Re: REMINDER: SDF CPD Event: Action Learning Facilitation - 8 February 2010

2010/1/11 Wendy Mason <wendy.mason@lfhe.ac.uk>

SDF CPD Event: Action Learning Facilitation - Monday 8 February 2010

A practical workshop in the first instance to promote the understanding and use of action learning as a development tool in a university context and equip participants with the key knowledge required to facilitate action learning sets. The programme has been designed to provide for follow up dates if sets are formed and participants wish to participate as part of a set.

 

Date: Monday 8 February 2010

Venue: Loughborough University

Event Leaders: Martin Cussons (Nottingham), Sue Petrie (Derby), Keith Willis (Nottingham Trent) and Andy Wilson (Loughborough University)

Cost: £195 (includes lunch and refreshments)

 

Registration

 

Please return the completed application form at your earliest convenience to:

 

Louise Taylor,

Programme Administrator,

Staff Development Forum, Kingfisher House,

90 Rockingham Street,

Sheffield S1 4EB

T: 0114 270 0188  F: 0114 272 6354  E: louise.taylor@lfhe.ac.uk

Fwd: The student voice: enhancing learning, not just satisfaction - Monday 25th January at QMUL

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From: Matthew Williamson <m.williamson@qmul.ac.uk>
Date: 2010/1/11
Subject: The student voice: enhancing learning, not just satisfaction - Monday 25th January at QMUL
To: ISL@jiscmail.ac.uk

Dear colleagues

It is with great pleasure that I can announce the second in the 2009/10 Educational Research Seminar Series, hosted by Educational and Staff Development at Queen Mary, University of London. The seminar takes place on Monday 25^th January at 3pm in Room 602 on the sixth floor of the G. O. Jones Building (formerly known as the Physics Building) on the Mile End campus of the College.

After a very successful first seminar, on the QMUL Graduate Attributes project, this second seminar is presented by Gwen van der Velden, the Director of Learning and Teaching Enhancement at the University of Bath and is entitled The student voice: enhancing learning, not just satisfaction

As spaces are limited, I would be grateful if you could email me to let me know if you wish to come along to this seminar.

About the seminar:

This seminar sets out the approach taken at the University of Bath which aims to engage students in a role of academic citizenship, rather than just as consumers. Despite Lord Mandelson's suggestions to the contrary, most of our students still engage with their studies as an experience rather than a product.

Bath is a university that was founded in the 1960-s as part of a socio-economical effort to broaden access to the intellectual wealth of universities. Many of the principles of democracy are still present in our efforts to encourage academic citizenship for students and this realisation has transformed our quality management in recent years. Based on good preparation and full access to university information, students at Bath not only take part in setting teaching enhancement agendas, they also share with staff the responsibility for implementing change. In recent years the National Student Survey, Students' Union's surveys and other sources have shown us that our students are appreciative and very aware of this approach, whilst external indicators show us this may be a way of avoiding the consumerist attitudes that are promoted in current discussions about the student fee-cap.

The seminar will set out the underlying principles of student engagement at Bath, what this means in practice for quality and educational management, and provide an insight in the ways in which impact of this approach are measured. Gwen will be accompanied by the Vice President of Bath Students' Union, to give a student perspective on the issue.

About the speaker:

Gwen's career started in the Netherlands and included student activist, teacher and educational innovator. At the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen (now Radboud University, NL), she supported individual staff in the Science Faculty developing advanced teaching practices. On her departure to Britain, she received an award for Excellence from the University of Nijmegen and was put forward for a national award for HE teaching innovation.

Having joined the University of Kent in 1995, Gwen worked with a number of Universities on institution-wide implementation of e-learning. Since the mid nineties, she has led teams of academic staff developers, student learning advisors, quality officers and teaching innovators and took on advisory roles for national HE organisations. Her current professional interests include the professionalisation of educational development, supporting governance change to empower the student voice and the re-alignment of quality assurance and enhancement.

Gwen also holds a number of roles at national level, including membership of the Planning Executive of the Standing Conference for Academic Practice (SCAP), chair of the Learning, Teaching and Quality Network within the '94 Group and membership of the planning group for the Heads of Educational Development Group.

The remaining seminars for this year are:

22^nd February

Dr Roni Bamber, Head of Centre for Academic Practice, Queen Margaret University Evaluation: institutional needs versus individual motivations

29^th March

Dr Margo Blythman, Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Learning and Teaching in Art and Design, University of the Arts Implications of change for the working worlds of staff in higher education

26^th April

Dr Chris Trevitt, Director of Studies, Oxford Learning Institute, University of Oxford Research supervision at Oxford: tales from the development experience coalface

24^th May

Professor Stephanie Marshall, Director of Programmes, The Leadership Foundation for Higher Education Leadership in Learning and Teaching

28^th June

Dr Matthew Williamson, Education Adviser, QMUL, and Dr Giles Martin, Learning and Teaching Development Adviser, QMUL Transitions to Higher Education: reflections on a three-year study

All the best

Matthew

Dr Matthew J. Williamson

Education Adviser

Educational and Staff Development

Queen Mary, University of London

E1 4NS

Tel: 020 7882 2813

www.esd.qmul.ac.uk

Fwd: [Issotl-discuss] ISSOTL10 Website & Call for Proposals

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From: Chick, Nancy <nancy.chick@uwc.edu>
Date: 2009/12/21
Subject: [Issotl-discuss] ISSOTL10 Website & Call for Proposals
To: "issotl-membership@list.emich.edu" <issotl-membership@list.emich.edu>, "issotl-discuss@list.emich.edu" <issotl-discuss@list.emich.edu>

