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Cultivate's Evaluating Teaching and Learning in HE Forum

What is Cultivate?

Cultivate is hosted by the Academic Development Centre at the University of Warwick. It is an open access series of events and resources to support learning, teaching and assessment that caters to all experience levels, ranging from early career academics to those leading modules and programmes. Cultivate supports sector-wide community explorations of all things related to HE teaching, learning and assessment. As well as supporting individual professional learning, Cultivate provides a platform for colleagues to share their work and connect with wide and diverse communities.

What is the Evaluating Teaching and Learning in HE Forum?

We are delighted to announce the launch of Cultivate’s Evaluating Teaching and Learning Forum. This forum is open to colleagues across the HE sector and will provide space and opportunities to share and discuss evaluation practices in the HE setting. These practices might include evaluation of student learning, teaching practices and approaches, interventions and initiatives, educational development activities, course/module evaluation, etc.

The specific aims of the forum are to:
  • enhance expertise in evaluating teaching and learning in HE;
  • explore different ways of thinking about and doing evaluation;
  • enable colleagues to connect and identify collaboration opportunities.

The forum will be hosted online, with the possibility of some in-person events. There will be at least three meetings per academic year.

2024/25 Term 3 Forum

The Term 2 forum will be taking place on Wednesday 25th June 2025, 1pm - 1.50pm.

Our speakers will be announced shortly!

Don't miss this exciting event! Book your place here.

Previous forum recordings

Don't worry if you missed any of our events. You can catch up with all forum meetings via the recordings below:

    • Student-centred approaches to evaluation - recorded in November 2023.   Forum recording (47 minutes).
    • Creative evaluation - recorded in February 2024.  Forum recording (49 minutes).
    • Participatory approaches to evaluation - recorded in June 2024.  Forum recording (47 minutes).
    • Evaluating with students - recorded in November 2024. Forum recording (49 minutes).
    • Evaluating for module/curriculum enhancement - recorded February 2025. Forum recording (47 minutes)

    Thank you to all the speakers we have welcomed to the forum so far...

    Virna Rossi, Ravensbourne University London; Cassie Lowe, University of Cambridge; Bhagavathy Ramachandran, University of Warwick; Jon Rainford and Samantha Child, The Open University and Applied Inspiration; Elisavet Christou, Violet Owen and Pinar Ceyhan, Lancaster University; Charlotte Stevens, University of Warwick; Michael Harnar, Western Michigan University; Alan Donnelly, Sheffield Hallam University; Kerry Dobbins, University of Warwick; Hiral Patel and Fiona Duggan, Cardiff University; Joris de Henau and Elizabeth Rahman, University of Oxford; Evan Dickerson and Joy Amuno, Guildhall School of Music & Drama; Tünde Varga-Atkins, University of Liverpool; Antonios Kaniadakis, Nour Ali and Isabel Sassoon, Brunel University London; India Palmer, University of Warwick.

    Get in touch

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    We'd love to hear from you if you have work or experiences that you would like to share at this forum. Please contact Kerry.Dobbins@warwick.ac.uk