FW: PedRIO annual conference - 17th April - REGISTRATION CLOSING SOON

 

PedRIO Annual Conference - 17th April - Registration Closing Soon

 

Registration for this annual conference is closing soon.  The conference will bring together leading academics from across the UK

presenting pedagogic research papers, interactive workshops and posters on the following themes:

 

·         Education for Sustainable Development

·         Spaces to Think

·         Masters Learning

·         Digital Innovations

·         Inclusivity and Student Engagement

·         Medical Education

 

Keynote Presentations from:

 

Dr Alison James, Associate Dean Teaching and Learning, London College of Fashion, University of Arts London “Helping students become creative and reflective learners, what do we know, what do we need to know”

 

Professor Ron Barnett, UCL Institute of Education, University College London, “Believing in the University”.

 

Click here to view the draft programme for this event

 

To register for this event please follow this link https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PedRIO15

 

The conference will run alongside the 4th Centre for Recording Achievement International Seminar on ‘Researching and Evaluating Recording Achievement, Personal Development Planning and e-Portfolio’, which takes place on the 16-17 April.  To register complete the form at the end of the webpage by Clicking here

 

We look forward to seeing you on 17^th April.

 

 

Professor Pauline Kneale,  PFHEA, NTF, FRGS, Pro Vice-Chancellor Teaching and Learning

Professor of Pedagogy and Enterprise, Director of PedRIO

Chair Plymouth UTC (University Technical College) Board of Directors

Plymouth University | 3 Endsleigh Place | Plymouth | PL4 8AA

T: 01752 584881  pauline.kneale@plymouth.ac.uk 

http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/pkneale

 

PVC T&L and PedRIO support please contact Jane Dalrymple,  01752 584529,  jane.dalrymple@plymouth.ac.uk

PedRIO Conferences, do join us:

Inclusive Assessment in Practice, with HE Academy  24^th November 2014

Education for Sustainable Development in Higher Education 7 - 8^th January 2015

CRA, Centre for Recording Achievement Annual Meeting   16 -17^th April 2015

Fourth PedRIO Annual Conference  17^th April 2015

VC’s 13^th  Teaching and Learning Conference  26^th June 2015

 

http://www1.plymouth.ac.uk/research/pedrio

 

 

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FW: Enhancing student engagement @ Cardiff Met, 20 April 2015 - Final reminder for abstracts

Re: ‘Enhancing student engagement’ conference, Cardiff Met, 20 April 2015

Info: http://www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/lis/Pages/Enhancing-student-engagement-.aspx

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/enhancing-student-engagement-through-online-learning-communities-tickets-15270223650

One final reminder – before I go on annual leave! - that the deadline for submitting an abstract for the above conference is Friday 20 March.   Any queries, please get in touch with me or Stuart Abbott (sabbott@cardiffmet.ac.uk).  For tickets, please see the link above; details of the conference may be found below.

Enhancing student engagement through online communities
Cardiff Metropolitan University, Monday 20 April, 2015

We are pleased to confirm Professor Daniella Tilbury and Dr Alex Ryan of the University of Gloucestershire as keynote speakers.

Online communities, such as those created through virtual learning environments like Moodle and Blackboard or social media platforms including Twitter and Facebook, are rapidly becoming a principal means of engaging students in the learning process within higher education.

Identified as a prominent aspect of broader flexible and social learning pedagogies (Ryan and Tilbury, 2013), virtual online learning spaces are becoming an important feature of educational provision at this level with implementation occurring both within and outside of formal curricula. There is now a greater expectation for institutions and individual tutors working in today's universities to adapt the traditional learning experience and environment in order to meet the differing learning needs of a diverse, fee-paying student body.  Indeed, flexibility is a key element of successful and impactful teaching that heightens student engagement.

In light of the growing importance of this aspect of learning and teaching in higher education, the aim of this conference is to explore ways in which online communities might be successfully deployed and exploited in order to enhance student engagement.  It is intended that the conference provides colleagues working in learning development, and in higher education more broadly, with a platform to present ideas regarding the implementation of online learning communities across curricula or examples of how online communities have successfully impacted on student engagement with learning. 

It is intended that the conference brings together professionals working in learning and teaching development and associated fields, and provides opportunities for colleagues to disseminate and discuss examples of best practice.  We would welcome papers related to issues such as online communities, flexible learning, blended learning, distance learning, work-based learning, collaborative provision, skills and professional development and digital literacies.  We are particularly interested in papers addressing Moodle, any form of social media, and the development of academic skills and graduate attributes through such media.

