FW: Trend spotting: a practical training-day to help you make sense of large information sources

Trend spotting:  a practical training-day to help you make sense of large information sources

Date: 23rd February 2017

Time: 10:30am – 4pm

Location: Birmingham

http://www.qaa.ac.uk/newsroom/events/trend-spotting-workshop-making-sense-of-large-information-sources#.WJL3Hk3cu70

 

Overview

Have you been tasked with producing an engaging report showing key messages of responses to a large consultation?  Do you have to pull together management briefings from large quantities of information?  Are you unsure where to start and how to synthesise key messages? Or, what to do with the data on completion of reporting and how to ensure you adhere to organisational sensitivities and data protection policies? Then, this training session is for you!

 

This one-day workshop will provide the practical skills for carrying out business enhancement and thematic analysis at your institution. It will look at how you collect sources of information and begin analysis of language-based data (qualitative data) from surveys and consultation responses to collection of reports and case-studies.

 

This interactive-day designed and delivered by QAA’s experienced data and analysis team will include presentations, group discussions and practical sessions. It will provide you with a toolkit of approaches to qualitative analysis and pattern spotting, ideas for software tools to use and tips on how to produce engaging outputs with your findings.

 

Who should attend?

 

The workshop is relevant to anyone wanting to gain and understanding of, or get better at, analysing qualitative data, such as surveys and other unstructured data within a higher education setting. 

 

Agenda

The day's agenda will include presentations and practical sessions on the following areas:

 

• Introduction to qualitative data and thematic analysis
• Bringing together language-based data sources
• Carrying out data analysis - looking for themes and trends
• Creating engaging outputs - reports, presentations and documents

 

Attendees will receive a copy of all training resources (both digitally and in the form of a printed booklet). The delegate fee is £300. To register for this event, please visit our registration site.

 

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Marieke Guy

Data analyst, Evaluation and Analytics Team

 

Direct line | +44 1452 55 7051

 

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FW: Call for contributions to the SOAS Learning and Teaching Summer 2017 Conference: Students as Partners: Working together to navigate the learning journey

 

Call for contributions to the SOAS Learning and Teaching Summer 2017 Conference: Students as Partners: Working together to navigate the learning journey

 

Date:  9 June 2017

 

Learning and Teaching Development at SOAS is delighted to invite proposals for presentations, poster presentations and lightning talks at our summer 2017 learning and teaching conference: Students as Partners: Working together to navigate the learning journey on 9 June 2017. We welcome contributions from both staff and students.

 

The themes of this conference are focused on the following key areas:

·         Engaging students in curriculum design and assessment and feedback

·         Students as co-researchers and contributors to scholarship

·         Peer-to-peer learning and mentoring

·         Facilitating student enterprise and community engagement

·         Developing and supporting the values of partnership working

Please submit an abstract of your proposal in no more than 300 words to ltd@soas.ac.uk. Submissions deadline: Monday 6 March 2017

 

If you have any questions about this call for contributions please contact us. 

 

More information on the conference is available here: https://www.soas.ac.uk/ltd/learning-and-teaching-conference/4th-learning-and-teaching-conference-june-2017/

 

Kind regards,

 

Learning and Teaching Development

SOAS, University of London
Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7898 4550

FW: RIDE 2017 Research and Innovation in Distance Education and E-learning Registration now open

 

Research and Innovation in Distance Education and E-learning Conference 2017

 

Learning and Teaching in a Digital Age:

MOOCs, OERs and Innovation

 

 

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for our annual conference, Research and Innovation in Distance Education and E-learning 2017, which will be held on Friday 24 March.

 

Our two keynote speakers for this year will be:

 

Professor Anne Boyer, University of Lorraine, Nancy.

Anne Boyer is a Professor of Computer Science at Université Nancy 2, France. She heads a research team called KIWI (Knowledge, Information and Web Intelligence) at the LORIA laboratory. Her teaching and research interests include recommender systems, user modeling as well as interdisciplinary approaches to personalization of e-services.

 

Simon Nelson, CEO, Futurelearn.

