Learning and Teaching Week 2009
The Keynote for this year's event will be from Professor Mike Neary, Dean of Teaching and Learning at the University of Lincoln.
KEYNOTE ABSTRACT
Learning Landscapes: Constructing a contemporary university.
Wednesday March 25 5.30 pm - 6.30 pm
Building 67 (Nightingale) room 1027 (Lecture Theatre)
The presentation will explore some of the challenges facing teaching and learning in higher education in the 21st century, and suggest ways in which universities might respond to these challenges. Utilising the concept of ‘learning landscapes’, the focus will be on curricula development and its relationship to the built and virtual environment. The paper will draw on work done by the Reinvention Centre for Undergraduate Research at the University of Warwick, a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), and approaches to teaching and learning that are being developed at the University of Lincoln. All of this work is grounded in Boyer’s notion of ‘ the scholarship of teaching and learning’, as well as intellectual traditions associated with a more critical pedagogy (e.g., Paulo Freire and Walter Benjamin). The main point of the presentation is that designing the future of teaching and learning in universities involves not only rethinking curricula and teaching and learning spaces, but requires that we fundamentally rethink the nature and purpose of Higher Education.
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Professor Mike Neary is the Dean of Teaching and Learning at the University of Lincoln, and the Director of the University’s Centre for Educational Research and Development. Mike was the founding director of the Reinvention Centre for Undergraduate Research, a Centre for Excellence based at Warwick and Oxford Brookes universities. The aim of the Reinvention Centre is to introduce research-based learning into the undergraduate curriculum. Mike combines his teaching and research activities through writing about his own teaching practice in the context of national and international educational policy. His most recent publication is a jointly edited collection, The Future of Higher Education: Policy, Pedagogy and the Student Experience, published by Continuum 2009. Mike has been an adviser and consultant for the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre Network and is a National Teaching Fellow.
Programme of Events
Key to Type:
P= Presentation
W=Workshop
D= Discussion/debate
Monday 23 March - LOCAL EVENTS
Posters on display in the Foyer, building 29
All Schools
| Time | Title | Presenter | School/Service | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00 12:30 | Sharing Educational Content | Hugh Davis | ECS | Blog post |
13:00 |
The benefits of Action Learning Sets for students and facilitators | Jo Adams | Health Sciences | |
| 14:00 15:00 | Supporting Students on practice placements | Janet Skinner /Michelle Cowen | Student Support (Disability and Mentor Service) | Proposal PowerPoint Case Studies |
Location: Building 29 (Chemistry) room 1101
| Time | Title | Presenter | School/Service | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 10:45 | Enhancing Learning through Synchronising Notes, Transcripts and Multimedia Recordings | Mike Wald | ECS |
Proposal Audio (MP3)Audio (WMA) PowerPoint Video (WMV) |
| 11:00 11:30 | Web-based Maps in Teaching | Richard Treves | Geography | Proposal Audio (MP3) Audio (WMA) |
| 11:40 12:20 | Developing your Higher Education Teaching Career | Helen Bulpitt; Alison Dickens; Liz Hudswell & Rebecca Johnson | SWAP/LLAS Subject Centres | |
| 12:30 13:45 | Stepping Stones: this reaches out to support students in the transition into HE (with lunch provided) | Christine Keenan | University of Bournemouth | |
| 14:00 14:45 | Discussion on the educational themes within "Creating Our Future" - specifically the challenges for future graduates of the University |
Debra Humphris | Professional Services | |
| 15:00 15:30 | Using Technologies to support student’s learning | Mike Littler | CELT and Assistive Technology Service | Proposal Audio (MP3) Audio (WMA) PowerPoint Notes |
| 15:45 16:15 | The new Graduate Careers Centre | Janice Rippon | Student Services | Proposal PowerPoint |
| 16:30 17:00 | Work based learning: Meeting the needs of students and employers | Lyn Macleod | Health Sciences |
