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Comment by Helen Jones on January 26, 2012 at 8:42

The journal ELiSS has now moved to the Higher Education academy and can be located at http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/journals/eliss

 

Comment by Helen Jones on October 4, 2011 at 6:39

UK travel fund

The Higher Education Academy has launched a UK travel fund that will help staff and students in UK higher education to exchange and disseminate good practice in learning, teaching and assessment, and engage with their peers.

Comment by Helen Jones on September 20, 2011 at 13:05

There are a couple of notable articles in ELiSS, one of which is from the LTN's own Phil Johnson. Phil says his paper proposes 'the use of visual assessment methods for students in the social sciences at the University of the Future'. He argues against the hegemony of the written word through the suggestion that photography can overcome many problems and provide 'appropriate learning experiences for the digital world'. Read more here

Comment by Helen Jones on September 20, 2011 at 10:56

Invitation to BSC LTN inaugural meeting

 

 

Date: 14^th October 2011

Time: 1-4pm

Venue:  Academic Practice Room, CeLT, 2nd Floor, Cavendish North, Manchester Metropolitan University ( for map see herehttp://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/about_celt/contact.php )

 

 

The BSC recently launched its Learning and Teaching Network and we would now like to extend an invitation to the wider membership of the BSC to join us and become involved in a range of activities to develop expertise in the teaching of Criminology.

The LTN is interested in hearing from anyone with a passion for learning and teaching and specifically those interested in taking on responsibility for one or more of the support roles below:

 

• Co-ordination of regional workshops.
• Email list manager.
• Project funding. We have a funding budget and will announce calls for projects relevant to learning and teaching, support conference attendance and launch a Professional Development Award to assist with the cost of early career members’ continued professional development.
• Development of ‘Crimspace’ to include learning and teaching issues.
• Liaison with the Higher Education Academy to access activities and support, for example to provide media training to BSC members which would enhance our potential to place media articles about the Society and the discipline more generally.
• A presence at the BSC Annual Conference – learning and teaching will have a dedicated strand at future annual conferences including an early careers event at the PhD conference.
• Articles in the BSC newsletter and links with existing learning and teaching journals (for example ELiSShttp://www.eliss.org.uk/Default.aspx) – to provide avenues for members who have an interest in this area to see their ideas and interests published. 
• National Teaching Award.
• Co-ordination of a ‘Teaching Tips’ section of the website.
• Book review and recommendations relevant to learning and teaching.

 

The British Society of Criminology’s Learning and Teaching Network (BSC LTN) has been awarded a bursary by the Higher Education Academy (specialist network C-SAP) to support the above work in promoting learning, teaching and professionalism generally in the discipline.

 

Please confirm your attendance and any items for the agenda to the LTN chair Helen Jones h.jones@mmu.ac.uk

Two travel bursaries of £50 are available to early career members to assist their attendance at this meeting. Please apply directly to Helen Jones by Monday 3^rd October.

Comment by Helen Jones on September 15, 2011 at 11:20

On 29th-30th November C-SAP (the Higher Education Academy's subject centre) will run a two-day residential event for recently appointed lecturers and postgraduates who teach (or want to teach). The event is free but places are strictly limited. For further details and to register for the event, please go to:

 

www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk/events/details/132-early-career-two-day-reside...

 

There are also one-day events in Bath and Glasgow in October (see www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk/events).

 

If you are not new to the profession yourself, please forward this message to someone you know who is.

 

If you have any questions about C-SAP, the restructuring of the Higher Education Academy, or any other matters relating to learning and teaching in our discipline, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Comment by Helen Jones on September 13, 2011 at 11:17

The call for bids in the Higher Education Academy's second phase of teaching development grants is now open.

Over the next year the HEA is making £1.5 million of funding available for teaching development grants.  The funding will stimulate evidence-based research and encourage innovations in learning and teaching that have the potential for sector-wide impact.

The second phase of the scheme, is aimed at higher education institution departments, with a total of £300,000 being made available up to a maximum of £30,000 per project. Bids are invited on the themes of Employability and/or Internationalisation. Successful bids will demonstrate team impact across the department.
The closing date for departmental bids is 23 October 2011, with successful projects expected to begin on 23 January 2012.

Further information on the teaching development grants can be found at http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/funding 

Comment by Helen Jones on September 12, 2011 at 15:44

SHOWCASE EVENT

On Monday 24th October, the Higher Education Academy's subject centre C-SAP, will host a one-day free event in Birmingham on innovations in learning and teaching in the social sciences. For further details and to book your place at the event, please go to: www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk/events/details/126-c-sap-showcase-day (to book your place, you need to visitwww.bhamonlineshop.co.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2...).

 

We very much hope you can join us at this event. In addition to hearing about the important work done by these project teams, it will be a good opportunity to learn more about the changes in the structure of the HEA and what it means for our discipline, as well as major funding opportunities for research in learning and teaching.

Comment by Helen Jones on September 12, 2011 at 11:15

http://www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk/events/details/134-early-career-network...

 

Early career networking events for Social Scientists

Tuesday 18 October 2011

Newton Park, Bath Spa University, Bath

 

11.00am – 3.00pm

FREE REGISTRATION – Only 15 Places Available

 

Following previous very successful one- and two-day events for early career Social Scientists over the last two years, we are now running this one-day event for Social Scientists. 

The event will be of particular interest to recently-appointed teaching staff, post docs and post-graduates with teaching responsibilities. The emphasis is on addressing practical issues and the realities of balancing academic roles when people might be located either in specialist subject or multi-disciplinary departments.

The indicative programme has been developed from feedback given by participants at previous events and is designed to provide opportunities for networking and sharing experiences. There will be no PowerPoint presentations or lengthy input from facilitators. Rather, we would like participants to bring their own good ideas, issues or problems around the three main themes – learning and teaching, e-learning and career development.

 

10.30           Arrive, tea/coffee

11.00           Welcome and introductions

11.15           Learning and teaching issues such as working with small groups, giving effective feedback,

12.30           Lunch

13.00           Using technology to improve feedback to students, enhancing groupwork through technology, electronic sources of information

14.00           Networking opportunity to discuss individual issues, career development, etc.

14.45           Tea and discussion about future activities

15.00           Depart

 

The event is free to attend will be facilitated by Professor Ranald Macdonald, C-SAP Senior Associate: Professional Development, together with Mark Doidge, (Exeter Universtity)

To attend this event contact:

Frances Worrall either by email f.l.worrall@bham.ac.uk or telephone 0121 414 2995

Comment by Helen Jones on July 20, 2011 at 8:35

 

SPEAKING WITH CONFIDENCE: THE IMPACT OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

TUESDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER 2011

2.15pm – 4.30pm

 

PANEL

Hon David Willetts MP, Minister of State for Universities and Science 

Professor Craig Mahoney, Chief Executive Higher Education Academy

Liam Burns, NUS President 

Panel Chair: Professor Lord Norton of Louth

For further information please contact Frances Worrall ( f.l.worrall@bham.ac.uk ) 0121 414 2995 or check this website for further information:

http://www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk/events/details/128-speaking-with-confid...

Comment by Phil Johnson on July 14, 2011 at 9:13

That's good to hear Nic - but there is hostility to the idea of the 'age of autodidacts'

 

Am I the only one to find this edupunk meme ridiculous? The adolesc...

 

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