Apologies for cross-posting
Dear Colleagues
The 3rd International Students as Partners Institute (ISaPI)<http://tinyurl.com/ISAPI2018> will be held at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada (approx. 45 min south of Toronto Airport) from 11-14 June 2018. If you are interested, please put this date in your diary. This is the week after the International Consortium of Educational Developers (ICED) conference<https://www.iced2018.com/> in Atlanta. Why not come for both? Please pass this message on to any colleagues you think may be interested in ISaPI.
The overall aim of ISaPI is to build the capacity and understanding of faculty, staff, and students to develop, design, implement, and disseminate initiatives that promote the practice of students as partners in learning and teaching in higher education.
Close to 200 staff/faculty and students have participated in the last two years in roughly equal numbers. Here are some comments:
"Thanks for this most challenging and rewarding experience, a very inspiring three days! We very much appreciated both the balance between systematic impetus, drawing on the community present and focusing on our own issues."
"By far the most beneficial and enjoyable aspects ... were the networking opportunities which led to collaboration and collective knowledge building. The international nature of these discussions really helped me to reconsider my assumptions about partnership."
In 2018, staff and faculty are encouraged, where possible, to bring a student with them, or students to bring a member of staff/faculty with them to participate in one or two consecutive two-day interactive workshops:
* Doing students as partners well: Exploring powerful in-class and extra-curricular practices
* Being a good partner: Understanding the dynamics of power-sharing partnership practices
These are new topics, run by a new team, so previous participants are encouraged to join us again.
Alternatively, teams of 4-6 faculty/staff and students (at least two of each) from an institution can apply to join a 3.5 day 'Change Institute' at which they'll develop a 'students as partners' initiative they hope to implement in the coming year.
The activities will be facilitated by a highly experienced international team of staff/faculty and students from Australia, Canada, US and UK. Several of the team (including Mick Healey, Beth Marquis, Kelly Matthews and Cherie Woolmer) will be at ISSoTL 17 in Calgary next week, if you would like to chat with us about the opportunity.
One of the outcomes of the first ISaPI was the establishment of the International Journal for Students as Partners<https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/ijsap>, which publishes research articles, case studies, reflective essays and opinion pieces. It is run, like ISaPI, by an international team of faculty/staff and students. The second issue should be out next week.
For further details and booking please go to: http://tinyurl.com/ISAPI2018
Here are some further comments from previous years' participants:
"The inclusion of student partners was terrific and essential. I wish we could have brought a student or two. The time to simply plan in a context with stimulation, structure, and feedback was so valuable."
"The best thing about the Institute was having a chance to work with students and teachers from around the world and seeing the way they do things at their universities was really enlightening."
"Overall, I found the institute to be an eye-opening experience. As a student, it allowed me to learn from perspectives of those that I don't often hear from (professors, educational developers, curriculum developers), and provided me with a growing sense of agency over my own education."
Key Dates & Deadlines
* 1 November 2017: Registration for workshops open on a first come, first served basis.
* 16 February 2018: Change Institute applications due (Apply Here!<https://surveys.mcmaster.ca/limesurvey/index.php/266435?lang=en>)
* 2 March 2018: Change Institute teams notified of acceptance
* 30 March 2018: Early Bird Registration deadline
* 1 June 2018: Regular Registration deadline
* 11-14 June 2018: Institute
Professor Mick Healey BA PhD NTF PFHEA
Higher Education Consultant and Researcher,
Emeritus Professor University of Gloucestershire,
Visiting Professor University College London,
The Humboldt Distinguished Scholar in Research-Based Learning McMaster University,
International Teaching Fellow University College Cork.
[Smaller logo V1]Inaugural Senior Editor International Journal for Students as Partners: https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/ijsap;
HE Academy Associate and UKPSF Accreditor.
International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Distinguished Service Award 2015.
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For details on the annual International Summer Institute on 'Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education' see: https://macblog.mcmaster.ca/summer-institute/.
For four free publications each 20-40,000 words see:
(2013) Developing and enhancing undergraduate final-year projects and dissertations
https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/node/8079
(2014) Developing research-based curricula in college-based higher education
https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/detail/heinfe/Developing_research-based_curricula_in_CBHE
(2014) Engagement through partnership: Students as partners in learning and teaching in higher education
https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/engagement-through-partnership-students-partners-learning-and-teaching-higher-education
(2015) Defining and supporting the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL): A sector-wide study. Literature review. York: Higher Education Academy (Fanghanel, J., et al.) https://www.academia.edu/19942913/Defining_and_Supporting_the_Scholarship_of_Teaching_and_Learning_A_literature_review
For a series of international articles on undergraduate research see:
http://www.cur.org/resources/institutions/international_perspectives/
There have been over 65,000 downloads of bibliographies and case studies from my website in the last five years
http://www.mickhealey.co.uk/resources
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