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ADM-HEA BULLETIN - week ending 21 November 2008
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ADM-HEA ANNOUNCEMENTS
SECTOR ANNOUNCEMENTS
ADM-HEA EVENTS
SECTOR EVENTS
CALL FOR PAPERS/PARTICIPATION


ADM-HEA ANNOUNCEMENTS

LOOKING-OUT - Share your experiences of working between the creative industries and HE

We have received a good response to the online questionnaires, however we are still keen to reach colleagues in art, design and media subject who work on a part-time basis, dividing their time between creative industries/cultural sector organisations and HE. Help us by forwarding the link below to colleagues who you think may be able to assist us with this important research. Thank you.

http://www.adm.heacademy.ac.uk/projects/adm-hea-projects/looking-out
SECTOR ANNOUNCEMENTS

Academy Scotland travel fund for academic staff

This is a reminder that the deadline for round 1 of the Academy Scotland travel fund for academic staff is next Friday 28 November.
  
This new initiative is aimed at encouraging the exchange and dissemination of good practices, at the discipline level, throughout the UK. It is specifically aimed at enabling academic staff in Scottish HEIs to engage with colleagues from other parts of the UK and to support their institution's priorities and developments in learning and teaching. The funding may be used to help colleagues attend Higher Education Academy (including Subject Centres) conferences, network meetings and special interest groups that are being run outside of Scotland. We will fund up to 25 bursaries in each of two rounds during academic year 2008-09. The maximum value of each bursary will be £300.
 
The deadline for round 1 is Friday 28 November and for round 2 is Friday 27 February.
 
Further details, including an application form, are available at http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/aboutus/scotland/events/travel_fund .

Please forward this message to anyone you think might be interested.
  
Dr Laura Hodsdon
Project Officer
Telephone: +44 (0)1904 717517
  
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Circular 4/08: Learning and Teaching Innovation Grants - Round 3

JISC invites institutions to submit funding proposals for projects to undertake work under the second round of its Learning and Teaching Innovation Grants Programme.

JISC wishes to fund one year projects and activities that fit with the vision, outcomes and principles of the JISC e-Learning programme and support innovative approaches to learning and teaching. This is an open call, and projects dealing with any aspect of e-learning are welcomed. To reduce the initial investment in time and resource needed to develop a traditional JISC proposal and to encourage speculative and innovative ideas from the community bidders are invited to submit outline proposals online.

Funds of up to £75,000 for projects of one year duration are available.

The next deadline for submissions is 12 January 2008.

Please note: The lead institution may only submit one proposal per assessment point.

The full text of the Circular, guidance material and a bid template form for can be found at the following link:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2008/04/circular408.aspx

Bids should be submitted by email to [log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask], using the template provided.


CCSS Slide Sale Day
Courtauld Institute of Art
Friday 12th December, 10.00 -17.00
 
The Courtauld Institute will be holding a Slide Sale Day at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London (in Somerset House – Strand) on Friday 12th December where all their sets of slides will be on offer at a vastly reduced price.
 
The Courtauld Colour Slide Scheme (CCSS) provides an image supply service for art libraries, universities, museums and education departments wishing to build visual resource collections. The images are supplied for educational purposes only, on a not-for-profit basis. All their images are from original photography and are records of famous exhibitions in London and the UK since the 1970s. They also hold substantial numbers of images of paintings and objects in the Courtauld Gallery.
 
If you are interested in attending the Slide Sale Day, or for any further information, please email [log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask] or log onto the website: http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/ccss/News.shtml
 
ADM-HEA EVENTS
 
The Challenge of the New Media Forum: Teaching and Learning in the New Media Ecology
Watershed in Bristol
Friday, 12 December 2008

Organised in collaboration with the University of the West of England.

This forum will provide an opportunity to explore the challenges facing teachers and educationalists in the Higher Education sector.  The emphasis will be upon the ‘new media’ ecology in which students now live, in which media educationalists work, and the teaching and learning strategies that have emerged as a response. It is not a forum about ‘educational technology’ (networked, interactive and virtual ‘teaching aids’) but about the new kinds of experience, knowledge, and competence which may now constitute media ‘studies’ and practice. 
It will be of special interest to lecturers and curriculum developers in Media Studies and all forms of media practice, including Film, Television, and Journalism. The forum will provide an occasion for discussion of pedagogic strategies and methodologies designed to respond to the challenge of new media. 

