University Learning and Teaching Conference 2020
The University of the Highlands and Islands Learning and Teaching Conference 2020 was held on 22-23 January and co-hosted by Inverness College UHI, the Learning and Teaching Academy, and the Learning and Information Services. Our title for the conference was Dimensions of Tertiary Engagement with six conference themes:
- Co-creating: working in partnership in the design and delivery of learning and teaching within, across and beyond the university. This could include working in partnership with students, employers and wider community, and across disciplines and levels of study.
- Digital: harnessing current and emerging technologies in learning and teaching, student support, widening access and participation, and developing digital skills and capabilities.
- Enhancement: using evidence and evidence informed approaches to enhance learning and teaching and the wider student experience. This could include enhancement through student feedback, data and analytics, and evaluation of our own practices.
- Equality: with a focus on issues of equality and inclusion with respect to the content of the curriculum, learning and teaching activities, professional development opportunities, accessibility, and valuing diverse and individual needs and voices.
- Research: we are seeking here to provide a platform for colleagues undertaking educational research across the university to share their work. This could include small scale research projects, research being undertaken for education related PhDs, funded and collaborative projects, research in progress, and research being undertaken for the REF.
- Transitions: supporting student transitions into and through Further and Higher Education, into postgraduate research, into employment and professional practice. Supporting staff to transition in aspects of their learning and teaching practice is also of interest here.
Resources
Resources
Below are any resources available from the sessions that took place at the conference.
Day 1.
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12:30-12:45 Welcome Professor Chris O’Neil, Principal and Chief Executive, Inverness College UHI |
12:45-13:00 ‘What do we mean by Tertiary?’ Lydia Rohmer, Principal, West Highland College UHI and Vice-Principal (Tertiary): |
13:00-13:45 Keynote: Julia Fotheringham, Edinburgh Napier University ‘Associate Students in transition: direct entrants and the 'uni-boys |
| Short presentation sessions | ||||
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| 14:15-14:35 |
Pluralising Approaches to Student Identity - a study of programme design in HE Seán McLaughlin, Perth College UHI |
True or False? - Quizzes can improve our students’ learning experience Carolin Radtke and John Buchan, EDU UHI |
What can the Curriculum Development Employer Engagement Officer team do for you? John McLuckie, Alana MacLeod, Katie Masheter, and Lorna Ferguson Student Services (Careers and Employability) UHI |
Students as partners: Creating a collective responsibility for course evaluation and improvement Catriona Meighan, Inverness College UHI |
| 14:40-15:00 |
Technology-Enabled Learning for Rural Education through the lens of Dementia Education Kevin Muirhead, Department of Nursing and Midwifery UHI |
Supporting staff development for embedding e-learning in regular teaching practice Nuria Camps, Perth College, UHI |
The value of delivering Career Development workshops through the curriculum Helen Anton and Iain Eisner, Student Services (Careers and Employability) UHI |
There is more to life than Sci-Hub: how to help you, legally, find open access and subscribed ‘stuff’ Elizabeth McHugh, Learning and Information Services, Libraries UHI |
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| 14:15-15:00 |
Perth College: Our Digital Vision David Gourley, Perth College UHI |
Utilising Learning and Teaching Review to Promote Reflection, Professional Dialogue and Enhancement Nikki Yoxall, Moray College UHI |
Using narrative and lived experience to enhance the non-medical prescribing curriculum Stephanie Holden and Joanna Smith, Department of nursing and Midwifery |
Talis Aspire pilot: module reading list editing by academics to improve reader context and the student experience Richard Hughes, Carol Hart , LIS Libraries UHI and Lucinda Dean, Centre for History UHI |
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Cryptopoverty in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland Mark Lindley-Highfield, Inverness College, UHI |
Utilising Pad Pro and pencil to create a screen cast to share with students Fiona McConnell, Inverness College UH |
