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An excellent conference with links to many ideas, documents and people who are worth watching. From a curriculum, pedagogy and policy perspective, there is a lot of guidance out there: QAA have appointed a chair for their review body of the 2012 QAA Enterprise and Entrepreneurship guidance. There is likely […]

Takeaways from the IEEC Conference

September 13, 2017 in Events / Social Innovation tagged conference / event / Social Enterprise / Social Innovation by m.calvert2

On 11/05/17 York St John hosted the inaugural Learning and Teaching Conference titled: ‘Formulating excellence in inclusive learning, teaching and assessment practice: have we reached the tipping point in higher education?’ Professor Alan Hurst’s opening address focused on ‘Reflections on 45 years’ of practice: 71-17 from then to today’. The […]

Inclusive Learning and Teaching Conference

May 26, 2017 in Events tagged conference / event / Learning and Teaching by Gabby Wilson

Books, papers and pencils — On Tuesday 28th March the Academic Development Directorate ran a Masterclass presented by Corony Edwards, a staff development and higher education consultant, on learning gain in higher education. Learning gain is described by Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE) on their learning gain website as, “an attempt to measure the improvement […]

Learning Gain: ADD Masterclass write-up

April 3, 2017 in Events tagged Learning and Teaching / masterclass by Emma Fletcher

Lunchtime Session with Dr Alison Laver Fawcett, Monday 8 May from 12:00-13:00 in SK036 How do we facilitate our students to become passionate about learning, capable of investigating new problems and ideas? In this session we will discuss the Higher of Education Academy (HEA; 2015) ‘Framework for Student engagement through […]

SCoRe

March 27, 2017 in Events / Learning and Teaching tagged Events / HEA / Learning and Teaching by Gabby Wilson

On 16th March, I attended the Higher Education Beyond Fellowship Conference at Conference Aston, Birmingham. The event gathers together colleagues from across the UK who are involved in academic development, mainly those who are responsible for leading postgraduate certificates or internal CPD schemes. There was good representation from York […]

Higher Education Beyond Fellowship Conference

March 20, 2017 in Events / HEA Fellowship (YSJ CPD Framework) / Learning and Teaching tagged conference / CPD / HEA by Gabby Wilson

During the coming months, ADD will be running two masterclasses for staff to attend. The first will be hosted by Corony Edwards who will talk about ‘Measuring Learning Gain in Higher Education’ on the 28th March. Sally Brown will host the second and discuss ‘Assessment to Support Retention’ on the 26th […]

Masterclasses

February 9, 2017 in Events / Learning and Teaching tagged assessment / Events / learning gain / masterclass / retention by Gabby Wilson

The final session of the day was given by Jerry Allen who is Deputy Director of Enterprise at Greenwich University. He addressed the subject of ‘the future of social enterprise in a post-Brexit world’. He began with an amusing anecdote of a twitter comment asking if anybody could explain what […]

EEUK Event at Greenwich (Part 3)

February 6, 2017 in Events / Social Innovation tagged Events / Social Enterprise / Social Innovation by m.calvert2

There were so many good speakers at the day that it is worth summarising some more wise words from the workshop. One particularly fiery speaker was the CEO Partas which is a social enterprise in Dublin. He works in an area of high unemployment – up to 50% in places. […]

EEUK Event in Greenwich (Part 2)

February 3, 2017 in Events / Social Innovation tagged Events / Social Enterprise / Social Innovation by m.calvert2

Another week, another conference or workshop. This time in Greenwich near the historic observatory at the i3Centre (Innovation, Imagination, Inspiration). Check it out at http://www.i3centre.com/ . They have, amongst other things, an Enterprise Challenge that is attracting hundreds of student applications and a well-developed incubator. Although Greenwich is steeped in […]

EEUK Event in Greenwich

January 31, 2017 in Events / Social Innovation tagged Events / Social Enterprise / Social Innovation by m.calvert2

Talking about Teaching 2017 took place on Friday 20 January 2017. The theme was York St John Graduate Attributes. The day started with a welcome and introduction from Professor Alyson Tobin, Deputy Vice Chancellor, and Mandy Asghar, Director of Academic Development. The Keynote was delivered by Higher Education Consultant, Helen Beetham and […]

Talking About Teaching

January 25, 2017 in Events / Learning and Teaching tagged Events / Talking About Teaching by Gabby Wilson