Congratulations to the Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia (NUMed) Anatomy Working Group (AWG) who were awarded the Gold Award for their recent participation in the Innovation in Anatomy Teaching Competition at the Malaysian Anatomical Association Education Symposium (MAAES) in Kuala Terengganu.
Advance HE offer a number of Programmes and Events over the course of the Academic year. They are offering a 15% early bird discount on a selection of these events for attendees who sign up before the 30th September 2018.
There are opportunities relating to :
Leadership, Governance and Management Programmes
Teaching and Learning Programmes, Conferences and Events
Full details are available on the Advance HE Website
Academic staff on T&S contracts in the HaSS Faculty may be interested in attending the first in a series of events aimed at those wanting to publish in the field of learning and teaching (one of the HaSS Faculty definitions of scholarship).
The first event is on 12th September from 12-3pm.
More details are on the event advert.
Please use this online form either to sign up to attend the first event or to express interest in attending future events in the series https://forms.ncl.ac.uk/view.php?id=2585217
Please do also let other interested colleagues know about the event.
Are you involved in the preparation, support, management, organisation or assessment of the Year Abroad?
Register for the Year Abroad Conference which will take place on 14th September 2018 at Newcastle University.
This is a unique opportunity to meet colleagues working in this area to share ideas and expertise. A number of topics will be covered including mental health, assessment, employability and more. Please take a look at the full programme here.
The conference is organised by Newcastle University School of Modern Languages, in collaboration with colleagues from the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Warwick.
The deadline for registration is 26th August 2018. To find out more and to register please visit The Year Abroad Conference Website. If you can’t attend the whole day but would be particularly interested in one or two sessions, please do get in touch with the conference organisers Sandra Salin or Damien Hall.
UCISA Digital Education Group are delivering an event on Immersive Learning Environments on the 5th December 2018.
They are encouraging proposals from anyone who has been involved in creating, designing or evaluating Immersive Learning Environments.
If you would like to submit a proposal you should complete this form https://goo.gl/forms/1KWjcqAT57I7FLfs2 by 14th September 2018.
Following on from the interest shown in a session, run by Ruth Graham and Sandy Alden, at the 2018 Learning and Teaching Conference, on designing inclusive learning, you can now sign up for two free online courses.
Inclusive Learning and Teaching Environments and Digital Accessibility: Enabling Participation in the Information Society are both from the University of Southampton.
Inclusive Learning and Teaching Environments runs from Sept 3rd for three weeks and is specifically for those working in Higher Education and interested in making elearning accessible to all.
Explore the barriers experienced by disabled students and learn how to overcome these barriers through inclusive practices.
Digital Accessibility: Enabling Participation in the Information Society runs from Oct 8th for five weeks, and has 8 universities discussing different aspects of digital technologies and accessibility from the developer and user’s point of view. It features case studies, new technologies and the latest news about legal standards and guidelines for web, mobile, documents, IoT etc. When there is:
“a better understanding of users’ needs, technologies can be developed to be accessible & provide a more inclusive environment”
Both courses are free, and offer practical hints and tips you can use straight away to make your own resources more inclusive.
Congratulations to Newcastle University Law Lecturer, Dr Hélène Tyrrell, who won the Law Teacher of the Year award at the Northern Law Awards 2018.
To be eligible for the award individuals were expected to have demonstrated a number of excellent teaching qualities including innovative teaching practices, an interest in student development and the ability to enhance the student learning experience through scholarly activities.
Dr Tyrrell stood out to the judges who noted that she:
“..consistently demonstrated a high level of achievement across all of the criteria with clear evidence for genuine warmth and ability to build rapport with students”
Northern Law Awards Winners Guide 2018
One of the nominations highlighted a number of Dr Tyrrell’s key achievements including:
The award was open to any law teacher working in Higher Education in the North of England so a fantastic achievement for Dr Tyrrell to win the award.
Dr Jennifer Stephens, also a lecturer here at Newcastle, was shortlisted for the award recognising the excellent work she has carried out with student support services.
There was further success for Newcastle Law School at the awards with the student-led Street Law initiative winning the Pro Bono/ Community Initiative of the Year. Read more on the University website.
This year’s Learning and Teaching Conference took place on the 21 March 2018. Staff from across the University came together to explore the following questions:
How do we provide education for life, across all of our campuses?
How can we engage, challenge and support our students to discover and fulfill their potential in Newcastle, London, Singapore and Malaysia?
This conference highlighted partnerships, encouraged innovation, and celebrated effective teaching. Full legacy resources are available below:
Continue reading “Learning and Teaching Conference 2018: Legacy Resources”
The last NUTELA 3Ps (pizza, pop and practice) of this academic year took place last week . It’s been a productive year for the group and we are looking forward to arranging another exciting programme of sessions for next year.
Our excellent presenters showed everyone the new online reading lists system, gave tips about cleaning up Blackboard modules, as well as well as how to explore new ways of adding value with collaboration tools, groups and tests. There was time for attendees to ask lots of questions and give some of the technologies a go.
Special thanks to Paula Fitzpatrick and Stephen Harding from Digital Library Services and Rebecca Gill and Carol Summerside from LTDS for delivering such informative sessions.
We’ve included some resources below but please feel free to get in touch with LTDS@ncl.ac.uk with any questions.
Quick instructions for creating your own reading lists.
Session presentation: Covering student feedback, Blackboard Baseline, enhancement and mobile accessibility
Blackboard module checklist: A handy resource to help you consider whether your module meets the recommendations set out in the Blackboard Baseline.
We are always looking to engage with more members of staff and we have a mailing list which we use to keep people up to date with events and opportunities. Anyone who would like to sign up to the mailing list can email nutelaops@newcastle.ac.uk
Also if there are any technologies that you would like to try or find out more about let us know. We can try to include these in our Pizza, Pop and Practice Programme next year.
If you’re interested in the use of games in learning and teaching sign up to this workshop exploring the use of Minecraft, particularly how it can be used in Biosciences.
The programme includes a keynote from Joel Mills, Minecraft Mentor & Deputy Director of Learning & Teaching Enhancement, Hull University, as well as lots of opportunities to use the software and trial the virtual field trip exercise.
Thursday 12th July 2018
10am-4pm
Teesside University
To find out more and book your place please visit http://www.tees.ac.uk/sections/whats_on/events_details.cfm?event_id=10172
