Monday 17 May 2021

Fwd: CONFERENCE REGISTRATION OPEN! New Frontiers in Higher Education Teaching and Learning: Strategy and Planning for the Digital Learning Age - Wednesday, 16th June 2021




 

Registration is now open! 

There is now just over a month to go until Middlesex University Dubai Online Teaching and Learning Conference 2021.  


Hear from fellow HE educators sharing their innovative teaching and learning practices, participate in the interactive keynotes with Q&A, network with your international community, and leave confident with the know-how to implement strategies to foster and encourage active effective learning. 

 

Keynote Speakers 

Professor Ben Brabon 

 

Academic Lead on Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Advance – HE 

 

Ben is Senior Associate at Advance HE with over 18 years of experience as an academic, manager and adviser.   

 

Ben was Director of Learning and Teaching and Professor in the Centre for Management Education at the University of Surrey. He has also worked for Advance HE and the Higher Education Academy as Senior Adviser and Academic Lead for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences – with responsibility for 32 subject areas.  

 

Ben has led over 20 national/international projects, working with over 40 Universities globally, as well as government and sector agencies. With 5 books and over 40 papers to his name, he is recognised internationally as a pioneer of open online learning – as the convenor of the UK's first undergraduate credit-bearing MOOC. Ben has worked with the UK's Quality Assurance Agency, British Academy, British Council, the UK's Department for Education, Swedish Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Education in Brussels.   

 

Employability and skills development are at the core of Ben's work, and he led Advance HE's national research project on Building Higher Education Curricula Fit for the Future (2018) which examined the connections between the UK's Industrial Strategy, 4IR and curriculum development in HEIs across the UK.  

 

Ben is descried by the former Universities Minister, David Willetts, in his book A University Education as an "entrepreneurial educator." 

 

Dr. Emily McIntosh 

 

Director of Learning, Teaching and Student Experience, Middlesex University, London   

Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA) I Vice Chair (Research), Trustee and Board Member UKAT 

 

Emily is an HE Director with over 15 years' experience in learning and teaching, student support and services, student experience, student opportunity and learning development roles. She is currently Director of Learning, Teaching and Student Experience at Middlesex University, London. She is Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA) and Vice Chair, Trustee and Board Member of UKAT (UK Advising and Tutoring) and also Chair of the UKAT Research Committee. 

 

Emily has worked in a number of institutions, leading strategic change, across Faculties, Schools and Directorates. She has expertise in leading, developing and implementing student-centred strategy, policy and operational change across the whole student lifecycle (prospect to alumnus). She currently leads on a number of cross-institutional learning, teaching and student experience initiatives. Her research interests include student retention, transition, personal/academic tutoring and advising, student resilience, student learning development and peer learning. 

 

Emily has been a keynote and invited speaker at several national and international conferences. She recently (2018) co-authored a monograph on Effective Personal Tutoring in Higher Education and has published a number of research articles and reports related to her research interests. She is an editorial board member of NACADA, the Global Community for Academic Advising. She also sits on the Advisory Board of the NACADA Research Centre which is based at Kansas State University. She is also the community coordinator of the European First Year Experience (EFYE) Network. 

 

For more information: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcintoshemily/ 

 

Call for questions… The keynote sessions will combine a micro-lecture with interaction and Q&A. To customise the sessions to our delegates individual needs, we request for questions to be submitted before the conference via this link (link to question jot form). There will of course be opportunities to interact live during the key notes.  

 

Programme 

The up-to-date programme and schedule for Teaching and Learning Conference 2021 will be made available in June 2021. 

10:00 GST - 15:00 GST 

Details coming soon  


Booking Information 

Delegate registration closes on Thursday, 3rd June 2021 

Presenters should register by Thursday, 3rd June 2021. 

Registration is free but you will need to book your place through the TLC2021 conference website: https://www.mdx.ac.ae/TLC2021 

 

 

Laura Barber 

Assistant Library Manager – Information Literacy 

t. +971 (0)4 367 8124 

e. L.Barber@mdx.ac.ae 

 

  

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