We are back #LTHEchat No 42 with #BYOD4Lchat

Posted on January 9, 2016 by Stephen Powell

Hello everybody and welcome back to the #LTHEchat,

We  hope you enjoyed your first week back to work and are getting ready for our first tweetchat of the year with Stephen and Ian, the new organising team until March 2016:^)

Every last Wednesday of the month, we are joining up with the #HEAchat and we are looking forward to doing this for the very first time at the end of January.

This Wednesday, we have linked up with the BYOD4Lchat which will be running everyday next week and it is another great opportunity to bring the two communities together. If you want to participate in the 5 day BYOD4L course, just jump in! No registration is required.  The discussion will be around how we can use smart devices for learning and teaching with a specific focus on curating.

Questions will be posted by the BYOD4L organising team and supporters from the @BYOD4L account on Twitter and retweeted by @LTHEchat.

If you are new to tweetchats, please visit our help page. You might wish to try out the Tweetdeck app or web version to make following and managing tweets easier https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/.

Please remember to use both hashtags this Wednesday.

#LTHEchat and #BYOD4Lchat

The storify can be accessed here.

If you are reflecting on this specific #LTHEchat please share your post with us so that we can reblog.

If you participated/are participating in any way in the #LTHEchat, please complete our short survey and let us know if you have other suggestions on how we could make the #LTHEchat more valuable for you. Thank you.

See you Wednesday, same time, same place 😉 – 8-9PM GMT #LTHEchat

The LTHEchat organising team.
ps. If you are interested in joining the next organising team, please get in touch with Chrissi at c.nerantzi @ mmu.ac.uk (without the spaces) to discuss this possibility.

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We have (more) news for you!!! Together is better! #lthechat #heachat

Posted on January 6, 2016 by lthechatteam

Hello everybody and Happy New Year!

In the spirit of collaboration and to strengthen the reach and impact of both tweetchats, Simon Rae HEAthe #HEAchat and the #LTHEchat have agreed to unite from January 2016. These are very exciting news for all of us!

On the 27th January the two chats will combine with #HEAchat moving into the #LTHE timeslot of 8-9pm on the last Wednesday of each month. Both hashtags will be used during this discussion.

Yes, the chat just got even bigger – together is better!

Bringing together the two communities will extend
the range of voices heard, the issues discussed and widen the networks of participants in both chats.

WE would like to thank the HEA and especially Kandy Woodfield for embracing this idea and making this collaborative adventure happen.

We are also delighted to welcome Dr Stephen Powell @stephenp and Ian Tindal @iantindal to the brand new #LTHEchat organising team and wish them the very best in their new roles.

If you would like to join a future organising team, please get in touch with us.

Chrissi and Sue on behalf of the #LTHEchat steering group and organising team.

Simon RaeRemember to set your alarms!

(graphics by Simon Rae @simonrae)

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#lthechat 2015 in review, thank you all

Posted on December 30, 2015 by lthechatteam

Hello everybody,

We just received the following 2015 annual report from WordPress.com for the LTHEchat blog and would like to share it with you.

Here’s an excerpt:

A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 7,000 times in 2015. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

We thank you all for being part of the #LTHEchat community and your strong commitment to sharing, learning and development.

None of this would have been possible without you!!!

Happy New Year,

The #LTHEchat steering group

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Thank you and festive wishes to you all #LTHEchat

Posted on December 27, 2015 by Sue Beckingham

Dear #LTHEchat community

We would like to thank you all for being with us this year and  creating such vibrant and rich professional development opportunities for all of us through the #LTHEchat tweetchats. For those not aware these chats happen on a weekly basis around learning and teaching in higher education. Thanks goes to the guests who have volunteered to lead chats and also to every one of you who have participated in the chats, ‘listened in’ or caught up with the conversations via Storify.

We would like to thank especially the three members of the first organising team during the academic year 2015/16: Dr Jenny Fisher, Neil Withnell and Chris Rowell for their hard work and strong commitment to the #LTHEchat community. They have worked hard behind the scenes facilitating the chats and producing the weekly Storify summaries of the chats.

Sept-Dec 2015 Organising Team

We are very excited about what 2016 will bring for all of us. There will be a new organising team helping to make #LTHEchat happen each week and we will communicate further news regarding this and more developments when we are back in January.

The first #LTHEchat in the New Year is on the 13th of January and it will be a joined-up chat with #BYOD4Lchat. If you are interested in participating in the 5-day BYOD4L event in January, feel free to have a look here.

We wish you all a special festive season and a…

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The #LTHEchat steering group

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#LTHEchat 41 with Chris Rowell (@Chri5rowell) and Steve Dawes (@malkatraz) on Using Apps in Higher Edcuation #RUL12AoC #12AoC

Posted on December 13, 2015 by Sue Beckingham

We are delighted to have our very own Chris Rowell @Chri5rowell and Steve Dawes @malkatraz this week to discuss using apps in higher education.

The use of mobile apps in higher education is starting to change the way we research, learn and collaborate in higher education. Social networking apps like Twitter, LinkedIn, WordPress and Pinterest are all great for research, seeking teaching resources and developing your professional network. Mobile apps are enabling us to transform learning activities in ways that were inconceivable in the past. But there are still many issues to resolve; how can apps be integrated into our existing courses? How will lecturers become confident in their use? Do they actually improve the student learning experience?