Simon Nelson is Chief Executive of FutureLearn, the social learning platform and first UK-based provider of massive open online courses (MOOCs).

 

 

This one day event explores new directions and developments in distance education and technology-enhanced learning. It has a strong research focus and incorporates outputs from the CDE’s programme of Teaching and Research Awards. The programme features seminars, workshops and showcases around three themes: Open Educational Resources, Massive Open Online Courses, and Innovation.

 

Tickets are priced at £50 with free places for CDE Fellows, University of London International Academy staff and International Programme Community members from Member Institutions. Tickets can be reserved on our booking website.

 

 

Places are limited so sign up quickly to avoid disappointment!

 

Centre for Distance Education
University of London International Programmes
Stewart House | Russell Square | London WC1B 5DN | United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)20 7664 4825   Web: www.londoninternational.ac.uk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mark Beesley

CDE and MPAcc Administrator

University of London International Programmes

Stewart House | 32 Russell Square | London WC1B 5DN | United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0) 207 862 8378

londoninternational.ac.uk

 

 

 

FW: QMUL Educational Research Seminar: Managing Competing Agendas in a Transformed HE Landscape

Employability and Graduate Attributes View this email in your browser QMUL Educational Research Seminars 2016-17 Managing competing agendas in a transformed HE landscape: the case for critical engagement with employability and graduate attributes Dr Finola Farrant, University of Roehampton Thursday 16 February 2017, 1-2pm, CAPD Seminar Room, Queen Mary University of London, Room 0.15 Scape East, 438-490 Mile End Road, London E1 4GG Register here About the seminar Higher education in the UK is going through significant transformation. A number of governmental policies have been put in place that have had – and will continue to have – a major impact on the teaching and learning experience within universities. Simultaneously, student expectations have shifted, with a greater focus on 'value for money', employment readiness and high quality teaching.  At the University of Roehampton a new set of graduate attributes have been introduced that seek to ensure that the needs and expectations of students are met, particularly in relation to employability. This session will reflect on some of the tensions and opportunities created in engaging with employability at a subject level. Drawing on my experience as programme convenor for criminology and our strategy of embedding employability into curriculum design whilst also seeking to maintain academic rigour, the aim of the session is to encourage participants to consider what it means to have a university degree in contemporary society; to reflect on their own experiences of employability; to explore how employability can be taken forward in different academic programmes; and finally, to share good practice. About the presenter Finola Farrant is Programme Convenor and Senior Lecturer in Criminology at University of Roehampton. She has experience as a practitioner, researcher and in policy development in a range of criminal justice settings. Her main areas of research interest include: penology, popular culture, gender and identity, and life story methodologies. She has undertaken extensive research on behalf of a number of Government departments (Ministry of Justice, Home Office, National Offender Management Service, Youth Justice Board, Department of Health and Department for Education); as well as for local government and non-governmental organisations.

FW: Call for papers and workshops at APT 2017 now OPEN

 

 

The call for contributions for the 15th Academic Practice and Technology (APT) conference "The future ain't what it used to be: inventing and re-imagining higher education practice" is now open. The conference, co-hosted by the University of Greenwich and London School of Economics (LSE) takes place on July 4th 2017. We invite contributions from colleagues who are imagining and making the futures of higher education – colleagues who are pushing boundaries; evolving teaching and learning practices; developing new curricula; creating new collaborations or markets; analysing big data.

 

Submission closes Friday 7th April 2017. View information and download the call at: http://tinyurl.com/apt17CfP . We are looking for papers, workshops, innovative sessions and short lighting talks that cover practice, pedagogy and/or research. 

 

 

If you could share this with your networks and at your institutions, we would be most appreciative.  APT is a great one –day conference, held at a lovely location and brings together a wonderful array of people and ideas.  This year we are focusing on change and how we imagine the future of higher education in that environment. 

 

Cheers

Peter

 

 

Peter Bryant
Head of Learning Technology and Innovation

London School of Economics and Political Science

ALD LG - Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE
Phone: +44 (0)20 7955 6008

Twitter: @peterbryantHE

LSE Experts: http://bit.ly/1hniikc