Teaching Excellence: Transforming the Student Learning Experience
Tuesday 17 May 2016
Proposals from both staff and students are welcomed.
Our annual Teaching and Learning Showcase provides an opportunity to share and celebrate the many ways in which we encourage, facilitate, and inspire learning.
The theme for this year’s Showcase is Teaching Excellence: Transforming the Student Learning Experience and proposals should address one of the following topics:
Transforming spaces: Warwick’s new Teaching and Learning Building promises to deliver innovative and exciting social learning spaces that make educational experiences visible. We invite you to explore how physical space impacts upon our teaching practice, and to consider how the learning environment influences and inspires student learning. How does transforming learning spaces enable you to create transformative student learning experiences? Does shifting learning beyond the conventional classroom, in field work, work-based learning, or online, enable students to learn more effectively? Do you change the ‘learning landscape’ through concepts or places?
Transforming technologies: while the very word ‘technology’ carries connotations of innovation, modernity and transformation, ‘technology enhanced learning’ has perhaps a more complex relationship with change. Over 50 years after the first computer was used in higher education we still talk about the “potential” of technology to transform student learning experiences. We invite you to consider some definites: how does technology enable you to create transformative student learning experiences? In what ways does technology push the boundaries of learning and teaching? What challenges have you encountered, and how have you overcome them?
Transforming teaching: as Higher Education responds to ever-changing contexts, our assumptions about the purpose of the University and the roles of teachers and students working within it are regularly challenged. This compels us to reflect and to consider how our teaching practice both adapts to and creates new learning environments. We invite you to share your strategies and responses to change within higher education. What does learning and teaching in the early 21st century look like and feel like? How will higher education evolve in order to meet future challenges, and how will you create opportunities to enhance student learning?
What do you need to do? Submit a proposal based on one of the above topics and presentation formats below to tls@warwick.ac.uk by Friday 8 April.
Further details: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/ldc/teaching_learning/communitiesofpractice/showcase/