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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