Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal – new issue

Volume 2, issue 1 of the Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal,the journal of the RAISE network,  has just been published. The longer articles focus on promoting effective relationships between staff and students, whilst a series of case studies looks at the practical implications of various techniques for enhancing student engagement. We also have an opinion piece critiquing the appropriation of the term ‘student engagement’ and an article from a student reflecting on the value of her engagement

SEHEJ is an Open Access journal edited in CELT and is part of our contribution to the international community of scholars of teaching and learning. We see it as an open, inclusive, community which provides opportunities to novice authors and reviewers, but a lot of generous contributions of time are needed to make this work. We welcome both experienced and new reviewers and authors, so please get in touch if you are able to participate in the journal activities. If you know of any students who would like to write for the journal, we do offer a developmental route to publication, so please encourage them to consider this.

Full list of articles in Volume 2, issue 1:

Angera, J., et al. (2018). “Launching an Interdisciplinary Network for Understanding Student Engagement (INFUSE).” 2018 2(1): 93-98. https://journals.gre.ac.uk/index.php/raise/article/view/Deschaine

Bramley, G. (2018). “How to help engage students in flipped learning: a flipping eventful journey.” 2018 2(1): 78-85. https://journals.gre.ac.uk/index.php/raise/article/view/Bramley

Bryson, C., et al. (2018). “Proceedings of the RAISE International Colloquium on Partnership.” 2018 2(1): 99-136. https://journals.gre.ac.uk/index.php/raise/article/view/Bryson

Davies, M. K. (2018). “‘The SLL Resilience Programme: The Route to Success’: Implementing Wellbeing Skills at the University of Reading.” 2018 2(1): 55-60. https://journals.gre.ac.uk/index.php/raise/article/view/Davies

Dyer, J., et al. (2018). “Field trips, friendships and societies: Exploring student engagement in the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds.” 2018 2(1): 30-54. https://journals.gre.ac.uk/index.php/raise/article/view/Dyer

Fotinatos, N. and Sabo, E. (2018). “Impact of centrally coordinated higher education pre-commencement of teaching student support initiative (FedReady) on student engagement: A regional university case study.” 2018 2(1): 86-92. https://journals.gre.ac.uk/index.php/raise/article/view/Fotinatos

Lowe, T. (2018). “Data Analytics – A critique of the appropriatisation of a new measure of ‘Student Engagement’.” 2018 2(1): 2-6. https://journals.gre.ac.uk/index.php/raise/article/view/Lowe/

Marie, J. and Azuma, F. (2018). “Partnership support for departments with low student satisfaction.” 2018 2(1): 71-77. https://journals.gre.ac.uk/index.php/raise/article/view/Marie

Mercer-Mapstone, L. D., et al. (2017). “Breaking Tradition Through Partnership: Navigating Identities and Dissonance in Student-Staff Partnerships.” 2017 2(1): 12-30. https://journals.gre.ac.uk/index.php/raise/article/view/Mercer-Mapstone

Simpson, C. and Clark, T. (2018). “Reflections on the development of a model of partnership designed to enhance the ‘digital curriculum’ of Sociological Studies programmes.” 2018 2(1): 61-70. https://journals.gre.ac.uk/index.php/raise/article/view/Clark/641

Sum, K. (2018). “Growing from a Seed” 2018 2(1): 7-11 https://journals.gre.ac.uk/index.php/raise/article/view/Sum/637

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Using storytelling in education for sustainable development (ESD)

CALL FOR CHAPTER CONTRIBUTIONS

We are pleased to announce a forthcoming Routledge book on using storytelling in education for sustainable development (ESD). We anticipate that potential contributors will be colleagues with an interest/expertise in one or more of the following areas: Storytelling, ESD in Higher Education, Innovative Pedagogies. Book editors will be Heather Luna and Dr Petra Molthan-Hill  (both Nottingham Trent University), Dr Denise Baden (University of Southampton) and Professor Tony Wall (University of Chester). To facilitate the writing process, we are offering an initial webinar.

 

WHAT: Storytelling & Sustainability Webinar

WHEN: Wednesday 25th April 3-5pm BST (2-4pm UTC)

WHERE: on Zoom

HOW: You will receive a link prior to the webinar that you click to join. You will need a webcam and microphone (embedded ones are fine). If you are unfamiliar with Zoom, Heather will arrange a practice run to ensure the technology goes smoothly for all.

 

This webinar will consist of:

* An overview of what we would expect from a submitted chapter, with Q&A

* A small group activity with others in your discipline area

* A round of sharing ideas

* A small interdisciplinary group activity

* Time outside the webinar to develop ideas

* Another round with your interdisciplinary group to report back

* A round-up of ideas and further Q&A

 

To book onto the webinar, please email heather.luna@ntu.ac.uk. If you are not available for this webinar but would like to contribute to the book and/or participate in a future webinar, please contact Heather.

