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.
Next Forum
The Term 3 forum will take place online on Wednesday 26th June 2024, 1pm - 1.50pm.
The theme and speakers for this forum will be announced shortly.
Book your place via this link and a calendar invite will be sent to you.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Term 2 Forum: Creative Evaluation
This forum took place online on Wednesday 28th February 2024, 1pm - 1.50pm. We were thrilled to welcome the following speakers:- Charlotte Stevens, University of Warwick, is one of the #creativeHE events leads and is particularly interested in using art and craft as a means of evaluation and reflection.
- Elisavet Christou, Violet Owen and Pinar Ceyhan, Lancaster University, are the co-authors of The Little Book of Creative Evaluation. This book helps organisations, teams and individuals to learn more about Creative Evaluation.
- Jon Rainford and Samantha Child, The Open University and Applied Inspiration, have led activities that use creative methods to more actively involve students in evaluation.
Don't worry if you missed it, you can view the full Forum recording (49 minutes).
Term 1 Forum: Student-centred approaches to evaluation
This forum took place on 15th November 2023. We were delighted to welcome the following three speakers:
- Virna Rossi, Ravensbourne University London, shared a case study of using Ketso to carry out a mid-course evaluation (this case study is discussed more in Virna's book Inclusive Learning Design in Higher Education).
- Cassie Lowe, University of Cambridge, discussed her work on supporting students’ critical reflection on their learning gain through the UK Engagement Survey (UKES).
- Bhagavathy Ramachandran, University of Warwick, shared her experience of evaluating students’ learning through a creative arts-based assessment within a Leadership module.
Don't worry if you missed it, you can view the full Forum recording (47 minutes).
Get in touch
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