Date: Monday 07 October 2019 Time: 12:00 - 13:30 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Prof Moira Fischbacher-Smith, Dr Michael McEwan
Expertise and excellence in teaching and in SoTL are core to the notion of the LTS track, and can be a vehicle for developing leadership, esteem, and evidence for academic promotion. This session focuses on developing an understanding of SoTL, introduces the four scholarships of Boyer's 'scholarship reconsidered', and finishes with a framework for SoTL project design. During the session, we'll present examples of SoTL to give a feel for what constitutes SoTL in Higher Education.
Date: Wednesday 16 October 2019 Time: 13:30 - 15:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Dr Scott Ramsay, Dr James Bowness
The purpose of this session is to give staff a clearer understanding of the challenges and obstacles encountered by dissertation students. We'll consider common issues met by students as they transition through their dissertation, as well as the student perception of support offered by supervisors. By considering the research process from the point of view of the inexperienced student, we can better support their academic performance.
Date: Monday 21 October 2019 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Dr Vicki Dale
With the campus redevelopment under way, an increasing number of rooms are being built or adapted to give you greater flexibility in your modes of teaching. This session introduces active learning and examines Glasgow's learning spaces, both physical and online. It introduces the resources generated through the MALT (Moodle Active Learning and Teaching) LTDF project, which demonstrate how active learning can be used creatively to facilitate face-to-face, blended, and online learning. These resources include material to support co-operative and collaborative approaches to teaching, learning, and also assessment - all underpinned by the values of active learning.
Date: Tuesday 22 October 2019 Time: 12:00 - 13:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Dr Julia Bohlman and Dr Michael McEwan
This session focuses on what plagiarism actually means in an international context, and will demonstrate that (in some instances, at least) plagiarism is the result of cultural differences and not a crime! This session is based on a recent review of plagiarism-focused literature, and gives guidance on how to make your teaching, your expectations, and your materials more accessible and more explicit.
Date: Wednesday 23 October 2019 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Dr Sam Oakley
Is your reading list fulfilling its purpose? Are your students enthusiastic readers? We will use some studies on students' reading habits at UK universities to reflect on the challenges of getting students to read even the essential readings. We will suggest some strategies to encourage them to go beyond their lecture notes and become more independent learners. We welcome your own experiences / observations from your subject area.You might also be interested in the complementary session 'How to Create an Online Reading List – Reading Lists @ Glasgow', which will walk you through using the university's online reading list system.
Date: Wednesday 23 October 2019 Time: 14:00 - 16:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Hugh Fraser seminar room 2, Wolfson Medical Building Speaker: Dr Vicki Dale, Professor Susan Deeley, Dr Joseph Maguire
Glasgow has equipped an increasing number of rooms as Technology Enhanced Active Learning (TEAL) spaces. These teaching spaces will become an integral part of the campus redevelopment, and so this session draws on the experience of teaching staff who have already successfully used them. The session introduces the concept of active teaching and learning in these environments to promote student collaboration and problem-solving, and gives you a chance to hear about successful teaching approaches (and perhaps also warnings!). As this takes place in a TEAL space, you’ll have the opportunity to engage with it from the student perspective.
Date: Monday 28 October 2019 Time: 12:00 - 13:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Dr Scott Ramsay, Dr Julia Bohlmann
Turnitin produces a similarity score for each assignment, which makes it tempting to judge the quality of a piece of work on whether that number is over or under a threshold. In this session we'll look at what scores mean in terms of a student's academic writing and evaluate the merits of using such a cut-off. We'll then look at how you can discuss Turnitin similarity scores (and the mark up applied to the text of each submission) with your class to help students develop good academic practice and improve their writing skills.
Date: Wednesday 30 October 2019 Time: 12:00 - 13:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Learn Lab, University Library Speaker: Harry Panagiotakopoulos
This hands-on session will provide an opportunity to create an online reading list using the University system Talis Aspire. To aid student learning, you will learn how to create list structures, add resources (books, articles, webpages, audio and visual resources) and use the system to advise students on reading requirements and the importance level of course materials.
Date: Monday 04 November 2019 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Dr Vicki Dale, Dr Michael McEwan
Depending on the details of a given scholarship projects, specific ethical approval might need to be applied for, reviewed and approved before the work can begin. This session will explore ethical considerations for scholarship of learning and teaching, with an emphasis on research into the experience of the learners. We'll also examine the process of designing an ethically sound methodology.
Date: Monday 11 November 2019 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Dr Michael McEwan
This session moves from formulating scholarship questions towards deciding how you'll answer them. What counts as data? What kind of data do you require in order to actually address the issue at hand, and how can you plan your data collection, management and analysis to make sure that's achievable – especially when the data might be of an unfamiliar form?
