Fwd: Practical Pedagogy Academic Development Conference (13th of September)

On the 13th of September we will be hosting a full day of academic development talks. This will all be held online via MS Teams.

There are 30 sessions with two QnA panels, and three keynotes still to be announced. These are being delivered by a broad range of experts from across the HE sector (and a dedicated set of talks on student engagement). Every talk is "practical" specifically, there is a focus on useful takeaways for educators to apply to their own practice.

The full programme is here: https://chrisheadleand.com/practical-pedagogy/

Attendees can attend as much, or as little as they wish.  There is no commitment to attend the full event. However, registration is essential. Attendees can either register via the website (above) or directly at this link - https://lncn.ac/practical - Tickets are available for free on a "pay what you want" donation model. This is an experiment; there are a number of running costs, but we want to keep the event as inclusive as possible.

It would be great to see some of you there, so please register if you are available. And we would be eternally grateful if you would share the webpage with your colleagues and institution.

Best,

Chris

 

Dr Chris Headleand
National Teaching Fellow

Director of Teaching and Learning

School of Computer Science

University of Lincoln

 

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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)