New Distance Learning Offering in Teaching and Learning at QMUL

New Distance Learning Offering at QMUL View this email in your browser Online CPD Opportunities in Teaching and Learning QMUL is pleased to announce that a new Distance Learning Programme from the Centre for Academic and Professional Development (CAPD) will be starting in January 2015.  The Distance Learning Programme is now taking applications for standalone modules as well as for the Certificate in Learning and Teaching (CILT) and Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP).  Completion of CILT or PGCAP will enable participants to gain recognition as Associate and Fellow (respectively) of the Higher Education Academy. From January 2015 we are offering the following modules for those involved in learning and teaching who wish to extend or enhance their skills.  Each online module will run for a period of 12 weeks: Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (ADP7001) This module aims to give participants a broad overview of theories and literature around teaching and student learning as well as equipping them with the skills necessary to deliver a high quality student experience in a variety of teaching situations. Assessing Students (ESD7015) This module aims to allow participants to consider aspects of assessment and feedback in higher education and to critically analyse their own practice in assessment and feedback. Developing the Curriculum in the Disciplines (ESD7011) This module encourages participants to engage in a process of curriculum design, based around Biggs’ concept of Constructive Alignment, to ensure that assessment and evaluation are made as important to the design process as delivery methods and content. Teaching with Learning Technologies (ESD7018) This module aims to give participants a broad overview of theories and literature around teaching and student learning as well as equipping them with skills necessary to deliver a high quality student experience in a variety of teaching situations. Summer School (face-to-face delivery) This module takes place 20-24 July 2015 at QMUL Mile End campus. It will focus on International Perspectives on Higher Education and bring together various experts in the field. It will include sessions on the history of higher education, paradigms of researching higher education, vocal skills training, reflective practice, student engagement, graduate attributes and employability, and inclusive curriculum design. The application deadline for a January start is 9 January 2015. Visit capd.qmul.ac.uk/dl for full details, or contact us at adp-dl@qmul.ac.uk   Academic Development Team - Distance Learning Centre for Academic and Professional Development  Queen Mary University of London Copyright © 2014 Queen Mary University of London, All rights reserved.

FW: Academic development: conversations about impact and relevance

CAPD Educational Research Seminar Series Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend Presenter Dr Simon Lygo-Baker  Senior Lecturer, University of Surrey Dr Simon Lygo-Baker has run a series of ILTHE/HEA accredited programmes and is currently running a new academic development programme at Surrey. Simon provides guest sessions at a number of other institutions, has a role of Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin and speaks regularly at national and international conferences.   11th December 2014 Seminar "Academic development: conversations about impact and relevance" Presented by: Dr Simon Lygo-Baker **Lunch Provided** Date and Time: Thursday, 11th December 2014  1-2 pm Venue: Room  FB3.11 CAPD, Francis Bancroft Building on the Mile End campus of Queen Mary University of London. To register for this seminar please use this Eventbrite link or email the CAPD at capd@qmul.ac.uk – lunch will be provided for those who book, so please let us know if you have any specific dietary requirements. About the seminar: Are HEA accredited programmes just hoops to clear, do they genuinely change practice? This seminar will open up debate about the real impact and relevance of academic development. It will raise questions and challenge the basis for certain aspects of academic development.   For further details, please visit the CAPD website. If you have any further enquires please contact the Seminar Series co-ordinator: Dr Maxwell Addo (CAPD) m.addo@qmul.ac.uk   forward to a friend  Copyright © 2014 Queen Mary University of London, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email as you opted in for information on CAPD Educational Research Seminars. Our mailing address is: Queen Mary University of London CAPD, 3rd Floor, Francis Bancroft Building Mile End Campus London, E1 4NS United Kingdom Add us to your address book  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences

FW: Lecture Capture: Building the Evidence Base

 

Lecture Capture: Building the Evidence Base is a mini-conference into a technology the use of which remains a contentious area for many.  

 

The day is intended to be of interest to academics, learning technologists, academic developers, educational researchers, quality enhancement staff, student and those interested in impact on student engagement. Including speakers from York, Northampton, Liverpool John Moores, Manchester, Oxford and Loughborough it will feature time for discussion and debate.  

 

Date:    Wednesday 17 December 2015

Timing: 10am-4pm

Venue:  Loughborough University campus http://www.lboro.ac.uk/about/find-us/

Cost:     £50.00 to include lunch, refreshments and parking.

 

As many institutions are scaling up the use of Lecture Capture there has been considerable questioning among academic staff of whether the resources being invested are justified. Learning technologists are being challenged to produce evidence that lecture capture has a positive impact on learning opportunities. The event provides an opportunity to hear from those who have been undertaking monitoring and evaluation projects to share findings to date, whether they have been focused on institution-wide or small-scale studies.

 

Please e-mail c.f.g.shields@lboro.ac.uk for further information. We would particularly welcome delegates who have concerns or who are sceptical as to the value of LC.

 

Payments can be made through the Loughborough online store from November 19th. http://store.lboro.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=308

 

Deena Ingham SFHEA, FSEDA, MA(Dist).

Academic Practice Development Advisor

Centre for Academic Practice 

Rutland Building
Loughborough University
Leicestershire
LE11 3TU

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FW: the next TLC webinar is approaching, join us on the 25th of November

Teaching and Learning Conversations (TLC)

 

Dear colleagues,

Roger Rees from the University of Surrey will lead an exciting webinar on Tuesday the 25th of November, 12-1pm GMT* during which we will discuss “Reframing discussions about technology enhanced learning”. We hope you will be able to join us.

Discussions about the impact that technology can have on learning and teaching contexts are normally limited in a number of ways and tend to become split into overly pessimistic or optimistic viewpoints. They are also often undermined by a drift toward technological determinism. This contribution will suggest alternative perspectives that allow a more complex view of the relationships. These ecological or systemic perspectives will be used to suggest the potential for the adoption of technology to support developments that are transformative and integrative.

 

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

Manchester Metropolitan University, contact Chrissi Nerantzi

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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FW: IMA International Conference on Barriers and Enablers to Learning Maths: Enhancing Learning and Teaching for All Learners

 

IMA International Conference on

Barriers and Enablers to Learning Maths:

Enhancing Learning and Teaching for All Learners

 

10 – 12 June 2015

University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland

 

This is the first international conference of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) about approaches to teaching and learning mathematics.  Mathematics here covers all aspects, including number, pure mathematics, applied mathematics, statistics and the full range of applications of mathematics. 

 

The conference examines learning and teaching throughout the life span, from the most basic to the most advanced topics and for the full range of learners, including people with dyscalculia and other maths learning difficulties, gifted learners and mathematicians.  The conference is also highly interdisciplinary.  In addition to mathematicians, it should be of interest amongst others to psychologists, teachers, pedagogical and educational experts, engineers, scientists, linguists and social scientists.    

 

The conference is organised into the following four tracks:

• Motivation and maths anxiety:
• Inclusive practice and learners' particular requirements
• Effective practice: what does and does not work
• The use of technology

 

On request the deadline has been extended to Monday 8 December.  Please send 1-2 page abstracts to conferences@ima.org.uk

 

The following special thematic sessions are also still open for contributions:

Inclusive approaches to learning and teaching maths: including pedagogical and theoretical issues, case studies and practical examples and the impact of factors such as gender, culture and disability.

Contact eng-enable@glasgow.ac.uk for more information or to submit an abstract

Access to maths for blind people: including inclusive approaches and communication between blind and sighted about maths, non-speech audio, representing diagrams and spatial concepts.

Contact dfitzpat@computing.dcu.ie for more information or to submit an abstract

 

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