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As the start of term kicks off, we\u2019d like to invite you to the forthcoming Academy Forums over the next academic year. Our academy forums take place around a particular topic or theme relevant to learning and teaching. They\u2019re an informal space to reflect on and share teaching practice, build connections with colleagues from other disciplines, and keep up to date with debates in the HE sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on feedback from our successful sessions last year, we\u2019ve extended our Academy Forums to 90 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our first session is taking place on 2nd<\/sup> November, 11am-12.30pm. In this session, we\u2019ll be taking a look at the results from the Digital Insights survey. The survey is run by JISC and asks students about their digital learning experiences. For the academic 2020-21, we had over a thousand responses. Come along to this session if you want to hear about the findings <\/strong><\/a>and also think about ways in which you can build the results into your digital teaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second up, on the 2nd<\/sup> December (10am-11.30am), we\u2019ll be thinking about designing blended learning. Over the past eighteen months, colleagues have delivered purely online, purely face to face, and also Hyflex teaching activities for students. If you want to consider how to blend the online teaching activities with in person teaching activities, then come along to this session. You\u2019ll be able to reflect on the resources that you\u2019ve produced and how you might go about tweaking them for the current teaching context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the winter vacation period, our third Academy Forum session will be taking place on 10th<\/sup> February (10am-11.30am). This session will take a look at strategies for designing authentic assessments. JISC outline, in their paper The Future of Assessment: five principles, five targets for 2025<\/em><\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong> that one of the key tenets of assessment design is to make it authentic. Participants will be given the opportunity to enhance an existing assessment or design a new one from scratch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Into spring now, and our fourth Academy Forum of the year will be looking at peer feedback opportunities. Students develop greater cognitive processing through being given the opportunity to work with their peers \u2013 from paraphrasing complex theories, through to sensitively critiquing other students\u2019 work, peer feedback activities can be used to great effect. This Academy Forum will be taking place on the 3rd<\/sup> March, 11am-12.30am. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our final academy forum will be looking at Students as Partners on 27th<\/sup> April, 11am-12.30pm. There are different approaches that can be used for Students as Partners projects. We\u2019ll be looking at these \u2013 from student co-design to enhancement projects. In LTEU, we\u2019ve worked on a number of student as partners initiatives and will be sharing our projects as well as giving you opportunities to establish you own project at session, module, course, or departmental level. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For now, our Academy Forums will be taking place online. Book your place on our Course Booking site<\/strong><\/a>. Hope to see you there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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