Future Learning

This track will explore future methods and approaches to the student learning experience. Topics include work-based learning, creative practice, enhancing quality and standards, assessment and transitions to HE from the new Diploma.

Tuesday 22 June

12:30-13:00

• Glancing back, looking forwards: learning from an institutional approach to change in assessment practice and culture - Helen Parkin and Graham Holden, Sheffield Hallam University
• Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES): 2010 results - Rachel Segal and Laura Hodsdon, The Higher Education Academy
• Piloting innovative practice: introducing new assessment and feedback methods for academic staff - Steve Bennett, University of Hertfordshire
• Reflections and lessons from a cross-institutional curriculum change initiative - Peter Hopkinson, Louise Comerford Boyes, Bev Lucas and Peter Hughes, University of Bradford
• The development and testing of an automated individual feedback system for practical and essay questions - Trevor Barker, University of Hertfordshire
• Enhancing student learning through assessment: a school-wide approach - Christine O'Leary, Sheffield Hallam University

14:15-15:15

• Exploring the potential of online peer assessment with WebPA - Sarah Knight, JISC, Ros Smith, Consultant, JISC and Nicola Wilkinson, Loughborough University
• Creative teaching in the arts and sciences- Ben Knights, English Subject Centre and David Adams, UK Centre for Bioscience
• Is the current form of higher education in the UK viable? Developing a resilient education - Richard Hall, De Montfort Univesity and Joss Winn, University of Lincoln
• Letting go the reins of power and control: Can level six students plan and lead the content of their own module - Ros Weston, Birmingham City University

15:45-16:15

• Future approaches for work-based learning: an ethnographic study into students’ experiences - Simone Krueger, Liverpool John Moores University
• SWIFT: Second World Immersive Future Teaching - Annette Cashmore, Suzanne Lavelle, GENIE (Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Genetics, University of Leicester, Paul Rudman, GENIE and Beyond Distance Research Alliance, University Of Leicester and Gilly Salmon, Beyond Distance Research Alliance, University of Leicester
• Collaboration between undergraduates and academic staff to create textbook resources - David Metcalfe and Daniel Border, Warwick Medical School

16:30-17:15

• What’s in it for me? Aligning student employability with futures research - Sandra Romenska and Gilly Salmon, University of Leicester
• HEARing student voices: choice, feedback, career plans - Jennifer Blake, Patricia Clift, University of Manchester and Val Wass, Keele University/University of Manchester

Wednesday

08:45-09:15

• UK Institutional Repository Search - Jo Lambert, MIMAS, University of Manchester
• Diplomas and higher education: knowledge exchange in action - Kate Thomas, University of the West of England
• Peer feedback: engaging students through dialogue - Alasdair Blair, De Montfort University
• Facilitating employer engagement and workbased learning: ambassadors programme - Aled Williams, Centre for Education in the Built Environment
• It’s all in the words: the impact of language on the design and development of assessment briefs for international students - Diane Sloan and Elizabeth Porter, Northumbria University

11:15-11:45

• Using Digital Earth technology in sustainable development education - Simon Haslett, University of Wales, Newport
• TRUE: Teaching Resources for Undergraduate Economics - Rebecca Taylor, The Economics Network
• Behave yourself! An investigation of the impact of tutor behaviour on the student experience of online distance-based learning - Carolyn Snell and Jane Lund, University of York
• Learning landscapes: the future of learning spaces - Professor Mike Neary, Univeristy of Lincoln

12:00-12:30

• Shaping the future of research practices within the organisation: what can staff researchers and institutions learn from student-to-student research projects - Louise Comerford Boyes, University of Bradford
• From small acorns do big trees grow: common interests, shared goals, and collaboration in Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies - Kate Borthwick and Alison Dickens, Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
• Back to the future: teaching and learning in Classics in the 21st century- Peter Kruschwitz, University of Reading
• Enhancing student learning and experience through creative practice utilising mobile technologies - Don Vinson, Simon Padley and Joanna Hardman, University of Gloucestershire
• Enhancing students’ involvement in the assessment process via exemplars - Kay Sambell, Northumbria University
• Development in copyright licensing - Sarah Brear - Copyright Licensing Agency

13:30-14:30

• Assistive technologies and advantageous themes for collaboration, learning and teaching within virtual worlds and virtual learning environments - Georgios Dafoulas, Noha Magdy and Martin Loomes, Middlesex University
• Ensuring the success of non-standard entry students in higher education - Kate Kirk and Diane Watt, Manchester Metropolitan University
• Fast forward learning: what if … ? - Gilly Salmon and Sandra Romenska, University of Leicester