PGA TEL Course Dates

Both the Postgraduate Award in Technology Enhanced Learning and Postgraduate Award in Technology Enhanced Learning Theory and Application will take place online. They will include opportunities to engage with asynchronous materials and synchronous sessions where we come togehter to discuss key areas and share ideas and developments around the projects. Below is a schedule of events - please note that there is a Moodle that will run alongside these sessions and will include focused topics on student experience, digital pedagogy, design for learning, the role of the tutor and assessment ande feedback.

Content	Date	What is involved
Launch of Moodle/ Teams/ Introduction Activity on Padlet	29^th November	Share links to Moodle and Teams Introduction activity on Padlet
Introduction Meeting	30^th November 1-2pm	Welcome to the PGA TEL. Meet the team and colleagues on the PGA TEL.Find out what to expect over the coming months, introduction to the PSF.
Defining your project	14^th December 1-2pm	Opportunity to start defining the challenges, what will your project look like? Who are your students? Who are the stakeholders?
Student Experience Discussion	13^th January 3-4pm	Following on from defining challenges, we focus on the student experience. What we can do to engage with the students, what the feedback says, opportunity to share thoughts and experiences
Introduction to the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL)	19th January, 2-3pm	My colleague, Dr Kerry Dobbins (ADC), will be leading this session - exploring what SoTL is and how we can approach this area of scholarship. Further details to follow shortly.
Digital Pedagogy Discussion	27^th January 11-12	Approaches that you are going to use, what pedagogies are you working with. Sharing the literature
Evaluation and Ethics	9^th February 1-2pm	Get started thinking about the evaluation of your project. What approaches could you take? What to think about? How does it apply to your project? Developing your evaluation strategy.
Action Learning Sets	15^th February, 10-11 16^th February, 1-2pm 17^th February, 3-4pm 10th March, 11-12 22nd March, 3-4pm 23rd March, 9-10	These action learning sets are an opportunity to come along and share where you are at with you project, try out new ideas, get feedback and ask any questions. Groups are limited to 5 people. You should attend at least 1 ALS. Details and how to book will be shared early on in the course.
Writing Retreat	25^th March, 12-2 29^th April, 12-2 1^st July, 12-2	Opportunity to have protected time and work on the submissions. You can simply protect the time or come along and join us. We follow the Pomodoro technique for writing retreats.
Hand in dates	Presentation 28^th March Reflective Account 9^th May Case Study 11^th July (For D2 pathway only