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SEDA Spring Conference

Linking Strategy and Students:
Making Connections through Educational Staff Development

Monday 29^th - Wednesday 31^st March 2004
Moat House Hotel, Cardiff

Call for Contributions

The SEDA Spring Conference will focus on the crucial role that educational staff development plays in ensuring that strategies intended to improve the student learning experience are well-founded and turned from rhetoric to reality.  Educational Staff Developers and anyone whose role involves facilitating improvements in learning and teaching  have to ensure that there is vertical and horizontal integration between strategy, policy and practice to develop the best learning experiences for students.   Recent Government decisions on the future shape of HE and national initiatives such as Institutional Audit, the Academy for HE and Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning make this a timely debate.  

Conference Themes

Proposals for sessions are invited that address the key theme of how educational staff development can make connections between these areas.   Sessions will be based around the following themes:

·       The role of educational staff development in turning strategy into reality
·       Influencing Strategy and Policy from good practice in learning and teaching
·       Developing a culture of continuous improvement in learning and teaching through educational staff development
·       Using learning and teaching strategies to effect strategic fit within higher education
·       Embedding strategic thinking in curriculum design
·       Models and approaches to developing staff in higher education
·       Evaluating the impact of educational staff development on the student learning experience
·       The role of research and scholarship in strengthening the link between strategy, policy and practice

The SEDA Conference Experience

SEDA pride themselves on creating a relaxed, welcoming and positive atmosphere at conferences, which encourages open, constructive and supportive sharing of ideas, experience and practice. 

Feedback from participants at recent SEDA conferences:

·       Relaxed style but informative and thought provoking.

·       Enjoyment, stimulation, relaxation, an opportunity to network

·       A chance to reflect and discuss with staff in HE

·       An opportunity to present own work and discuss with others

Venue

The conference is to be held at a new venue, the Moat House Hotel, Cardiff which is located just a 5 minute taxi ride from Cardiff City Centre.  All bedrooms are en-suite with delegates having full use of the pool, gym, sauna, and spa. 

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Participants

The conference will be of particular interest to all those who act as agents of educational change in HE provision [in HE or FE] and anyone who has a commitment to enhancing the quality of Higher Education. This includes:

·       Educational and staff developers

·       Policy makers

·       Teachers in further and higher education

·       National and institutional teaching fellows

·       Educational technologists

·       Managers of academic departments

·       Staff from LTSN Subject Centres and FDTL projects

·       Project workers in Widening Participation, Partnerships for progression, employability, Action on Access, etc.

Session Formats

We welcome proposals which examine current educational values; value driven changes in current practices in learning, teaching and assessment; evaluate completed or ‘in progress’ developments; and analyse the links between values and change in policy. The emphasis should be on reflection and evaluation rather than merely on describing what is happening. It is also a long-standing tradition at SEDA conferences to have sessions which involve delegates in active participation and, consequently, preference will be given to proposals that reflect these emphases.

We are designing the conference around the following activities:

·       Workshops:      (45 or 90 minutes) with the emphasis on high levels of participation.

·       Papers:         (25 minutes plus 20 minutes of questions and discussion) giving an account                      of research, evaluation, policy or practice with the emphasis on drawing out                    lessons for others and involving participants in engaging with your findings.

Submitting your proposal

A proposal form for contributions can be found below.

The deadline for submissions is Friday 9^th January 2004. They should be no more than 300 words in length. Please send an electronic copy of the form in Word or WordPerfect to the address shown on the form and specify which of the session formats listed above you would prefer, together with your proposal.

Proposals should include the learning outcomes of the session and an outline and format for the discussion

It is normal practice at SEDA Conferences to accept only one contribution from an individual so as to provide the opportunity for as many people to contribute as possible.

Criteria for acceptance of proposals

Each proposal will be reviewed for acceptance at the conference against the following criteria:

·       Relevance to the conference theme and sub themes

·       Clarity and coherence of the proposal

·       Reflection and evaluation of educational values, practice and or/policy

·       Contribution to scholarship and evaluation of change in further and higher education

·       Clear opportunities for participants to actively engage in the session and, particularly in workshops, to reflect on transferability to their own practice

Conference Organised by:
The Staff and Educational Development Association
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SEDA Spring Conference

Linking Strategy and Students:
Making Connections through Educational Staff Development

Monday 29^th - Wednesday 31^st March 2004
Moat House Hotel, Cardiff

Proposal Form
Call for Contributions

Proposals should be submitted to SEDA by Friday 9^th January 2004.
They should be no more than 300 words in length and an electronic copy should be sent to the address below.

Please include the following details:

Name(s): …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Institution(s): ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Address for correspondence:………………………………………………………………………………………

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

…………………………………………………………….. Postcode: …………………………………………………

Tel: ………………………………………………………..  Fax: ………………………………………………………

E-mail: ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

Title of proposal: …………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Conference theme:  ……………………………………………………………………………………………………

Format (delete as appropriate):        
                                        Workshop (45 minutes)
                                        Workshop (90 minutes)
                                        Papers (45 minutes)

Please add your proposal (no more than 300 words) to the end of this form.
                                               
Please note:

1. Proposals will be included in the Conference Handbook, which are sent to all

         participants before the event.

2. It is a requirement that all presenters register as conference delegates either for the whole event or the day of their session.

Please return completed forms and proposals to:
Staff and Educational Development Association
Selly Wick House, 59-61 Selly Wick Road, Selly Park, Birmingham B29 7JE
Tel: 0121 415 6801      Fax: 0121 415 6802      E-mail: [log in to unmask]       url: www.seda.ac.uk

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