Dear colleagues,
Teresa MacKinnon
We would like to take this opportunity to thank our current #LTHEchat organising team, Teresa MacKinnon, Dr Isobel Gowers and Hayley Atkinson and their helper Debbie Baff for all their hard work and commitment this term to the community and for organising a series of really interesting and thought provoking chats for all of us. The chats were all organised very smoothly and with great professionalism and autonomy. Thank you so much. We are grateful for your contribution.
Dr Isobel Gowers
This term and year is coming to an end. A new team and a new collaboration starts in January. We will share related information in the New Year.
Hayley Atkinson
We would like to thank all members of all organising teams this year, the HEA and all #LTHEchat guests and the community for their ongoing support and lively engagement. But also our very own illustrator Simon Rae and his unique creative contributions throughout this year. It has been a fascinating year with so many opportunities for sharing of ideas and practices and connecting with colleagues from nearby and further away.
We wish you all a special festive season and a healthy and happy New Year.
The #LTHEchat steering group
ps. If you wish to become a member of a future organising team and/or be a guest, we would love to hear from you.
nd widening participation in adult and higher using digital media. He is involved in several national and international organisations and projects: eg committee member in the Swedish network for IT in Higher Education (ITHU), EDEN NAP steering group, Nordic Network for Adult Education, member of ISO standardisation committee PC288/WG1. See LinkedIn 
Clare Thomson is a Learning Technologist in the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences at Queen’s University Belfast. Over eight years she has created the Medical Education Portal, a VLE ‘alternative’ meeting the complex needs of the undergraduate medical curriculum. The importance of visual design combined with usability and accessibility underpinned the development of the space. She was awarded a Queen’s University Belfast Teaching Award in 2014 for this work.
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I’m supposed to be retired now, but haven’t quite made it yet. I’ve been around in higher education learning and teaching for a long time, and written a few books over the years. I remain passionate about the importance of feedback in helping learning to happen successfully, and believe that feedback needs to be a dialogue, and that this is often best achieved face-to-face – but harder to ‘evidence’. I also believe that feedforward (to influence future actions) is by far the most important part of feedback, hence the importance of the language we use and the timing we achieve.
Isobel Gowers started teaching whilst a post-doc at the University of Sheffield. With an interest in equine and human joint disease she became a lecturer at Writtle University College in 2009, where she is now Head of Learning and Teaching. In this diverse role she is responsible for developing and monitoring the Learning, Teaching and Assessment Enhancement Strategy, providing staff and academic development to about 60 academics and is also responsible for the strategic management of the library.
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