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Thursday, 12 November 2015
FW: UCU professional development courses: 10 December, Colchester
FW: Social Media for Learning in Higher Education Conference (#SocMedHE15)
The programme is now published!
Social Media for Learning in Higher Education Conference (#SocMedHE15)
Friday 18th December 2015 at Sheffield Hallam University
The inaugural national Social Media for Learning in Higher Education Conference #SocMedHE15, organised by, and held at Sheffield Hallam University is now open for bookings.
The initial programme with authors and abstracts is now available on the conference website. This event will create a forum for academics, their students and strategic managers to consider the opportunities, challenges, and the disruptive influence of social media for learning in HE. The conference keynote is Eric Stoller, who will challenge and inspire us to review social media in our context, explore the opportunities of extending our networks for learning, and understand how we as universities need to respond to the Social Age.
The contents of the programme are now finalised, and timings added in due course. Twitter at @SocMedHE and #SocMedHE15.
Details of the pre-conference workshops and dinner have now also been released, you can book for these using the conference booking form, or email socmedhe@shu.ac.uk.
Our early bird registration has been extended to Midnight Friday 20th November!
For further details of our ring-fenced accommodation and travel discounts, please visit https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_ei_new&eventID=14106421
Follow us on Twitter @SocMedHE for regular updates
Use #SocMedHE15 to discuss the event.
Email SocMedHE@shu.ac.uk for any enquiries
Visit the conference site: http://go.shu.ac.uk/socmedhe
Monday, 9 November 2015
FW: [M25-LT-GROUP] Discovery and Discoverability Jan 20th 2016
Discovery and Discoverability Jan 20th 2016
A half day seminar 13.30 until 17.30 at Chancellors Hall Senate House, London
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/publishing/events/discoverability/
You are invited to another in UCLs series of events addressing new topics and developments in publishing, library and information. Discovery and Discoverability will focus on innovations in how publications and collections are being enhanced for discovery, how they are exposed to search engines and discovery tools and disseminated through social media. It will present both the latest technologies and case studies from different sectors as to how users go about their seaching.
The keynote will be presented by Richard Wallis, a well known figure and speaker in the information world and who is now working as the global lead in the bibliographic implementation of schema.org. As Chair of the W3C Schema Bib Extend working group and as an insider in Google, Richard is well placed to discuss the state of play and potential for the emerging standard.
This seminar will bring together specialists in providing and supporting discovery engines, experiences from libraries and publishers innovations in delivering content. Delegates will hear more about discovery systems, how new tools are being deployed and used and how to make their content more findable. There will be input from libraries and organisations in the public and private sectors. Presentations will also come from Tom Hatton CEO and Co-Founder of innovative company Refme, a UK start up who will look at discovery through citations, established discovery supplier EBSCO and JISC’s expert Neil Grindley. Case studies will come from the ISSN International Centre in Paris and the University of Hertfordshire. The meeting is co-organised with CIBER Research.
The seminar will be at the usual UCL favourable rate of £110 with a discounted rate for students. Please contact Malvia Plante at malvia.plante@ucl.ac.uk
Friday, 6 November 2015
FW: November Teaching and Learning Conversation (TLC) - Free Webinar
Dear colleagues,
Our next Teaching and Learning Conversation will explore the value of “In between spaces for learning” and their role in developing a sense of belonging.
Facilitating the conversation on Thursday 26th November 12:30-13:30 (BST) are Andrew Middleton (Sheffield Hallam University) and Kathrine Jensen (University of Huddersfield)
This interactive webinar we will reflect upon the experience of the learner and the academic in higher education and invite you to consider what in-between spaces (e.g. spaces that are outside pre-defined boundaries of the classroom and VLE) are and how you or your students experience them. Together we will come up with examples of in-between spaces and discuss their characteristics, benefits and importance to developing a sense of belonging.
How to join the conversation
To attend and take part in the webinar debate simply follow the link to the TLC webinar room here: https://mmu.adobeconnect.com/tlc/
To login: Chose the option to Enter as a guest, add your name, institution and country into the Name field and click on the “Enter Room” button.
