9th CLTR Learning & Teaching Research Conference
Systematic Enhancement of Learning & Teaching: Innovation, Research and Development
Wednesday 2nd June 2010, Ormskirk Campus
Keynote Speaker
Confirmed Programme [PDF]
Professor Sally Brown
Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Leeds Metropolitan University
Retention and the First Year Experience - Practice that Works to ensure student success'
By Sally Brown, Pro Vice Chancellor (Academic) Leeds Metropolitan University
Everyone expects the swingeing changes in higher education to profoundly impact on university life. Higher fees may well be round the corner, but if we increase fees, students will expect the quality of teaching and support to increase, not decrease, while our finance directors will be squeezing us to be more productive. Students have high expectations of support and engagement, as they are contributing to the costs of their studies (although they may be unaware of the shortfall between their fees and true costs). Students from disadvantaged backgrounds are likely to have both high expectations and extensive support needs. We know that the first year of study in HE is likely to be the stage at which drop-out is most likely, so we need to explore cost-effective and appropriate means to keep students on-track, engaged and learning, which also are responsive to contemporary learning expectations. This keynote will explore some of the means by which we can achieve this and stay waving rather than drowning.
Introduction
This year’s conference maintains our annual focus on innovation and development in higher education learning and teaching, policy and practice, which is at the heart of the CLTR’s mission.
Positive student experiences as learners, success in assessment, and emerging attention paid to satisfaction through devices such as the NSS permeate the current HE agenda. The conference thus offers an opportunity to present and explore related research through a number of lenses, constituting the themes of the call for papers below.
Our conference provides an excellent opportunity for colleagues with interests and responsibilities covering a broad spectrum of teaching, learner support, leadership and policy making, to engage with current intelligence-informed practices of significance for adoption or adaptation in their unique contexts.
This event is once again being run back-to–back with the conference of the CLTR’s sister organisation SOLSTICE CETL, offering delegates a rich variety of related experiences over a two-day period.
Registration and Fees
BOOK NOW! No increase on 2009 fee.
The conference fee is £100.
This does not include overnight accommodation, which will need to be booked separately. Some suggestions for accommodation in the Ormskirk area may be found on the Accommodation page.
This event is free of charge to Edge Hill Staff.
Audience
The annual conference is open to all academic and academic related colleagues in further and higher education.
Keynote Address
This year's keynote address will be given by Professor Sally Brown, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at Leeds Metropolitan University. Further details of Professor Brown's address will be available in due course.
Presentations
Presentation sessions are 40 minutes in length, allowing for a 20-minute presentation and 20-minute Q&A.
Presentations will be grouped according to the following themes:
- Elaborating graduate attributes for the 21st century
- Student induction and transitions
- Making the first year experience a success
- Assessment for learning
- Retention focused practices
- Enhancing employability
- Skills and information literacy
- Reconfiguring teaching for an increasingly diverse student population
- Teaching and supporting international students
- Leading change in the teaching and learning arena
- Emerging challenges and improving student success
Space is also allocated to any work in progress that broadly fits the main thrust of the conference – the systematic enhancement of learning & teaching.
The official language of the conference is English.
Equipment - all seminar rooms are equipped with PCs , data projectors, interactive whiteboards and flipcharts. The University software standard is Windows XP/Office 2007. Any additional equipment and software requirements should be specified on the initial proposal .
Extended abstracts - extended abstracts of 1000-1500 words each will be available on the website before the conference as well as being included in the conference pack.
Full papers of between 4000 and 6000 words will be accepted after the conference for consideration for inclusion in the NEXUS Journal of Learning & Teaching Research.
Peer Review
All proposals were subject to peer review against the following criteria:
- Relevance of study or enquiry to the focus of the conference and to the wider pedagogic research community
- Clarity of research question(s) and/or focus of enquiry
- Appropriate use of research methods and/or literature
- Rigour of analytical and/or theoretical framework
- Significance of study/enquiry to educational practice, policy or theory
- Potential to generate debate
Full Criteria for the Asessment of Proposals are available as a PDF.
