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Dear Colleagues

This is a reminder that the closing date for the International Summer Institute, organised by McMaster Institute for Innovation and Enhancement in Teaching and Learning (MIIETL), Canada, is on Friday 12 February. We have already had interest in participation from Australia, Canada, Croatia, England, Hong Kong, Netherlands, Serbia, Sweden, United States and Wales.

It is one of the first Institutes to be held on the topic of ‘students as partners in learning and teaching in higher education’ and has several key features which make it distinctive:

Key features

• The overall aim of the International Summer Institute is to build the capacity and understanding of faculty, staff and students to develop, design and implement initiatives to promote the practice of students as partners in learning and teaching in higher education.
• Faculty, staff and students in higher education are invited to come to McMaster University, about 45 minutes south of Toronto International Airport, for two, three or four days from 2-5 May 2016.
• Faculty and staff are encouraged where possible to bring a student with them, or students should bring a member of faculty/staff with them, to participate in either one or two consecutive two day highly interactive workshops.
• Alternatively teams of 4-6 faculty/staff and students (at least two of each) from an institution may apply to join a three day ‘Change Institute’ where they will be supported to plan the implementation of a Students as Partners initiative. Inter-institutional teams are also welcome.
• The Summer Institute will be facilitated by highly experienced faculty/staff and students including Sophia Abbot (Trinity, US), Lucie Sam Dvorokova (Queensland, Australia), Peter Felten (Elon, US), Mick Healey (Healey HE Consultants, UK), Beth Marquis (McMaster, Canada), Kelly Matthews (Queensland, Australia), Kelly Swaim (Elon) and other students from McMaster.
• The McMaster International Summer Institute has students threaded throughout every aspect of the work – from the planning to the facilitating to the participating teams.

Key dates

• Application Deadline: February 12, 2016 **Click here to apply!
• Applicants Notified: February 26, 2016
• Registration & Payment Deadline: April 8, 2016
• Institute: May 2-5, 2016

For more information and details on how to apply please see: https://macblog.mcmaster.ca/summer-institute

 

Please pass these details on to faculty, staff and students who you think may be interested in this exciting opportunity to explore how students as partners may change the face of higher education.

 

Best wishes

 

Mick

 

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,

Adjunct Professor Macquarie University,

International Teaching Fellow, University College Cork,

Visiting Fellow University of Queensland,

Managing Director Healey HE Consultants.

 

Co-Editor International Desk Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly,

HE Academy Associate and UKPSF Accreditor.

 

International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Distinguished Service Award 2015

 
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For International Summer Institute on ‘Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education¹ 2-5 May 2016 see: https://macblog.mcmaster.ca/summer-institute/ 
 

For three new free publications each around 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

 

For a series of international articles on undergraduate research see:

http://www.cur.org/resources/institutions/international_perspectives/

 

There have been over 63,000 downloads of bibliographies and case studies from my website in the last four years http://www.mickhealey.co.uk/resources