EXTRA #LTHEchat about TEF with @ProfSallyBrown, join us on the 26 August, 8pm UK time

Posted on August 13, 2015 by lthechatteam
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Dear colleagues,

We hope you are having a joyful and relaxing summer.  We have been following the conversations on Twitter and other social media channels and professional networks with great interest and we couldn’t resist a recent call by our colleague Ian Wilson.

Prof. Sally Brown, image source http://sally-brown.net/wp-content/uploads/sally-2015.jpg

Ian, suggested a few days ago that it would be useful to organise an #LTHEchat to discuss ideas around the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). Prof. Sally Brown was suggested via Twitter to lead this with Prof. Phil Race.

Prof. Phil Race, image source http://phil-race.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/phil-2015.jpg

Prof. Sally Brown with Ruth Pickford recently initiated with colleagues an open exchange about the TEF, please see http://sally-brown.net/2015/07/teasing-out-the-nuances-of-the-teaching-excellence-framework/ which we would like to continue via a special #LTHEchat to engage the wider academic community.

Sally (with help from Phil Race) with ideas derived from discussions on the SEDA, HEDG and ANTF mail base networks which were discussed by the NTF discussion on TEF convened by Ian Scott at Oxford Brookes has devised eight potential dimensions for a TEF. These can be used by a university to review the extent to which it provides a Teaching Excellence Framework. The idea is that using the grid below, HEIs can self rate against the eight dimensions, which Sally proposes are:

Prof Sally Brown and Prof Phil Race

1. The HEI recognises and rewards excellent teaching e.g. by supporting HEA Fellowship accreditation, appointing Teacher Fellows, offering Professorships for L&T, and valuing academic leadership

2. Students are involved in assuring and enhancing teaching at all stages from curriculum design through teaching to evaluation, there are robust systems for training, supporting, valuing and making good use of student representatives.

3. All New-to-HE staff are trained and supported through their early years of teaching (linked to probation) including GTAs, sessional and fractional staff , and career-wide CPD is provided for all who teach and take up is monitored

4. Students are satisfied with their learning experiences as indicated by a basket of measures, one of which will be NSS outcomes

5. Outcomes for students are excellent as indicated by retention and successful degree achievements and students are employed in graduate professions within three years of graduation

6. Quality assurance measures result in QAA & PSRB confidence

7. Assessment is fit-for-purpose, appropriate to subject and level and is integrated with learning, with robust moderation in place to assure standards

8. The HEI demonstrates a commitment to inclusivity and redressing all kinds of disadvantage, particularly in terms of Widening Participation and Fair Access.

Here is the link to Prof Sally Brown’s website: http://sally-brown.net/2015/08/casting-my-newly-beady-eye-on-tef/

If you are new to tweetchats, please access the following slideshare and get in touch with us via Twitter using the hashtag #LTHEchat

We hope you will be around on the 26th of August and able to join us at 8pm UK time for a lively discussion. Please feel free to share this invite with further colleagues who would be interested.

The #LTHEchat team

Update

Here is the storify of the archived tweets from the tweetchat https://storify.com/LTHEchat/lthechat-extra-on-the-teaching-excellence-framewor

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#LTHEchat Summer News & Celebration of a Wonderful Year > Thank you all!!!

Posted on June 27, 2015 by Chrissi Nerantzi

Dear #LTHEchat commuity,

It has been a truly fascinating year! There won’t be a tweetchat now until September. Yes, the #LTHEchat is on holiday during July and August and we look forward to swimming in the deep blue sea… at least some of us 😉 There will be opportunities to engage in Summer activities linked to the #LTHEchat, if you are interested and also feel free to organise community #LTHEchat while we are away.

We would like to thank you for all your support and engagement in the #LTHEchats since October 2014. Special thank yous go to our many guest facilitators who embraced the chats as a way to connect their thoughts and practices with the wider community. It has been a real pleasure to have such vibrant discussions with you all.

We would like to use this opportunity to share some facts about the #LTHEchats for 2014/15

  • Our first ever chat was on the 29th of October 2014
  • There have been 30 chats in total, 2 of which were organised by the #LTHEchat community
  • We had 22 guest facilitators
  • In some of the chat we had over 700 tweets within one hour.
  • 2 Golden Tweeter awards

The steering group decided that it would be useful to have a summer break so that we can all recharge our batteries in preparation for the next academic year.

The #LTHEchat steering group, decided to introduce a rotating #LTHEchat organising team. This new structure will enable the community to take a more active role in the #LTHEchats and co-shape future direction together with the steering group. Members of the organising team will work closely together during a semester to secure the smooth running of the #LTHEchats.

We would like to become more systematic in the following:

  • collecting data
  • evaluate the initiative
  • attract more students as participants and facilitators

The first organising team responsible for the #LTHEchats from Sep 15 to Jan 16 consists of the following members:

  • Sue Beckingham, Sheffield Hallam University, @suebecks
  • Dr Jenny Fisher, Manchester Metropolitan University, @jennycfisher
  • Neil Withnell, University of Salford, @neilwithnell
  • Chris Rowell, Regents University London, @Chri5rowell

A booklet of Year 1 of the #LTHEchat is in preparation.