Please send abstracts to Dr Chris Dennis (ckdennis@cardiffmet.ac.uk).

Best wishes,

Chris

Dr Chris Dennis

Academic Skills Specialist / Arbenigwr Sgiliau Academaidd

Cardiff Metropolitan University/ Prifysgol Metropolitan Caerdydd

Llandaff Learning Centre/ Canolfan Dysgu Llandaf

Room / Ystafell T1.07

Llandaff Tel: (029 2041) 6561

Email: ckdennis@cardiffmet.ac.uk

‘Enhancing student engagement’ conference, Cardiff Met, 20 April 2015

http://www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/lis/Pages/Enhancing-student-engagement-.aspx

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FW: BOOKINGS OPEN FOR Roehampton's Learning & Teaching Conference 2015 - Wednesday 15th April from 9:30 to 16:30

 

 

BOOKINGS OPEN please see our webpage at: http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/Services/Learning-and-Teaching/Events/

 

£85 to include lunch & all refreshments

 

 

2015 Learning & Teaching Conference

Wednesday 15th April from 9:30 to 16:30, Chapman Hall, Southlands College, University of Roehampton

 

Open to all academic and academic-related staff, and PhD students with a teaching role.

 

This year's theme: Innovative and Engaging Assessment - Good Practice on Taught Programmes

 

Keynote Speaker: Dr Gwyneth Hughes, Reader in Higher Education, Institute of Education, London. Keynote lecture: “Is competition good for learning? Exploring ipsative assessment as an alternative”

 

You are warmly invited to join our debates and discussions around the topic of innovative and engaging assessments on your taught programmes. How can we enthuse and motivate our students to do their best? What are the most effective ways of using assessment to support the learning process? Are there some new ideas that could be used on any of your own programmes?

 

Our sub-themes are:

 

*   Innovative and engaging on line assessments / e-assessments

*   Designing assessments  that maximise learning pay-off

*   Formative and summative assessments – strategies for success

*   Giving effective feedback to learners

*   Assessment needs from year 1 to year 3

 

Come and join us! Our Twitter hashtag for the day will be #RoeLandT

 

The Academic Enhancement Department

 

 

 

 

 

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FW: UK Academic Advising and Personal Tutoring Network One-Day Conference

 

Academic Advising and Personal Tutoring Conference – 25 March 2015

 

The University of Sheffield is proud to host the launch of a UK Allied Group of NACADA through a one-day conference event on the 25^th of March, 2015.

 

NACADA, the Global Community for Academic Advising, promotes student success by advancing the field of academic advising. NACADA provides opportunities for professional development, networking and leadership for their diverse membership. The launch will feature key sessions from noted professionals in NACADA, including Charlie Nutt and Jennifer Joslin. Its focus will extend to UK practices and contexts, helping to establish formal sharing of good practice and expertise across the UK and international HE sector.

 

With over 10,000 NACADA members across the world, an Allied UK Group is being formed to help support networking and professional development of UK colleagues. We are writing now to invite you to attend the event.

 

Further information and registration details are available from this website: http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Events-Programs/Events/International-Conference/UK-Drive-In-Event.aspx.

 

The cost is only £49 and promises to be a useful and rewarding event. 

 

Please forward this on to interested parties and if you have any question please email i.kemp@sheffield.ac.uk.

 

Many thanks,

 

Rupert Ward

National Teaching Fellow & Head of Informatics

T 01484 47 2060

rupert.ward@hud.ac.uk www.hud.ac.uk

Department of Informatics

University of Huddersfield | Queensgate | Huddersfield | HD1 3DH

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FW: Forthcoming conference @ Cardiff Metropolitan University, 20 April 2015

 

 

Re: ‘Enhancing student engagement’ conference, Cardiff Met, 20 April 2015

Info: http://www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/lis/Pages/Enhancing-student-engagement-.aspx

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/enhancing-student-engagement-through-online-learning-communities-tickets-15270223650

 

 

As many of you will be aware, on 20 April 2015, Cardiff Metropolitan University will be hosting a learning and teaching conference that will explore ways of enhancing student engagement through online learning communities. 

 

 

Please note that the deadline for submitting an abstract for this conference is Friday, 20 March.  We welcome abstracts for papers addressing a broad range of issues: online communities, flexible learning, blended learning, distance learning, work-based learning, collaborative provision, skills and professional development and digital literacies.  We are particularly interested in papers addressing Moodle, any form of social media, and the development of academic skills and graduate attributes through such media. 

