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| Dear Colleagues, Please save the date for Imperial College’s annual Education Day conference on Wednesday 11 March 2015. In recognition of innovative developments at Imperial and beyond, this year’s chosen theme is 'Students as Partners'. We hope you will join us to discuss how our students can be involved as partners in programme design, in research and in assessment and feedback. We have an exciting afternoon planned with contributions from our keynote speaker, Professor Mick Healey, a leading expert in this area, as well as Imperial staff and their students. This year we have the addition of a morning of workshops for students and staff hosted by the Student Union. Details will follow shortly. Kind regards, Educational Development Unit |
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| Educational Research in an Imperial Context |
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Dr Rosalind Herbert (School of Public Health); Dr Andrew Phillips (Civil and Environmental Engineering) and Dr Mike Streule (Earth Science and Engineering) Monday, 15 December, 2014 |
| Our annual showcase of research undertaken by EDU programme students took place on 15 December with talks by Dr Rosalind Herbert (School of Public Health); Dr Andrew Phillips (Civil and Environmental Engineering) and Dr Mike Streule (Earth Science and Engineering). It was a pleasure to see many of the past and current students in attendance and to award the 2014 programme prizes to Dr Victoria Salem (Rees Rawlings Prize for Best Portfolio, PG Cert ULT), Dr Àngels Mayordomo-Aranda (Routledge Education Award for an outstanding Diploma project, PG Dip ULT) and to Dr Stefan Buhmann (MEd Dissertation Prize). Watch a video of the talks. |
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| Are you a new or experienced member of staff? Would you like to review and develop your teaching practice and presentation style? This workshop offers an opportunity to design and deliver a short (ten-minute) ‘microteaching’ session and receive constructive feedback from your peers. In this context, your peers will be people with a teaching role at Imperial who will also be presenting during the workshop. The aim of the workshop is for you to consider and evaluate your own practice and learn from the practice of others in a supportive environment. You might choose to attend this workshop to review and receive feedback on a sample of your existing teaching, a session that you are teaching in the near future, or a presentation you are giving to a non-specialist audience. Your own session will be filmed so you have the opportunity to re-watch it at a later date. |
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www.imperial.ac.uk/edudev/workshops/practicalguide/ck To attend this workshop, please book online |
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| Introduction to... | Practical Guide to... | Focus on... | Faculty of Medicine | By-request | ||||||
| Basic introductions to various important aspects of teaching and learning in an Imperial College context. | A series of short, pragmatic workshops that cover various key practical aspects of teaching and learning. | A series of workshops that take a closer look at teaching and learning aimed primarily at those with greater experience. | A workshop strand catered to those Imperial and NHS staff who teach Imperial College medical students. | Workshops run locally at the request of a particular department, faculty, hospital, trust, division or campus. |
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| January 2015 |
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| Introduction to Problem Based Learning (Generic) | Workshop Dates | ||
| Problem Based Learning (PBL) is a learner centred approach to teaching and learning. In PBL, small groups of students use a case or scenario to generate their own learning objectives and then undertake self-directed study, before returning to the group to share their findings. The PBL process has clearly defined stages with specific roles for both students and tutors. This workshop is designed to introduce staff to the PBL process and explores the nature of PBL, the rationale for its use, as well as the key issues of facilitation skills and case writing. |
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| Focus on Assessing Student Learning with Blackboard | Workshop Dates | ||
| Staff who would like to use some of the assessment tools in Blackboard to support student learning. The session will provide participants with opportunities to create quiz questions, set up a Test within Blackboard and consider how these assessments can be used to gauge student learning. The session will also look at the Blackboard Assignment tool. Throughout the workshop, participants will be encouraged to discuss pedagogical and practical issues related to using these tools and how they can be integrated effectively with face-to-face teaching. Participants should have either completed Introduction to Blackboard Learn or have experience of using Blackboard before attending this session. |
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| Introduction to Assessing and Giving Feedback | Workshop Dates | ||
| Staff who teach students and provide feedback on their progress and performance, for example, feedback on class quizzes, lab practicals, coursework, and online self-tests. In particular, this workshop is for staff who are new to teaching, and for those who want to review their existing ways of formatively assessing students and providing feedback. This workshop was formerly known as 'A Practical Guide to Giving Effective Feedback'. The session presents and discusses a range of methods for formatively assessing students, that is: monitoring student progress, informing students about the strengths and weaknesses of their work, advising students on ways of improving their performance, encouraging students to engage fully with assessment and to make use of feedback. |