There is also an opportunity to co-author an article about the #LTHEchats for a special issue around the use of Twitter in Education. If you would like to find out more and express interest to participate in this project, please access the related Google Doc.

Please complete our short survey if you haven’t done this already. Access this here.

A Summer Co-learning Opportunity

… and would you like to participate in a 5-day open learning event in July (13th-17th) where you will meet many colleagues from the #LTHEchat community?

Have a look at FOS! We will be using a playful enquiry-based approach to learn together more about flexible, open and social learning. The community space is already live.

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We wish you all a super (summer) break wherever you are and see you again on the 23rd of  September!

Chrissi, Sue, Peter and David

The #LTHEchat steering group

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#LTHEchat No 28 with Helen Beetham @helenbeetham on Digital Wellbeing

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Sue Beckingham

Dear colleagues,

This coming Wednesday, we are delighted to have Helen Beetham with us for the next #LTHEchat to discuss Digital Wellbeing.

HelHelen Beetham is a writer, researcher and adviser on e-learning issues. She worked on the 2010 Beyond Current Horizons programme, commissioned by the UK government, and has written key national reports on e-portfolios, e-learning and pedagogy, digital literacy and open educational practice. A long-standing consultant to the Jisc e-learning programme, she recently completed a year-long study on the expectations and experiences of today’s ‘digital students’ and is now working on a national framework for staff digital capabilities. Her co-authored volumes Rethinking Pedagogy for a Digital Age and Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age (both Routledge) are standard texts on masters courses in Education.
Tweets: @helenbeetham.
Blogs: digitalstudent/jiscinvolve.org and digitalcapability.jiscinvolve.org.

Helen says: “The technologies we choose and refuse, the digital spaces we inhabit, and our use of digital media all touch deeply on who we are as a person. The term ‘digital identity’ is used to mean how we present ourselves in digital spaces through our profiles, connections, shared media and communications. It is a positive expression of who we are and how we want to be known. My interviews with staff and students in UK HE, however, suggest that even the most digitally proficient find some aspects of digital participation to be stressful, troubling, or detrimental. Staff tend to talk about workload, information overload and work-life balance. Students are more concerned about distraction, exposure, and the loss of face-to-face contact. Both worry about data, how aspects of our selves are construed by digital systems, and by changes in how we relate to one another – including in learning and teaching. This crosses with more conventional concerns about e-safety and cyberbullying – the need to respect others and to behave ethically online. The term ‘digital wellbeing’ is now (proposed to be) included with digital ‘identity’ in the new Jisc framework for digital capability as a way of framing some of these issues. Of course there are forces at work which individuals can’t address, particularly when it comes to inequalities of access and power in digital spaces, or the systemic impacts of the digital revolution on the economy, society and wider environment. But an awareness of these issues and their potential impact can be considered an element of individual capability, and an important means to thrive in a complex digital world. This LTHE chat will introduce six key questions for digital wellbeing. Further reading can be found here: http://digitalcapability.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2015/06/11/revisiting-digital-capability-for-2015/”

The Storify is available 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 team

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#LTHEchat No 27 with Peter Reed @reedyreedles and David Walker @drdjwalker – Recognising & Sharing Excellence in Teaching

Posted on June 8, 2015 by Chrissi Nerantzi

Dear colleagues,

We hope you are all well and had a good weekend. Our next #LTHEchat is with Peter Reed and David Walker from the LTHEchat team and together we will discuss the topic of Recognising & Sharing Excellence in Teaching.

The Storify is available here: https://storify.com/LTHEchat/lthechat-26-learning-and-teaching-in-higher-ed-cha

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 No 26 Learners’ Experiences of e-Learning with @ELESIG @rjsharpe and @leohavemann

Posted on June 8, 2015 by Sue Beckingham

Dear colleagues, this week we welcome Professor Rhona Sharpe @rjsharpe and Leo Havemann @leohavemann from ELESIG to talk about Learners’ experiences of
e-Learning. Join us on Wednesday 8-9pm BST.

ELESIG is the Evaluation of Learners’ Experiences of e-learning Special Interest Group and its mission is to build capacity for undertaking evaluations and investigations of learners’ experiences. ELESIG organise national symposia as well as local group events, and have a community site at elesig.ning.com where members can join local and topic-based groups.

Professor Rhona Sharpe, Chair of ELESIG, Head of Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development, Oxford Brookes University, @rjsharpe

Prof Rhona Sharpe

Rhona has been working as an educational developer in higher education for 20 years. Rhona’s interests are around developing online courses and uses of technology and encouraging pedagogic research. From 2005-2010 she directed a number of learner experience projects which have received great interest and national recognition across both the further and higher education sector, in pioneering innovative research methods and techniques for eliciting students’ expectations and experiences of using technology in their learning. The culmination of these projects was the creation of ELESIG.

Leo Havemann, Co-convenor of the ELESIG London local group, Learning Technologist at Birkbeck, University of London, @leohavemann

Leo Havemann

Leo has worked in as an HE tutor and FE librarian prior to his current role as a learning technologist. His interests include development of skills and literacies, blended learning, and open education. As well as co-convening the ELESIG London group, Leo is a co-ordinator of the ALT M25 Learning Technology Group.

