This three day course is designed for those who have a professional role as educational and academic developers in higher education. This includes HE in FE. It is aimed at those with less than three years experience in this role. Participants may include staff in educational development units, those who have a role in LTSN Centres or those responsible for co-ordinating teaching and learning developments in their department or faculty.
Building on last year’s event, the course will be designed around workshop activities and participants will focus on their own work, concentrating on developing the skills and conceptual framework necessary to plan, run and evaluate educational development activities to meet the needs of higher education institutions. It will include an opportunity to learn more about the Associate and Full SEDA Fellowship Scheme.
Sessions will be practice based and facilitated by experienced educational developers and grounded in research on learning and teaching. Presenters are likely to include David Baume FSEDA (Independent Consultant), Ali Cooper (University of Lancaster), Peter Kahn FSEDA (University of Manchester), Rhona Sharpe FSEDA (The Open University) and Sue Thompson (Liverpool John Moores University). The workshop element will involve example case studies, role play and collaborative problem solving supported by a range of materials. The course will include opportunity for small group work and tutorial time with an experienced developer to support action planning. A draft programme is available from the SEDA website.
Programme
Day 1 |
Introduction to Educational Development
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10.30am
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Registration and refreshments
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11.00 – 12.30pm
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Welcome, followed by:
Session 1: What is Educational Development? Peter Kahn FSEDA
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12.30 – 1.30pm
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Lunch
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1.30 -5.00pm
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Session 2: The Role of Educational Developers in Managing Change, Lynn Roberts
Including refreshments at 3.30pm
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6.00pm
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Dinner
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7.30 – 9.00pm
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Final session: Modelling Action Learning, Lynn Roberts
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Day 2
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Some Practicalities of Being an Educational Developer
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9.00 – 12.30pm
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Session 1: Designing and Running Events, Peter Kahn FSEDA
Including refreshments at 10.30am
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12.30 – 1.30pm
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Lunch
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1.30 – 3.00pm
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Session 2: Issues sessions
(a) Educational Development in the Disciplines, Alan Jenkins
(b) Collaborative Approaches to Educational Development (to be confirmed)
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3.00 – 3.30pm
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Refreshments
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3.30 – 5.00pm
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Session 3: Issues session
The Scholarship of Educational Development, Ranald Macdonald FSEDA
Note : a further option may be offered
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5.15 – 6.15pm
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Final session: Mentoring Sessions (Optional)
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6.45pm
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Dinner
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Day 3
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Reflection and Progress Planning
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9.00 – 11.15am
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Session 1: Evaluation and Feedback, Rhona Sharpe FSEDA
Including refreshments at 10.00am
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11.30 – 1pm
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Session 2: Personal and Professional Coping Strategies, Neill Thew.
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1.00 – 2.00pm
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Lunch
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2.00 – 4.30pm
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SEDA Fellowships Support Event: Helen King AFSEDA and Peter Kahn FSEDA
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4.30pm
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Close
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Session Outlines
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Day 1
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Introduction to Educational Development
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Session 1
11.00-1.30pm
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What is Educational Development?
Peter Kahn FSEDA, Teaching Development Officer, University of Manchester
Details of this session to be confirmed.
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Session 2
1.30 – 5.00pm
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The Role of Educational Developers in Managing Change
Lynn Roberts, University of Liverpool
Details of this session to be confirmed.
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Final session
7.30 – 9.00pm
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Modelling Action Learning
Lynn Roberts, University of Liverpool
Action Learning is ‘a continuous process of learning and reflection, supported by colleagues, with an intention of getting things done…individuals learn with and from each other by working on real problems and reflecting on their experience’ (Beaty & McGill, 1992 ‘Action Learning’)
Aim:
· to explain what action learning is and how it can be used to support your professional practice and learning;
· to demonstrate how action learning works by modelling the process.
Outline:
The session will have a very practical focus with participants being encouraged to explore real issues and concerns from their own practice by working in threes as an action learning ‘set’.
Preparation:
No preparation is necessary but participants will need to identify a professional issue or concern they have that they can describe and talk about in the action learning set workshop.
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Day 2
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Some Practicalities of Being an Educational Developer
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Session 1
9.00 – 12.30pm
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Designing and Running Events
Peter Kahn FSEDA, Teaching Development Officer, University of Manchester
Aims:
• To consider the role of events – primarily workshops – as part of educational development activity.
• To examine approaches to designing and running successful events.
• To enable participants to begin to design a workshop.
Outline:
The session will begin by looking at the place of workshops in educational development activity and the characteristics of successful events. A series of short activities will be used to introduce various aspects of designing and running workshops. A final activity will involve preparing the outline of a workshop that participants can take away to run for themselves.
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Session 2
2.00 – 3.30pm
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Issues sessions
(a) Educational Development in the Disciplines (to be confirmed)
(b) Collaborative Approaches to Educational Development (to be confirmed)
Details of these sessions to be confirmed.
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Session 3
4.00 – 5.30pm
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The Scholarship of Educational Development
Ranald Macdonald FSEDA
Details of this session to be confirmed. Note: a further option may be offered.
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Final session
5.15 – 6.15pm
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Mentoring Sessions
Participants are offered either a session of an individual mentoring with an experienced educational developer or a peer co-counseling session (those involved in the peer co-counseling will be grouped into pairs and/or triads).
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Day 3
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Reflection and Progress Planning
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Session 1
9.00 – 11.15am
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Evaluation and Feedback
Rhona Sharpe FSEDA
We hope that our educational development work will be popular, enjoyable, relevant and highly valued, and we often collect feedback to assess how effective we have been in meeting such aims. This session will start by looking at approaches to conducting such evaluations and then take us further to discuss how we assess the impact of our work. Since educational development work often deliberately shows its results in the work of others, we need to find fresh approaches to evidencing our effectiveness and impact. Conducting our own evaluations will also help us to answer questions such as which elements contribute most to effective professional development or how does professional development contribute to improved teaching and student learning? This session will address some of the difficulties in monitoring and evaluating educational development work and discuss some of the approaches which are now being taken by developers.
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Session 2
11.30 – 1.00pm
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Personal and Professional Coping Strategies
Neill Thew, Head of Teaching and Learning Development, University of Sussex
Details to be confirmed
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Final session
2.00 – 4.30pm
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SEDA Fellowships Support Event
Helen King AFSEDA, Manager LTSN-GEES and Peter Kahn FSEDA, Teaching Development Officer, University of Manchester
Higher education is now changing rapidly. It is essential that those at the forefront of this change are fully equipped for their roles. The SEDA Fellowship and Associate Fellowship is the only professional accreditation scheme for staff and educational developers, and you can do it! In addition to full time developers, the scheme is also relevant for anyone engaged in development work on a part-time basis. If you are not enrolled on the scheme but are thinking seriously about it, we will be able to give you a clear idea of what is needed so that you can decide if now is the right time for you to register. This event is designed for:
· those considering the Fellowship;
· those recently registered;
· those compiling their portfolios for assessment.
Whatever stage you are at, this event is designed to give you the opportunity to dedicate some time to progressing your Fellowships plans and reflecting on your continuing development. It is a time to meet other Fellowships candidates, look at Fellowship portfolios and discuss the common questions and problems faced in compiling them. This will help you plan the work needed for your submission and if appropriate, prepare for the interview. We aim to use this time to make the Fellowship process more personally valuable for you so that you can complete the process successfully.
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