 The forum will seek to address:  
 

The day will open with provocations and refutations of the ‘Media Studies 2.0’ position followed by group sessions based upon case studies.  Invited presenters will explore the impact of digital and theoretical approaches, the teaching of practice and curriculum design. There will be a session dedicated to exploring the student perspective from the point of view of young people’s media consumption.

 Confirmed speakers: 
 

The recently completed National Subject Profile for Media and Communications (ADM-HEA), which offers a long awaited view of who studies media, where and in what disciplinary context, will be presented at the forum.

For more information: http://www.adm.heacademy.ac.uk/events/the-challenge-of-new-media-forum

Out of the Studio – celebrating art, design and media learning and teaching
Arts Institute at Bournemouth
Friday, 5 December 2008
Organised in collaboration with the Arts Institute at Bournemouth.

Out of the studio is an event for those who are or would like to be learning and teaching fellows and all who are interested in fellowship activities and opportunities.

This is a one day event which will bring together colleagues from across the art, design and media sector who are currently Institutional Teaching Fellows, ADM National Teaching Fellows and key colleagues in related learning and teaching development work. The event will include colleagues who may be interested in becoming an institutional, ADM or National Teaching Fellow.

The event is intended to create a dynamic forum to recognise the work of fellows; where colleagues may share, showcase and disseminate their work relating to their Teaching Fellowship roles and projects. The event is intended to offer an important opportunity for colleagues to meet, discuss, reflect and network – and to hopefully create future collaborative activities. It will offer discussion of the ADMHEA Fellowship Scheme and the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme. It is hoped that from this event that participants will be encouraged and better prepared to apply for these schemes.

The event will also showcase the work of the CETLs from across our sector.

Out of the studio will also enable colleagues to learn more about the 2008 National Teaching Fellowship Project: Creative Interventions: valuing and assessing creativity in student work- related learning in the public and not-for-profit sector – a collaborative project involving colleagues from the CLIP CETL, University of the Arts, London, the Arts Institute at Bournemouth (AIB) and SCEPTrE, University of Surrey.
This free event will showcase a series of presentations, workshops and poster displays that will help to develop an understanding of what institutional fellowship projects exist, how work is being developed and how colleagues can pursue Fellowship opportunities.
Aims: 
 

For more information: http://www.adm.heacademy.ac.uk/events/eventpage.2008-10-07.2976470781


SECTOR EVENTS

  
Creative Scholars: Research Economies in Art and Design 
Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG
Monday 8 December 2008, 10.00–18.00
  
Tate Britain, Wimbledon College of Art and the University of Brighton have joined together to hold two conferences on the value of scholarship in the Arts. The first conference will precede the December announcement of the outcome from the UK Research Assessment Exercise 2008 (RAE) and the second conference will be held at the Victoria & Albert Museum on 16 February 2009.
 
 Since the inclusion of creative and performing arts and design in the RAE in 1992, the quality and volume of research in the sector has expanded, evolved and matured and now makes a significant and widely recognised contribution to the UK's global leadership in the creative and cultural sectors. At this important point in the growing maturity and authority of creative arts research these conferences will explore the issues that surround scholarship and evidence. How and where is scholarship in art and design generated, captured and stored? How is the growth in art and design scholarship linked to the allocation of resources and the development of policy, decision-making and problem solving?
  
Given the current and growing pressures on the economy and the fine balance between support for sports and the arts, this conference will explore the distinctive characteristics of scholarship in creative and cultural research, the role of collaboration and the relation to public and private funding. It will examine its key role in the attainment of excellence in an international context of research practice, quality assessment and evaluation and its sustainability as we move into the next cycle of funding.
  
A host of distinguished speakers will lead sessions including:
 
 ·       Historical Context: The origins of practice based research  
·       The Public Purse and the Market  
·       Scholarship: creative cohesion and social impact  
·       The Knowledge Pool: locating the new archives of creative scholarship
 ·       Futures and models: So where do we go from here?
 
