The high quality of submissions meant that voters had a tough time choosing their favourite poster submissions at this year’s Learning and Teaching Conference.
Respondents voted for the three posters most inspirational for their own practice, resulting in three winners reflecting some of the diverse teaching practice across the University. The winners, in no particular order, were……. Continue reading “Poster Winners: Learning and Teaching Conference”
Applications are now open for the all-new Vice-Chancellor’s Education Excellence Awards – a chance to recognise the exceptional contributions of staff who teach or support students’ learning.
The awards are open to all members of staff, academic and professional services, individuals and teams who have made a marked impact on enhancing our students’ educational experience.
Groups of colleagues who work closely together are invited to apply for the newly-established team award.
For details of the revised criteria, and application process, please see http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ltds/funding/vc/
Deadline for applications: Wednesday the 25th April
Continue reading “April 2018 Learning and Teaching Newsletter”
How considering inclusive learning can help change your mind-set.
Dr Jhoram Funtanares Nufable, Associate Professor, Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia (NUMed) shares his thoughts on the Inclusive Learning session delivered at this year’s Learning and Teaching Conference. This session was led by Dr Ruth Graham, Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Sandy Alden, Team Leader, Disability and Specialist Learning, Student Wellbeing Service.
Inclusive learning interests me a lot to a personal level as I have a child who struggles with learning and has some developmental delay. As parents, we surely want the best for our children. We would support them as much as we can and would really appreciate if teachers would be more sensitive to their needs. Continue reading “Inclusive Learning: Conference Guest Blog”
Are you interested in applying for promotion in whole or in part on the basis of your teaching?
Newcastle University has a programme to support staff with their applications. It may be of particular interest to staff intending to make an application to the 2018-19 or 2019-20 promotion rounds.
You can find full details of the programme on the LTDS website
As part of the programme there are a number of one to one sessions with Marita Grimwood, Learning and Teaching Consultant, arranged for Tuesday 17th and Tuesday 24th April. Continue reading “Evidencing Teaching Excellence as part of promotion applications”
Education Research Seminars
School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences
Tuesday 17th April 2018
Location: KGVI Howden Room, 1-2.30 p.m.
Dr Joana Almeida and Professor Sue Robson
Higher education internationalisation is more than mobility – if universities are to become truly ‘international’, they have to start ‘at home’. This is the motto of Developing Innovative Approaches and Tools for Internationalisation at Home (ATIAH), an Erasmus+ project between three European universities: Newcastle University (Coordinating institution), University of Bologna (Italy) and KU Leuven (Belgium). Continue reading “Approaches and tools for Internationalisation at home in higher education”
Advance HE, the new sector agency, has been formally launched.
Advance HE is a merger of Equality Challenge Unit, Higher Education Academy and the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education.
One of the first things the agency will focus on is consultation with the sector and the agency have outlined their aim:
” to advance practice and improve outcomes for the benefit of students, staff and society.”
The organisations that have merged will continue to work towards their business plans for the current academic year and the HEA website has been retained at the moment so staff will still currently be able to access this, however, this may change.
You can read full details on the Advance HE website.
ALT North-East held its first meeting under its new title on Tuesday 27 February 2018.
Colleagues from HE and FE across the North East met at Newcastle University to hear a number of presentations from Turnitin, Durham University, Northumbria University and Newcastle University.
1. Turnitin is changing to meet new and existing needs
Jamie Whitehead, Account Manager, Turnitin, informed the group of a recent consultation Turnitin had carried out and ran through some of the key themes important to stakeholders which were: reliability, data access, marking & moderation, assessment workflows and integrations, customer relations, ghost writing, and future requirements. Continue reading “5 things we learnt at ALT North East”
We will shortly be launching this year’s Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES). PTES will open on Monday 16 April and run until Friday 15 June.
PTES is the only national survey of postgraduate taught students’ experience of learning and teaching. The results will allow you to compare students’ experience of postgraduate programmes both internally and against the groups of institutions so to make changes that better meet their future needs.
The survey is also an opportunity for students to voice their opinion and to be partners in developing the postgraduate learning experience. Information gathered helps us to demonstrate the quality of taught postgraduate degree programmes and show commitment to postgraduate education.
Please do all that you can to promote it. The more students that take part the better the picture we will get of the taught postgraduate experience at Newcastle.
To find out more about PTES this year, visit http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ltds/student/opinion/PTES/ or contact newcastlestudentsurveys@ncl.ac.uk
The full programme is now available.
Please note due to the high number of delegates registered to attend the conference we have moved the Strand C Presentation sessions at both 10:30 and 14:00 to The Boiler House.
We are looking forward to welcoming delegates for a range of sessions including:
You can also view abstracts from all of the presenters in this abstract booklet.
Thank you to staff for all of the high quality poster submissions for this years Learning and Teaching Conference.
Voting is now open and you can view the posters and select the three you find most inspirational for your practice on the voting webpage
The vote will remain open throughout the conference closing at 3pm on 21 March 2018. The winner will be announced by Professor Suzanne Cholerton, PVC Learning and Teaching, at the Presentation and Awards drinks reception.
LTDS has been asked by ULTSEC to consider what is needed to ensure Newcastle University staff are confident, informed teachers and supporters of learning, able to enthuse, encourage and inform their students.
We will be spending the next 2 months gathering views, ideas and suggestions from colleagues all across the university. Your views will be used to develop a proposal for university approval with a start date for the new provision of September 2019.
To enable us to capture the widest possible range of views we have an online questionnaire, will be hosting a workshop at the Learning and Teaching Conference and will be meeting with groups and individuals to gather their views.
As we gather your ideas and suggestions we will be updating the blog and review web page with the ideas. You are welcome to respond to these ideas as they are posted.
You can find the questionnaire here https://forms.ncl.ac.uk/view.php?id=1495678 and our web page here http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ltds/professional/casap/review/ .
