5th Biennial Northumbria/EARLI SIG Assessment Conference: “Assessment for Learners”

5^th Biennial Northumbria/EARLI SIG Assessment Conference: “Assessment for Learners”

 

1-3 September 2010, hosted by Northumbria University in the North-East of England, UK

 

Conference themes:

·         Formative and summative assessment to improve learning

·         Assessment: consequences and contexts for learners

·         Learner achievements and assessment

 

Submission formats:

·         Papers

·         Round tables

·         Posters

·         Symposia

 

Key dates:

·         First call for papers: May 2009

·         Proposals submission deadline: 13th November, 2009

·         Notification of acceptance: February 2010

 

The conference will explore the ways in which assessment impacts on students’ experiences of learning and ways of improving learning via assessment in all sectors of education (higher education, early years, primary, secondary and further education), different disciplines and different educational systems.  Submissions can focus on assessment cultures and assessment reform more broadly as well as research on specific innovations in assessment, including e-assessment.  The conference will be of interest to both education researchers and practitioners with an interest in assessment.

 

For more information, go to:  www.northumbria.ac.uk/cetl_afl/earli2010    

 

Images and sound for L&T

	Moving Image and Sound for Learning and Teaching – sources, search strategies, appraisal and use Presenters: BUFVC specialists - Sergio Angelini, Marianne Open, Luis Carrasqueiro, Murray Weston Wednesday 13th May 2009,  10.30 am - 5.00 pm This course looks at the acquisition and use of audio-visual content for learning and research. Participants will explore sources of content and forms of delivery. They will also gain insight into pedagogic value of audio-visual content and how it may be used for learning and teaching. Registration Charge: £145 Standard Services Ordinary member rate: £125 Premier Services Ordinary member rate: £103

Internationalising the Home Student

Internationalising the Home Student

Centre for International Curriculum Inquiry and Networking 

Annual Conference 2009

Friday 19 June 2009

Wheatley Campus, Oxford Brookes University

For registration and for more details go to the conference website:

www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsld/ ioc/events/con09/index.html

Valerie Clifford

Director Centre for International Curriculum Inquiry and Networking

The pursuit of learning as a co-operative enterprise: implications for higher education

The Institute for Education Policy Research at Staffordshire University is hosting a Professional Development Conference for Teachers in Higher Education at the Ashley Centre for Professional Management, Leek Road, Stoke-on-Trent on 8th May 2009. Please find details in the attached document. The attendance fee is £65.00. Our equivalent professional development conferences held in past years are considered to have been a success.

The theme of this year's conference is "The pursuit of learning as a co-operative enterprise: implications for higher education" and the speakers will be Professor Miriam David, Professor Peter Hartley and Paul Orsmond. 

To book a place please complete the booking form on the attached flyer and return to iepr@staffs.ac.uk  or alternatively post to: Emma Berndt, Institute for Education Policy Research, Staffordshire University, Room B357, Brindley Building, Leek Road, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST4 2DF. Online bookings can be made at www.staffs.ac.uk/pdc.

Welcome to E-Assessment Live 2009

E-Assessment Live 2009 is a new one day event for teachers, trainers, researchers, learning technologists and administrators. Hosted by Loughborough University, it will be of particular interest to colleagues from the HE sector, but other sectors of education and training will also find it relevant.

E-Assessment Live replaces the previous annual International CAA Conference.

http://www.e-assessmentlive2009.org.uk