Centre for Academic Professional Development

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 […]

Please note that the booking deadlines for the ALT workshops below are
fast approaching:
Evaluating learning technology in context
25 June 2007, Institute of Education, London
Presenters: Jen Harvey, Dublin Institute of Technology; Martin Oliver,
Institute of Education.
This workshop will address issues of concern to e-learning practitioners
involved in evaluating quality in the e-learning experience.
http://www.alt.ac.uk/workshop_detail.php?e=255
*Deadline*: 11 June 2007
Views from the other […]

IPSE (The Institute for Policy Studies in Education) is launching a new
interdisciplinary seminar series exploring the role of education in the
social world.
We are beginning by interrogating ‘the educated family’
and our first seminar will focus on reconceptualising relationships
between families and universities. The seminar is open to researchers,
students, practitioners and policy makers. **
Speakers will be, Professor Clare […]

Please be aware that there are just a handful of places remaining for the UKCGE “What is a Doctorate?” Workshop which will be taking place at the University of Reading on 4th May 2007. Details of the event are given below. The cost of the workshop is £145 for UKCGE Members […]

Hearing the student voice: using students to enhance academic practice in learning, teaching and assessment in higher education
Seminar: Wednesday 9 May, Glasgow
Organised by the Hearing the student voice project, an externally-funded collaborative project involving four universities, this seminar will provide an opportunity for participants to explore how employing student voices can have a powerful impact within academic professional […]

Thursday 26 April 2007, 4.00-6.30pm
To be held in the Graduate Centre, Room GC1-08
at London Metropolitan University,
166-220 Holloway Road, London N7 8DB
 
Vocationalism, Higher Education and the Skills Agenda
 
There has been an increasing emphasis in recent years on developing the skills of graduates to meet the demands of the labour market in the context of a globalised […]

An International Colloquium on International policies and practices for academic enquiry, organised by the UK Research and Teaching Forum, is being held at the Marwell Conference Centre, Winchester on April 19-21.

Delegates, who are a mixture of academics who have studied this subject and policy makers both from the UK and such overseas […]

Coming to terms? Tensions between international trends and the developmental obligations of Higher Education in South Africa

PRESENTER: Professor Ian Scott

Wednesday 21st March 2007, Convocation Suite, 5.00-7.00 pm

In this seminar Ian Scott will be examining some of the tensions arising from South Africa’s recent exposure to
forces similar to those […]