#LTHEchat No 19 Engaging students with feedback with Dr Mark Jepson @drmarkjepson

Posted on April 19, 2015 by Chrissi Nerantzi

Dear colleagues,

Dr Mark Jepson, image source here 

We are back after a short break. Thank you so much to all of you who engaged in the  two community chats organised while we were away. It was lovely to see this happening.

Dr Mark Jepson will be with us for the next #LTHEchat to discuss Engaging students with feedback.

Mark is a Lecturer in Metallurgy and Microscopy @drmarkjepson and works at Loughborough University.

Alongside Mark, Peter from the LTHEchat team will be facilitating the chat.

A short story can be found below which might help you get started.

The Storify is available here:  https://storify.com/LTHEchat/lthechat-19-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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Extra #LTHEchat on Wednesday 8th April 2015 – Interdisciplinary Working

Posted on April 7, 2015 by salforduniversitynursing

The #LTHEchat community is taking over while the team is away 😉 Please join this special chat on Wednesday, 8-9pm UK time, if you are available.

This extra chat is hosted by Simon Rae, Dr Jenny Fisher & Neil Withnell.

Simon Rae

Simon Rae

Prior to retirement, Simon was Lecturer in Professional Development at the Open University – @simonrae

 

 

 

 

Dr Jenny Fisher

Dr Jenny Fisher

Jenny is Senior Lecturer in Social Care at Manchester Metropolitan University – @JennyCFisher

 

 

 

Neil Withnell

Neil Withnell

Neil is Associate Head Academic Enhancement at the University of Salford – @neilwithnell

 

 

 

 

This extra chat for anyone working in  education will explore the topic of interdisciplinary working and will allow participants to discuss how to encourage collaborative working, sharing examples and opportunities.

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#LTHEchat no 18 Effective Engagement in Learning with Dr Rashid Ali @58r

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Chrissi Nerantzi

Dear colleagues,

bdajhjajDr Rashid Ali will be with us for the next #LTHEchat to discuss Effective Engagement in Learning

Ahead of the chat, please read the following final report: Building student engagement and belonging in Higher Education at a time of change

Dr. Ali is a senior lecturer in Aeronautics at Sheffield Hallam University He is passionate about aeroplanes and specialises in aircraft design, embedded control and Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) technologies as his special interests. All these subject areas are well suited to the problem based learning scenarios and he has 23 undergraduate students undertaking design and build of three unmanned aircraft systems to compete in two National competitions, under his wings.  He is a member of the Organizing committee of the IMechE that is overseeing the 2015 UAS challenge.  He actively promotes technology enhanced learning and continually is seeking diverse ways of assessment and feedback.

A little story to get started:

Alongside Rashid, David from the LTHEchat team will be facilitating the chat.

The Storify will be 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
ps. Please note, our next #LTHEchat after this week is on the 22nd of April. We are wishing you all a good Easter break and see you then. Feel free to share your Easter pics with us. 

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#LTHEchat No 17 Pedagogic research with Dr Anna Wood @annakwood

Posted on March 15, 2015 by Chrissi Nerantzi

Dear colleagues,

Anna Wood, image source: here

Dr Anna Wood will be with us for the next #LTHEchat to discuss pedagogical research (PedR).

Anna Wood is a physicist turned physics education researcher, who discovered a fascination for learning/teaching while studying for an MSc in E-learning (now digital education) at the University of Edinburgh, during a career break.

Her research interests include science (particularly physics) education, the use of technology in learning, assessment, and lecturer professional development. Her research, in collaboration with the Edinburgh Physics Education Research Group (EdPER) which focussed on analysing physics students’ conversations during Peer Instruction, was published last year in Physical Review Special Topics PER and was nominated as an editors suggestion.

Anna is currently investigating lecturer-student interactions during physics lectures while writing grant applications in an attempt to secure funding to continue working in this area part-time!

She has written a blog post to provide an introduction to pedagogical research, and to hopefully provoke some interesting discussions!

Alongside Anna, Peter from the LTHEchat team will be facilitating the chat.

A short story can be found below which might help you get started.

The Storify will be available here: https://storify.com/LTHEchat/lthechat-17-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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#LTHEchat No 16 – You voted for “Open Educators”!

