The Group provides opportunities to:
*discuss key issues in teaching, learning and the student experience;
* share ideas, theories, beliefs and practices;
*consider internal and external drivers impacting on teaching and learning;
*share perspectives across disciplines;
* develop bids for research and TAL awards; and
* present research findings for informal critique.
For further information, or to add your name to the email list, please contact Sue Robson
Forthcoming seminars:
Thursday October 3rd 2013 13.00-14.00 Kings Road Centre, Alnwick Room
Dr Vicki Gunn, Learning and Teaching Centre, University of Glasgow
Title: What have disciplinary research-teaching linkages got to do with either employability and/or global leadership?’ Considering the links between what we teach, how we teach, and ‘big agendas’.
Abstract: What we teach and how we teach in our disciplines are areas that respond well to rethinking research and teaching links. Less clear, however, is how all of this connects to broader educational agendas such as employability and global leadership. These broader initiatives often (but not always) seem too abstracted from what we do to make practical sense when it comes to rethinking course and module redesign.
Drawing on work undertaken for the Scottish Quality Enhancement Theme generally and at Glasgow University specifically, which drew together research-teaching linkages and employability, this session raises how research-intensives can use adaptations in the way we think about researcher development in our disciplines to address the bigger ‘macro’ level educational agendas, particularly graduate attributes for employability and global leadership. This presentation:
• reviews some of the key assumptions in the research-teaching linkages literature;
• suggests that we use the research on researcher orientations to rethink the links between disciplinary learning and socialisation and the broader attribute development of our students;
• demonstrates how curriculum mapping and assessment blueprinting across programmes might be the initial process in linking key elements of researcher development with those of broader educational agendas at an undergraduate level;
• suggests the role student engagement might play in such a process.
School of Medical Sciences Education Development Teaching and Learning Seminar Programme 2013/2014
Tuesday 15 October 3013 12.30-1.30 ECLS Staffroom 3rd Floor KGVI Building
Rob Walton, Higher Education Academy
Title: an overview of HEA research and 3 year programme to support research on the impact of HE reforms on learning and teaching in the UK
CfLAT Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Research Group Seminar
Tuesday 5 November 2013 12.30-1.30 ECLS Staffroom 3rd Floor KGVI Building
Dr Catherine Montgomery, University of Hull
Title: Internationalisation of the Curriculum for Global Citizenship in HE
CfLAT Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Research Group Seminar
Wednesday November 6th 2013 13.00-14.00 Ridley Building 1 Room 2.04A
Dr Gillian Vance, School of Medical Sciences Education Development, Newcastle University
Title: to be announced
School of Medical Sciences Education Development Teaching and Learning Seminar Programme 2013/2014
Thursday 14 November 12.30-1.30 ECLS Staffroom 3rd Floor KGVI Building
Dr Simon Forrest, HEA International Scholar and Teaching Fellow in the Centre for Medical Education Research, Durham University
Title: the role of HEA international scholars
CfLAT Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Research Group Seminar
Thursday December 5th 2013 13.00-14.00 Ridley Building 2 Room 1.59
Professor Steve McHanwell, School of Medical Sciences Education Development, Newcastle University
Title: Anatomy Education in the UK: Where are we now and where are we going?
School of Medical Sciences Education Development Teaching and Learning Seminar Programme 2013/2014
Previous seminars:
Tuesday 7th May 2.00 - 3.00 Research Beehive, Room 2.22:
Sandra Wills, Steve McHanwell, Elaine Hall and Sue Robson
The Higher Education Academy Benchmarking Project on Promotions Policies and Processes
This international and inter-university project aims to produce resources to guide and improve academic promotion policy and practice to reflect the recognition of teaching as core to the assurance of standards in higher education. The project involves four British and Australian universities developing a benchmarking framework wherein they will share and compare promotions policies, processes as well as staff perceptions of promotion. The benchmarking process includes the development of a benchmarking framework with performance indicators and measures which can be adapted and applied across the higher education sector. The cornerstone of the Promoting Teaching Good Practice Framework is that promotion must be based on provision of evidence to support description of excellent teaching. Therefore a key goal for this project is to develop a set of perspectives to assist universities in clearly articulating evidence that would count in promotion applications. An essential parallel task is wide discussion within universities to understand and define the changing nature of teaching in today’s increasingly complex higher education sector.
Tuesday 5th February 12.30-1.30 Professor Joelle Fanghanel, Room 1.71B, KGVI Building.
Worldly becoming: resisting liberalism in universities
In this presentation, I discuss the impact on academics of the forms of governance that have come to prevail in UK higher education over the past two decades or so, as reliance on state funding has gradually decreased whilst, at the same time, state control ‘from a distance’ (Neave, 1998 ) has significantly increased. This work is based on fifty interviews with academics in institutions in the UK, Australia, US, South Africa, and Zambia. Using ideological positioning as a theoretical framework to underpin my argument within the broader discussion of the tensions between structure and agency (Archer,1995), I show that academics’ responses to what has been broadly referred to as managerialism (Deem et al, 2007) is complex, and not of one piece. I examine areas of practice which illustrate the complexity of this positioning. I argue that it is possible for academics to enact their personal beliefs and ideals as educators, and that a rich, critical and empowering potential exists within the academy to counteract the liberal stance. The perspective discussed here seeks to promote ways of working in the academy that lead to alternative forms of engagement with students and practices. It builds on previous work that had identified ‘filters’ to practice affecting the way lecturers conceptualise teaching and learning in HE.
Thursday 11th April 12.00-1.00 Dr Jarka Glassey, Room 1.71B, KGVI Building.
Self-reflection and peer assessment in engineering - the educators
journey.
A reflection of an engineering educator on a journey from a very
conservative educational background through a transformative experience
of the EQUATE project towards facilitating the development of more
autonomous chemical engineering graduates with positive attitudes to
lifelong learning. The challenges faced and lessons learnt on a personal
level will set the background and the observations and experiences with
introducing self-reflection and peer assessment into in-course
assessment of a professionally accredited course will hopefully provoke
a debated and exchange of experiences. The observations will touch upon
the differences between home and international students, staff and
student buy-in and system issues with the implementation. To download the powerpoint from this presentation, please click here.
A range of past speakers have also included -
Dr Paola Gazzola, Shifting teaching cultures in educational reforms – A student/staff perspective
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Dr Franck Michel: They can’t stop YAePing! Developing student learning autonomy in the School of Modern Languages: from Equate to the Year Abroad ePortfolio
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Steve Walsh: Investigating small group teaching in a higher education context.
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Savvas Papagiannidis: researching the module databases
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Richard Young: the CASAP International Programme
Alan Firth: Researching the University as Communities of Practice: Cross-Cultural Communication in Globalized Higher Education
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Tony Young, Peter Sercombe, Itesh Sachdev, Rola Naeb & Alina Schartner: Success Factors for ‘International’ Postgraduate Students’ Adjustment to Life and Study at Newcastle University.
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John Pryor: Formative assessment in disciplinary spaces: assessment for becoming
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Dr Christine Brown and Professor Sandra Wills, University of Wollongong: Reward and Recognition in Higher Education
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Professor Emeritus Michael Byram, School of Education, University of Durham: ‘But when you are doing your exams it is the same as in China’ – Chinese students adjusting to western approaches to teaching and learning
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