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Enhancing Student Learning Through Innovative Scholarship:
How Teaching Focused Academics are Driving Teaching Excellence
28th and 29th June 2016, University College London, http://community.dur.ac.uk/teachingfocussed.academicconference/
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://community.dur.ac.uk/teachingfocussed.academicconference/ Call for papers closes 18th April 2016.
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5th International Academic Identities Conference
Academic life in the measured university: pleasures, paradoxes and politics | #ACIDC2016
29 June - 1 July 2016, The University of Sydney
Identity Work in the Contemporary University: Exploring an Uneasy Profession
https://www.sensepublishers.com/catalogs/bookseries/educational-futures-rethinking-theory-and-practice/identity-work-in-the-contemporary-university/
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Dr Jan Smith
Course Leader, PGCAP
Pathway Leader, Ed.D (FT/PT students)
Lecturer, Centre for Academic Practice, School of Education
Durham University
Leazes Road
Durham DH1 1TA
T: 0191 334 8401
W: https://www.dur.ac.uk/education/staff/profile/?id=10486
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