Networks and Communities of Practice

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Participation in networks and communities of practice can support your engagement with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning by providing opportunities to explore evidence-informed practice, reflect critically on your teaching approaches, and learn from the experiences of colleagues.

By sharing ideas, challenges and innovations, you can contribute to collective expertise while enhancing your own practice and supporting improvements in student learning.

Engagement in networks can also help you evidence the impact of your work, build your educational profile, and contribute towards professional recognition and your career development goals.

Newcastle Educators

Newcastle Educators is a peer-led community of educators. They run regular EDUBITES sessions linked to themes of interest. They have an active Teams site where members share internal and external, events, scholarship and funding opportunities.

Join the Newcastle Educators Microsoft Team to get involved.

Leading Edge Curriculum Communities of Practice

Our ten LEC Education Fellows are leading communities of practice, each focussed on an important area of learning and teaching.

These LEC focussed communities of practice bring together colleagues cross-faculty to disseminate practice, co-create resources, collate case studies and champion inclusive, research-informed teaching approaches.

Each of the Communities of Practice (CoP) uses a Teams channel hosted on the Newcastle Educators Team.

You can request to join the CoPs by clicking their channel link below. Alternatively, please contact the Community leads. 

• Assessment and Feedback Futures - Led by Dr Sophie Hill, Dr Alison Graham, Dr Bethany Usher
  Join Assessment and Feedback Futures CoP
  
  
• Teaching Approaches - Led by Dr Christopher Leyland, Dr Amy Proctor, Dr Scott Walker
  Join Teaching Approaches CoP
  
  
• Partnerships and Co-Creation - Led by Linda Jose and Jonathan Ward
  Join Partnerships and Co-Creation CoP
  
  
• Digital Education and AI - Led by Dr David Grundy and Dr Matt Bawn
  Join Digital Education and AI CoP

Resources and outputs will be shared via Newcastle Educators, the Learning and Teaching@Newcastle Blog and on the LEC pages of this website.

Design Thinking Community of Practice

Led by Yulia Dzenkovska and Lucy Hatt, this Community of Practice explores design thinking as an approach to learning, collaboration and problem solving.

Unlike traditional teaching, Design Thinking encourages learners to take an inquiry stance, think divergently, and develop reflexivity.

See Design Thinking