Social Media in Education

The 2018 Social Media for Learning in Higher Education Conference (#SocMedHE18) comes to Nottingham Trent University, UK on the 9th January 2019 (yes I did get the date right).

Maren Deepwell, Chief Executive of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) is providing the keynote, aligning with the conference themes of Openness, Creativity and Digital Identity in Higher Education.


Sessions will include (but definitely not exclusive to)

• running course twitter accounts, 
• engaging students on social media, 
• personas, 
• Serious Lego Play, 
• collaborative learning,
• Active Learning Sets for off-site students
• twitter conversations
• institutional policy
• lurking

Full session list is available at https://socmedhe18.wordpress.com/session-information/ 

Book your place at https://onlinestore.ntu.ac.uk/product-catalogue/arts-humanities/conferences/social-media-for-learning-in-higher-education-conference-9-january-2019




All views are the authors, and may not reflect the views of any organisation the author is connected with in any way.

Call for papers: The future of learning and teaching in Higher Education

Enhancing the Learner Experience in Higher Education (ELEHE)

Call for papers:The future of learning and teaching in Higher Education

ELEHE is an open-access international peer-reviewed online journal, enthusiastically addressing the challenge of enhancing learning in Higher Education. The journal seeks to explore innovations which impact on student learning, and to share effective practice across different contexts. It aims to enhance the student experience of learning by an engaged commitment to the student voice. The deadline for submissions for the next edition under the theme of 'The future of learning and teaching in Higher Education' is 1st March 2013. However, we welcome papers at all times. Details about the journal focus and scope, along with author guidelines can be found here

ISSN: 2041-3122

Journal and submission details can be found at http://journals.northampton.ac.uk/index.php/elehe/about

Journal: Call for papers

Enhancing the Learner Experience in Higher Education (ELEHE): Call for papers!

ELEHE is an open-access international peer-reviewed online journal http://journals.northampton.ac.uk/index.php/elehe/index published twice yearly, enthusiastically addressing the challenge of enhancing learning in Higher Education. The journal seeks to explore innovations which impact on student learning, and to share effective practice across different contexts. It aims to enhance the student experience of learning by an engaged commitment to the student voice. Enhancing the Learner Experience in Higher Education thus has a unique mission.

Papers are welcome which embrace the student voice to help improve the learner experience in ways which have been shown to impact positively on students. As well as learner experience in the teaching environment it also includes all aspects that improve the learner’s experience in Higher Education. 

The journal is interdisciplinary in scope. It welcomes a diverse range of articles, drawing on a variety of critical, comparative and reflective approaches responding to key agendas in Higher Education. Committed to evidence-informed practice, it will also encourage the setting of new agendas where the student experience can be enhanced. 

The journal welcomes:

• research articles (3000-6000 words); 
• critical case studies (3000-4000 words); 
• short reports (up to 2000 words)
• book reviews (up to 1000 words).

Details of the journal focus and scope, along with author guidelines can be found at http://journals.northampton.ac.uk/index.php/elehe/about

Deadline for submissions for the next edition is  1^st  March 2013

If you want to discuss ideas about possible articles, or want guidance on preparing your submission, please contact the Editors

Dr Rachel Maunder (Chair of Editorial Team) Rachel.Maunder@northampton.ac.uk

Dr Simon Sneddon (Editor; and Book Reviews Editor) Simon.Sneddon@northampton.ac.uk

Anna Crouch (Editor) Anna.Crouch@northampton.ac.uk

Dr Scott Turner (Editor) Scott.Turner@northampton.ac.uk

Journal:  http://journals.northampton.ac.uk/index.php/elehe/index

Blog: http://elehe.blogspot.co.uk/

Double the Teaching Fellows!

The School of Science and Technology is going to double the number of Teaching Fellows to six (joining Jonathan Adams, Greg Spellman and Scott Turner). Three colleagues were successful in their application for Teaching Fellowship (one of only four to be awarded). 


Ruth Copeland-Philips, Louise Maxwell and Paul Cox will be awarded their fellowships for their work on Technology to help with the transistion into Higher Education of distance learning students.


Details of their work can be found at:

• The University of Northampton Teaching and Learning Conference (May 2009), Piloting Induction Strategies for Distance Learners. Poster presentation and conference paper.
• The University of Northampton Teaching and Learning Conference (May 2011) Technology Enhanced Transition Programme for Distance Learners, Poster presentation
• Widening Participation Seminar at The University of Northampton, (September 2011), Technology Enhanced Transition Programme for Distance Learners, Poster presentation and conference paper.

• Poster presentation available in Park Library atrium (24^th October - 4^th November 2011) .
• Widening participation web pages: http://www.northampton.ac.uk/info/200284/widening-participation/1132/projects
• School of Science and Technology blog (18 September 2011) Technology Enhanced Transition Programme:http://apslandt.blogspot.com/

CEISE keynote: Green computing and the role of higher education

The keynote session for 7th China – Europe International Symposium on Software Industry Orientated Education to be held 23-24th May 2011 at School of Science and Technology, University of Northampton, UK. We have been fortunate to have three keynote speakers.

Speakers:

Denise Oram– Ethical dimensions, building and procuring for sustainability

Colin Pattinson- Sustainability in the IT/CS curriculum

Bob Crooks– Wider UK government and BCS work on Green ICT

Abstract

 As both large consumers of technology and energy with significant sustainability impacts, and agents for changing behaviours and technologies, universities have a pivotal role in securing a greener planet for us all. We aim to set out the drivers for change and how we in the UK are driving change forward through UK Government, Education and Industry work.