 

 

Tickets for the conference are moving quite quickly, so please reserve a place as soon as possible if you wish to attend.  Please note, tickets have been reserved for all speakers.

 

 

Details of the conference are set out below.  If you have any questions about the arrangements, please contact Dr Chris Dennis (ckdennis@cardiffmet.ac.uk) or Stuart Abbott (sabbott@cardiffmet.ac.uk).  We look forward to welcoming as many of you as possible to the University in April.

 

 

 

Enhancing student engagement through online communities
Cardiff Metropolitan University, Monday 20 April, 2015

We are pleased to confirm Professor Daniella Tilbury and Dr Alex Ryan of the University of Gloucestershire as keynote speakers.

 

 

Professor Daniella Tilbury, Dean of Sustainability, University of Gloucestershire Professor Tilbury is Marie Curie Professor in Education for Sustainability and Dean at the University of Gloucestershire. Daniella co-wrote the HEA Commissioned 'Flexible Pedagogies: New Pedagogical Ideas' report and led a large HEFCE funded 'Leadership, Governance and Management' project on embedding ESD into quality assurance processes in higher education. She chairs UNESCO's Global Monitoring and Evaluation Experts Group in Education for Sustainability and is the Director of the University Educators for Sustainable Development initiative which involves 54 university partners in 33 countries. Daniella a fellow of the Salzburg Global Academy, the Royal Society for the Arts (FRSA),  the Leadership Trust and Co-Chairs the Sustainable Futures Leadership Academy for Higher Education.

Dr Alex Ryan, Associate Director of Sustainability (Academic), University of Gloucestershire Dr Ryan is responsible for curriculum and professional development at the University of Gloucestershire in Education for Sustainability and co-authored the HEA Commissioned 'Flexible Pedagogies: New Pedagogical Ideas' report. She managed the Leading Curriculum Change for Sustainability project, funded by HEFCE in partnership with QAA, and is Academic Co-ordinator for the EC-funded University Educators for Sustainable Development project. She has been an academic consultant to HEA since 2004 in pedagogical development, evaluation of Subject Centres and ESD. Alex teaches Religious Studies with the Open University, is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (FRSA) and Honorary Research Fellow at Cardiff University.

 

Online communities, such as those created through virtual learning environments like Moodle and Blackboard or social media platforms including Twitter and Facebook, are rapidly becoming a principal means of engaging students in the learning process within higher education.

Identified as a prominent aspect of broader flexible and social learning pedagogies (Ryan and Tilbury, 2013), virtual online learning spaces are becoming an important feature of educational provision at this level with implementation occurring both within and outside of formal curricula. There is now a greater expectation for institutions and individual tutors working in today's universities to adapt the traditional learning experience and environment in order to meet the differing learning needs of a diverse, fee-paying student body.  Indeed, flexibility is a key element of successful and impactful teaching that heightens student engagement.

In light of the growing importance of this aspect of learning and teaching in higher education, the aim of this conference is to explore ways in which online communities might be successfully deployed and exploited in order to enhance student engagement.  It is intended that the conference provides colleagues working in learning development, and in higher education more broadly, with a platform to present ideas regarding the implementation of online learning communities across curricula or examples of how online communities have successfully impacted on student engagement with learning. 

It is intended that the conference brings together professionals working in learning and teaching development and associated fields, and provides opportunities for colleagues to disseminate and discuss examples of best practice.  We would welcome papers related to issues such as online communities, flexible learning, blended learning, distance learning, work-based learning, collaborative provision, skills and professional development and digital literacies.  We are particularly interested in papers addressing Moodle, any form of social media, and the development of academic skills and graduate attributes through such media.

 

Please send abstracts to Dr Chris Dennis (ckdennis@cardiffmet.ac.uk).

 

 

 

 

Best wishes,

 

 

Chris

 

 

 

Dr Chris Dennis

Academic Skills Specialist / Arbenigwr Sgiliau Academaidd

Cardiff Metropolitan University/ Prifysgol Metropolitan Caerdydd

Llandaff Learning Centre/ Canolfan Dysgu Llandaf

Room / Ystafell T1.07

Llandaff Tel: (029 2041) 6561

Email: ckdennis@cardiffmet.ac.uk

 

‘Enhancing student engagement’ conference, Cardiff Met, 20 April 2015

http://www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/lis/Pages/Enhancing-student-engagement-.aspx

 

 

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