Manchester Metropolitan University

The objective of INTED2010 is to share your experiences in the fields of Technology, Education, Development and International Collaboration.

This is an annual International Forum for lecturers, researchers, professors, educational scientists and technologists who wish to present their projects and results in all disciplines and fields of Education. This 4th annual edition expects to count with the attendance of more than 450 delegates from 65 different countries.

You can present your projects in two modalities: In person (oral and poster presentations) and virtually (if you can not attend in person). Two ISBN publications (INTED2010 Abstracts CD and INTED2010 Proceedings CD) will be produced with all accepted abstracts and papers that will serve as a database of innovation projects in Education and Technology.

Further information

Abstracts should be submitted before the 1st of December 2009

The Social Policy and Social Work (SWAP) Subject Centre send out a monthly e-bulletin about their activities. To read about SWAP and subscribe to the bulletin, visit the SWAP web pages. Forthcoming events include:

• Successfully integrating discipline characteristics within generic education development programmes
• Living and Learning, Learning and Teaching: Mental Health in Higher Education

 

Are you interested in enhancing the use of technology within your department?
The Discipline-focused Learning Technology Enhancement Academy 2010 provides a programme of workshops and the ongoing support of an expert ‘critical friend’ over a twelve month period to help you plan and implement a learning and teaching enhancement project within your department. The programme will benefit you most if you are at an early stage of thinking about possibilities, as you will be invited to attend an initial workshop in order to develop your ideas. Further details

 

 

The Assessment Tomorrow 2009 Edinburgh Conference

From the conference director:
There has been much discussion recently about the Assessment is for  Learning agenda and how best to reap the benefits of this coherent  framework for assessment. A framework in which a wealth of evidence of  learning can be gathered and interpreted to best meet the needs of learners,  their parents and teachers, as well as school managers and others with  responsibility for ensuring that education in Scotland is as good as it can be.  Technology provides a key tool for managing this process and the 4th annual  Assessment Tomorrow conference will focus the latest achievements,  developments, innovation and good practice within formative and summative  assessment, and how the technology supports those requirements.

Further details

 

The Association for Learning Technology (ALT)  will be running a good practice  workshop for schools, colleges, universities, work-based learning, and  community education about the Successful deployment of networked  handheld devices for learning and teaching.

The workshop will be facilitated by Professor Gilly Salmon, head of  Leicester University’s Beyond Distance Research Alliance, and it will  take place between 16.30 on Thursday 12 November to 15.30 on Friday 13  November at the National College for Leadership for Schools and  Children’s Services in Nottingham.

Full description of event.

If you wish to attend this event please express an interest using this form  by no later than 12 noon on Friday  23 October.

The Leadership Foundation for Higher Education  has shortlisted our Communities of Practice for their Staff Development Impact Award. The winner will be announced at the LFHE conference at the beginning of November.

Academic staff are often asked to write references for students. The University does have an official policy on this, which you can find on the Governance and Secretariat website.

Thanks to Nicola Clarke from CASQE for identifiying the link.