 

SUSTAINABLE STORY WRITING COMPETITION

On a related note, please find attached details of a writing competition for short stories (<3500 words) set within a sustainable society. Deadline for submissions is 19^th April 2018. Perfect to whet your appetite for the book! For more information visit: http://www.greenstories.org.uk

next #creativeHE meetup is on the 1st of May! Join us at Salford Uni cc @neilwithnell

A warm and open invitation to join the next #creativeHEmeetup on the 1st of May!

#creativeHE is an open collaborative community for creative and innovative practitioners which exists online at https://plus.google.com/communities/110898703741307769041 through which a series of events and courses have been offered by the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at Manchester Metropolitan University in partnership with Creative Academic and facilitators from a range of institutions nationally and internationally.

We will continue connecting, collaborating, experimenting and learning together online this year and have just launched the Creativity in Practice project led by Prof. Norman Jackson.

This academic year, we have introduced meetups in the North-West in collaboration with the University of Salford and the University of Manchester.

Our next meetup will take place at the University of Salford on the 1st of May, 12-2pm in the Mary Seacole Building Room 136 organised by Neil Withnell and colleagues. The focus of this meetup is the creative use for teaching of stuff we would normally throw away, in other words rubbish. Please bring some samples/examples with you together with your ideas to share and discuss. Staff, students and the wider public, all very welcome.

For more information and to register, please access  http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/community/creativehe.php We are very much looking forward to seeing you there.

More info about the #creativeHE initiative:

It aims to support pedagogical rebels and free-thinking innovators in experimenting with, developing, sharing and getting support for novel learning and teaching ideas as well as initiate and disseminate research activity around these that have the power to transform the student and staff experience within and beyond institutional boundaries.

This community is open to anyone who would like to join, academic staff, students and the wider public. All who have an interest in creative and innovative approaches to teaching and helping others learn.

We meet physically on a monthly basis, each time at a different institution. During our meetups, we will have the opportunity to get to know each other, share and grow new ideas, take risks and support each other in our creative adventures, experiment and play, as well as test and develop pedagogical ideas and identify ways to take them forward.

We will continue using the #creativeHE online community space which now supports and connects a global community of over 600 people. Furthermore, this space will offer additional opportunities for professional development through online discussions, events and courses that are organised through #creativeHE, the Creative Academic and the wider academic community. The openly licensed #101creativeideas project will help us collect and share our ideas and the pedagogic innovators project (#pin) to engage in related research activities.

We suggest that each meetup features time for socialising. As the meetups will all be free and open, we encourage each participant to bring a gift of food and/or non-alcoholic drinks to share with other participants. Homemade and more healthy contributions are very welcome as are foods from different cultures. In this simple way we aim to encourage sharing of the many cultures that make up our society.

The institutional contact will coordinate the monthly gathering and a booking system will be in place through CELT at Manchester Metropolitan University. If you would like to become a #creativeHE champion in your institution, please get in touch with us.

We are really looking forward to seeing you again online and locally,

Chrissi on behalf of the #creativeHE team

GREAT THINGS HAPPEN WHEN PEOPLE COLLABORATE TO LEARN TOGETHER

Update after the meetup to be added here

 

Using & Cultivating Imagination new #creativeHE conversation > Join us!

Using & Cultivating Imagination

April 15-21^st 2018

#creativeHE Google+ Forum

 

We believe the ability to imagine – to envision the possible – lies at the core of being human and living a fulfilling life. It is also essential to being an effective and creative parent, teacher or any other practitioner.

 

This #CreativeHE conversation, during World Creativity and Innovation Week, will explore some of the ways imagination features in our lives and how educators can encourage and enable learners to use and develop their imaginations.

 

Through the conversation we are seeking to gain a better understanding of what using imagination means to participants in educational, work and other settings, and how they stimulate and cultivate their own imaginations and the imaginations of others.

 

From the perspective of educators, teachers and professional developers we seek imaginative examples of how they use and develop their own imaginations, how they engage learners and/or peers, and how they practice imaginative pedagogy.

 

Join the Conversation here:https://plus.google.com/communities/110898703741307769041

 

Topics 

1 Why is your imagination important to you? What concepts of imagination do you hold and how are these concepts useful and relevant in your everyday life? (We need to establish why this topic is worth discussing. We are hoping for some practical illustrations that connect the abstract to the concrete. We can provide some background reading on concepts).

