Manchester Metropolitan University

Glyndwr University

Further information and booking

‘Graduate attributes’ (GAs) are back on the higher education agenda. How can we develop an effective conception and definition of
GAs so that they can function as a touchstone and steer to curriculum development? And how can personal development planning (PDP)
processes best contribute to their acquisition?

This workshop event will explore a range of issues around GAs and PDP, including:

• how best to teach students to become conscious of developing and gathering the evidence for GAs;

• the most effective technology to support this process;

• GAs and employability; and

• opportunities for the development of GAs both within and beyond the academic curriculum.

Depending on participants’ own concerns and their own institution’s strategies and priorities, issues raised may include the
provision of separate skills awards; whether and how PDP activities should be assessed; how responsibility for developing a record
of PDP activities and/or GAs should be supported and shared between institution and student.

There will be an opportunity during the day for participants to share their own practice around any of these issues, through a
short presentation (10-15 minutes) of their work. We would like to encourage participants to take advantage of this, whatever the
stage they have reached in what they are doing: invariably colleagues from other institutions find such situated practice
illuminating. If you think you would like to take advantage of this opportunity to share your practice, please contact Janet
Strivens as soon as possible on strivens@liv.ac.uk .

The workshop will be facilitated by Janet Strivens, Senior Associate Director at the Centre for Recording Achievement (CRA), where
she leads in the areas of e-portfolio development and personal development planning.

Further information and booking

Swansea Metropolitan University

Further information and booking

‘Graduate attributes’ (GAs) are back on the higher education agenda. How can we develop an effective conception and definition of
GAs so that they can function as a touchstone and steer to curriculum development? And how can personal development planning (PDP)
processes best contribute to their acquisition?

This workshop event will explore a range of issues around GAs and PDP, including:

• how best to teach students to become conscious of developing and gathering the evidence for GAs;

• the most effective technology to support this process;

• GAs and employability; and

• opportunities for the development of GAs both within and beyond the academic curriculum.

Depending on participants’ own concerns and their own institution’s strategies and priorities, issues raised may include the
provision of separate skills awards; whether and how PDP activities should be assessed; how responsibility for developing a record
of PDP activities and/or GAs should be supported and shared between institution and student.

There will be an opportunity during the day for participants to share their own practice around any of these issues, through a
short presentation (10-15 minutes) of their work. We would like to encourage participants to take advantage of this, whatever the
stage they have reached in what they are doing: invariably colleagues from other institutions find such situated practice
illuminating. If you think you would like to take advantage of this opportunity to share your practice, please contact Janet
Strivens as soon as possible on strivens@liv.ac.uk .

The workshop will be facilitated by Janet Strivens, Senior Associate Director at the Centre for Recording Achievement (CRA), where
she leads in the areas of e-portfolio development and personal development planning.

Further information and booking

See our Plagiarism site for  links to further information and training.

Venue: Royal York Hotel, York

The focus of this one day event is on the use of online tools to support, enhance and enable collaboration between Further and Higher Education and their commercial, public sector, cultural and social & civic partners.
Presentations will include 3 keynotes plus sessions showcasing outputs from the JISC Trialling Collaborative Tools for Business and Community Engagement project. The day will also include networking opportunities and a panel discussion to explore emergent themes from the day.
The event will be of value to anyone interested in any of the four dimensions of BCE, namely: Employer Engagement, Knowledge Transfer, Lifelong Learning or Cultural Community & Public Engagement.
We anticipate that attendees will include senior managers, academics, lecturers, IT directors, knowledge transfer managers, business development managers and staff from support services.
Registration for the event (via the URL above) is free and includes access to the day’s
talks, lunch and refreshments.
Places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment.

Further details and booking
http://collaborativetools4bce.jiscinvolve.org/events/showcase/

Woburn House, London

The facilitators are James Wisdom, Gail Langley, Sean Walton and Will Stewart.  Further details and  booking online at http://www.seda.ac.uk

The facilitator for this workshop is Graham Gibbs. A flyer and registration form are attached and fuller details can be found on our website http://www.seda.ac.uk

The association for Learning Technology (ALT) have recently produced a series of 9 guides looking at how research in various areas of learning technologies might inform the practical deployment of these technologies
 
The 9 guides cover the topics below and can be found at
http://wiki.alt.ac.uk/index.php/What_research_has_to_say_for_practice

Tutoring on-line
Web-based course design
Learner acceptance of on-line learning and e-learning
Learning objects and repositories
Learning using mobile and hand-held devices
On-line communities
Technology-supported assessment
Learning environments
Using social software in learning