Seminar Series 2009-10
The Centre offers the staff at Edge Hill a programme of seminars relevant to the area of learning and teaching research. These events run on Wednesday afternoons on the Ormskirk Campus. For further information or to book an event call (01695-58)4483 or email staffdevelopment@edgehill.ac.uk
Semester 1
21/10/09 - Claire Penketh: Introducing students to writing in HE
This is the first of two practical workshops designed to engage tutors with a range of approaches to introducing students to writing for assessment. This session will offer a clear rationale for shifting writing from a product for assessment towards a developmental and formative process and will offer practical approaches for getting students started.
28/10/09 - Claire Penketh: Introducing students to writing in HE
This is the second of two workshops designed to promote developmental approaches to writing for assessment. The workshop will provide useful practical approaches supported by current research and literature in this field of pedagogic research.
03/11/09 – Claire Penketh: Turnitin2: Writing Development
This is a 2 hour workshop for those who are already familiar with the implementation and use of Turnitin via the VLE. This session includes practical approaches to making use of the grading facilities in Turnitin and for promoting writing development with students.
05/11/09 and 06/11/09 – Claire Penketh: Turnitin: A Beginners Guide
This is a 2 hour practical workshop designed to develop your understanding of the use of Turnitin as a tool for writing development as well as plagiarism detection software.
04/11/09 – Jean Davies/Claire Penketh: PDP: Is your PDP ‘Fit for Purpose’?
Making Sense of complexity and diversity within the structure of PDP. This session will focus on practice, and involve the use of theoretical examples. It will provide a snap shot of PDP models used in the university and share good practice. The session will also explore flexible approaches.
11/11/09 – Jean Davies/Claire Penketh: PDP: A Degree is only part of the picture!
This is the second session to focus on PDPand will offer some consideration of what students think of PDP, taking PDP beyond evidence collection and looking at the ways in which students and tutors can make positive contributions to learning via PDP.
18/11/09 – Chris Beaumont: Assessment and feedback (I)
25/11/09 - Chris Beaumont: Assessment and feedback (II)
Feedback for Learning: Exploring approaches to build student confidence and competence.
High quality feedback is the most powerful single influence on student achievement’ (Hattie, 1987; Black and Wiliam, 1998). Today, the provision of quality feedback is perceived as a key requirement of effective teaching (Ramsdan, 2003) and is expected by students (Higgins et al, 2002).
The aims of these sessions will be:
- To explore the perceptions of feedback, and introduce recent research-based models.
- To discuss how feedback can be used in a practical way to build student confidence and develop self-regulated learning strategies.
09/12/09– Trish Prescott: Personal Tutor
This session will focus on current work that has been developed as part of the ‘Personal Tutor’ lens of the Undergraduate Framework. It will offer participants a useful insight into the expectations for personal tutors across programmes in the university and provide an opportunity to work with resources designed to support tutors with this increasingly important role.
