The following was the schedule of workshops for the 2023/2024 academic year including links to recordings and resources:
Tips for Planning and Managing the Academic Year
Monday September 4th, 2023, 14:00 - 15:00 DescriptionThe start of a new academic year can bring lots of opportunities and challenges. Balancing the many competing tasks and workload requirements can sometimes be difficult to manage which is why it can be helpful to consider alternative approaches. This workshop primarily examined what systems of practice are useful to adopt in an academic setting and how to maximise time management strategies. It also provided basic guidance and suggestions around planning assessments, particularly in light of the recent emergence of artificial intelligence technologies. Presented By:
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My Professional Development: TLASE CPD Opportunities in Semester 1 2023/24
Tuesday September 5th, 2023, 14:00 - 14:45 DescriptionEach academic year, the Teaching and Learning Unit (TLU) and AnSEO - The Student Engagement Office offer an important range of relevant, useful and accessible formal continuing professional development opportunities related to teaching, learning, assessment and student engagement (TLASE) to MTU staff as follows:
These offerings provide staff with opportunities to reflect on and identify potential changes to their practice with the ultimate aim of providing an enhanced teaching, learning, assessment and student engagement experience for both themselves and students. The purpose of this session was to provide more information about each of the above programmes and to provide participants with an opportunity to hear from previous participants in terms of what they learned and how it has impacted on their practice. Presented By
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Developing Independent Learners through Peer Review
Tuesday September 5th, 2023, 15:00 - 16:00 DescriptionA frequently cited aim within Higher Education is to develop independent and life-long learners. Yet, often the assessment processes that we use are more likely to create dependent learners. Students become dependent on us to make all the decisions around what will be assessed, when and how assessment will happen and wait for us to provide feedback on the outcomes. An important skill of life-long learners is the ability to assess and regulate one’s own learning. A key concern within assessment circles in higher education is how to move from our current practice which tends to encourage dependency to a practice that supports the development of independent and life-long learners? This seminar explored how using peer review as part of our assessment and feedback process could assist in the development of independent and life-long learning skills in our students. Presented By:
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Reimagining the lecture: Creating an Engaging Learning
Wednesday, September 6th, 2023, 14:00 - 15:00 Description:Are you finding yourself in a situation where you are ‘doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result’? Are you coming back to college thinking how can I continually engage my students this year? How can I determine, early in term, if learning is happening? Are you looking for different strategies and ideas to change things up and teach differently? If the answer to any or all of these is ‘YES’, this was a session that may be of interest to you. We brought your attention to a number of instructional principles, suggested by Yelon (1996) and chatted with you about how you can still make these activities work for you and your students today. Presented By:
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Developing More Inclusive Practices
Thursday, September 7th, 2023, 14:00 - 14:45 DescriptionToday’s higher education institutions are dealing with an increasingly diverse student body consisting of students with different needs, educational backgrounds, attention spans, interests, language abilities and cultural backgrounds. This session presented some simple ways to get started with Universal Design for Learning and several resources produced by the UDL@MTU project team were shared In addition, the session introduced the communication style that needs to be considered when interacting with autistic individuals. We learned how small adaptions to our own communication style can be of benefit to not alone the autistic individual but the wider community, thereby actioning universal design. Presented by:
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Setting Yourself Up for Success this Academic Year
Friday September 8th, 2023, 14:00 - 14:45 DescriptionIn this workshop, you will learn how we can include simple strategies into our everyday life to set ourselves up for success, establish boundaries more easily and engage in healthy work habits. In this session, the following will be discussed:
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