Posted on March 7, 2015 by lthechatteam

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Dear #LTHEchat friends,

Thank you so much for all your support and dedication since the launch of the #LTHEchat initiative in 2014. It has been a fascinating journey so far and we are fully booked with Guests who have volunteered to lead chats until the end of June.

This is a quick invite to participate in the poll for our next chat. Next week is Open Education Week and we thought that it would be useful and relevant to discuss a topic linked to Open Education. Please indicate your preference below.

The poll is now closed.

We look forward to another lively discussion this coming Wednesday at 8pm UK time which will be led by Sue Beckingham and Chrissi Nerantzi.

Thank you for those who have already completed our mini survey. The survey will remain open until the end of June. Please consider capturing your responses there to help us evaluate this initiative and find ways forward that would be of value for the community from September 2015 onwards. The survey can be accessed at https://lthechat.com/what-does-lthechat-mean-to-you/lthechat-survey/

We have also started thinking of the possibility to organise an #LTHEchat meetup and would value your thoughts around this and how we could make this happen.

The #LTHEchat team

ps. To find further activities and events linked to Open Education Week 2015, click here.

Bonus invite(s) for sharing and co-creating  throughout the week

As this week is especially exciting for all of us, we would like to encourage you to tweet your favourite quote, video, animation, cartoon, article or paper using the #LTHEchat hashtag throughout the week (1)

If you would like to participate in the open collaborative poem creation that would be super fantastic!!! We have set-up a Google doc for this that can be accessed here. Co-ordinators are Dr Sam Illingworth from MMU (@samillingworth) and Dr David Smith (@dave_thesmith) from SHU TBC (2).

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#LTHEchat No 15 “Digital Devices for Learning” with Dr Magdalena Bober @magdalenabober

Posted on February 26, 2015 by Chrissi Nerantzi

Dear colleagues,

Dr Magdalena Bober

Dr Magdalena Bober, Lecturer in Communications Media at Manchester Metropolitan University will be with us for the next #LTHEchat to discuss using digital devices for learning.

Magda is currently carrying out a research project on the use of mobile devices and other innovative uses of technology in learning and teaching in HE funded by the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU). The project will provide a snapshot of related practices in humanities, social science and language teaching, using her own faculty at MMU as a case study. Magda is interested in how our everyday uses of mobile devices and other ICTs relate to how we use them in an educational context.

Alongside Magda, Chrissi from the LTHEchat team will be facilitating the chat.

The Storify will be available here:

If you are reflecting on this specific #LTHEchat please share your post with us so that we can reblog. A Google presentation has been set-up to share your thoughts there as well.

If you are participated/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 14 with Dr Rachel Forsyth @rmforsyth about Progression

Posted on February 21, 2015 by Chrissi Nerantzi

Dear colleagues,

Dr Rachel Forsyth

Dr Rachel Forsyth, Deputy Head of the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at Manchester Metropolitan University will be with us for the next #LTHEchat to discuss Progression. In Rachel’s own words:

“So, this week I am determined to get home in time to participate properly in #lthechat. I often catch the end, and almost always scroll through the hashtag or storify afterwards, but I feel an extra sense of responsibility this week.

What is the role of learning and teaching in supporting progression? Is it just about making sure that everyone passes the year? What can we learn from the extensive literature on student retention and student success which we can apply to our own teaching and assessment? Is it someone else’s problem: student services, librarians, counsellors, personal tutors or halls of residence staff? Or is it something we can address in the curriculum?”

Recommended reading by Rachel:

Crosling, G., et al., Eds. (2008). Improving Student Retention in Higher Education. Abingdon, Routledge.

Thomas, L. (2012) Building student engagement and belonging in higher education at a time of change: final report from the What works? Student retention & success programme  https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/node/2932

Tinto, V. (2012). Completing college: Rethinking institutional action, University of Chicago Press. – more about institutional policy than individual actions, but still interesting.

Wilcox, P., et al. (2005). “”It was nothing to do with the university, it was just the people”: the role of social support in the first-year experience of higher education.” Studies in Higher Education 30(6): 707 – 722. http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/03075070500340036 – thoughtful analysis of the reasons students gave for leaving university early.