To ensure that you get the best audio visual experience during the webinars we have provided a simple guide to Ensuring that you are set up correctly to participate in webinars delivered by Adobe Connect. We recommend that you do this well in advance of the webinar (so that you have plenty of time to seek advice and resolve any issues that you may identify). Don’t worry it only takes 10-15 minutes as most of the process is automated.
You may also find our Adobe Connect Webinar Participant Guide useful to print out in advance of the session.
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. To find out more please visit the TLC website at: https://tlcwebinars.wordpress.com/
Please feel free to share the link to the TLC programme and individual webinars with others who might also be interested. Further information and recordings from previous webinars can be found in the TLC archive at:
https://tlcwebinars.wordpress.com/tlc-archive/
If you have engaged in any way with the TLCs so far, as a participant, facilitator or watched any of the recordings, please consider providing us with some feedback by completing our short survey at: https://tlcwebinars.wordpress.com/feedback/claim-a-badge-and-provide-some-feedback/
Through this form, you can also to claim your TLC badge. Thank you very much.
We hope you will be able to join us for this TLC webinar.
The TLC team
Participating institutions and contacts
Manchester Metropolitan University, contact Rod Cullen & Chrissi Nerantzi
University of Northampton, contact Prof. Ale Armellini
University of Salford, contact Calum Thomson
University Campus Suffolk, contact Dr Chris Smith
University of Surrey, contact Dr Simon Lygo-Baker
Sheffield Hallam University, contact Andrew Middleton
London Metropolitan University, contact Charlotte Fregona
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Thursday, 5 November 2015
FW: Transforming Assessment Update: recording 4 Nov (limits of assessment criteria) and next session 9 Dec (learning analytics for teachers) [JISC]
Transforming Assessment Webinar Update
[Via JISCmail - this is not direct email - apologies for any cross posting]
1) Recording released from 4 November "The multiple limitations of assessment criteria"
2) Next session 9 December: "Providing meaningful learning analytics data to teachers: a tool to complete the loop"
Please forward to interested colleagues!
All sessions at no cost.
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1) Recording released: "The multiple limitations of assessment criteria" (held 4 Nov), presented by Emeritus Professor Sue Bloxham (University of Cumbria, UK)
View the recording and download resources via http://ta.vu/4N2015
2) Next session 9 December: "Providing meaningful learning analytics data to teachers: a tool to complete the loop"
Presenters: Professor Gregor Kennedy, Dr Linda Corrin and Ms Paula De Barba (University of Melbourne)
This session explores an open source web-based learning analytics tool (Loop) that uses data from learning management systems to provide meaningful feedback to teachers. The Loop tool is designed to help academics make the connection between data and curriculum, including student engagement and performance in formative and summative assessment. By encouraging the use of learning design as a lens for data interpretation, the tool will enable teachers to more easily identify and implement changes to their teaching practices and curriculum design. The Loop tool is the result of a collaboration between the University of Melbourne, Macquarie University and the University of South Australia, funded by the Australian Government Office of Learning and Teaching (OLT).
Sessions are hosted by Professor Geoffrey Crisp, Dean Learning and Teaching, RMIT University and Dr Mathew Hillier, Office of the Vice-Provost Learning and Teaching, Monash University, Australia.
Starting UTC 07:00am (5PM Eastern Australian standard) time for 1 hour.
Further information, time zone conversions and registration via
http://ta.vu/9dec2015
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Further information:
The Transforming Assessment webinars are part of a series of free events covering a range of e-assessment topics.
Further information on this and future events, recordings of past sessions, project information and participation/technical help on using the virtual seminar system can be found on our website at transformingassessment.com
Acknowledgements:
Support for this activity has been provided by the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (as the 'e-Assessment SIG'), the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching, RMIT University, Monash University and the University of Queensland. The views expressed in this publication/activity do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsoring institutions.
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regards,
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Honorary Academic/Snr Lecturer
The Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation
(was 'Teaching and Educational Development Institute'),
The University of Queensland, Australia
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Substantive post:
Academic/Snr Lecturer
Office of Vice-Provost (Learning & Teaching)
Monash University, Caulfield Campus (Melbourne), Australia
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Transforming Assessment
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