Innovation in Learning and Teaching Week 2009
23rd to 27th February
This event has now closed. However, below are some of the events which you can view if you missed them.
Highlights of the week
Annual Learning and Teaching Enhancement Seminar: Professor Brenda Smith's Keynote presentation and discussed material can be viewed in total from the following links.
- The presentation (powerpoint )
- The youtube video
- Marking critieria (reference was made to this, but not shown)
Vox Pop: A 10 minute video filmed and edited by Campus TV around the theme of innovations Week. Questions about assessment, feedback and student engagement were asked of staff and students. View the interesting array of responses here (mov format only)
'The Dragon's Den': A special call for funding bids organised by the Learning and Teaching Enhacement Office.
Two proposals were funded:
- Alan Hayes, James Davenport and Emma Cliffe (Department of Computer
Science): The use of an Electronic Voting System to Enhance Student Feedback - Cassie Wilson (School for Health) : Bridging the Gap: The development of a
feedback agreement - View details of the 'Dragon's Den' proposal guidelines and selection criteria
Poster competition on 'Sharing Practice': sharing practice at individual and departmental level around the Innovation Week theme, Feedback to Students and Engagement with Students.
The competition winners were both Students' Union staff members:
- 1st prize Siobain Hone
- 2nd prize Becky Gallagher
- View poster competition guidelines
Exhibitions of external organisations: Poster displays and an abundance of information to take away. There were representatives from the Higher Education Academy (HEA) Subject Centres including those for Bioscience, Economics, Information and Computer Sciences, and Health Sciences and Practice. There were also displays from Centres for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CETLS), including the Blended Learning Unit (University of Hertfordshire), Active Learning in Computing (University of Durham), and the Reinvention Centre for Undergraduates Research (University of Warwick).
Innovations Week 2009-10
If you would like to become involved in Innovations Week 2009-10, please contact Dr Rachael Carkett, Head of Academic Staff Development on x 3746 or email: R.A.J.Carkett@bath.ac.uk