Centre for Academic Professional Development

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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Challenging the orthodoxies: alternative approaches for research into Higher Education
3rd 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 […]

4th International Education in a Changing Environment (ECE) Conference, to be held from the 12th – 14th 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 […]

Keys to Understanding Student Learning and Writing
Hope CETLs’ Research Symposium
There are a few places left for 26 June Research Symposium.
It costs £60 and there will be Keynotes from Dr Liz Beaty, HEFCE Director of Learning and Teaching and Professor Ian Scott. The day begins at 11.00 am and there is the chance to hear Archbishop […]

OCSLD 15th International Conference
Improving student learning: For what?
Monday 3rd - Wednesday 5th September 2007, Trinity College, Dublin
The earlybird registration for the Improving Student Learning Symposium
ends on 30th June and the late registration rate will then apply.
Abstracts, programme and booking available available at:
www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsld/isl/

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Linking teaching and research in disciplines and departments by Alan Jenkins, Mick Healey and Roger Zetter brings together international case studies of course teams and departments who have linked student learning to academics’ discipline-based research and is set in the context of the research evidence on teaching-research relations.

It will be launched at the Higher Education […]

Innovating e-Learning online conference 2007

Institutional Transformation and Supporting Lifelong Learning
This online conference follows the highly successful 2006 conference. This conference will bring together a selection of key innovators in e-learning to present and discuss the current and future impact of e-learning. The two themes are designed to look at the impact of e-learning from an […]