Centre for Academic Professional Development

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You are invited to access the recently expanded online resources posted at http://www.developfaculty.com. Arranged alphabetically by topic are links to 170 teaching, learning and educational management sites, based in Canada, the U.K., Australia, and the U.S. Also at the site are weekly teaching tips that are aligned with the cycle of the academic year. Feel free to share the resources your colleagues, and if you choose, to post a link on your Web site.

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The Open University is about to launch an international online masters-level course called “Practice-based research in educational technology”. The course looks at how technologies in education are researched and at how technology is changing the way that educational research is conducted. Within an online tutor group, course participants develop skills in locating, understanding and critically assessing research studies. They also examine associated theories, ethics, epistemology and relationships between research, policy and practice.

The course is available worldwide and is suitable for lecturers, teachers, trainers, developers and other professionals working in the education sector. It can be taken as a stand-alone professional development course, but it can also contribute to a number of Open University higher degrees. For further details, see

http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.dll?C01H809

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A quick reminder that this years’ HERS series starts Wednesday 7th
November with Fiona English’s paper:

Writing Differently: refreshing student work.

The seminar will be at 12.30-1.45pm in Room BEL1-05.

Please let me know if you are planning to attend so that I can get a
rough idea of numbers.

Looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday.

Katya

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Katya Williams
Research Fellow
Institute for Policy Studies in Education
London Metropolitan University

Tel 020 7133 2853
Email katya.williams@londonmet.ac.uk

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The Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development

Online courses 2007-8

Assessment: lightening the load, while increasing the learning 10
October - 19 November 2007
Dealing with student plagiarism 13 February - 14 March 2008
Engaging learning with social software 7 November - 7 December 2007
Enquiry based learning 4 June - 4 July 2008
Evaluating e-learning 23 April - 23 May 2008
The Internationalised curriculum 2 April - 2 May 2008
Leading educational change 29 October - 9 December 2007
Online tutoring 6 February - 9 March 2008
Reflective learning 9 April - 9 May 2008
Supporting educational change 4 February - 15 March 2008

Our range of online courses are between four and six weeks long and
have been designed to give you time and space to think through complex
issues, identify how they impact on your own work, and make plans for
future developments. All the courses are activity-based, supported by
course texts and by specially developed online resources. Each week you
will work through some guided readings, record your thoughts, share
your work with others in your group, discuss your work and that of
other members of your group, and analyse and summarise your findings.

For more details on all these courses, and to book your place, please
go to our web site:
www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsld/online

If you would like a paper copy of our courses, or for more details,
please contact me

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Peter Knight, an outstanding scholar and a friend and guide to many in the assessment, learning and teaching community died earlier this year. Please find below a programme for the Peter Knight memorial seminar we are holding at Leeds Met on 17th October. As you may remember, we want to celebrate Peter’s achievements and talk about the ways in which working with Peter has impacted on our own practice, as well as looking to future developments of his legacy. The seminar is free, although we will ask you to buy your own lunch in the cafeteria at Headingley stadium. If you would like to reserve a place, please contact K.Procter@leedsmet.ac.uk, advising us of any special mobility or other needs.

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The Doctoral Programme (PhD) in Educational Research (Higher Education) at Lancaster University

The Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University has successfully offered a part-time doctoral programme, leading to a PhD qualification and focusing on higher education, for the last twelve years. The programme offers the advantage of a more structured route to a PhD, with the additional support that comes from working with a cohort of students sharing the same aim, and with a group of staff with substantial relevant research expertise.

The programme is organised in two parts:

• Part I, lasting two years, consists of five modules. Two of these focus on research methods and professional practice, and are assessed through short pass/fail assignments. The other three cover Education, Learning and Work; Learning, Teaching and Assessment; and Policy, Change and Organisational Development, and are designed to introduce the student to major areas of higher education research. Each is assessed through a 7,000 word assignment, intended to be of publishable quality, with the assessment process mimicking that of journal refereeing.

