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.
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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 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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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
Prior to retirement, Simon was Lecturer in Professional Development at the Open University – @simonrae
Dr Jenny Fisher
Jenny is Senior Lecturer in Social Care at Manchester Metropolitan University – @JennyCFisher
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.
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.
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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.
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!
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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
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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).
Dr Jenny Fisher
