SEDA Spring Teaching Learning and Assessment Conference 2011
- Date: 5 May 2011 - 6 May 2011
- Location/venue: Holyrood Hotel, Edinburgh, Scotland
The event will focus on the changed and changing roles of academic staff and how their work can be supported, developed and enhanced. Mirroring some of the work which has taken place in Scotland within the QAA quality enhancement theme Graduates for the 21st Century, there will be an opportunity to consider the desired attributes of the academic profession.
Keynotes will be given by Ray Land, Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Centre for Academic Practice and Learning Enhancement at the University of Strathclyde and by Aaron Porter, President of the National Union of Students. The conference will also include a range of refereed parallel sessions centred around the following key themes:
- Preparing for academic practice (eg staff transitions, orientation, induction, work-based learning)
- Exploring professional tensions (eg role expectations and realities, gender issues, institutional, professional)
- Enabling effective academic performance
- Enhancing academic roles (academic leadership, new pedagogies, working across academic cultures)
- Working in harsher financial climates
- Responding to student expectations
- Considering the attributes necessary for 21st Century academics and how they can be supported to achieve such attributes.