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Funded by WIHEA and hosted by IATL, Sean Michael Morris, Director of Digital Pedagogy Lab and Instructional Designer, Middlebury College, USA and Dr Jesse Stommel, Executive Director of the Division of Teaching & Learning Technologies, University of Mary Washington are visiting Warwick to inspire educational approaches based on critical digital pedagogies, policies and practices and address the types of challenges teachers and learners face when working digitally.

The main events during their visit are listed below but for further details on each and booking form to reserve a place, please follow this link.

• Student Agency in Digital Spaces Workshop

Monday 20 October 2017, 12.30pm to 2.30pm, Teaching Grid (for UG and PGT students)

• Innovative Approaches to Assessment in Digital & Hybrid Pedagogies Workshop

Thursday 24 October 2017 at 12.30pm to 2.30pm, Teaching Grid (for staff)

• Critical Instructional Design Workshop

Friday 27 October 2017, 9.30am to 2pm, Collaboration Area, Teaching Grid (for staff)

• Critical Digital Pedagogy: a Public Lecture

Tuesday, 31 October 2017, 1pm to 2pm, OC1.01 The Oculus (open to staff, students and public)

• Roundtable Discussion

Wednesday, 1 November 2017, 9.30am to 11.30am, Teaching Grid (contact IATL for more information)

• Digital Pedagogy Lab Warwick

Friday 3 November 2017, 10am to 5pm, Experimental Teaching Space, Teaching Grid (WIHEA Fellows and staff)

For further information and to reserve a place at any of the above events please follow this link.

Prof Shân Wareing, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Student Experience, London South Bank University (LSBU), presented an exclusive seminar to WIHEA members on the topic of "Widening participation: student journeys, building lives" on 6 June 2017 - you can now watch the seminar on our website!

Our Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence and WATE PGR winners have been announced – see who makes the difference in learning and teaching!

Our University has been awarded silver status in the Government’s Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)

This award defines Warwick as a university that “consistently exceeds rigorous national quality requirements for UK higher education” and achieves “excellent outcomes for its students…with an institutional culture that facilitates, recognises and rewards excellent teaching”.

Since the ITLR in January 2017, Teaching Quality have been doing some detailed analysis to identify themes for development across the University. These were considered by the University Senate on 15 June 2017 and key outcomes can now be shared with the broader University community.

Ande Milinyte, Case Studies Co-ordinator started her initial temporary contract with WIHEA through Unitemps on 1 March 2017. It became apparent very quickly that Ande's excellent range of skills and attitude to her work would be a valuable contribution to the WIHEA team and wider community.

Ande has worked on the development of a web-based guidance resource, designed around the very recently developed Warwick learning and teaching ‘narrative’ which describes the student learning experience. Ande has interviewed academics and professional service staff, filmed their interviews and edited these to ensure good short case studies were developed to illustrate various aspects of teaching and learning. Ande was on top of the brief incredibly fast, worked at a highly independent rate on the guidance development and received positive feedback from colleagues following the release of the case study videos. It has been a technically challenging project but in addition to this, she has also revised and improved our existing website greatly and introduced some new features that are of great use to us for the next few years. Nothing phased her and she even managed to throw in a very professional performance when invited to contribute to a royal visit that took place at short notice. We felt Ande was fully deserving of this award and are delighted her contributions have been recognised by Unitemps. Well done Ande!

Our next WIHEA visiting educator being funded through the Monash Warwick Alliance Visiting Educators Scheme will be Dr Craig Hassed, Associate Professor from Monash University. The visit is being hosted by Prof Sarah Stewart-Brown, Professor in Public Health at Warwick Medical School.

Dr Hassed was one of the pioneers of mindfulness teaching in medicine, who embarked on the development and delivery of a wellbeing and mindfulness module in the late 1990's at the same time as one or two pioneers in the US. Although starting with elective modules for both students and GP's as the US pioneers were doing, Dr Hassed went on to develop a core curricululum course for the first two semesters of the medical school course. He was first in the world to do this and has been instrumental in introducing a variety of innovations into medical education and practice in Australia and overseas, with an emphasis on the application of holistic, integrative and mind-body medicine in medical practice.

If you wouyld like to find out more about Dr Hassed's itinerary during his visit or potential collaboration opportunities, please contact Prof Sarah Stewart-Brown at Sarah.Stewart-Brown@warwick.ac.uk

Dr Sophie Reissner-Roubicek (Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick) teaches on the MSc in Intercultural Communication for Business and the Professions and the BA in Language, Culture and Communication. In addition to designing and delivering blended intercultural training for professionals and students across disciplines and international, Dr Reissner-Roubicek's expertise in intercultural competence in applied settings is highly relevant to current work at Monash University. In particular, the focus on developing interventions to increase students ability to apply and articulate intercultural competence.

Funded through the Monash Warwick Visiting Educator Scheme, Dr Reissner-Roubicek's visit to Monash University at the begining of May 2017, will extend the collaboration with Dr Normand-Marconnet which was formed through the Monash Warwick Alliance Intercultural Competence project in 2016, when a three-stage training programme for students on study abroad was piloted and the project created a Train the Trainer resource for educators. The visit supports the continuing rollout of this training at Monash by building capacity in the post-experience section of the programme to help students' articulate their learning outcomes to employers and also contribute to the Monash Intercultural Competence Strategy by sharing a model of curricular skills development in intercultural teamwork that is applicable to educators in quantative disciplines.

During her visit, Dr Reissner-Roubicek will deliver a workshop to staff to introduce the interactive, digital learning resource and attend a networking breakfast for staff and students which will feature Intercultural Competence and Graduate Employability. The visit will provide Warwick with an insight into current approaches at Monash, including the delivery and evaluation models for the co-curricular training programme 'Leap into Leadership - Connecting across Cultures module as well as pilot projects taking place in the Faculties of Arts, Law and the Business School.

On 29 March 2017, WIHEA and the School of Life Sciences jointly hosted the Inaugural Lecture of Professor Kevin Moffat to celebrate his recent appointment as Professorial Teaching Fellow. Missed the lecture? You can watch our video of the evening's highlights.