 Booking is recommended, tickets priced £25 (£15 concessions)
  
Further details: http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/symposia/16114.htm
 
UK National Transition Conference: research and good practice in promoting student engagement in the first year
Hosted by University College London, Transition Programme.
Friday, 24 April 2009


For details of registration and presentation proposals, please go to:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/transition/transitionconference

Central Theme:
This inaugural UK national conference seeks to explore the various issues of students' transition to Higher Education in the UK. The first year of university is the time when students are most likely to consider withdrawing from their programme, and attrition is a major concern for many institutions. First year students face a range of issues spanning their academic and social lives which they cope with in different ways and with varying degrees of success; this underscores the need to take a differentiated approach to transition which places the students' experience at the centre.

This conference invites investigation into the quality of student engagement in the first year taking place at different institutions. A main aim is to promote rigorous research into the transition from school/college/work to university with a particular focus on the possibilty of developing viable models of good practice relevant to different British HEI.

Who is it for?
Staff in Higher Education institutions concerned with enhancing and supporting the first year student experience: academically, socially and practically.

Suggested topics:
Peer Mentoring
Peer Assisted Learning
Mentor and PAL facilitator training
Induction
E-learning
E-induction
Academic Skills Workshops/Resources
Widening Participation and Transition
Postgraduate transition
Teaching and Learning to support Transition

It is intended that the research presented at this conference will be published in a book of conference proceedings in June 2009.

Hayley Noakes
Transition Programme
Educational Liaison

Tel: 020 7679 0680
Web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/transition/



CALL FOR PAPERS/PARTICIPATION

The 11th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Creating a Better World
University of Brighton
10-11 September 2009

Deadline for abstracts is the 28 November 2008

The 11th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education will be held on the 10th and 11th September 2009 at the University of Brighton, in partnership with the Design Education Special Interest Group (DESIG) of the Design Society and the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED).
 
The conference will bring together representatives from education and industry who have an interest in developing new approaches and directions in design education. The conference will provide a forum for educators and researchers from product development, engineering and industrial design, together with industry and government representatives to discuss current educational issues and to identify new approaches, new challenges and new directions for development. This is reflected in this year's conference theme, Creating a better world.
  
They look forward to receiving contributions from colleagues who wish to participate, noting that the deadline for abstracts is the 28 November 2008. Abstracts should be approximately 500 words long and relevant to the overall conference aim
http://www.epde09.orgconference_aim.html .

Further information can be found at http://www.epde09.org/

For all queries relating to papers, programme and registration;
 
Anna Clarke Education & Training Institution of Engineering Designers Courtleigh Westbury Leigh Wilts BA13 3TA
 
Tel: +44 (0)1373 822801
 
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Mobile and Contextual Learning
A special issue of ALT Journal, Research in Learning Technology

Mobile learning is rapidly growing from a set of research projects into worldwide deployment of services for classrooms, field trips, workplace training, tourism and informal education. Major projects have developed generic platforms for mobile learning and explored the opportunities for supporting the continuity of technology-mediated learning across locations and life transitions. Smaller projects have often tried out new pedagogical approaches and investigated how learning on portable devices interweaves with learners’ everyday lives, personal interests and individual learning needs.

The aim of this special issue of ALT-J is to develop and publish a timely collection of papers representing current research, developments and ideas in mobile and contextual learning. Of particular interest are papers that go beyond descriptions of objects and activities to build links between practice and pedagogy, and offer conceptual, methodological and analytical rigour.

Full details of how to submit can be found at:
http://www.alt.ac.uk/docs/altj_mobile_and_contextual_learning.pdf

For queries and guidance relating to the call please contact:
Agnes Kukulska-Hulme  [log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]
  or:
Mike Sharples  [log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]

Important dates:
The submission of abstracts for informal feedback is encouraged. They can be sent directly to guest editors until 1 December 2008.

Papers should be submitted via the Manuscript Central online submission system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/calt before 15 January 2009.