 

2 What is the role of imagination in your discipline or area of work? How do you use your imagination in your practice? (We are hoping for some practical illustrations that connect the idea of imagination to the concrete imaginings and doings of people. We welcome visual representations of what using imagination means in your everyday practice).

 

3 Imagination Challenge.  Sometimes we need to change our contexts (eg actual locations, ways of engaging, practicing or thinking) to get our imaginations going; we need to purposefully step outside of our typical practices to more easily envision new possibilities and alternative perspectives.

 

The goal of this challenge is to stimulate the imagination of someone else and the challenge requires you to literally (and figuratively) get outside.  We want you to take a walk with wonder and curiosity with something in mind that you teach or you might help someone else learn

 

If you are a teacher or educational developer seek the affordances for teaching/learning this topic outside. What imaginative task or activity might your students do while outside (walking or in stillness) that could enhance their imaginative engagement and meaning-making and enable their creativity to flourish. 

 

Alternatively, perhaps you are a parent/guardian or grandparent, or an auntie or uncle, seek the affordances for teaching/learning something outside. What imaginative task or activity might your son/daughter, grandchild, nephew/niece do while outside that could enhance their imaginative engagement and enable their creativity to flourish. 

 

If neither of these scenario’s works for you, perhaps you can imagine a scenario in which you engage the imaginations of some friends while out on a walk.

 

Please plan to share your idea(s) and engage with others at the end of the week. (Note: This challenge is inspired by a resource called The Walking Curriculum: Evoking Wonder And Developing Sense of Place (K-12). The author, Gillian Judson, plans to develop the ideas in collaboration with educators in Higher Education.

 

4 In your practice as an educator, teacher or professional developer what types of activities stimulate the imaginations of the people you teach or help to learn and why and how do such activities engage people in this way? (We welcome specific illustrations drawn from your own experience. In the discussion we might draw out the characteristics of such activities and practices?)

 

5 In your practice as an educator, teacher or professional developer how do you show that you value the imaginations of the people you teach or help to learn? How does imagination feature in your assessments of learning and achievement? (We welcome specific illustrations drawn from your own experience).

 

6 Imagination Challenge: Sharing & Dialogue. Today please share with our group how you responded to our imaginative challenge!  If possible include some images or a narrative that indicates how changing the context for learning—moving outside your typical teaching space—sparked imaginative ideas for engaging your students, or members of your family or friends, in learning.

 

On behalf of Gillian Judson and Norman Jackson

 

Can you explain what helps you to become an excellent teacher?

This request has been posted to a Jiscmail list, and we thought it might be of interest to more people. Please contact the authors directly if you are interested in contributing.

“We are inviting short case studies on what enables someone to develop their teaching. This is for the second edition of Kahn & Walsh’s (now Kahn & Anderson) Developing your Teaching, and we would like to refresh the case studies. The book is part of Routledge’s popular Key Guides for Effective Teaching in Higher Education series, edited by Kate Exley.

Do you have an anecdote or incident on how you have developed your teaching that you could share? Case studies were a well-received feature of the first edition, with a high profile within the book. Contributing a case study in this way can provide greater exposure for your ideas, and your name and institutional affiliation will be included within the text.

We would like to see a focus on the processes of developing your teaching. What is it that has enabled you to demonstrate excellence in your teaching? We are looking for case studies that link to the chapter titles below. We are also interested in case studies that are co-authored with students. 

• Case studies should be around 500 words in length, with a take away message. 
• Your case study should be submitted to Peter or Lorraine (see below) by Friday 4^th May 2018. 
• You are welcome to discuss your ideas with us before putting your case study together.
• We will be in a position to let you know by the middle of June whether your case study will be included in the book (with publication by early 2019).
• Please feel free to share this call with your colleagues.

1. Introduction: The Teaching Landscape
2. Securing a Teaching Qualification
3. The Disciplinary and Professional Dimension
4. A Partnership with Students
5. Engaging with Reflective Practice
6. Shifting Collective Practice
7. Connecting to Drivers for Change
8. Taking a Lead in Teaching
9. Creating Impact through Researching your Practice
10. Claiming Teaching Excellence
11. Career-Long Enhancement
12. Conclusion: Stretching the Boundaries

Why not take a look at the first edition at Google Books ? 

Dr Peter Kahn, Director, Centre for Higher Education Studies, University of Liverpool peter.kahn@liverpool.ac.uk

Dr Lorraine Anderson, Assistant Director Student Services & Head of the Academic Skills Centre, University of Dundee l.l.anderson@dundee.ac.uk” 

next #creativeHE meetup on the 16th of March! All welcome ;)

A warm and open invitation to join the next #creativeHEmeetup on the 16th of March!

