SEDA Annual Conference 2016 handbook SEDA Annual Conference 2016 Feedback FormIntroduction
“Not all problems, opportunities or possible sites for action in higher education fall tidily under the heading of teaching, learning, assessment, course design, educational development, staff/faculty development, student development, advice and guidance, personal tutoring, language development, numeracy development, learning technology, management, researcher development, research supervision development, administration, support for students with specific learning difficulties, international education, support for students from overseas, equality of opportunity, graduate careers education and advice, employability, community links, open and distance learning, learning resources, estate planning, designing and equipping teaching and learning spaces, learning analytics, organizational development, library and information services, etc..
“This suggests, if it were not already obvious, the great need for the various university development functions, including but not limited to those above, to cooperate.”
Baume, D., & Popovic, C. (Eds.). (2016).Advancing Practice in Academic Development. London: RoutledgeFamler
The two main themes of this conference – innovation and collaboration – are intimately connected. Higher education is becoming more complex, new students and both new and experienced staff bring new needs and expectations, and development functions – see above for a partial list – are growing in number and complexity.
But staff and students don’t want to face greater complexity of service. They want easy access to excellent and responsive support, to help them do what they want and need to do. Senior managers want similarly excellent advice and support on developing and implementing appropriate policy and strategy. And developers need to take leadership as well as support roles in the new higher education.
To meet all these needs, the many development functions will need to work effectively together to provide high quality, innovative, responsive, values-, policy- and needs-led development services and leadership.
We intend that the conference should welcome and be of value to those working in the many other development functions suggested above, not just academic development.
This conference will provide space for you to share, test and gain feedback on your work on innovative and collaborative development practice, and learn how others are meeting these challenges.
Themes
· Multi-disciplinary and multi-professional collaboration;
· Attention to building communities as well as one-off collaborations;
· Collaboration between institutions as well as within institutions.
SEDA is inviting proposals for panel presentations, discussion papers and workshops which address the conference themes. The emphasis should be on reflection, exploration, scholarship and evaluation rather than merely a description of activities. SEDA conferences include sessions which involve delegates in active participation, discussion and development. This is a requirement of all discussion papers and workshop proposals. Activities should go beyond discussion of topics, and should involve critique, analysis, development and action planning by and with participants.Session formatsPanel Presentations: In the past, a few workshops at SEDA conferences have felt more like presentations tortured into a workshop format, more or less successfully. As an experiment, we are also inviting presentations for chaired panel sessions. Sets of three 10-minute presentations on related themes will be followed by 15 minutes of panel / Q&A discussion.Discussion papers: (up to 25 minutes presentation plus at least 20 minutes of questions and discussion / exploration), giving an account of research, evaluation, policy or practice, with the emphasis on drawing out lessons for and with others and involving participants in engaging with your findings. Sessions which integrate presentation and discussion, rather than presentation followed by Q&A, will generally be preferred.Workshops: (45 or 90 minutes) with the emphasis on a more detailed exploration of a research-informed issue or resource and including high levels of creativity, innovative thinking, critique, practical participation and action planning.Criteria for acceptance of proposalsEach proposal will be reviewed for acceptance at the conference against the following criteria:
Alejandro (Ale) Armellini, Professor of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education and Director of the Institute of Learning and Teaching in HE, University of Northampton @alejandroa
Ale provides institutional leadership in learning and teaching across all faculties and services at the University of Northampton. Central to Ale’s role are (1) Northampton’s Learning and Teaching Strategic Plan, (2) leading course redesign and delivery towards student-centered, team- and evidence-based, innovative practices in blended and online learning and teaching, with a particular focus on deploying those practices at the new Waterside Campus, opening in September 2018, and (3) the development, implementation and evaluation of Northampton’s professional development scheme for academic staff, in alignment to the UK Professional Standards Framework. Ale’s research focuses on learning innovation, online pedagogy, course design in blended and online environments, institutional capacity building and open practices. Teams under his leadership have researched the application of learning technologies in diverse academic settings. His PhD tutees research specific areas in the field of educational technology, pedagogy, openness and pedagogic innovation. He is active in consultancy work globally. Ale can be found online at Twitter @alejandroa and on his blog https://alejandroarmellini.wordpress.com/
Publications and further details are available from http://www.northampton.ac.uk/directories/people/ale-armellini
Rhona Sharpe, Head of the Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development, Oxford Brookes University @rjsharpe
Professor Rhona Sharpe has worked as an educational developer in higher education for 20 years. She is a Senior Fellow of the Staff and Educational Development Association, a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a National Teaching Fellow. She and her team in the Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development run workshops, online courses, and offer consultancy for higher education institutions across the UK and internationally.
