In this year’s CELebrate symposium, we are convening a range of different opportunities to work with staff in thinking about approaches to large group teaching, learning and assessment. Our Keynote is from Sarah Knight (Jisc Digital Futures directorate) speaking on “How are students’ expectations and experiences of their digital environment changing?” We will be offering a shared and collaborative large group space to work with experts Prof Dai Hounsell and Anne Quinney, exploring resources to support how to assess large groups effectively. There will be a Brightspace showcase exploring tools that make managing and engaging large groups far more effective for raising student satisfaction, and to frame the policy setting you can join us for a ‘TEF’ breakfast and find out how to work with metrics as we know from research that students in large groups are most likely to score us down. Finally, to craft that perfect large lecture we have a small workshop with public speaking specialists Martha Leyton and Martin Shovel from CreativityWorks (information through your DDE this session limited to 4 staff members per Faculty)
Large groups make a significant impact on all of our student experiences. Our open spaces in CELebrate2018 are to ask:
- How can I manage, inspire and assess large groups?
- How can the VLE help me achieve a better learning experience for my students that I can measure?
- How can I create a fabulous large group lecture that will set the scene for my unit?
- How can I incorporate creative methods into large groups?
- How do I work with data, especially the National Student Survey (NSS) metrics, to help improve BU scores, internally and externally
Come and work with us to Celebrate and share your achievements, and take the next steps as we start to plan BU2025.
| 8.30-10.00 | Breakfast Invite for policy debate (EBC 2nd floor foyer + EB202) – 20 people
“Politics v reality – what students really want from their learning experience” Jane Forster (Vice-Chancellor’s Policy Adviser) and Diana Beech ( Higher Education Policy Institute, HEPI) |
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| 9.30-10.00 | CELebrate 2018 Registration (EBC 2nd floor foyer | ||||
| 10.00-10.30 | Welcome and Education for Sustainable Development awards EB206 lecture theatre
Professor Debbie Holley (Director of CEL) and Neil Smith (Sustainability Manager) |
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| Parallel Session 1 10.30-12.00 | Designing assessments for large groups
EB206 Lecture theatre
Dai Hounsell, Anne Quinney, Shelley Thompson
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Pushing the boundaries
EB202
Liz Falconer and David Biggins, (academic learning designers)
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Creative approaches in large groups: workshop on photos and collage EB205
Curie Scott, Jenny Hall |
Brightspace showcase EB203
Dave Fevyer, Tim Galling and learning technology team with Ann Luce |
How can I make my lectures more engaging? EB204
Martin Shovel and Martha Leyton (CreativityWorks) |
| 12.00-13.00 | Keynote: How are students’ expectations and experiences of their digital environment changing? EB206 lecture theatre
Sarah Knight |
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| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch (EBC foyer) | ||||
| 1.30 start
How can I make my lectures more engaging? (repeat) EB204
Martin Shovel and Martha Leyton (CreativityWorks) |
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| Parallel Session 2 14.00-15.00 | Assessing Large group Q&A Panel EB206 Lecture theatre
Dai Hounsell, Anne Quinney, Shelley Thompson |
Workshop: Designing digital capabilities into the curriculum EB202
Sarah Knight
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Creative approaches in large groups: workshop on Lego EB205
Curie Scott, Susanne Clarke |
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| 15.00-15.30 | Closing panel debate: “Does size really matter?” EB206 lecture theatre
(Chair: Curie Scott, Panel: Dai Hounsell, Sarah Knight, Martin Shovel and Martha Leyton, Ann Luce, David Biggins, Liz Falconer) |
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| 15.30-16.00 | CELebrate2018 celebratory drinks and concluding comments EB206 lecture theatre (Sue Eccles) | ||||
| After party! | Weather permitting, evening @ the beach, meet outside WestBeach (BH2 5AA) by Bournemouth Pier | ||||