• Part II, lasting two to three years, focuses on the student’s individual research project, written up in a shorter thesis of 45,000 words. While carrying this out, students also take a sixth module, with short assessments, designed to support them in the stages of carrying out and writing up research.

Part I involves attendance at four residentials a year, each lasting for 4-5 days. Part II involves three shorter residentials, of 2-3 days, for two years. The programme starts with a new cohort intake every year in January.

Students are typically mid-career professionals working in higher education or related sectors, wishing to upgrade their understanding and qualification, and seeking to develop their profile as published researchers. They include higher and further education lecturers, higher education managers, educational developers, learning technologists and educational consultants. They come from all parts of the UK, Ireland and other countries.

For further information, please contact the programme administrator, Alison Sedgwick: a.sedgwick@lancaster.ac.uk or consult the website: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/edres/study/docprog/docprog.htm

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Learning for a Complex World: Appreciating the Power of Immersive Experience
Wednesday 9th January 13.00 - Thursday 10th January 16.00
Surrey Centre for Excellence in Professional Training and Education (SCEPTrE), University of Surrey, Guildford

This event provides a starting point for a year long collaborative enquiry aimed at discovering how we currently provide opportunities for immersive experiences in higher education and whether there are more and better ways of doing it.

The event is being formed around an Appreciative Inquiry drawing on participants’ own immersive experiences and we will try to embody some of the characteristics of immersive experience in the process.

Professor David Boud, University of Technology Sydney, an expert in experiential learning, and Dr Glynis Cousin, responsible for pedagogic research at the HE Academy, will help stimulate our thinking and act as observer commentators throughout the process.

Anna Newell, Artistic Director, Centre for Excellence in the Creative and Performing Arts Queen’s University Belfast, and a conference artist will help us harness our creative talent.

There will be lots of scope for conversation and unplanned activity.
We think the experience will appeal to anyone who is interested in encouraging higher education to move towards more experiential curricular. It will appeal to people who are interested in their own experiential learning who enjoy participating in experiences that are rich, challenging and a bit risky and messy, but also the opportunity to be creative.

Further information and registration forms.
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/sceptre/ImmersiveExperienceConference910thJan2008.htm
And if you have the time, please visit and contribute to our complex world wiki http://complexworld.pbwiki.com/Immersive+experience

http://complexworld.pbwiki.com/

Norman Jackson SCEPTrE Director

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http://mashable.com/2007/09/17/online-education/#more-10790

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Challenging the orthodoxies: alternative approaches for research into Higher Education

3^rd Annual Conference 6 December 2007

Mary Ward House, Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SN

Following on the success of the first two conferences, this year’s focus will be on data.

We wish to explore the concept of data – what it is, what it might be and what counts as data when we are researching into higher education.

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4^th International Education in a Changing Environment (ECE) Conference, to be held from the 12^th – 14^th September 2007 at the University of Salford. The conference provides an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to engage in discussion about the key aspects of changes in policies and practices in post-compulsory education and training.
The 4^th ECE has attracted international interest, with papers and workshops to be presented by our colleagues from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, USA, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Canada, Nigeria, India and Ireland.

There has also been a considerable degree of interest from colleagues in the UK and we will be joined by presenters from Edge Hill, Derby, Leeds Metropolitan, Cranfield, Northumbria, Bristol, Huddersfield, Liverpool John Moores, Chester, Northampton and two Lifelong Learning Networks, Greater Manchester Strategic Alliance and the North East Higher Skills Network.

We have the pleasure of welcoming two keynote speakers to ECE, Steve Fuller, Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick and Gráinne Conole, Professor of e-Learning at the Open University, whose keynote topics will cover “…the critical intellectual in academic leadership” and “the implications for teaching and learning of the technology-enabled university” respectively.
Registration can be completed using the enclosed form or online at

www.ece.salford.ac.uk, where more detailed information regarding the conference programme, accommodation and social events can be found. Please be aware that the early bird fees quoted on the registration form continue to be available.

Please do not hesitate to contact our conference administrator, Emma Casey, at E.G.Casey@salford.ac.uk, or on her direct line, 0161 295 2898, should you have any queries.

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