Rhona has led a number of projects investigating learners’ experiences of technology in both further and higher education. These projects are interesting for their innovative research methods and techniques for eliciting students’ expectations and experiences of using technology in their learning. For many year she chaired ELESIG; a special interest group for those interested in evaluations of learners’ experiences of e-learning.
Rhona’s interests in designing for learning and learner experience are well represented in two books co-edited with Helen Beetham: Rethinking pedagogy for the digital age (2007, 2nd Ed 2013) and Rethinking learning for the digital age (2010). She is interested in the processes by which we design online learning spaces and the digital literacies and attributes that learners need in order to learn well in them. Her latest book 53 Interesting ways to support learning online will be out in 2016.
Sheila MacNeill,Senior Lecturer (Digital Learning),Academic Quality and Development, Glasgow Caledonian University @sheilmcn
Sheila MacNeill is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Learning, within Academic Quality and Development at Glasgow Caledonian University. Workingas part of a central unitprovidingCPD for staff, Sheila’s main roles are around the development of staff confidence andcapacityto maximisetheuse oflearningand teachinginnovation with a focus on digital capabilities and the development of strategic pedagogicdirectionforlearning technology.
Sheila also works with colleagues across the university to support the development of approaches open education practice. Open-ness is at the heart of Sheila’s professional practice and she regularly blogs about her adventures and musing in and around the use of technology in education @ howsheilaseesit.wordpress.com/.
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Conference Package |
Early bird price (prior to 5pm Thurs 6 October 2016) |
Standard price(after 5pm Thurs 6 October 2016) |
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Full residential conference delegate (includes one nights accommodation and all meals, including the conference dinner) |
£450 |
£520 |
| Student Concessionary Full residential conference delegate (includes one nights accommodation and all meals, including the conference dinner) Available to Full Time Students Only | £380 | £440 |
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Non-residential day delegate Thursday 3rd November (includes lunch and refreshments) |
£165 |
£190 |
| Student Concessionary Non-residential day delegate Thursday 3rd November (includes lunch and refreshments) Available to Full Time Students Only | £145 | £165 |
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Non-residential day delegate Friday 4th November (includes lunch and refreshments) |
£165 |
£190 |
| Student Concessionary Non-residential day delegate Friday 4th November (includes lunch and refreshments) Available to Full Time Students Only | £145 | £165 |
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Bed and breakfast accommodation for the night of Wednesday 2nd November |
£108 |
£108 |
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Conference dinner Thursday 3rd November |
£40 |
£45 |
http://www.slideshare.net/seda_uk_Day One09.15 – 09.45 Registration –HORSE SHOE STAIRCASE and tea & coffee – DUKES09.45 – 10.00 Welcome and Introductions – THE BALMORAL10.00 – 11.00 Opening Keynote Address – ‘Sweet’ strategies for higher education developers working in the third space – THE BALMORALProfessor Rhona Sharpe, Head of the Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development, Oxford Brookes University11.00 – 11.30 Break – DUKES
11.00 – 11.30 New to SEDA? Come and find out more Yaz El Hakim and Jo Peat (SEDA Co-Chairs) – THE CHURCHILL
11.30 – 12.15 Parallel Session 1
12.20 – 13.05 Parallel Session 2
13.10 – 14.10 Lunch – 1890 RESTAURANT14.10 – 15.40 Parallel Session 3
Challenges and opportunities for academic developers working with international collaborative partnerships Bridget Middlemass, Jo Peat, KP Jaikiran – THE BALMORAL
15.40 – 16.00 Break – DUKES16.00 – 16.45 Parallel Session 4
17.00 – 17.45 NetworkingGetting Published with SEDA James Wisdom (Chair, SEDA Educational Developments Magazine Editorial Committee) – SURREY 2SEDA Fellowship Marita Grimwood (SEDA Fellowships Co-ordinator) – THE CHURCHILL19.00 Drinks Reception – THE LANCASTER20.00 Dinner – THE CLARENCE SUITEDay Two09.15 – 09.30 Welcome to day 2 – THE BALMORAL09.30 – 10.25 Keynote Address – Flying not Flapping on a new campus: from blank canvas to reality – THE BALMORALProfessor Alejandro Armellini, Director, Institute of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, University of Northampton10.25 – 10.45 Break – DUKES10.45 – 11.30 Parallel Session 5
11.30 – 11.50 Break – DUKES11.50 – 12.35 Parallel Session 6
12.35 – 13.30 Lunch – 1890 RESTAURANT13.30 – 14.15 Parallel Session 7
14.15 – 15.15 Closing Keynote – Emergence – THE BALMORALSheila MacNeill, Senior Lecturer – Academic Quality and Development, Glasgow Caledonian University15.15 – 15.30 Summing up and close – THE BALMORAL
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