Date: Tuesday 12 November 2019 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Amanda Sykes, Nicole Kipar
We know that students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) feel more able to learn if their classrooms are welcoming and inclusive. We also know that lots of people want to make their classrooms inclusive, but don’t know how to do so, or what to say. This workshop provides an opportunity to start to understand why making your classroom inclusive is important, and suggests simple changes you can make that could make a big difference. Please know that you are not expected to know anything about LGBT ‘issues’ or the ‘right’ language before you come.
Date: Wednesday 13 November 2019 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Forehall, main building Speaker: Dr Maria Jackson, Dr Leah Marks
In this workshop we will identify barriers to both giving and receiving effective feedback, and consider ways of addressing these. We will discuss feedback proforma design and varied approaches to delivering feedback and facilitating student engagement with that feedback.
Date: Wednesday 20 November 2019 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Nicole Kipar
When we analyse qualitative data, such as responses from human participants via interviews or open-ended survey questions, we may choose to coding as our method. Coding of qualitative data is versatile as well as varied, and the focus of this session is on coding that aims for categorisation and theme development. The session introduces a variety of coding techniques, and we’ll investigate why coding can be useful, what the benefits are, and what pitfalls to be aware of.
Date: Monday 25 November 2019 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Dr Michael McEwan
This session explores the more positivistic side of educational research, such as interventions, pseudo-experiments comparative studies, as well as touching on larger-scale surveys. With a nod to sequential and concurrent designs, we'll discuss the power and limitations of more quantitative scholarship designs, ensuring that you leave with an understanding beyond what might be your own 'typical' methodology.
Date: Tuesday 26 November 2019 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Dr Vicki Dale
Questionnaires can notoriously be interpreted in different ways by different respondents, making your analysis of the responses difficult. Good question design can help to eliminate ambiguity and help respondents to provide you with meaningful answers. This workshop will combine theory and practice and will be delivered in three parts: 1) the theory of designing evidence-based questionnaires, 2) practice at developing a questionnaire, 3) feedback and discussion on proposed questionnaire designs, and issues arising. This workshop will appeal to staff in all four colleges who are interested in undertaking scholarship, particularly around learner experience research.
Date: Wednesday 27 November 2019 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Professor Fiona Denney, Brunel University London
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Date: Monday 02 December 2019 Time: 12:00 - 13:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: John Maguire
The College of Arts have delivered 4 varied and very successful MOOCs to date, all with very different rationales for development. This session will look at the college’s work with MOOCs, looking at different the pedagogical approaches taken in design and delivery, examining what we are learning and where we are going next.
Date: Tuesday 03 December 2019 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Dr Nathalie Sheridan
Ethnography is a method of investigation that looks at the situation (in this case, the teaching scenario) from the point of view of the culture and behaviour of the subjects being studied. This session will explore what ethnography is, how it works as a research approach in an educational context, what methods are related to ethnography, and some of the principles of ethnographic research. The session also introduces case studies as a methodology and explores their purpose within research and scholarship in higher education.
Date: Wednesday 04 December 2019 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Dr Andrew Struan, Dr Janis Davidson
Date: Thursday 05 December 2019 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Dr Nathalie Sheridan
This session offers an overview of the principles of observation as a research method. We'll discuss issues around observation bias, interference with the observed, 'going native', and the significance of data derived through observation.
Date: Tuesday 10 December 2019 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Dr Simon Tweddell, University of Bradford
This short 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 teacher to the application of course concepts by student learning teams.
Date: Monday 13 January 2020 Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Anneli Williams, Carole Macdiarmid
This session will consider the challenges students using English as a second language face when listening to extended speech. We will cover the listening skills students are likely to have on arrival, the specific challenges they face, strategies they use to cope, and techniques you can use to make your lecture and seminar content more accessible.
Date: Tuesday 14 January 2020 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Dr Kimberly Wilder, Prof Scott Roy
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. You will also get the chance to see examples of rubrics from colleagues on campus, and ask them about their experience.
Date: Friday 17 January 2020 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Dr Karen Ottewell, University of Cambridge
Kaplan noted in 1966 that just because you can write an essay in your L1 does not necessarily mean you can write one in an L2 and with it he founded the theory of contrastive rhetoric, which 50 years on, despite significant research in this area, still lacks a pedagogical framework. In this session I will present an overview of the theoretical principles which underpin this approach, followed by a discussion of practical strategies to support students to develop their written academic literacy.
