Posts By: Debbie Holley

UoA25 Impact: CEMP awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship.

Congratulations to CEMP; initial scoping work funded by UoA25 CEMP awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship. The Faculty of Media and Communication’s Centre for Excellence in Media Practice (CEMP) has been awarded its first Marie Curie Fellowship. The Fellowship seeks to provide professional development opportunities for an early careers researcher, in an innovative research environment. The… Read more » about UoA25 Impact: CEMP awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship.

Small grants available from UoA25 for an action research intervention TEF/REF

Dear all, We are happy to announce this first TREFF call for proposals, TREFF (German word) – meeting point / coming together (thanks to Stephen Jukes!)  Please note this call is not open to staff in FMC, since a specific call to that faculty has already been distributed. One TREFF project will be funded in FMC… Read more » about Small grants available from UoA25 for an action research intervention TEF/REF

free workshop: Mathematics and Statistics Support in the Age of “Big Data”

Apolgies for cross posting – this event for social scientists as well as STEM academics… Dear LDHEN, If your Learning Development provision includes skills support in mathematics and statistics, please bring this free event to the attention of your relevant colleagues. Mathematics and Statistics Support in the Age of “Big Data” Monday 13th March 2017,… Read more » about free workshop: Mathematics and Statistics Support in the Age of “Big Data”

Head of CEL – job opportunity

We have a great opportunity – please come and work with us! Details below…Head of CEL – Professorial appointment will be considered for suitable candidates. Bournemouth University is a successful, modern institution with a growing reputation. It is recognised as one of the most innovative universities in the UK and the most popular modern university… Read more » about Head of CEL – job opportunity

Inspirational teaching in higher education: What does it look, sound and feel like? An exploratory research study

Apologies for cross posting, but an excellent article here on inspirational teaching means for undergraduates Derounian, James G. Mr (2017) “Inspirational teaching in higher education: What does it look, sound and feel like?,” International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Vol. 11: No. 1, Article 9. Available at: http://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ij-sotl/vol11/iss1/9 Inspirational teaching in higher… Read more » about Inspirational teaching in higher education: What does it look, sound and feel like? An exploratory research study

Practice and Evidence of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in HE – PESTLHE – JOURNAL OUT NOW – January 2017

Apologies for cross posting – but the excellent PESTLHE journal now out: ===== This year we have two special issues coming out – one on Threshold Concepts and one from the ELSTIS16 Conference. We will have two standard issues in May 2017 and November 2017. Vol 12, No 1 (2017) Table of Contents Editorial January… Read more » about Practice and Evidence of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in HE – PESTLHE – JOURNAL OUT NOW – January 2017

Want to try a ‘mini’ online course? Try the SEDA ‘Online Introduction to Educational Change’

Colleagues, this may be of interest to some…Debbie ============== Dear SEDA Colleagues Bookings are now open for Online Introduction to Educational Change. This 4-week online workshop will run from 20th February until 17th March 2017. This workshop has recently been re-designed to follow an ‘inquiry-based learning’ approach. Using the SEDA Values as a guiding framework,… Read more » about Want to try a ‘mini’ online course? Try the SEDA ‘Online Introduction to Educational Change’

Prof Mick Healey – links to his fabulous resources and ‘students as partners’ conference in May

Apologies for cross-posting For details on the first International Summer Institute on ‘Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education’ in May 2016 see: https://macblog.mcmaster.ca/summer-institute/. The next Summer Institute will be held from 8-11 May, 2017 For four free publications each 20-40,000 words see: (2013) Developing and enhancing undergraduate final-year projects and dissertations… Read more » about Prof Mick Healey – links to his fabulous resources and ‘students as partners’ conference in May

Leading Innovation Seminars: Professor John Traxler talks on Tuesday 24th January

What is the nature of the innovation required from education for our mobile and connected society? First in the ‘Leading Innovation’ series of seminars, Professor John Traxler, Professor of Digital Learning at the University of Wolverhampton, will visit BU on Tuesday 24 January to present ‘What is the nature of the innovation required from education for… Read more » about Leading Innovation Seminars: Professor John Traxler talks on Tuesday 24th January

5th annual Change Agents’ Network Conference

Dear colleagues, The University of Exeter is proud to be hosting the 5th annual Change Agents’ Network Conference, which is being supported by Jisc on Thursday 20th and Friday 21st April 2017 at the Streatham Campus in Exeter. The theme of conference is ‘supporting effective partnerships’ and will build on the successes of the previous CAN… Read more » about 5th annual Change Agents’ Network Conference