Manchester Metropolitan University

Sue Jones has written a new student guide Critical Learning for Social Work Students which will be releeased for sale at the end of March 2009. The book is in the Transforming Social Work Practice series and is a concise guide to critical learning a features plenty of group and individual activities. Chapters are written around key concepts of critical learning and contain links to the National Operating Standards (NOS) and Social Work Subject Benchmarks.

There has been some reorganisation of CeLT representation on MMU’s Faculty Academic Development Committees. Our reps on the committees are now as follows:

• HSPC: Alicia Prowse
• IoE: Robert Ready
• Sci and Eng: Maureen Dawson
• Hollings: Neil Ringan
• MMU Cheshire: Rachel Forsyth
• MMUBS: Neil Ringan
• HLSS: Dorothy Oakey
• Art & Design: Alicia Prowse

Liz Murphy has joined CeLT as General Administrator. Her phone extension is 1619 email e.a.murphy@mmu.ac.uk

At the Fellows and CoPs awayday in June some decisions were made about the CoPs and how to proceed during the coming year. As a result, the Staff Development CoP has been disbanded and the Student Support and Student Experience CoPs merged. A new CoP has been set up to discuss use of Second Life. CoPs web pages

While building works continue to construct a new foyer and lift to be shared by Cavendish North and Ormond Buildings, be aware that the CeLT meeting room and APD room are very noisy at times, so you may wish to make alternative arrangements.  While the works are in progress, access to CeLT is via the Ormond building.

Claire Hamshire has been appointed SLTF in HPSC. Mary Issitt, SLTF in MMU Cheshire is retiring at the end of August. Mike Lowe in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at MMU Cheshire has been appointed as an SLTF with a key responsibility for Retention.

HEA Academy Subject Centre for Bioscience

One of the Centre’s themes this year is plagiarism (Assessment, Feedback and Plagiarism) and we are keen to gather examples of the initiatives people have introduced to design out plagiarism rather than to just detect it. If you have done some work on this let us know, using the open call case study proforma available on our website. Accepted case studies will be added to the Centre website and may be printed and distributed in hard copy format by the Centre. The first author of each accepted case study will be eligible to receive a small payment of £100. If you are working on another topic which you think the Centre would be interested in then consider using the open call proforma to let us know about it.

Further details

CERLIM is hosting a workshop on Alternate Reality Games in education which will be run by CERLIM and Dr
Nicola Whitton from MMU*s Education and Social Research Institute. The workshop is an extension to the ARGOSI project, the aim of which is to facilitate the reuse of the ARGOSI work, enabling teams to be able to develop and run their own Alternate Reality Games for Learning and Teaching, reflecting their locality and areas of curriculum interest.

At the end of the workshop participants will:
- have experienced an alternate reality game first hand;
- recognise the components that make up the game;
- be aware of the ARGOSI design framework and customizable artefacts;
- have developed challenges for their own learning outcomes.

The workshop will be in Geoffrey Manton Building on December 3rd from 10 until 4 with lunch provided. To register contact Geoff Butters g.butters@mmu.ac.uk, Jenny Craven j.craven@mmu.ac.uk, or Jill
Griffiths j.r.griffiths@mmu.ac.uk

Cumbria Study of Higher Education Network in collaboration with Northumbria University Centre for Excellence in Assessment for Learning

Wednesday 8th July 2009, University of Cumbria, Carlisle

This second Assessment in Higher Education Conference, builds on the successful event in 2008 as an opportunity to debate concerns and increase understanding of assessment practice.  It will provide the opportunity to share innovations and research with a particular focus on the voice of the practitioner, working to improve assessment in their programmes and institutions.  For further information, please follow this link to our website.

Liz Callan
CDLT Administrator
Tel : (01524) 384232
Email : liz.callan@cumbria.ac.uk<mailto:liz.callan@cumbria.ac.uk>