CEEBL Events
Dissemination and Writing for Publication
Dr Peter Kahn
12 May 2010, 13.00-16.00
Venue: CEEBL, C24 Sackville Street Building
This workshop will take a hands-on approach to ensuring wider awareness, understanding and take-up of projects that develop learning and teaching. It begins by addressing issues around disseminating such activity, then focusing more specifically on dissemination through writing for publication. The workshop will thus include an initial activity to create a dissemination plan, before taking in exercises on where to publish, the academic basis for writing in this field, and the writing process. Participants are encouraged to bring a sample of their writing, whether an early draft or outline, to share in the workshop. The workshop is aimed at CEEBL small project holders, as well as others involved in developing teaching and learning. It is designed to assist you maximise the impact of project work on learning and teaching.
Dr Peter Kahn co-directs the MA in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education at the University of Liverpool, where he is an Educational Developer. In his earlier role at the University of Manchester he was part of the team that secured the funding for CEEBL. He has written seven books on higher education, including Developing your Teaching (2006) and Collaborative Working in Higher Education (2009), both from Routledge.
Register for "Dissemination and Writing for Publication" on 12 May 2010
Wiki Workshop: Aiding Student Writing
Dr Damien Shortt
17 May 2010, 12.00-16.30
Venue: CEEBL, C24 Sackville Street Building
This workshop will be useful for anyone seeking to use wikis in their teaching. Are we guilty of assuming that 18 year olds are all digital natives, who will use transfer their Web 2.0 skills and altruistic file-sharing habits to the educational setting? Last year, funded by the SOLSTICE centre at Edge Hill, Damien chose to research how wikis might be used (on a 1st year English literature module) to facilitate the development of student writing, group work and also analytical skills, finding that there appeared to be a direct correlation between wiki engagement, module completion and achievement. However, one of the core lessons to emerge from the pilot was that one of the biggest hindrances to student achievement in writing development was their unwillingness to engage in altruistic collaboration with their classmates. He is now running another trial intended to get students to initially begin writing on their own individual wiki pages, and to eventually introduce the notion of cross-collaboration and editing, etc. Any staff who feel they can benefit from Damien’s experience with wikis, please come along.
CEEBL Undergraduate Symposium
18 May 2010, 10-16.30
Venue: CEEBL, C24 Sackville Street Building
This one day event will bring together staff and students across the university to discuss and recognise the research undergraduate students are taking part in. This event will give undergraduate students a rare opportunity to present their work to an interdisciplinary audience of students and staff.
The event will begin with a keynote from Alan Jenkins, Emeritus Professor at Oxford Brookes University, a fellow of the Reinvention Centre for Undergraduate Research at Warwick University and Oxford Brookes, and a consultant for the Higher Education Academy on links between teaching and research. The day will also showcase presentations from undergraduate researchers, including CEEBL’s six Undergraduate Research projects. The event will close with an interactive plenary run by the CEEBL Student Interns.
Register for "CEEBL Undergraduate Symposium" on 18th May 2010
