers
This is a call for contributions to the 13th Annual Academic Practice and Technology Conference, to be held at the University of Greenwich on the 7th July 2015. This year we are ‘Flipping the Institution’ by looking at some of the key challenges, debates, disruptions and transformations that are shaping the future of Higher Education. From practices in physical and virtual learning spaces to national and international strategic and technological developments, this conference will be an opportunity to share practice, engage in critical debate around key sector issues and network with colleagues from across the UK, Europe and the world.
“Once I began thinking in terms of waves of change, colliding and overlapping, causing conflict and tension around us, it changed my perception of change itself. In every field, from education and health to technology, from personal life to politics, it became possible to distinguish those innovations that are merely cosmetic, or just extensions of the industrial past, from those that are truly revolutionary.”
Toffler Alvin. The Third Wave. 1980.
APT 2015 will explore and interrogate a number of key questions, which will address some of the challenges facing learning and teaching in the post-digital age. Within the discourse and activities variously described as flipped classroom or flipped learning, there have been an array of practices, understandings, representations and innovations that have scaled, challenged, debated and normalized the role of technology, pedagogy and the institution in learning and teaching. We called this conference ‘Flipping the Institution’ because many of the same revolutionary or cosmetic innovations that have rolled over and into higher education over the past decade have equally challenged technology, pedagogy and the institution. In the post-digital age, informed by transitions of practice, a redefining of the individual’s relationships with technology and perhaps by the assertion of Nicholas Negroponte in 1998 that the ‘Digital Revolution is over’, what are the next revolutionary changes that will shape and perhaps our institutions?
We are seeking papers, innovative workshops, presentations and engaging debates that address one or more of these questions:
· What are the opportunities and challenges for educational institutions heading towards 2020?
· What does it mean to be a connected or collaborative learner and a connected or collaborative institution?
· What does it mean for higher education to be in engaging in a post-digital age? What does it mean for the learner of the future and of today?
· What is the impact of 'disruptive' technologies on the student and academic experience, and on learning, teaching and assessment?
· What are the challenges for pedagogical design and development in a post-digital age?
· What are the emerging practices, tools and approaches that may enhance student learning?
· What is the role of pedagogical research and evaluation in the post-digital university?
· What are the impacts for learners, for practitioners and for the institution of the waves of ‘disruptive’ or ‘transformative’ change brought about by flipped classroom, MOOCs, open education practices, learning analytics, global competition and social media?
Closing date for submissions is: Monday 24th February 2015
The conference will support different types of investigation and research, which may include case study; practitioner-led inquiry; research paper/work in progress; developmental/research project report, and posters. We welcome presentations that take different and innovative formats, such as a round table, pecha kucha, makers workshop, performance, practical workshop, forum and debate, etc. The primary form of written submission will be an extended abstract (around 500 words). Each abstract will be double blind refereed. All proposals must be submitted through our conference website. https://showtime.gre.ac.uk/index.php/ecentre/apt2015/schedConf/index
Posters
We also welcome the submission of posters, which can represent shorter or more preliminary projects or ideas. These will be presented in a Pecha Kucha format. The Pecha Kucha format originated in Tokyo in 2003. Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the sound of "chit chat", it follows a presentation format that is based on a simple idea: each presenter has 20 slides, each shown for 20 seconds on a timer. Thus, each presenter has just 6 minutes and 40 seconds to explain their ideas before the next takes the stage. Conceived as a venue through which young designers could meet, show their work, exchange ideas, and network, the format keeps presentations concise and fast-paced.
All proposals must be submitted through our conference website. https://showtime.gre.ac.uk/index.php/ecentre/apt2015/schedConf/index
Fees
Successful contributors will be allocated one free place at the conference. We also have a number of free places available for student presenters. The conference organisers must receive confirmation of acceptance, by registering by the presenter registration deadline (see important dates below). Additional colleagues wishing to co-present will be offered the ‘early bird’ discounted rate but must register by the same deadline as the main proposer. After this date all co-presenters will be charged the full rate. A maximum of one free place will also be given to a student presenter or student co-presenter for each presentation. Additional student co-presenters will be charged at the ‘early bird’ discounted rate. Reflective papers may be submitted to our teaching and learning journal Compass: http:// www.gre.ac.uk/compass by November 2015.
For further details please see our conference website. https://showtime.gre.ac.uk/index.php/ecentre/apt2015
Peter Bryant
Head of Learning Technology and Innovation
London School of Economics and Political Science
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