Date: Monday 20 January 2020 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: John Kerr, Vicki Dale
In this session, participants will gain a deeper understanding into the important role that MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) play at Glasgow. We'll explore the current direction of MOOCs, degrees on FutureLearn, and open courses on Coursera. We'll focus on the processes of announcing, designing and running a MOOC, and investigate the impact they've had on our face-to-face learners along with how they support our distance programmes. Drawing on examples from all four colleges, this workshop will appeal to teachers and teaching support staff from any discipline.
Date: Tuesday 21 January 2020 Time: 12:00 - 13:30 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Nicole Kipar
This session introduces recent research into the important role of academic practice in student wellbeing, the role of self-efficacy, and the strong correlation between mental wellbeing and student academic performance. We will be investigating our own localised and institution-wide situation through technology-aided nominal group technique, aiming for concrete actions.
Date: Wednesday 22 January 2020 Time: 10:00 - 11:30 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Dr El Spaeth, Dr Margaret Sutherland
There are many barriers that can affect students’ learning. Some relate to disabilities or lifelong illness; others are a result of poverty, gender and ethnicity; others still are related to the learning environment. This session focuses on issues of disability and hidden disability in order to make learning better for all.
Date: Wednesday 22 January 2020 Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Anneli Williams, Carole Macdiarmid
Interaction is a key driver of second language acquisition. This workshop will look at the techniques that language specialists in Academic English use to maximise incentives and opportunities for students to engage in discussions. We will give you practical suggestions for how you can apply these techniques to your HE teaching context to create a richer, more engaging learning experience for all.
Date: Tuesday 28 January 2020 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Dr Amanda Pate, Dr Janis Davidson
In publishing scholarship of teaching and learning, interviews allow you to get deeper responses than surveys, and also to follow up based on initial answers. This workshop is aimed at anyone undertaking research interviews for the first time. We'll examine aspects such as preparing good interview questions, choosing effective interview environments, having relevant documentation, and approaches to recording interviews.
Date: Wednesday 29 January 2020 Time: 12:00 - 13:30 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Dr Angela Gayton
How can staff awareness be raised of the fundamental role that language plays in ensuring inclusive assessment practice? In responding to this question, this session identifies common communicative issues and obstacles in assessment practices in HE, within the wider context of increasing linguistic and cultural diversity among student cohorts.
Date: Wednesday 05 February 2020 Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Anneli Williams, Carole Macdiarmid
This session will consider approaches to helping students using English as a second language deal with reading complex academic texts. We will outline the challenges academic reading pose, strategies that can facilitate more effective reading, and provide practical examples of approaches we have embedded on PGT courses in English for Academic Study.
Date: Thursday 06 February 2020 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Dr Kimberly Wilder
This session will allow participants to evaluate their assessment tasks and think about enhancements that could make these assessments more inclusive. This session will include some quick tips and easy enhancements, as well as a focus on what it means to create manageable and sustainable assessment and feedback practices that are inclusive, responsive, and are supported by academic policies and processes.
Date: Tuesday 18 February 2020 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Amanda Sykes, Nicole Kipar
Date: Monday 24 February 2020 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: LEADS Media & Digital Development team
The Media & Digital Development experts in LEADS will take you through the basics of practical videography and explore the best use of software and equipment available for creating your own content. They'll also give you an introduction on how to prepare and work with our team on developing professional videos.
Date: Tuesday 25 February 2020 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Dr Amanda Pate
Focus groups let you examine your participants' experience of a teaching situation in more depth than a survey, and with more data sources than a one-on-one interview. This introduction to how and why to use focus groups for data collection covers how to prepare for facilitating them, and includes some of the key issues to consider in focus group design, such as sampling and planning issues, as well as anticipating problems.
Date: Thursday 27 February 2020 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Gordon MacLeod
An overview of how the Vet School VLE has gone from a lecture dump to an integrated blended learning experience.
Date: Monday 02 March 2020 Time: 12:00 - 13:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Learn Lab, University Library Speaker: Elina Koristashevskaya, Stuart Purcell
In this short demonstration, you’ll learn about a few of the more advanced ways to improve the visual appearance of your Moodle courses using the HTML editor. A basic knowledge of HTML would be useful, but is not crucial.
Date: Monday 02 March 2020 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: LEADS Media & Digital Development team
This session is aimed at anyone planning for blended or online learning, and who want to create videos as part of these resources. There will be a showcase of a variety of resources from Glasgow's MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and courses sponsodered by BOLD funding (Blended and OnLine Delivery - an internal funding initiative spread over the past several years).