Chris RowellChris Rowell is Deputy Learning Technology Manager at Regent’s University London. He is a Certified Member of the Association for Learning Technology (CMALT) and Assistant Editor of the Association for Learning Technology’s (ALT) newsletter. Previously he has been a  member of the Staff and Educational Development Association’s (SEDA) National Executive and Conference Committee and is also founding member SEDA’s Special Interest Group on Technology-Enhanced Practice. Currently he is doing a Doctorate of Education at UCL.

Steve DawesSteve Dawes is a Learning Technology Content Developer at Regent’s University London. Steve’s research interests are based around mobile technology and has recently presented his work at the Blackboard User Group and OER15. He is currently studying on a PGHE Certificate. For the last two years Steve and Chris have developed  and shared their online CPD course promoting apps in Higher Education called the ’12 Apps of Christmas’ http://tinyurl.com/12aoc 

The Storify will be made available here: https://storify.com/LTHEchat/using-apps-in-he

If you are reflecting on this specific #LTHEchat please share your post with us so that we can reblog.

If you participated/are participating in any way in the #LTHEchat, please complete our short survey and let us know if you have other suggestions on how we could make the #LTHEchat more valuable for you. Thank you.

See you Wednesday, same time, same place 😉 – 8-9PM GMT #LTHEchat

The LTHEchat team

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#LTHEchat 40 with Debby Cotton @ProfDcotton on ‘Unconscious Bias’

Posted on December 6, 2015 by Neil Withnell

This week we are delighted to have Debby Cotton to discuss ‘Unconscious bias’

Unconscious Bias in teaching and learning in HE

Bias is one of those things that all of us think we don’t have! Other people are biased, they may make judgements about people based on stereotypes but not us. And yet, there’s fairly clear evidence that pretty much everyone does this: At some level or another and on some topic or another, we have unconscious associations between groups and characteristics – and this can influence our decision-making without us being aware of it. So at Plymouth we have been doing some thinking about what kind of impacts this might have on teaching and learning in higher education, on our relationships with students and also with our colleagues. In this tweet chat, we will explore the issues further, and discuss what can be done to mitigate the effects of unconscious bias in HE.

If you are not yet convinced that you are affected by unconscious bias, have a look at ‘Harvard Implicit’ and run some tests. The fast-paced responses required aim to access unconscious connections rather than consciously-held views. You may be surprised by what you find!  https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/education.html

Debby Cotton

Debby Cotton is Head of Educational Development and Professor of higher Education Pedagogy at Plymouth University. She is a Principal Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (PFHEA), and a National Teaching Fellow (NTF). Debby has a doctorate in Environmental Education from Oxford University, and has published widely on a range of higher education (HE) topics. Her main research area is sustainability and pedagogy in higher education, although she has also published on the gender and ethnicity attainment gap, the experience of care leavers in HE, and research-informed teaching. Her work on unconscious bias evolved from some of the findings of the gender and ethnicity research. For a full profile and list of papers, please see: http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/dcotton#

For more resources on teaching and learning in HE, including mitigating unconscious bias, see: https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/your-university/teaching-and-learning/guidance-and-resources/7-step-series

The Storify is available here: https://storify.com/LTHEchat/lthechat-40-unconscious-bias/

If you are reflecting on this specific #LTHEchat please share your post with us so that we can reblog.

If you participated/are participating in any way in the #LTHEchat, please complete our short survey and let us know if you have other suggestions on how we could make the #LTHEchat more valuable for you. Thank you.

See you Wednesday, same time, same place 😉 – 8-9PM GMT #LTHEchat

The LTHEchat team

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#LTHEchat 39 with Phil Newton @NewtonsNeurosci on ‘Academic Integrity’

Posted on November 29, 2015 by Sue Beckingham

This week we are delighted to have Dr Phil Newton to discuss ‘Academic Integrity’.

Phil_NewtonDr Phil Newton (@newtonsneurosci) is the Director of Learning and Teaching for the Swansea University Medical School. A self-confessed ‘plagiarism-nerd’, he has a long standing research interest in academic integrity.

Recent findings are that students are very confident that they know what academic integrity is when they start university, yet that confidence is misplaced and accompanied by a lenient view towards what should happen to students who ‘cheat’ (link).

His work on contract cheating with Dr Lisa Wallace has demonstrated that the academic ghostwriting business is a buyers market, with assignments available cheaply and quickly (link). He has also recently contributed a book chapter to the Springer Handbook of Academic Integrity in which he, along with Chris Lang, considered the legal status of ghostwriting companies around the world (link).

His recent keynote on Ghostwriting, from the European Plagiarism Conference, can be seen here.

This week’s LTHEChat will explore some contemporary issues in academic integrity – why do students get into difficulty, how would we know if students were using essay writing companies, who should quality assure the assessment procedures at UK HEIs to ensure that they consider contemporary issues in academic integrity?

