Dear all
See information below. Sorry if you just got this through NTF mailing list as well. Have a happy Easter.
Take care
Carol
Enhancing Student Learning Through Innovative Scholarship:
How Teaching Focused Academics are Driving Teaching Excellence
28th and 29th June 2016, University College London, http://tinyurl.com/q8uhhx4
With the impending arrival of the Teaching Excellence Framework much discussion is being undertaken across the sector about how the TEF will measure teaching excellence, with many worried it will ignore the innovative work being done across the sector with a focus mainly reliant on metric measures such as the National Student Survey and HESA data. Important as these may be, focusing solely on metrics may ultimately cause much of the excellent, innovative teaching taking place at UK Universities to be overlooked.
In 2015 for example, the inaugural Enhancing Student Learning Through Innovative Scholarship took place at Durham University. This meeting designed by and run for those on teaching focused academic contracts showcased a vast range of innovative teaching and learning, taking place across over 30 UK HEIs and a number of international institutions. Teaching focused academics constitute around 25% of those teaching at UK Universities and their roles often include a component of scholarship focused specifically on teaching and learning enhancement, placing them in a unique position to truly define teaching excellence at UK HEIs.
At this second meeting in the Enhancing Student Learning Through Innovative Scholarship series, we will explore how the projects and programmes led by teaching focused academics are having a positive impact on the student experience across all disciplines at UK HEIs. Contributions are invited on the role of teaching focused academics in the following topics:
* Driving the Evolution of Teaching at University
* Supporting the Development of University-wide Learning and Teaching
* Defining Scholarship and its role in the professional development of teaching focused staff
* Developing Holistic Assessment Practice within departments; faculties; within and across Universities
Asides from invited keynotes (TBA), contributions may take the form of
* Talks (20 mins)
* Short Talks (5 mins)
* Panel Discussions (1hr)
Further details for the conference, including keynotes, submission of abstracts and registration is available at http://tinyurl.com/q8uhhx4. Call for papers closes 18th April 2016.
Professor Carol Evans
Co-Director of the Centre for Higher Education at Southampton (CHES)
Professor in Higher Education
Principal Fellow (PFHEA) and National Teaching Fellow HEA
Vice President of the International Federation of National Teaching Fellows (IFNTF)
Editor in Chief of Higher Education Pedagogies journal www.tandfonline.com/rhep<http://www.tandfonline.com/rhep>
University of Southampton
Southampton Education School, Building 32
Highfield Campus
Southampton
S017 1BJ
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