Learning on Screen 2009
Call for papers
 
The Learning on Screen Conference 2009 will be held at The Wellcome Collection (183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE) on 7th and 8th April 2009 and the Learning on Screen Awards evening, which is part of the conference, will take place at the nearby Holiday Inn Regent’s Park on the evening of 7th April. The conference is being held with the  kind assistance of The Wellcome Trust.
 
Learning on Screen, the annual conference established by the Society  for Screen-Based Learning, focuses on the delivery of learning and  research with moving image and sound - be it broadcasting, web delivery or cinema.
 
The 2009 conference will commence at midday on 7th April and conclude  at 2.30 pm on 8th April. Plenary sessions will be held in the Henry  Wellcome Auditorium and there will be a small scale exhibition  arranged in the adjacent Williams Lounge where refreshments will also  be served. During the two days there will be opportunities to visit  The Wellcome Collection’s spectacular permanent and temporary  exhibitions.
 
Two key themes of the Learning on Screen Conference 2009 will be:
Disability and Access to Moving Image and Sound
Online Moving image and Sound Services for Learning

The programme will be arranged in 30 minute sessions. They are therefore seeking proposals with a speaker presentation time of 20  minutes each. Please submit your proposal (with a title and 200 word  summary, along with your name, current position and short biography) to [log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask] on or before 15th January 2009.
  
British Universities Film & Video Council
http://www.bufvc.ac.uk

For more information, please contact The BUFVC:
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Reinvention: Journal of Undergraduate Research
Call for contributions for Volume 2 Issue 1 April 2009 and Issue 2 October 2009
Collaborative special issue to be published alongside Volume 2

Submissions
Reinvention is an online, peer reviewed academic journal for the publication of research undertaken by undergraduate students and staff and papers written jointly by undergraduate students and staff. Run collaboratively by staff and students at the University of Warwick and Oxford Brookes University. They welcome submissions from all subject areas and all undergraduate students.

For more information please go to the website at: http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/reinventionjournal
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2nd Institutional Research Conference: Building a Community for Institutional Research in the UK and Ireland
Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield
8- 9 July 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS, WORK IN PROGRESS, WORKSHOPS AND POSTERS

Building on the success of last year's conference at Southampton Solent University - Exploring the Hinterlands: Mapping an Agenda for Institutional Research in the UK - this year they wish to bring together exponents and users of a diverse range of approaches to what might be termed 'institutional research' to build a community to promote it more widely.

They take Institutional Research (or IR) to mean the use of research and enquiry to provide evidence to inform policy, practice and management at all levels within higher education. This includes management information to inform policy and strategy, evaluation and pedagogic research to inform learning and teaching, and using data gathered for different purposes to better understand and manage activities within institutions, including the student experience.

The main themes they wish to explore include:

·         Variety in institutional research - conceptions, methodologies and institutional location
·         Using institutional research to inform policy and practice
·         Capacity building in institutional research
·         Understanding and enhancing the student experience and expectations

Proposals for papers, work in progress sessions, workshops and posters are invited from all interested in making a contribution to building a community in institutional research.

Guest presenters include Professor Vic Borden (Indiana University), Professor Glynis Cousin (University of Wolverhampton) and Professor Sir David Watson (Institute of Education, University of London)

The deadline for proposals is 14 February 2009 and they should be made on-line at http://extra.shu.ac.uk/irconference2009/ . Notification of acceptance will be made by 10 April 2009.

Further information and deadlines for registration can also be found on the website.

Assessment in Higher Education Conference
University of Cumbria, Carlisle
Wednesday 8 July 2009
 
Call for papers – submissions to be received by Friday, 27 February 2009

Organised by the Cumbria Study of Higher Education Network in collaboration with Northumbria University Centre for Excellence in Assessment for Learning

This second Assessment in Higher Education Conference, builds on the successful event in 2008 as an opportunity to debate concerns and increase understanding of assessment practice.  It will provide the opportunity to share innovations and research with a particular focus on the voice of the practitioner, working to improve assessment in their programmes and institutions.  
 
For further information, please follow the link to their website
http://www.cumbria.ac.uk/Services/CDLT/C-SHEN/Events/ExternalEvents.aspx



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