Interactive Lunch
12th May 2023
Tuesday 13 June, 12.45-14.00, TC007, Park Campus
A buffet lunch set amongst a range of stands that will include poster presentations, learning technology demonstrations and a range of teaching development initiatives. The Interactive Lunch is a fantastic opportunity to network with colleagues and discuss the ideas that interest you the most.
It will also feature the PGR Poster Competition Final – please see this blog post for further details.
Lunchtime Cascades
i. Students driving curriculum quality for sustainability
Miriam Webb and Bea Hughes (Sustainability Team)
Ahead of their Keynote Lecture, members of the Sustainability Team will be available to chat about Education for Sustainability (EfS) and their QAA-sponsored innovation project – working with students as co-creators.
ii. Professional Recognition for Teaching and Learning at the University of Gloucestershire
Jenny Hill and Sabina Fiebig-Lord (Academic Development Unit), Debbie Reel (School of Education and Humanities)
The University is proud to offer a range of schemes that recognise groups and individuals who foster excellence in teaching, learning and assessment within and beyond the institution. During this Lunchtime Cascade you can visit us to hear about our schemes and to discuss your professional development within the Teaching & Scholarship Career Pathway. Find out more about: University Teaching Fellowships (UTF); accreditation against the Advance HE UK Professional Standards Framework (AFHEA, FHEA, SFHEA, PFHEA); Advance HE National Teaching Fellowships (NTF); and Advance HE Collaborative Awards for Teaching Excellence (CATE). These schemes provide progressive evidence for promotion along the Teaching & Scholarship Career Pathway.
iii. Professional Mentoring Programme
Fiona Jones and Ben Miles (Future Plan Employability)
During 2022/23, Your Future Plan (YFP) launched a professional mentoring programme, matching 91 current students with external mentors encompassing a diverse range of businesses, organisations and alumni. Pop along to our stand to find out more about how our students and mentors benefitted from the programme, our plans for 2023/24 and how your students could be involved.
iv. Student Wellbeing – What is it? What do we do about it? What can we do better?
Anna Hay (Student Services)
An overview of work from Student Services aligned with the Student Wellbeing Strategy – learn about what activities and support is offered, how to refer students and how it is making an impact on our students. Pick up some cards, leaflets and beermats to share with students to help promote access to support – and take the opportunity to challenge us on how we might improve what we do next year…
v. Launch of the ally scheme
Rachael Bullingham (School of Natural, Social and Sport Sciences), Clare Peterson and Lisa Brinicombe (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Team)
This display will outline the ally scheme being launched at the Festival of Learning. We will be on hand to explain the key attributes of allyship and the importance of being an ally to marginalised groups. Come along to sign the pledge and pick up a lanyard.
vi. Enhancing Learning through Generative AI: A Pedagogical Journey
Duncan Duriez and Sam Copland (Gloucestershire Business School)
In recent years, the higher education (HE) sector has seen what can be called a professionalisation of the curriculum. The ultimate goal is to prepare learners for their future work by equipping them with necessary employability skills, such as digital and technical abilities (Di Gregorio, Maggioni, Mauri, & Mazzucchelli, 2019). In this session, we will demonstrate how we used early generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms, like Wombo, to enhance teaching and learning in a professional Level 4 Marketing module. With a new generation of AI platforms such as DALL-E, Adobe Firefly and Microsoft Designer available, their potential to disrupt pedagogical journeys for students and staff will be discussed. The need for an early engagement with these technologies, not only to secure employability skills but also to afford digital fluency, will be highlighted. The session invites discourse on the benefits (e.g. empowerment) and challenges (e.g. exclusion) of these generative AI technologies when used in collaborative learning environments.
vii. Social Audio – A dynamic way to create CoPs through podcasting and raise engagement through mobile learning
Robert Whitehouse and Natasha Hawkins (Gloucestershire Business School), Leone Vuetivavalagi (Gloucestershire College)
We are using a ‘new to market’ podcasting platform called Limor.ie, with the intention to create a new spin on Communities of Practice (CoPs). We are aiming to create learning support opportunities through smart phone engagement, using social audio (podcasting). Learner feedback from initial Beta trials at UoG and Gloucestershire College have been positive. We have used social audio to support module assessment by creating short podcasts that offer our students information, advice and guidance (Podcast IAG). Students can easily respond and ask questions (in podcast / audio format) and create ‘learning threads’ for all to view and collaborate (generating a CoP approach). Current students will join us and discuss their positive experiences.
Preamble material for colleagues to view and peruse are:
- Leone Vuetivavalagi, Gloucestershire College: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leone-vuetivavalagi-53776992/
- Shane Monoghan, Limor CEO: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shane-monahan-929389b8/
- The podcast platform – Limor: https://limor.ie/
- Assessment support podcast for BM3709 : https://castpreview.limor.ie/podcasts?id=21898
viii. Your Academic Library: tools, services and resources to enhance your teaching and learning
Darren Bolton, Rachel Reid, Nicky Williams (Library, Technology and Information Service)
Speak to your Subject Librarian team about the ways they can support your teaching and learning activities. Discuss ways to develop your practice of tools like Talis Aspire (resource/reading lists) and Talis Elevate (collaborative learning tool) to enhance student learning; look at new resources available within your subjects areas; be introduced to the new Library website launched last September; consider how platforms like Bloomsbury’s Skills for Study and Cite them Right can help your students develop their academic study skills; explore how AI is enhancing the research process through new tools becoming available (SemanticScholar; ConnectedPapers; Dimensions; Scite).
ix. Learning Analytics – Data Explorer Demonstration
Jenny Fell (Library, Technology and Information Service)
With visual aids of a poster and screens, I will answer any questions regarding Learning Analytics and how to use the Data Explorer system. This could cover starting a register, adding a student, and using data visualisations to prompt conversations with students.
I am also going to be carrying out an impact assessment on the Learning Analytics programme. There will be a sign-up sheet for anyone who wishes to participate in interviews as part of the project. Visit the stand to find out more!
x. Technology Enhanced Learning, Teaching and Assessment
Bernadett Bus, Dave Godsell, Robin McKinlay, Adam Richards (Academic Development Unit)
Drop by and speak to the ADU’s Learning Technologists who will be ready to: show you examples of well-designed module Moodle site templates that have been rolled out across courses; provide tips to ensure your digital teaching materials are accessible to as diverse a group of students as possible; demonstrate University tools and systems such as Lecture Capture and Better Examinations; discuss your ideas for developing your teaching practice through the use of technology; clarify how the ADU Learning Technology Team can support you.