Fwd: [JALT] Murdoch-Kaplan Learning and Teaching Symposium 2021 -- Friday, 17 September 2021, 1pm - 4.45pm (SGT)

Murdoch-Kaplan Learning and Teaching Symposium 2021 -- Friday, 17 September 2021, 1pm - 4.45pm (SGT)

You are cordially invited to attend the Murdoch-Kaplan Learning and Teaching Symposium 2021. Please register here and upon acceptance of your participation into this free-of-charge symposium,  you will be sent a Zoom link one week prior to event. It takes place on Friday, 17 September 2021, 1pm - 4.45pm (SGT). 

Registration link: https://murdochkaplansymposium.eventbrite.sg

Visit our website to read the full announcement.

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Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching

Fwd: Booking reminder: Digital Poverty

Digital Poverty (Equality)  Date: Wednesday 14th July 2021 Time: 13:00 - 15:30 Booking: www.ucisa.ac.uk/events The pandemic has taught us a lot of things about working from home, and it also highlighted another technology challenge that had gone under the radar, that of Digital poverty. Without access to student computer rooms and the power of Janet many students and staff struggled to carry on as normal. This was made worse because security requirements meant certain requirement had to be met by hardware etc. Though known of, the digital poverty gap had not been fully addressed. Though some aspects need governmental help this session will consider what we can do to make access to our systems more affordable and effective in low band width situations or when low end hardware is all that is available for high end work. Register here to join the ucisa London Group in their July webinar.

Contact team ucisa: events@ucisa.ac.uk

 

 

 

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Fwd: Birmingham City University - Learning and Teaching Conference 2021

We will be holding the Birmingham City University Learning and Teaching Conference on Thursday 15^th – Friday 16^th July. The sessions include two key university strategy themes; Sustainability in the curriculum and Digital-enabled curriculum. Please find the programme below including links to the MSTeams sessions and calendar invites attached.

 

We have speakers from University of Sydney, Nottingham Trent University and Cardiff University in addition to sessions led by our own BCU Student Digital Champions and Academic staff. The Sustainability in Education sessions will include staff who have been recently shortlisted for global Green Gown awards.

 

The SEDA forum has been such a marvellous little community over the last year and you would be very welcome to join us.

 

Please feel free to disseminate to your colleagues.

 

Best wishes,

 

Rachel

 

Dr. Rachel Curzon BA (Hons) PgDip PgCert Ed SFHEA PhD

Acting Head of Academic Practice

 

Birmingham City University

Learning and Teaching Conference 2021

 

Thursday 15th July 2021 (Day 1)   Click here to join the meeting live on MS Teams on Thursday or open the attached invite to add it to your calendar.
1-1.05	Welcome (Professor Julie McLeod, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Learning and Teaching)
1.05-2pm	Title: Sustainability Education: what, why, how? Why now? Speaker: Helen Puntha SFHEA, MSc, BA(Hons)   Green Academy Lead Nottingham Trent University
2 – 2.45pm	Sustainability Showcase Speakers from BCU showcase their initiatives:   ·       'Weaving the Fashion Future' (Sabine Lettman and Karen Nutton) ·       'Experimental Sustainability Studio: the role of BCU designers in creating a sustainable future' (Jemma Browne, Dawn Parke, Sandra Costa and Matthew Jones) ·       'Embedding Sustainability into the Curriculum – the passion, the pilot and the practicalities' (Deborah Phelpstead and Dr Rachel Curzon)
2.45- 3.15pm	Round table discussion   Current members of the 'Embedding sustainability into the curriculum' cohort will join us to share their proposals for new initiatives.   Contributions from other participants are very welcome.
Friday 16th July (Day 2)   Click here to join the meeting live on MS Teams on Friday or open the attached invite to add it to your calendar.
10.25-10.30	Welcome (Professor Julie McLeod, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Learning and Teaching)
10.30 – 11am	Title 'Practical Thinking During A Pandemic' #DryLabsRealScience Speaker: Dr Nigel Francis, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
11am -12noon	Title: Mixing face-to-face and online teaching: Hybrid, Blended, HyFlex learning Speakers: Eszter Kalman, Danny Liu and Jessica Frawley Educational Innovation Team, University of Sydney
12noon -1pm	Title: 'Let's talk about online learning' Speakers: Birmingham City University's Student Digital Champions (Charandeep Tak, Natalia Parzygnat, Olivia Thompson, Jacob Perkins)
1-1.30pm	Round table discussion   Please join us to reflect on the themes, challenges and approaches shared today. Additional contributions are very welcome.

 

Please contact Rachel Curzon Rachel.Curzon@bcu.ac.uk with any queries.

 

 

Fwd: Last week to register for Threshold Concepts conference

Registration for the the 8th 'Biennial' Threshold Concepts conference (postponed from 2020) is open for about another week. It's a very low fee (£30 waged, £10 less-than-waged) for an almost unbroken three day conference running around the globe and will run via Zoom in a single session format (no parallels). The conference runs almost uninterruptedly over 7-9th July, starting at 9.30 UK BST and ending at 5.30 on the Friday (or Saturday, depending where you are).

Whether you want to dip in and learn more about research into threshold concepts or pick out ones relating to your field, you'll be very welcome. The full programme is available and the registration is open until 23.59pm 2nd July.

Social media for the conference is being run through twitter so do please follow or bookmark that link for updates (you do not need a twitter account to view the tweets).

Best wishes,
Jason Davies (on behalf of the steering committee)

Fwd: One month to go: register for the Active Learning Conference

 

The annual conference of the Active Learning Network and Anglia Ruskin University will take place in just under a month's time on the afternoon of Tuesday 20 July and all day on Wednesday 21 July 2021.

Active Learning Conference

All together - Active Inclusive Learning

20-21 July 2021, online

The fourth international Active Learning Conference, sponsored by Talis Elevate, is a free, two-day online event. It  will start with an afternoon of masterclasses, followed by a day of keynotes and sessions to consider the practice, research and leadership of active, collaborative and inclusive learning.

Anglia Ruskin University is keen to engage you in developing a shared understanding and commitment to active learning. Join us to explore how we can inspire and challenge all of our students by promoting rich and inclusive learning experiences.

Programme structure

Afternoon of masterclasses

14.00–17.00, 20 July 

Choose from one of three masterclasses below to deepen your knowledge and begin to apply what you have learned to your own practices:

• The Active Learning Podblast - an approach to promoting multimedia co-creation masterclass.
• Reinventing the online space masterclass.
• Digital storytelling masterclass.

Conference day

9.30–16.30, 21 July

Be inspired by our keynote followed by active learning sessions including sharing of practice through presentations, poster sessions, workshops, walks, soap boxes and lightning strikes.

Keynote: We are delighted to hear from Dr Alex Moseley, Head of Anglia Learning and Teaching.

He will be speaking about: The role of play and playfulness in active learning.

Play often forms a part of active learning approaches: such as game-based, creative, storytelling, prototyping or other activities. However, a playful attitude amongst both teacher/facilitators and participants can elevate the effectiveness of active learning approaches regardless of discipline or activity type. In this keynote Alex will examine playfulness as an attitude, and how it shares and supports active learning as an approach.

To register please use the Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/active-learning-conference-2021-tickets-156501944529

 

Best wishes,

 

Nic

 

 

 

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