Wikipedia in Education: Write it, don’t Cite it Sara Thomas, Wikimedia UK |
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15:20-16:00 Building a UHI Community Andrew Bowie (HISA VPHE), Ash Morgan (HISA VPFE), Flo Jansen (HISA Depute LCC), and Aimee Harvey (UHI) |
16:00-16:10 John Maher, Head of LIS UHI and Sophie McGown, D2L |
16:10-16:50 Brightspace Gasta Dr Tom Farrelly, Institute of Technology, Tralee |
Day 2
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09:05-09:50 Keynote: Bill Johnston and Sheila MacNeill, ‘Digitally enabled tertiary and adult higher education for challenging times |
14:00-14:45 Keynote: Dr Tom Farrelly, Institute of Technology, Tralee ‘Black into Bright: VLEs are still with us |
| Interactive workshops | ||||
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| 10:00-11:20 |
Contextualising the university’s graduate attributes Rosie Alexander and Ann Tilbury, Learning and Teaching Academy UHI |
Whisky 101; Distilling the Brightspace Benchmarks into your unit or module Carolin Radtke, Educational Development Unit UHI & Keith Smyth, Learning and Teaching Academy UHI |
How should we grade groupwork? Heather Fotheringham, Learning and Teaching Academy UHI |
Using Rubrics in Brightspace Lois Gray, North Highland College UHI |
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Forging engaging learning resources Elaine Dalloway and Mark Wilkie, Educational Development Unit UHI |
Exploring teenage mental health: Understanding and responding to the needs of our learners Louise Martin-Theyers & Heather Corpe, Inverness College UHI |
ABC Curriculum Design Anne Chard, Educational Development Unit UHI |
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| Short presentation sessions | |||||
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| 11:30-11:50 |
Understanding the education, employment and migration pathways of Island students Rosie Alexander, Learning and Teaching Academy UHI |
Courage, wonderment and a willingness towards strangeness”: why Literature matters in an age of apocalyptic thinking Kyle Smith, Perth College UH |
OERu – how you can showcase your courses and enable global education Andy Brown, Academic Development UHI |
Cross-curricular collaboration for learning innovation Allane Hay, Jane Pickthall, Stacey Toner, Moray College UHI |
What can the Knowledge Exchange Team do for you? Darlene Russell, Research and Enterprise UH |
| 11:55-12:15 |
Condensed learning diaries for reflective development Rob Bray, Argyll College, UHI |
Non-formal learning in a Popular Music Education Context Ronnie Goodman, Perth College, UHI |
Using the UHI tool Pepe to create audio feedback quickly from Word documents Fiona McConnell, Inverness College UHI |
The new framework for the development of open educational practices Scott Connor, Learning and Teaching Academy, UHI |
Industry Teaching Linkages – A Real Engineering Example Lois Gray, North Highland College, UHI |
| Long presentation sessions | ||||
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| 11:30-12:15 |
Embedding Research Teaching Learning Linkages in the Creative Arts Lesley Mickel, Inverness College UHI |
Humanizing the machine: At what cost Alice Mongiello, Inverness College UHI |
Improving employability with programme-based assessment Douglas Barr, Inverness College UHI |
Responding to the student voice: are we listening and how do students know this? Aimee Harvey Heather Fotheringham Learning and Teaching Academy UH,, Mei-Li Roberts Perth College UHI, Catriona Meighan Inverness College UHI, Lucinda Dean Centre for History UHI |
| Discussion sessions | ||||
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| 13:00-13:45 |
Digital social space Andrew Bowie (HISA VPHE), Ash Morgan (HISA VPFE), Flo Jansen (HISA Depute LCC) |
The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Strategy Values: Finding commonality within diverse practices Heather Fotheringham and Ann Tilbury, Learning and Teaching Academy UHI |
Towards an anthropology programme? Mark Lindley-Highfield, Inverness College, UH |
A multi-modal learning matrix for digital education Frank Rennie, Lews Castle UH |
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Educational scholarship and research at the University of the Highlands and Islands: from here to where? Keith Smyth, Learning and Teaching Academy UH |
Investigating the relationship between digital skills and blended learning standards Emma Clayes; Laura Kelly; Khristin Fabian, Perth College UHI |
University-ness, Tertiary-ness, and the Integrated University Brian Boag, Executive Office UHI |
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