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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 Desmond Tutu’s War and Peace lecture at the Metropolitan Cathedral at 17.30, for those who want to.

http://www.learnhigher.ac.uk/Events/index.html

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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 Academy Annual Conference in Harrogate , July 3-5.

You may download it in advance at: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/research/LinkingTeachingAndResearch_April07.pdf .

To order hard copies free of charge, please email: enquiries@heacademy.ac.uk

This complements an earlier Academy publication: (2005) Institutional strategies to link teaching and research by Alan Jenkins and Mick Healey http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources.asp?process=full_record&section=generic&id=585

Both these publications and a wide range of other international resources on effective teaching-research links are featured on a new web site at: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/rtnexus.htm

Alan Jenkins is Reinvention Fellow for the Reinvention Centre for Undergraduate Research, University of Warwick and Oxford Brookes University ; and Consultant for the Higher Education Academy

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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 side: listening to learner voices
26 June 2007, Glasgow Caledonian University
Presenters: Linda Creanor and Kathy Trinder, Glasgow Caledonian
University; Doug Gowan and Carol Howells, Open Learning Partnership.
A fascinating exploration of what learners really think of learning
technology.
http://www.alt.ac.uk/workshop_detail.php?e=249
*Deadline*: 12 June 2007

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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 internal institutional perspective and from the more personalised view of the lifelong learner. The conference programme will be of interest to practitioners, managers and e-learning coordinators in further and higher education, researchers, staff developers, learning technologists and key stakeholders supporting lifelong learning.

• Conference will be held on 11-14 June 2007
• Open for reading and viewing of presentations from 4 June 2007
• Proceedings will be available until 15 July 2007

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning_pedagogy/elp_conference07.aspx

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Welcome to our latest e-bulletin for everyone in the higher education sector. We are sending it to keep you regularly informed about the Higher Education Academy’s activities and the services, resources and publications available to you, as well as alerting you to funding opportunities and forthcoming events.

To read the full bulletin go to: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/news/5611.htm

Included in this bulletin: Read more »

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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 Callender/ (/Families Research Group,
South Bank University)/ ‘With a little help from my friends? Student
friendships in Higher Education’/ and
Professor Jocey Quinn, IPSE, London Metropolitan University.//

The seminar will be followed by a book launch of Liz Thomas and Jocey
Quinn’s/ First Generation Entry into Higher Education: An International
Study/.

The seminar will be take place on Monday 9^th July, 2-4pm, in room
GC1-08, the Graduate Building, Holloway Rd, London Metropolitan
University.

The seminar is free of charge. Places are limited. If you
wish to attend please contact Angela Kamara on a.kamara@londonmet.ac.uk
<mailto:a.kamara@londonmet.ac.uk>
For further information about the series please contact Jocey Quinn on
j.quinn@londonmet.ac.uk

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Online booking is now open and you are invited to register to join us for the

2nd International Coventry iPED Conference 2007
10th - 11th September 2007, Coventry University TechnoCentre, UK
‘RESEARCHING ACADEMIC FUTURES’ http://www.coventry.ac.uk/iped2007

This conference provides a forum for higher education scholars, innovative practitioners and managers to explore academic futures collaboratively through three themes which have attracted submissions from across the world:

Global perspectives
Leading academic learning
Emergent pedagogies

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25-27 June 2008, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

Conference theme: Times and Spaces for Writing
Keynote Speakers: Dr. Rowena Murray and Prof. Peter Elbow

Call for Papers

The 12th WDHE conference will be hosted by the University of Strathclyde and held in the lively and welcoming city of Glasgow in the summer of 2008.

The overarching theme of the conference is Times and Spaces for Writing to reflect our growing understanding of how, when and where writing happens in relation to higher education. To this end, we welcome proposals that address the conference theme from a broad range of theoretically informed perspectives. These may include, but not be limited to, digital writing, issues in addressivity, evolving discourses and genres, pedagogic and curriculum design issues, and emergent theory in relation to academic or creative writing.

Time and space for writing will be made available in the conference programme.

Please click here to download conference flyer (PDF, 79 KB).

Abstracts

We welcome proposals in three categories: papers, symposia and workshops. Please check the guidance and format for each of these.

The deadline for submission of abstracts, maximum 500 words, is 30 November 2007, via the online proposal form. Decisions will be relayed to authors by early February.

Note: prospective delegates to WDHE ‘08 might also be interested in European Writing Centers Association (EWCA) Conference 2008 in Freiburg, Germany (June 19-22, 2008). For more information, please click here.

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