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| STAR Introductory Workshop | Workshop Dates | ||
| For staff who would like to follow either the flexible or taught STAR Pathway to HEA recognition. This workshop opens by outlining the Imperial STAR Framework and the HEA’s UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF). Participants will then establish which level of recognition best matches their current level of experience before beginning the process of mapping their practice to the UKPSF. There will be the opportunity to identify areas for professional development and ways to address these, as well as assistance in completing the application in an appropriately reflective and scholarly style. Furthermore, attendance at the workshop will provide the opportunity for participants to establish a buddy relationship to support completion of their application. |
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| Introduction to Personal Tutoring at Imperial | Workshop Dates | ||
| Designed for staff who are (or will soon be) personal tutors, this one-day workshop helps new tutors prepare themselves for this important role and provides them with information about how they can best support their tutees. There are opportunities for participants to discuss issues of particular interest or concern. Please note that this workshop is provided in the context of Imperial College practice and policy. For this reason we normally only accept Imperial staff or NHS staff who act as personal tutors to Imperial students. |
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| Mashing up your Blackboard Course with Multimedia | Workshop Dates | ||
| Users of Blackboard Learn who would like to explore enhancing learning and teaching experiences through the use of digital media and ‘mashups'. In e-Learning, the term ‘mashup’ typically refers to a web page, application or service that combines content and functionality from two or more online sources to create new, media rich learning and teaching experiences or objects. In addition to exploring ways of integrating digital media in Blackboard as course content objects, part of test question, a topic on a Discussion Board or even part of an assignment, participants will have the opportunity to obtain hands-on knowledge and experience of the built in Mashup functionality that allows for the easy inclusion of content from Flickr, Slideshare, and YouTube. Throughout the workshop, participants will be encouraged to discuss the pedagogical and practical issues related to working with digital media and mashups, including storage considerations, copyright and intellectual property issues, and accessibility. Participants will also be shown examples of good practice from their colleagues here at Imperial. |
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| A Practical Guide to Communicating Knowledge | Workshop Dates | ||
| New and experienced staff who would like to review and develop their teaching practice and presentation style. This workshop offers an opportunity to design and deliver a short (ten-minute) ‘microteaching’ session and receive constructive feedback from your peers. In this context, your peers will be people with a teaching role at Imperial who will also be presenting during the workshop. The aim of the workshop is for you to consider and evaluate your own practice and learn from the practice of others in a supportive environment. You might choose to attend this workshop to review and receive feedback on a sample of your existing teaching, a session that you are teaching in the near future, or a presentation you are giving to a non-specialist audience. Your own session will be filmed so you have the opportunity to re-watch it at a later date. |
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| Introduction to Teaching for Learning | Workshop Dates | ||
| This one-day workshop is compulsory for new non-clinical lecturers and is intended for staff who are beginning to teach undergraduate and/or postgraduate students at Imperial. There is a specially designed variant of this workshop for staff in the Faculty of Medicine. It is an opportunity for new and experienced staff to consider the factors that influence the manner in which students learn, and how teachers can best facilitate that learning across the whole range of their work. As well as considering relevant teaching and learning methods; course participants will take part in a number of learning activities and will be encouraged to reflect on their own teaching responsibilities. |
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| STAR Pre-submission Workshop | Workshop Dates | ||
| For staff who have attended the STAR Introductory Workshop and who are close to submitting their final application. This pre-submission workshop employs a combination of self-assessment, peer-assessment and tutor input to assess each participant’s learning outcomes and practice against the UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF). A fundamental focus of the workshop is to identify areas for development to the written application prior to submission. There will be an opportunity to review the two referees’ commentaries so that any omissions or problems can be spotted and rectified before they are submitted to the review panel. There will also be the chance to share good practice between applicants and evaluate the impact of the Imperial STAR Framework. |
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| A Practical Guide to Interactive Teaching | Workshop Dates | ||