Yorke, M. and Longden, B. (2007). The first-year experience in higher education in the UK, Higher Education Academy.  https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/detail/resources/detail/publications/fye_final_report – this report contains important and convincing analysis of first year experiences. The data is now getting on for ten years old – it would be good to know what’s changed!

Alongside Rachel, Sue Beckingham from the LTHEchat team will be facilitating the chat.

The Storify is available here: https://storify.com/LTHEchat/lthechat-14-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. A Google presentation has been set-up to share your thoughts there as well.

image source: here

We will be collaborating more with students and introduce dedicated #LTHEchat s led by the student community. These will be called: “Questions we always wanted to ask you” which will be a great opportunity to bring educators and students closer together.  The student guest  will represent questions from the student community. Questions he will share will include some of his own but also those from his peers.

If you have other suggestions on how we could make the #LTHEchat more valuable for you, please let us know.

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

The LTHEchat team

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#LTHEchat No 13: Virtual Learning Spaces with David Eddy @sonofedd

Posted on February 15, 2015 by Chrissi Nerantzi

Dear colleagues,

David Eddy

David Eddy

This week we have the pleasure to have with us David Eddy (@sonofedd) who will be leading the #LTHEchat on ‘VIRTUAL LEARNING SPACES’. 

David Eddy is a Teaching Fellow (DL) in the Faculty of Health & Well Being at Sheffield Hallam University (SHU). Since 2007 he has been supporting, enabling and delivering online courses in a range of contexts. During 2014 he undertook the learning design and was Joint Course Leader (with Cath Holborn) of SHU’s first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on Enhancing Prostate Cancer Care. This was delivered in collaboration with Prostate Cancer UK and PebblePad.

 Virtual Learning Spaces – it’s all about the conversation.

This tweetchat will focus upon how colleagues, choose, define, frame and utilise virtual learning spaces to foster and enhance the learning conversation.

Alongside David, Sue Beckingham from the LTHEchat team will be facilitating the chat.

The Storify is available here.

If you are reflecting on this specific #LTHEchat please share your post with us so that we can reblog. A Google presentation has been set-up to share your thoughts there as well.

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We will be collaborating more with students and introduce dedicated #LTHEchat s led by the student community. These will be called: “Questions we always wanted to ask you” which will be a great opportunity to bring educators and students closer together.  The student guest  will represent questions from the student community. Questions he will share will include some of his own but also those from his peers.

If you have other suggestions on how we could make the #LTHEchat more valuable for you, please let us know.

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

The LTHEchat team

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#LTHEchat No 12 summary “Revealing and celebrating learning beyond education” with Frances Bell @francesbell

Posted on February 11, 2015 by Chrissi Nerantzi

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This week’s chat topic was led by Frances Bell and supported by Chrissi Nerantzi.

Revealing and celebrating learning beyond education

The Storify is available HERE.

Don’t forget we would love you to contribute your reflections by sharing a link to a blog post you have written, an image or just as a bullet point! Simple click on where it says ‘Google Slides’ and this will open the summary in a new window (Google Slides). Add your contribution and it auto saves.

We look forward to seeing you again next week, same time, same place.

The LTHEchat team

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#LTHEchat No 12 “Revealing and celebrating learning beyond education” with Frances Bell @francesbell

Posted on February 8, 2015 by Chrissi Nerantzi

Dear colleagues,

Frances Bell, image source here

This week we have the pleasure to have with us Frances Bell (@francesbell) an experienced retired lecturer and scholar who will be leading the #LTHEchat on ‘Revealing and celebrating learning beyond education‘. Please access the related post Frances has prepared in advance of the chat by clicking here.

Alongside Frances, Chrissi Nerantzi from the LTHEchat team will be facilitating the chat.

If you are reflecting on this specific #LTHEchat please share your post with us so that we can reblog. A Google presentation has been set-up to share your thoughts there as well.

image source: here

We will be collaborating more with students and introduce dedicated #LTHEchat s led by the student community. These will be called: “Questions we always wanted to ask you” which will be a great opportunity to bring educators and students closer together.  The student guest  will represent questions from the student community. Questions he will share will include some of his own but also those from his peers.

If you have other suggestions on how we could make the #LTHEchat more valuable for you, please let us know.

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

The LTHEchat team

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