Learning Enhancement & Academic Development Service Events

Learning Enhancement & Academic Development Service Events


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Outdoors learning: more than a walk in the park

Date: Wednesday 26 January 2022
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Matt Offord, Adam Smith Business School

The logistics of higher education often prevent outdoors learning being a consideration. Yet the outdoors provides a nuanced and complex learning environment which can be extremely valuable. This presentation will describe the preparations for a field trip organised for postgraduate students on a service risk and resilience course at Adam Smith Business School.
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Developing SoTL skills - choose your own adventure

Date: Thursday 27 January 2022
Time: 10:00 - 11:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Daisy Abbott, GSA and Sarah Honeychurch

This interactive workshop is designed to help participants to kick start their SoTL projects.
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Mulling it over: Valuing reflection and cohort-centred learning in virtual fieldclass design

Date: Tuesday 01 February 2022
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Dr Hannah Mathers, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences

We present a model for an inclusive and active virtual geoscience field class with approaches and considerations applicable to other disciplines.
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Linking Up Assessments to Make Feedback Meaningful: An Introduction to Assessment Blueprinting

Date: Wednesday 09 February 2022
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Dr Kimberly Wilder-Davis, Academic and Digital Development

Students spend a lot of time creating work to be assessed, and academics spend a lot of time marking that work and creating feedback to help each student learn. This workshop will introduce you to assessment blueprinting, which enables you to link assessments across a Programme and make the feedback you provide meaningful for the next relevant assessment.

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Escape Rooms as Teaching Tools

Date: Thursday 10 February 2022
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Rachelle Emily O-Brien, University of Durham

Ever wonder why people struggle to turn off their console? Video games are often praised for their ‘holding power’ and the motivational and engaging opportunities they create for players. This workshop will look at what can be learned from video games and applied to education, specially focussing on Escape Rooms.

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Assessing your Assessment: Creating Inclusive Assessment Tasks

Date: Wednesday 16 February 2022
Time: 13:30 - 14:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Dr Kimberly Wilder-Davis, Academic and Digital Development

This session will allow participants to evaluate their assessment tasks and think about enhancements that could make these assessments more inclusive.

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Staying Connected: A Toolkit for Effective Groupwork

Date: Thursday 17 February 2022
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Maxine Swingler, Gayle Pringle Barnes, Lara Hani Wehbe

This workshop will focus on practical activities to support group work, such as allocating group roles, improving communication and encouraging group reflection.
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Connecting with SoTL writing goals through collage

Date: Wednesday 23 February 2022
Time: 10:00 - 11:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Dr Alison McCandlish, Urban Studies

Looking to remind yourself to make time to write, or connect in different ways with your SoTL projects and writing goals? Using images and text we will consider our influences, solidify our writing and research intentions and inspire ourselves to make writing goals which work for us, via the power of collage. Don't worry, you don't need to be in anyway artistic or creative, this is all about experimentation and making something which is unique and useful for you.
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Team-Based Learning: Optimising Active and Collaborative Learning in a blended model of learning and teaching

Date: Thursday 03 March 2022
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Sarah Honeychurch, Academic and Digital Development, Iyke Ikegwuonu and Margaret Fletcher, Adam Smith Business School

This workshop aims to introduce participants to Team-Based Learning (TBL) by experiencing it as a student would. TBL is a student-centred ‘flipped’ learning and teaching strategy designed to engage students through a process of preparation, assessment and application of knowledge. It shifts the focus of classroom time from conveying course concepts by the instructor to the application of course concepts by student learning teams. It is also a useful model to help students develop team working skills.
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Let’s Talk About [X]

Date: Tuesday 08 March 2022 - Wednesday 09 March 2022
Time: 11:00 - 17:00
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events, Student events
Venue: Remo online
Speaker: Undergraduate students from the University of Glasgow

Let’s Talk About [X] is the University’s annual conference that showcases the exceptional research carried out by our undergraduates. Students, staff and members of the public all welcome.
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Welcome to The National Teaching Repository!

Date: Wednesday 09 March 2022
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Tasler, Academic and Digital Development and Dr Dawne Irving-Bell, Edge Hill University

The National Teaching Repository (NTR) is an Open Educational Resource, an inclusive, developmental space where anyone with an interest in the scholarship of teaching and learning can share information and knowledge, and access the very best ideas, in a safe and secure way. This session will introduce participants to the NTR and explain how educators can access it as consumers and find resources to use in their own teaching.
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Rubrics to the Rescue? How the Use of Rubrics Can Enhance Assessment of Student Learning and Provision of Feedback

Date: Tuesday 15 March 2022
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Dr Kimberly Wilder-Davis, Academic and Digital Development

This session will look at how the use of rubrics can help enhance the student learning experience. It will provide an overview of how to create sustainable rubrics and how rubrics can be used to help create meaningful, criterion based assessment, and provide more focused feedback to students.
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Designing Meaningful Assessment to Promote Academic Integrity and Prevent Plagiarism

Date: Tuesday 22 March 2022
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Dr Kimberly Wilder-Davis, Academic and Digital Development

We'll discuss ideas of meaningful assessment and provide examples of what we mean by this. We'll then address meaningful assessment in the context of your own teaching, and help you to consider how you might make the assessments you use throughout a course and/or programme authentic, meaningful and relevant.

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High-Stakes Assessments: Balancing, Spreading and Mitigating their Impact

Date: Wednesday 20 April 2022
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Dr Kimberly Wilder-Davis, Academic and Digital Development

The University is making efforts to lessen, where appropriate, the large and sometimes disproportionate impact of single or high-stakes assessment pieces on overall course grades. This is an area of active development, and a fuller description of this session's content will follow shortly. In the meantime, the session is open for booking.

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Engaging international students in active learning

Date: Tuesday 26 April 2022
Time: 10:00 - 11:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Dr Julia Bohlmann

With rising international student numbers come many inspiring encounters but also potential misalignments of teacher and student expectations. These misalignments apply especially to expectations around how learning should take place and the role teachers and students play in the (co-)construction of knowledge. In order to create more alignment with our students, this session will offer an overview of the specific transition challenges of international students and introduce approaches on how to engage them more actively in their learning and include them in the classroom community as a whole.

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Interculturality and the International classroom

Date: Wednesday 11 May 2022
Time: 10:00 - 11:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Dr Julia Bohlmann

Teaching at the University of Glasgow increasingly entails regular interaction with students from a variety of geographical and academic cultures. While this brings enriching and rewarding experiences, the international classroom challenges us as teachers to (re)think how we engage with our students interculturally. This interactive workshop will offer a space to identify and overcome barriers to interculturality – the equitable interaction of diverse cultures – in the classroom.