The Storify is available 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 team

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#LTHEchat No 25 Animation for Learning with Jenny Fisher @jennycfisher

Posted on May 29, 2015 by Chrissi Nerantzi

Dear colleagues, This Wednesday, 8-9pm, Dr Jenny Fisher, Senior Lecturer in Social Care from MMU who will facilitate a conversation around Animation for Learning. Jenny has been working this year on an exciting animation project funded by the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at MMU with undergraduate students.

Dr Jenny Fisher

The Storify is available here: https://storify.com/LTHEchat/lthechat-25-learning-and-teaching-in-higher-ed-cha

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 No 24 with Peter Reed – Learning in Groups

Posted on May 22, 2015 by Chrissi Nerantzi

Dear colleagues, This Wednesday, 8-9pm, Peter Reed from the #LTHEchat team will be with us to facilitate a conversation around Learning In Groups.

The Storify is available 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 team

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#LTHEchat No 22 with Dr Luigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi Research Informed Teaching

Posted on May 9, 2015 by Sue Beckingham

Dear colleagues,

This Wednesday, Dr Luigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi will be with us for the next #LTHEchat to discuss research informed teaching in higher education. 

Dr Luigina Ciolfi

Dr Luigina Ciolfi

Dr Luigina Ciolfi is a a Reader in Communication in the Communication and Computing Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University. She holds a Laurea (Univ. of Siena, Italy) and a PhD (Univ. of Limerick, Ireland) in Human-Computer Interaction, and has taught and researched for over 15 years the design and evaluation of interactive technologies for human use and enjoyment, with particular focus on situated interaction, collaboration and participation in design. Lui is currently teaching Information Systems subject group students at SHU on the social and organisational aspects of technology design and use. She has supervised and mentored numerous students in their research projects, including PhDs and Masters’ degrees by research. Lui has worked on several national and international research projects on topics such as heritage technologies, interaction in public spaces and mobile and nomadic work, and is the author of over 60 peer-reviewed publications in international conferences and journals.

The Storify is available here: https://storify.com/LTHEchat/lthechat-22-learning-and-teaching-in-higher-ed-cha

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 No 21 with Prof. Sally Brown @profsallybrown Global dimensions in HE

Posted on April 29, 2015 by Chrissi Nerantzi

Dear colleagues,

This Wednesday, Prof. Sally Brown @profsallybrown will be with us for the next #LTHEchat to discuss Global dimensions in higher education. 

Prof. Sally Brown, image source http://sally-brown.net/wp-content/uploads/sally-2015.jpg

Prof. Sally Brown: Sally is an independent facilitator  and consultant as well as being Visiting Professor at Plymouth and Liverpool John Moores universities and Emerita Professor at Leeds Beckett University ( where she was previously PVC for assessment, learning and teaching. She publishes widely in these ad ease  her most recent publication with Palgrave is Learning, Teaching and Assessment: Global Perspectives and she previously co-edited for Routledge with Elspeth Jones Internationalising Higher Education.

The Storify is available here: https://storify.com/LTHEchat/lthechat-21-learning-and-teaching-in-higher-ed-cha

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 No 20 about Open badges with Phil Vincent @PhilVincent and Roisin Cassidy @Roisin_Cassidy

Posted on April 25, 2015 by Chrissi Nerantzi

Dear colleagues,

This Wednesday, Phil Vincent and Roisin Cassidy will be with us for the next #LTHEchat to discuss Open badges.

Open Badges are a new online standard for recognising and verifying formal & informal learning. They can also represent hard & soft skills, peer assessment, and stackable lifelong learning. Individuals can earn badges for achievements, learning, skills, interests, and competencies, both online and offline, and then display them in their Backpack, or on their website or social media profiles. Open Badges are images with metadata hard-coded into them, so every badge is full of information. Each one has important data built in that links back to the issuer, the criteria it was issued under and, where appropriate, evidence verifying the credential.

Here at York St John, as well as supporting staff in using Open Badges, we are exploring how Open Badges could be used for motivation and recognition of staff CPD activities & innovative educational practices. We are also considering strategies & techniques for enhancing their credibility and adoption, by mapping Open Badges to existing frameworks (such as the UKPSF, SEDA Values, or Vitae Framework), adding to the transferability & recognition of the awards across HE.

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Phil Vincent | Technology Enhanced Learning Manager | York St John University

Phil’s focus is to work across Faculties to support the implementation of the Academic Strategy, and in particular contribute to the effective development and implementation of technology enhanced learning.

Roisin Cassidy, image source: http://blog.yorksj.ac.uk/moodle/files/2014/09/Roisin-quad1.jpg

Róisín Cassidy | Technology Enhanced Learning Advisor | York St John University

Working to the Directorate’s annual objectives and the TEL Quality Framework, Róisín’s role as a TEL Advisor is to proactively support and develop staff in using technology to enhance the student learning experience.

The Storify is available here:  https://storify.com/LTHEchat/lthechat-20-learning-and-teaching-in-higher-ed-ch

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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