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Welcome to the June 2010 issue of the EDU Newsletter, which includes information about all forthcoming workshops and events run by the Educational Development Unit.

I would be grateful if you could distribute this information to all relevant staff.

Limited funding is available annually to assist College staff with attendance at courses or conferences about learning, teaching, assessment, course design or teaching policy in higher education. The Educational Development Unit administers the fund on behalf of the Pro-Rector for Education. Read more and apply for funding.

Using Feedback to Enhance Student Learning
Staff who are involved (or expect to be involved) in providing feedback to UG students about their academic progress - e.g. by correction and assessment of written work or interaction with students in small groups.

03 June 2010
14:00 - 16:00

SALC 2
Sherfield Building South Kensington Campus

Interactive Group Teaching
Staff who teach or want to teach interactively using smaller groups of students to foster interaction between teacher/student and student-to-student.

10 June 2010
14:00 - 17:00

SALC 6
Sherfield Building South Kensington Campus

Blackboard 2 – Content Development and Introduction to Assessment
This workshop is designed for staff who are using, or about to use, Blackboard and want a hands-on introduction to the main elements/tools available in Blackboard for teaching and learning.

14 June 2010
10:00 - 16:00

SALC 1
Sherfield Building South Kensington Campus

Starting Teaching for Postdocs 2
This workshop follows on from Starting Teaching for Postdocs 1, and deals with further aspects of teaching and learning in higher education, enabling participants to experience additional teaching/learning methods.

15 June 2010
09:00 - 15:00

SALC 5
Sherfield Building South Kensington Campus

Blackboard 3 – Online Assessment Techniques
This workshop is a follow-up to Blackboard 1 - Familiarisation and Blackboard 2 - Content Development. It is designed for staff who are using Blackboard or are about to start using it.

24 June 2010
10:00 - 16:00

SALC 1
Sherfield Building South Kensington Campus

LINKED/EDCs Meeting
Dr Daniel Glaser, The Wellcome Trust and Dr Mark Miodownik, King's College London
If you would like to join the LINKED/EDCs mailing list, please contact us.

29 June 2010
12:00 - 13:50

SALC 5
Sherfield Building South Kensington Campus

Dr Annette Mahon, Lecturer in Educational Development

Annette joined the EDU, in April 2008, as a Lecturer in Educational Development. She took a first degree in Zoology at University College Dublin in 1997, afterwards moving to the University Museum of Zoology in Cambridge to do a PhD. After completing she spent two further years in the Museum, before moving to the university’s Graduate Development Programme, where she was first a University Teaching Associate and then an Advisor to the programme. There she co-ordinated training in teaching and transferable skills for graduate students and developed and ran the first year of a new HEA-accredited Teaching Associate Programme. Read more.......


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