| Staff who want to explore ways of fostering interaction between teacher-student and student-to-student. This workshop provides a forum for sharing experience of interactive teaching, discussing pros and cons and reviewing various techniques. Techniques discussed are applicable to both seminar/tutorial teaching and to large group situations such as lectures. NB Problem Based Learning is not included among the techniques discussed, please see the separate workshop. |
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| February 2015 |
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| Introduction to Blackboard Learn | Workshop Dates | ||
| Staff who are new to Blackboard Learn, or VLEs in general, and have an interest in utilising the VLE to design, deliver, and administer engaging online learning environments and activities. It is also suitable for staff transitioning to Blackboard Learn from Blackboard CE8 or for those looking for an opportunity to refresh their knowledge of Blackboard Learn. From this practical, hands-on familiarisation session, participants can expect a concise overview of the tools and features available in Blackboard, knowledge of how to integrate and modify content and activities, and methods for locating further information, help, and training. In addition to increasing their technical know-how of Blackboard, participants will be encouraged to discuss pedagogical and practical issues associated with using these tools to support learning and teaching. |
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| Focus on Managing Challenging Groups in PBL | Workshop Dates | ||
| This workshop is a half day event designed for those with experience of facilitating PBL students who wish to strengthen their facilitation skills. The Introduction to Problem Based Learning in the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial workshop is a prerequisite. Participants will explore the roles and responsibilities of the facilitator in assisting with the PBL process, managing group dynamics and assessing student performance of individuals and the group. In particular, methods for avoiding and managing group dysfunction will be explored and discussed. |
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| Introduction to Team-Based Learning (TBL) | Workshop Dates | ||
| Team-Based learning (TBL) is a teaching strategy that offers the benefits of small group learning within large classes by creating opportunities for students to apply conceptual knowledge through a systematic process of individual work, teamwork and immediate feedback. This half-day workshop is designed to prepare staff to plan and facilitate team-based learning within their undergraduate or postgraduate programmes. The workshop uses an experiential approach to allow participants to explore the nature of TBL and experience its educational value by being on the receiving end. This is then followed by an opportunity to discuss the practicalities of how to design and deliver TBL within existing courses. |
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| Focus on Using Blackboard Groups | Workshop Dates | ||
| Staff who would like to explore using the Groups tool in Blackboard Learn to better manage courses with large numbers of learners, cater content for specific learner groups, create and mark group assessments, and facilitate learner interaction through collaborative group work. In addition to gaining an overview of the Groups tool in Blackboard, participants will be encouraged to share best practice and consider the practical issues in using the Groups tool both in and out of the classroom. Participants should have either completed Introduction to Blackboard Learn or have experience of using Blackboard before attending this session. |
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| Collaboration with Discussion Boards and Wikis | Workshop Dates | ||
| Staff who would like to explore the tools that are built in to Blackboard that facilitate group interaction and collaborative work. This short session will give an overview of how Discussion Boards and Wikis can be used to promote collaboration and student learning in the online space. In addition to hands-on activities to promote their technical know-how of Blackboard, participants will be encouraged to discuss pedagogical and practical issues related to using the tools. Participants should have either completed Introduction to Blackboard Learn or have experience of using Blackboard before attending this session. |
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| Focus on Managing Assessment | Workshop Dates | ||
| This workshop is for staff who have responsibility for assessments across a course module, year group or degree programme, or for staff with similar experience, including attendance at examination board meetings and interacting with external accreditors and examiners. |
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| Focus on External Examining | Workshop Dates | ||
| This workshop is for staff who are, or are thinking of becoming external examiners &/or for course conveners managing and appointing external examiners; it may be of particular interest to those relatively new to these roles. The workshop seeks to provide guidance, advice and general information on external examining drawing on experience and the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education’s (QAA) chapter on the QAA quality code (chapter B7) and the Higher Education Academy’s 'A handbook for external examining'. |
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| Focus on Marking and Feedback in Blackboard | Workshop Dates | ||