Wednesday 25 March - CENTRAL EVENTS
Location: Building 29 (Chemistry) room 1101
| Time | Title | Presenter | School/Service | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 10:45 | Work Based Placement – Relevant or Irritant (experiences from the School of Chemistry) |
Jeremy Hinks | Chemistry | Audio (MP3)Audio (WMA)PowerPoint |
| 11:00 11:30 | Learner Voices: Lessons learnt from the LexDis and the eLexDis projects on accessible e-learning | E.A.Draffan | ECS | Proposal Audio (MP3)Audio (WMA) |
| 11:45 12:45 | Providing reasonable adjustments for disabled and/or dyslexic students | Janet Skinner & Mary Siddall | Legal Services /Student Support | Proposal Audio (MP3)Audio (WMA) PowerPoint |
| 13:30 14:00 | Strengthening blended learning in postgraduate training: Examples from Gerontology | Julia Schonheinz; Maria Evandrou; et al | Social Sciences | Proposal PowerPoint |
| 14:15 14:45 | New initiatives: Engaging with employers | Sheila Reading; Lesley Coles and Debra Tizzard | Health Sciences | Proposal PowerPoint |
| 15:00 16:15 | The Virtual Chemistry Experience | Simon Coles | Chemistry | PowerPoint |
| 16:30 17:00 | Discover Oceanography | Gary Fisher | Ocean & Earth Sciences | Audio (MP3)Audio (WMA) |
| 17:30 18:30 | KEYNOTE: Learning Landscapes: Constructing a Contemporary University | Professor Mike Neary | University of Lincoln |
Wednesday 25 March - LOCAL EVENT
| Time | Title | Presenter | School/Service | Location | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14:00 16:00 | Writing Student References | Marie Borrego Jan Steele |
The Careers Service | Bld 4 Rm 4005 |
Proposal PowerPoint |
Thursday 26 March CENTRAL EVENTS
Location: Building 29 (Chemistry) room 1101
| Time | Title | Presenter | School/Service | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 10:45 | Supporting Students with Asperger’s Syndrome | Marjory Webber | Student Support (Disability and Mentor Service | Proposal Audio (MP3) Audio (WMA) |
| 11:00 11:30 | WSA Web 2.0 | Adam Procter | Winchester School of Art | Proposal Audio (MP3) Audio (WMA) |
| 11:45 12:15 | Providing Support to UG and PG students | Alison Beard | Student Support | Proposal PowerPoint |
| 12:30 13:00 | Enhancing Learning in the Chemistry Lab: Online Pre-lab Activities | David Read | Chemistry | Camtasia Video |
| 14:00 14:30 | Hints and tips on technologies you can learn to make e-learning easier for disabled and dyslexic students | E.A Draffan | ECS/Student Support | Proposal |
| 14:45 15:15 | A strategy for the development of the academic skills base of Science and Engineering students | John Mills/Pat Maeir | FESM Foundation Year | Proposal PowerPoint |
| 15:15 16:15 | Enhancing Students Employability – LTEF funded project 2007/08 | Paul Cooper | Humanities |
Thursday 26 March - LOCAL EVENTS
STUDENT SERVICES AND STUDENT SUPPORT OPEN DAY
from 10 - 2 pm. Venues are: The Disability Service 39 University Road; LDC 45 University Road. Maps for these can be accessed here.
| Time | Title | Presenter | School/Service | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13:00 14:00 | Training Maths Students to be Good Communicators | Christine Currie | Mathematics | Proposal |
| 14:00 16:00 | Supporting students with mental health difficulties | Sue Meads | Student Support | Proposal |
| 14:00 15:30 | iBarometer Survey - the Results | Victoria Woods | International Office | |
| 18:00 20:00 | Generation Y |
Mr Graham Melville and Gill Shiel | Management | Proposal |
Friday 27 March - LOCAL EVENTS
| Time | Title | Presenter | School/Service | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 12:00 | Dyslexia Awareness: Supporting Art Students | Allene Tuck & Janet Skinner | Student Support | Proposal |
| 10:30 11:30 | HUMLO's A cross-School Collaboration in Humanties to produce discipline specific ‘Learning Objects’ for use in Tutors’ Blackboard courses | Julie Watson | Modern Languages | Proposal |
| 12:00 13:00 | Supporting the ‘wobbly student’: a strategy to aid retention and reduce attrition | Barbara Marjoram | Health Sciences | Proposal |
| 13:00 14:00 | The development of an eclectic toolbox to promote and enhance learning in practice | Kathy Owens | Health Sciences | Proposal |
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