Date: Tuesday 03 March 2020 Time: 12:00 - 13:30 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Nicole Kipar
This session outlines what Grounded Theory - a type of research methodology for questions that don't begin from a hypothesis - is and isn’t, and gives a short overview of classic Grounded Theory (Glaser & Strauss) and its developments (Strauss & Corbin). It introduces the principles of Constructivist Grounded Theory (Charmaz). We will discuss CGT in relation to educational scholarship, and how Grounded Theory methods may be applied to Scholarship of Learning & Teaching.
Date: Wednesday 04 March 2020 Time: 12:00 - 13:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Learn Lab, University Library Speaker: Dr Scott Ramsay
If you're thinking of presenting your scholarship at a conference poster session but don't have much experience of actually creating a poster, this session will give you a chance to see some good examples and consider what makes them effective. You'll also get an insight into the design thought processes of a member of staff who produces University communications, and learn how to make the best use of some of the design tools available to you on standard University software.
Date: Thursday 05 March 2020 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Gordon MacLeod
An overview of how the Vet School has developed Mahara Portfolio as a resource bank to extend and enhance Moodle, and an introduction to SmartEvidence frameworks to map portfolio evidence to learning outcomes and competencies.
Date: Tuesday 10 March 2020 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Dr Sam Oakley
This session will explore expectations of students’ academic integrity and whether we can encourage them by situating their work in the wider context of research integrity. We will cover student and staff responsibilities relating to academic integrity (e.g. regarding plagiarism, handling data, ethics, supervision etc.). Then we will explore further how to encourage critical thinking and critical literacy with relation to research findings and public trust. Useful resources & ideas for teaching will be shared.
Date: Wednesday 11 March 2020 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Dr Michael McEwan, Dr Linnea Soler
The University of Glasgow is committed to ensuring that all students can equally participate in every aspect of the learning and teaching process by mainstreaming adjustments in teaching practice. We aim for our learning environment to be as inclusive as possible, so that individual interventions are the exception and not the rule. This session will explore accessibility versus inclusivity to provoke enhancements to your teaching practice at the point of design.
Date: Friday 13 March 2020 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Dr R. A. Nash, Aston University
Why do our students, despite the considerable time and effort we invest in preparing feedback for them, often nevertheless fail to engage with this feedback? I will begin this workshop with an introduction to some interesting psychological literature on why people react badly to feedback.
Date: Tuesday 17 March 2020 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Dr Sam Oakley
Is your reading list fulfilling its purpose? Are your students enthusiastic readers? We will use some studies on students' reading habits at UK universities to reflect on the challenges of getting students to read even the essential readings. We will suggest some strategies to encourage them to go beyond their lecture notes and become more independent learners.
Date: Wednesday 18 March 2020 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Dr Matthew Williamson, Dr Amanda Sykes
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.
Date: Tuesday 24 March 2020 Time: 12:00 - 13:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Learn Lab, University Library Speaker: Harry Panagiotakopoulos
Date: Monday 20 April 2020 Time: 12:00 - 13:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: John Maguire
Meaningful dialogue between students and staff is central to enhancing learning. In the College of Arts the use of the Mahara e-portfolio system is allowing staff to regularly assess the progress of students on work placement, and provide a means to encourage student to staff as well as student to student exchange, allowing the formative feedback to enhance the learning.
Date: Wednesday 22 April 2020 Time: 12:00 - 13:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: John Maguire
Subjects in the College of Arts are using recording tools for online delivery and exploring a flipped classroom approach. This session will look at differences in, and how to get creative with, each piece of software as well as discussing our first steps towards a flipped class approach.
Date: Wednesday 22 April 2020 Time: 12:00 - 14:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House Speaker: Dr Amanda Sykes and a Senior Dental School member
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. Through this linkage, you show your students how the assessments support learning and that the feedback is relevant and useful.
Date: Thursday 23 April 2020 Time: 12:00 - 12:45 Categories: Academic events Venue: Learn Lab, University Library Speaker: Scott Ramsay, Greg Walters
This short demonstration will showcase some of the tools in Microsoft Office software that will help you improve the accessibility of your materials. We will cover accessibility from a legibility and comprehension perspective, which make things easier for *any* student, as well as specific features of Microsoft Office that are designed to work with screen reader technology.
Date: Wednesday 29 April 2020 Time: 12:00 - 13:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Learn Lab, University Library Speaker: John Maguire
Staff in the College of Arts undertook some basic training in video editing which has allowed them to create their own short informative videos, on location, at important sites students can’t access easily. This session will look how training in the basic principles of video editing software can enable individuals to produce their own quality videos. Come see some examples of the work and try it out for yourself.
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