HEA STEM: Innovative Approaches to Student Engagement

  • Date: 20 Feb 2012
  • Start Time: 10:30 am
  • Location/venue: Castle Hill Suite Central Services Building, Level 4 University of Huddersfield Queensgate Huddersfield HD1 3DH

The workshop is concerned with undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in higher education, in all disciplines, and aims to:

  • identify and examine some of the factors that impact on student engagement - both positively and negatively
  • share experiences of novel attempts at promoting student engagement
  • explore the potential for radically new strategies to promote student engagement

10 – 10.30 Registration with coffee/tea and refreshments

10.30 Welcome

10.35 Overview

What is student engagement?

Measurement of student engagement: NSSE, AUSSE, Warwick IATL Survey

Individual reflection on (selected) survey questions in relation to own practice - followed by group report back

11.30 – 11.50 Coffee/tea break

11.50 Case studies

• present case study

• small group activity

in applying this to your own situation, identify:

• costs & benefits

• obstacles & enablers

Groups feed back

12.50-13.30 Lunch

13.35-14. 00 Close - to include some individual reflective activity

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