 The first session will set the context for action, highlight the opportunities that can be taken in procuring and designing for more efficient ICT use and practices , and how UK Professional  and Educational bodies are leveraging these opportunities and the progress made to date

 Next we will explore how the Green ICT agenda can be taken forward in the HE environment taking on board student perspectives and the design of a well-balanced curriculum. We argue that this needs to get across the whole area of sustainability, its language, challenges  impacts from ICT and in depth exploration and learning around areas of large impact eg data centres, printing/paper, Cloud services.

 Finally we will  step back to look at the various wider UK government and EU programmes impacting and driving Green ICT work for Public Sector organisations such as universities and other HE establishments, and provide an opportunity for discussion of the issues raised

For more details of the conference can be found at this link.

Teaching and Learning Day

image taken from: http://www.nvision-ipt.com/

A further teaching and learning day was held in the School of Science and Technology, University of Northampton, Uk on the 20th December 2010. Bringing together academic staff from the School and some staff from one of the school's partner colleges - Tresham College of Further and Higher Education. The event was held in the Newton Building.



Talks

• Tales of the Unexpected by Jill Pickard -  'Horror Stories' from Exam Boards, providing food for thought on how mistakes can lead to complications. 
• Dissertation by John Butcher considering the university's dissertation policy, participants experiences of being supervised (both positive and negative) and left participants to consider the fittest for purpose of the dissertation and should we consider alternatives to the standard dissertation.
• Helena Beeson from Information Resources refreshed the group on some of the resources that were available, some new resources and offered to come into teaching session to provide specific support to students based for a specific assignment.
• Mick Freeman discussed the new integrated communication system.

The next event is expected next term.

Science and Technology Research in Pedagogy (STRiPe)

• The University of Northampton's STRiPe group brings together academic members of staff who are interested research on various aspects of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) learning and teaching.

  Academic staff involved currently in this research group are:

  • Dr Jonathan Adams
  • Gary Hill
  • Professor Phil Picton
  • Dr Scott Turner
  • Dr Mark Johnson
  • Rashmi Dravid
  • John Sinclair

  For more information or interested in being involved please contact Dr Scott Turner. 

  Example Publications:

• Turner S and Hill G (2010) "Innovative use of Robots and Graphical Programming in Software Education" 6th China Europe International Symposium on Software Industry Oriented Education (CEISIE2010) Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an
• Duncan A and Dravid R (2010) "Soft skills for scientists; not a soft option" Learning Dialogues: Learning and Teaching Conference, University of Northampton 13th May 2010
• Turner S(2009) " PowerPoint, but what else?"10th Higher Education Academy-ICS Conference, University of Kent, 24-27th August 2009, pp 151 ISBN 978-0-9559676-6-5
• Turner S (2009)"Initial experience of using audio feedback for general assignment feedback" A Word In Your Ear 2009 Sheffield Hallam University, 18 December 2009 pg 12
• Johnson M and Davis R(2009) " An Examination of the Causality of Transition and Retention Failure with Computer Science Based Courses"10th Higher Education Academy-ICS Conference, University of Kent, 24-27th August 2009, pp 148 ISBN 978-0-9559676-6-5
• Dravid R (2009) "Context-based teaching - A key to graduate employability for computer network courses10th Higher Education Academy-ICS Conference, University of Kent, 24-27th August 2009, pp 159 ISBN 978-0-9559676-6-5
• Turner S, Hill G, Adams J (2009) "Robots in problem solving in programming" 9th 1-day Teaching of Programming Workshop, University of Bath, 6th April 2009.
• Turner S (2009) "Tiddlywikis for student developed resources" Transitions: Teaching and Learning Conference 13th May 2009 University of Northampton.
• Dravid R (2009) "Context-based teaching - A key to graduate employability for computer network courses" Transitions: Teaching and Learning Conference 13th May 2009 University of Northampton
• Johnson M (2008) "The Dyslexic User's Interface Support Tool (DUIST)" PhD Thesis University of Northampton.
• Turner S and Hill G(2008) "Robots within the Teaching of Problem-Solving" ITALICS vol. 7 No. 1 June 2008 pp 108-119 ISSN 1473-7507
• Turner S (2008) "TiddlyWikis for Student Developed Resources" 9th Higher Education Academy-ICS Annual Conference, Liverpool Hope University, 26th August - 28th August 2008. pp. 192 ISBN 978-0-9559676-0-3.
• Turner S and Adams J (2008) "Robots and Problem Solving" 9th Higher Education Academy-ICS Annual Conference, Liverpool Hope University, 26th August - 28th August 2008. pp. 14 ISBN 978-0-9559676-0-3.
• Minai, A, Turner S, and Hill. G (2008) "Motivational Differences in Learning Internet Programming Between Arts and Computing Students" 9th Higher Education Academy-ICS Annual Conference, Liverpool Hope University, 26th August - 28th August 2008. pp. 197 ISBN 978-0-9559676-0-3.
• Adams, J. and Turner, S., (2008) Problem Solving and Creativity for Undergraduate Computing and Engineering students: the use of robots as a development tool Creating Contemporary Student Learning Environments 2008, Northampton, UK.
• Adams, J. and Turner, S., (2008) Problem Solving and Creativity for Undergraduate Engineers: process or product? International Conference on Innovation, Good Practice and Research in Engineering Education 2008, Loughborough, UK.
• Adams, J., Turner, S., Kaczmarczyk, S., Picton, P. and Demian, P.,(2008). Problem Solving and Creativity for Undergraduate Engineers: findings of an action research project involving robots International Conference on Engineering Education ICEE 2008, Budapest, Hungary.