ISSOTL10 -- Global theories and local practices: institutional, disciplinary and cultural variations
(19-22 October 2010, Liverpool, UK)

http://issotl10.indiana.edu/

 

Dear Colleagues,

You are invited to join the 7th annual conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Liverpool, UK,19 – 22 October 2010. This multidisciplinary, international community of scholars will convene to share evidence-based insights and theoretical frameworks that enhance our understanding of student learning and guide our teaching practices. Incorporated into this year's conference is the 18^th Improving Student Learning Symposium, an established annual event on the International calendar organized by the Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development, Oxford Brookes University. The major aim of the Improving Student Learning Symposia is to provide a forum, which brings together those who are primarily researchers into learning in higher education and those that are primarily practitioners concerned more pragmatically with improving their practice. 

The conference will be held in the heart of Liverpool on the historic, world heritage waterfront, at the BT Convention Centre, Monarchs Quay, Liverpool UK which sits alongside the Grade 1 listed Albert Dock complex on the eastern bank of the river Mersey. The conference will feature workshops facilitated by leading scholars in the field, distinguished international plenary speakers, panel presentations, individual paper and poster presentations, and roundtable discussions. Please join us!

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The conference website for ISSOTL10 is now available, as is the Call for Proposals.   Go directly to http://issotl10.indiana.edu/, or you can always get there through the "Conferences" page on the ISSOTL website, www.issotl.org.   Note that submissions will be accepted from January 15 to March 1.

Nancy

 

Nancy L. Chick, Associate Professor of UW Colleges English Department 
          I'm on sabbatical but will be continuing in the following roles and will be reachable at 1800 College Drive, Rice Lake, WI  54868.

* Co-Director, UW System Wisconsin Teaching Fellows & Scholars Program 

* ISSOTL Board of Directors

 

 

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David Andrew

Head of Academic Practice
Educational and Staff Development
Queen Mary, University of London

0207 882 2803
020 8144 6753 (Skype and mobile)

Fwd: Call for papers - ISSoTL 2010 incorporating ISL

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From: Fiona Smith <flsmith@brookes.ac.uk>
Date: 2009/12/21
Subject: Call for papers - ISSoTL 2010 incorporating ISL
To: STAFF-DEVELOPMENT@jiscmail.ac.uk

ISSoTL10 - Global theories and local practices: institutional, disciplinary and cultural variations

19-22 October 2010, Liverpool, uk

Dear Colleagues

You are invited to join the 7th annual conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Liverpool, UK,19 – 22 October 2010. This multidisciplinary, international community of scholars will convene to share evidence-based insights and theoretical frameworks that enhance our understanding of student learning and guide our teaching practices. Incorporated into this year's conference, is the 18^th Improving Student Learning Symposium, an established annual event on the International calendar organized by the Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development, Oxford Brookes University. The major aim of the Improving Student Learning Symposia is to provide a forum, which brings together those who are primarily researchers into learning in higher education and those that are primarily practitioners concerned more pragmatically with improving their practice. 

The conference will be held in the heart of Liverpool on the historic, world heritage waterfront, at the BT Convention Centre, Monarchs Quay, Liverpool UK which sits alongside the Grade 1 listed Albert Dock complex on the eastern bank of the river Mersey. The conference will feature workshops facilitated by leading scholars in the field, distinguished international plenary speakers, panel presentations, individual paper and poster presentations, and roundtable discussions. Please join us!

Announcing the call for papers/proposals 

Proposals will be accepted online from 15 January 2010 until 1 March 2010 at: http://issotl10.indiana.edu

For more information about the conference, please go to:

http://issotl10.indiana.edu/

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Fiona Smith

Centre Administrator

Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development

Oxford Brookes University

Wheatley Campus

Wheatley

Oxford

OX33 1HX

Tel: +00 44 (0)1865 485902

Fax: +00 44 (01865 485937

We cordially invite you to join us at the 7th annual International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning conference, which will convene at the stunning waterfront location of the Arena and Conference Centre in Liverpool. the first time the conference has come to Europe.

http://issotl10.indiana.edu

email: issotl10 @brookes.ac.uk

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David Andrew

Head of Academic Practice
Educational and Staff Development
Queen Mary, University of London

0207 882 2803
020 8144 6753 (Skype and mobile)

Re: Sounds of the Bazaar at Online Educa 2009 sent you a message on Facebook...

2009/12/1 Facebook <notification+od1vgg61@facebookmail.com>

Graham Attwell sent a message to the members of Sounds of the Bazaar at Online Educa 2009.

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Subject: Sounds of Bazaar Live form Online Educa Berlin

Don't forget sounds of Bazaar is broadcasting LIVE Internet radio from the Online Educa Berlin Conference.
Times:
Wednesday 2 December 1600 CET, 1500 UK time
Thursday 3 December 1100 CET, 1000 UK time
Friday 4 December 1100 CET, 1000 UK time
With features, interviews, music and more. presented by Graham Attwell, Cris Costa and Maria Perifanou.
Just go to http://www.facebook.com/l/6fe69;radio.jiscemerge.org.uk:80/Emerge.m3u and the stream will open in your MP3 player of choice
Hoep to talk to you tomorrow

Graham

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David Andrew
Head of Academic Practice
Educational and Staff Development: Queen Mary, University of London

Tel - 020 7882 2803 or 07986709981