| For staff involved in the marking and feedback lifecycle for online assessments, such as Blackboard tests or group wikis, and e-submitted Blackboard or Turnitin assignments from the initial planning stages through to the online release of marks and feedback to learners. Experiencing the assessment process from the learners’ perspective and understanding the capabilities and limitations of the online marking tools and environments are integral elements comprising the design and implementation of rigorous formative and summative assessments. |
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| March 2015 |
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| A Practical Guide to Setting and Marking Assessments | Workshop Dates | ||
| This workshop is designed for staff who set questions, design assessment tasks and/or mark students’ answers for examinations or other assessment contexts. In particular, this workshop is for staff who are new to setting and marking exams and other summative assessments, and for those who want to review their existing practice. We will address a range of key considerations when summatively assessing students including: devising unambiguous assessment questions of an appropriate level, structuring questions that discriminate between learner performances, developing and using model answers and mark schemes and avoiding marking pitfalls. |
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| Introduction to Technologies for Teaching and Learning | Workshop Dates | ||
| Staff who wish to discover how technologies could enhance their teaching or support for learners, within both classroom settings and online environments. Using examples from Imperial and elsewhere, the workshop will examine the ways in which technologies can be used to create new and exciting teaching and learning experiences. Participants will consider their own teaching contexts and evaluate how such tools might be applied to their practice. There will be an opportunity to discuss some of the benefits and challenges of using these technologies and to identify any further support required to implement changes. |
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| Focus on Marking and Feedback in Blackboard | Workshop Dates | ||
| For staff involved in the marking and feedback lifecycle for online assessments, such as Blackboard tests or group wikis, and e-submitted Blackboard or Turnitin assignments from the initial planning stages through to the online release of marks and feedback to learners. Experiencing the assessment process from the learners’ perspective and understanding the capabilities and limitations of the online marking tools and environments are integral elements comprising the design and implementation of rigorous formative and summative assessments. |
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| A Practical Guide to Making the Most of One-off Teaching | Workshop Dates | ||
| This workshop is aimed at those who lecture or teach on a 'one-off' basis, as a contributor to an undergraduate, postgraduate or short course. The workshop considers practical issues of designing and delivering such teaching sessions, as well as wider concerns affecting those whose teaching work is episodic. This may include issues of career development, quality control and communication with fellow teachers. |
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| Teaching & Learning in the Faculty of Medicine | Workshop Dates | ||
| This introductory workshop is designed for academic and NHS staff who are new to teaching Faculty of Medicine students, or who have not attended teaching and learning workshops before. It explores the relationships between teaching, learning and assessment and introduces participants to standard ways of structuring and delivering teaching sessions. It examines the strengths and weaknesses, from the perspective of learning, of lectures and various types of small and large group teaching. Staff who are mainly involved in teaching in clinical settings will probably find the Introduction to Teaching in Clinical Settings workshop more suitable for their needs. If you are unsure about which workshop to attend, please do not hesitate to contact us. The afternoon session of this workshop will focus primarily on applying strategies and techniques to participants' own teaching contexts. It is therefore useful if workshop participants have a future teaching session or series of teaching sessions in mind to refer to during this activity. This could be a small group teaching session, seminar, large group teaching session or lecture. |
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We offer a range of taught programmes that provide an opportunity to study in a way that is centred on actual practice and takes account of both disciplinary and institutional context. In addition, the EDU also offers advice about the construction of personal programmes of continuing professional educational development. |
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We are involved in a range of events and networking activity that aims to promote education and build a community of informed practitioners. This includes the College's annual Education Day; the Perspectives in Education occasional lecture series; the Medical Education Special Interest Group [MESIG] and the Educational Doctorate EDU Network [EDEN]. |
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We offer bespoke consultancy to individuals and groups on all aspects of teaching and learning. If you are considering changing your curriculum, its delivery or assessment, if you are interested in evaluating your teaching or perhaps even some educational research, please feel free to contact us. We can offer advice and support and give you an opportunity to discuss and develop your ideas. |
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