HEA Professional Standards Framework

The revised Professional Standards Framework, UKPSF, will be launched on 2 November this year and is designed to help HEIs seeking to enhance the learning experience of their students by improving the quality of their teaching and learning support. The aim of these post-launch events, being run across the UK, is to introduce and explain the revised framework and explore how it can help you to perform your role.

By participating in the event, attendees will be able to:

• outline the changes to the framework and evaluate their rationale;
• assess its implications for their own professional practice;
• identify and appreciate its potential uses within their institution;
• outline and utilise the services provided by the HEA to support them in your uses of the framework;
• plan their next steps in using the framework.

Full information is available at: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2011/academyevents/09_November_2011_UKPSF_Post_Launch_Event_05_Dundee.

HEA Workshop and Seminar Series

The Higher Education Academy invites all subscribing institutions in the UK delivering higher education to be part of a workshop and seminar series. Funding has been provided to enable offer grants of £500 to institutions to host and deliver a workshop or seminar on teaching and learning in a discipline context. 

Workshops and seminars will be held throughout the 2011-12 academic year and are organised into themes and disciplines. The call for a thematic workshop has a deadline of 3 November 2011, but proposals for discipline workshops may be received at other times. Further information about this, including the call document and proposal form, is available at: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/seminar-series. 

Engaging hearts and minds
Innovation Forum, University of Salford

Wednesday 7 December 2011

A showcase of best practice in engaging with academics in the use of technology-enhanced learning.

http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/en/groups/ssg/asg/Events/2011/engaging-academics.aspx.

Booking deadline:  Friday 18 November 2011.

The Academic Support Group of the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA) Support Services Group would like to invite you to a one-day event showcasing best practice in engaging with academics and other e-learning users in the use of technology-enhanced learning (TEL). The event will draw on a set of case studies that will form part of a Best Practice Guide.

The event will be of benefit to learning technologists, e-learning managers and other staff responsible for encouraging the use of technology enhanced learning.

The event comprises six case studies from the upcoming UCISA best practice guide and includes:

• Developing TEL communities of practice. 
• Incorporating TEL into Postgraduate Certificate courses. 
• Developing TEL training programmes. 
• Providing financial incentives for TEL development. 
• New TEL support models.

For the full programme please see the event website.

JISC Innovating e-Learning 2011: Learning in transition

22-25 November 2011

Now in its sixth year, the JISC Online Conference offers an invaluable opportunity to engage with the latest developments in technology-enhanced practice in UK further and higher education. Register now to take full advantage of both the main conference programme and the pre-conference activity week commencing 15 November 2011. 

• Inspiration and challenge: Outstanding keynote speakers 
• Updating your knowledge: Pre-conference activity week with 20+ sessions and demonstrations from the community, ranging from workshops on social media to guidance on mobile learning
• Thinking time: Six sessions divided into two themes; topics include technology-enhanced assessment, students as agents of change, open practice and curriculum design
• Making yourself heard: Opportunities to take part in live and asynchronous debates 
• Social time: Networking in the conference’s social area, following the conference blog, meeting new friends
• Convenience: No need to leave home; catch up and join in when you can
• Value for money: Four days of conferencing; live sessions recorded if unable to attend at the time; action-packed Activity Week. All for £50.

Find out more from: JISC On Air’s latest Radio Show: http://jisconair.jiscinvolve.org and the conference webpage: www.jisc.ac.uk/elpconference 11

Empowering Learners in Higher Education. Fifth Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference

Tuesday 17 April 2012 

The conference is open to all members of the university community and there are also a number of places for external contributors. The conference will focus on the following themes:

• Supporting success with student diversity.
• Feedback and assessment.
• Developing graduate attributes.
• Enhancing the curriculum.
• Learning transitions.
• Using technology to support learning.
• Interdisciplinary learning.

Submission date for abstracts is 30 November 2011. Further details available at: http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/learningteaching/events/annuallearningandteachingconference/.

Call for Papers: Journal of International Education in Business special issue on Frontiers of Distance Learning in Business Education

Papers should be submitted by 31 January 2012 to Hooman Estelami (estelami@fordham.edu). Submissions can be considered for a related conference held at Fordham University on 8-9 June 2012 titled Frontiers of Distance Learning in Business Education More information at: http://www.bnet.fordham.edu/estelami/distancelearningconference.html.

SEDA Spring Teaching Learning and Assessment Conference 2012
The Student Journey

17-18 May 2012, Chester 

Conference Themes:

• Student transition.
• Engaging students in their learning design and /or assessment.
• Students as researchers.
• The student voice in staff professional development.
• Preparing students for work.

 

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