The Storify is available here: https://storify.com/LTHEchat/lthechat-39-on-academic-integrity

If you are reflecting on this specific #LTHEchat please share your post with us so that we can reblog.

If you participated/are participating in any way in the #LTHEchat, please complete our short survey and let us know if you have other suggestions on how we could make the #LTHEchat more valuable for you. Thank you.

See you Wednesday, same time, same place 😉 – 8-9PM GMT #LTHEchat

The LTHEchat team

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#LTHEchat 38 with Kate Wright @kateawright on ‘Normalising the Use of Technology’

Posted on November 22, 2015 by Neil Withnell

This week we are delighted to have Kate Wright to discuss ‘normalising the use of technology’.

In the past Technology Enhanced Learning was treated as something set apart from the rest of teaching and learning. HEIs often had e-learning strategies which existed separately from their learning and teaching strategy. Things are changing and the use of TEL is becoming ‘business as usual’ with e-submission, e-marking, lecture capture and use of the VLE now a mainstream part of teaching. How far advanced is this process, and what does it mean for teaching staff, support staff and students? And how do we continue to innovate and change in an environment where technology is standard part of day-to-day life? This topic was originally suggested by, and the questions were developed with, Mary Jacob, E-learning Advisor at Aberystwyth University.

Kate Wright

Kate Wright is the E-learning Group Manager at Aberystwyth University. She has been working in the field of e-learning since 2003 and in that time has been involved in developing the use of a number of e-learning tools and systems, including Blackboard, Qwizdom and online assessment. She has been involved in the implementation of the institution’s E-learning Strategy, Benchmarking and Gwella projects. Kate has an interest in e-assessment and led the rollout of Questionmark Perception at Aberystwyth. She has presented papers at a number of conferences including the Questionmark Perception Users Conference (2009 and 2011) and the Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference (2010 and 2012) and has recently co-written an article in the British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET) on online assessment for laboratory practicals.

The Storify is available here: https://storify.com/LTHEchat/lthechat-38-on-normalising-the-use-of-technology

If you are reflecting on this specific #LTHEchat please share your post with us so that we can reblog.

If you participated/are participating in any way in the #LTHEchat, please complete our short survey and let us know if you have other suggestions on how we could make the #LTHEchat more valuable for you. Thank you.

See you Wednesday, same time, same place 😉 – 8-9PM GMT #LTHEchat

The LTHEchat team

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#LTHEchat 37 with Eric Stoller @EricStoller on Enhancing the Student Experience with Digital Engagement

Posted on November 15, 2015 by Sue Beckingham

This week we are delighted to have Eric Stoller to discuss ‘Enhancing the student experience with digital engagement’. In HE, social media channels are places for learning, engagement, teaching, community building, listening, “tip of the iceberg” to deeper conversations, promotion/marketing, customer service inquiries, alerts, and conversations. The chat will discuss how we can all make better use of these channels.

Eric StollerEric Stoller is a higher education thought-leader, consultant, writer, and speaker with an international reputation. He frequently gives keynotes on how educators can use social media for learning and engagement and is a proponent for teaching students about digital identity development. He has a background in student affairs, academic advising, wellness, technology, and communications. As the Student Affairs and Technology blogger for Inside Higher Ed, he generates conversations, answers questions, and provides insight about a variety of ‘tech topics’.

The Storify is available here: https://storify.com/LTHEchat/lthechat

If you are reflecting on this specific #LTHEchat please share your post with us so that we can reblog.

If you participated/are participating in any way in the #LTHEchat, please complete our short survey and let us know if you have other suggestions on how we could make the #LTHEchat more valuable for you. Thank you.

See you Wednesday, same time, same place 😉 – 8-9PM GMT #LTHEchat

The LTHEchat team

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#LTHEchat 36 with Dr Kirsten Jack @Heijinxs on the use of art in cross-discipline undergraduate education

Posted on November 8, 2015 by Sue Beckingham

This week we welcome Dr Kirsten Jack (RN, PhD) @Heijinxs to explore the use of art in cross-discipline undergraduate education. 

Kirsten_JackKirsten is Senior Lecturer Adult Nursing at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her contribution to teaching, learning and research is supported by a clinical career in adult nursing where she specialised in primary care nursing, before embarking on her academic career. She is committed to excellence in teaching and learning and was awarded a HEA National Teaching Fellowship and a Manchester Metropolitan University Outstanding Innovation in Teaching Award in 2014. She has a keen interest in pedagogical research specifically the exploration of the use of the arts in nurse education to support nurses’ emotional self-awareness development. She led on the development of a website www.caringwords.mmu.ac.uk which encourages health care professionals to write reflective poetry, as way to explore their thoughts and feelings about clinical practice.

The Storify is available here: https://storify.com/LTHEchat/lthechat-36-the-use-of-art-in-cross-discipline-und

If you are reflecting on this specific #LTHEchat please share your post with us so that we can reblog.

If you participated/are participating in any way in the #LTHEchat, please complete our short survey and let us know if you have other suggestions on how we could make the #LTHEchat more valuable for you. Thank you.

See you Wednesday, same time, same place 😉 – 8-9PM GMT #LTHEchat

The LTHEchat team

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