Registration for the University’s Learning & Teaching Conference which will be held on the 11th July 2012 is now open. The conference is free to attend. Register using the online booking system.
Additional details will continue to be updated on the conference website.
About the conference
The University’s Learning and Teaching Conference takes place on Wednesday 11th July. Its theme is “Higher Expectations: Meeting our Students’ Expectations of Teaching.”
The conference is organised around four strands:
- Expectations – listening to, developing and addressing student expectations;
- Futures – how embedding employability in the curriculum and developing graduate attributes can meet our students’ expectations for graduate success;
- Recognition – what we expect of ourselves and of each other as academics and learning support staff, and the importance of professional status and scholarship in our practice;
- Engagement – how innovative practice leads to engaging courses that challenge and inspire our students.
The Programme
There has been an excellent response to the call for papers and we will be publishing full programme details soon.
All presenters are being asked to draw out themes and ideas that are likely to stimulate discussion in sessions and in the various breaks.
Accepted papers will be accommodated using a variety of session types: Short Papers, Posters, quick-fire Thunderstorm presentations and CoLab interactive workshops. These last two have been designed so that they are likely to generate in-session discussion and lead to opportunities for post conference activity.
Four invited workshops are also being run to align with each of the conference themes.
Conference Keynotes
The conference welcomes two keynote speakers.
Professor Annette Cashmore – Professor of Genetics Education at the University of Leicester. She is a National Teaching Fellow and was Director of the GENIE CETL at Leicester, collaborating with the Higher Education Academy in a major national study on reward and recognition of teaching in higher education. This has led to the development of a national recognition scheme for inspirational teaching which aims to raise the profile of learning and teaching, recognise and celebrate individuals who make an outstanding impact on the student learning experience, and provide a national focus for institutional teaching and learning excellence schemes.
Usman Ali – NUS Vice President (Higher Education) who was elected onto the NUS National Executive Committee in 2009. Prior to the NUS, he was the President and Vice President Activities at the University of Salford where he studied Business Information Systems with a 1 year industrial placement. Usman Ali is on the National Student Survey (NSS) Steering Group, the National Student Forum and the Higher Education Academy Academic Council, as well as other boards. He has written about the importance of academic recognition.