#creativeHE is an open collaborative community for creative and innovative practitioners which exists online at https://plus.google.com/communities/110898703741307769041 through which a series of events and courses have been offered by the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at Manchester Metropolitan University in partnership with Creative Academic and facilitators from a range of institutions nationally and internationally.

We will continue connecting, collaborating, experimenting and learning together online this year and have just launched the Creativity in Practice project led by Prof. Norman Jackson.

This academic year, we have introduced meetups in the North-West in collaboration with the University of Salford and the University of Manchester.

Our next meetup will take place at Manchester Metropolitan University on the 16th of March, 12-2pm in the John Dalton Building E249 on Oxford Road. The focus of this meetup is the creative use social media. Please bring your ideas along to share them with a wider audience. Staff, students and the wider public, all very welcome.

For more information and to register, please access  http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/community/creativehe.php We are very much looking forward to seeing you there.

More info about the #creativeHE initiative:

It aims to support pedagogical rebels and free-thinking innovators in experimenting with, developing, sharing and getting support for novel learning and teaching ideas as well as initiate and disseminate research activity around these that have the power to transform the student and staff experience within and beyond institutional boundaries.

This community is open to anyone who would like to join, academic staff, students and the wider public. All who have an interest in creative and innovative approaches to teaching and helping others learn.

We meet physically on a monthly basis, each time at a different institution. During our meetups, we will have the opportunity to get to know each other, share and grow new ideas, take risks and support each other in our creative adventures, experiment and play, as well as test and develop pedagogical ideas and identify ways to take them forward.

We will continue using the #creativeHE online community space which now supports and connects a global community of over 600 people. Furthermore, this space will offer additional opportunities for professional development through online discussions, events and courses that are organised through #creativeHE, the Creative Academic and the wider academic community. The openly licensed #101creativeideas project will help us collect and share our ideas and the pedagogic innovators project (#pin) to engage in related research activities.

We suggest that each meetup features time for socialising. As the meetups will all be free and open, we encourage each participant to bring a gift of food and/or non-alcoholic drinks to share with other participants. Homemade and more healthy contributions are very welcome as are foods from different cultures. In this simple way we aim to encourage sharing of the many cultures that make up our society.

The institutional contact will coordinate the monthly gathering and a booking system will be in place through CELT at Manchester Metropolitan University. If you would like to become a #creativeHE champion in your institution, please get in touch with us.

We are really looking forward to seeing you again online and locally,

Chrissi on behalf of the #creativeHE team

GREAT THINGS HAPPEN WHEN PEOPLE COLLABORATE TO LEARN TOGETHER

Update after the meetup

This time we discussed the creative use of social media for learning and teaching. This topic emerged directly through conversations we had during a previous meetup and I think it is a wonderful way to come-up with a focus instead of randomly picking one. It was a smaller group this time but the conversations and sharing were deep. A colleague from Bournemouth university joined us and engaged us in a series that of drawing activities based on her doctorate real research. While these were low tech, we did make the connection to social media and how we could use these as well to add a digital dimension to create alternative and additional opportunities for expression, sharing and collaborative drawing. We could see parallels to the use of LEGO SERIOUS PLAY but also differences and agreed that drawing is a valuable tool in our toolkit that can be interwoven into classroom practice, in and outside the classroom, in the physical and online classroom. Our next meetup is in May at the University of Salford. 

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The call for NTF applications is now open!

Dear colleagues,

We would like to inform you that the Higher Education Academy has made an announcement that the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTF) and the Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE) will be offered again this year. The official call for the NTF opened on the 12^th of February and the deadline for institutional submission is the 30^th of April. The CATE call will open on the 5^th of March with further information released then.

CELT has created a special section for colleagues and teams to submit their expressions of interest via a webform to be considered for a National Teaching Fellowship (NTF) or Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE) application.

Expression of interest for an NTF application http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/ntfs/index.php

Expression of interest for CATE application http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/good_practice/recognising/cate.php

On the NTF page, you will find the HEA NTF guidelines under Applying for Fellowship http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/ntfs/index.php

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 National Teaching Fellowship support event

This will take place on the  the 8^th of March at 11am at Manchester Metropolitan University. Colleagues from Manchester Met and from across the region are very welcome to join this.

Please register at  http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/cpd/viewcourse.php?unit_id=28

Further support events have been scheduled across the UK. Please follow the tweet below.

@NTF_Tweet workshops coming up. https://t.co/UMhbGWtMjL

— Viv Rolfe (@VivienRolfe) February 18, 2018

 

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Colleagues from CELT will then be in touch and support individuals and teams before a decision at institutional level is made, about which applications will be submitted to the Higher Education Academy.

The institution is entitled to put forward three NTF applications and one CATE application.

Please share this message with colleagues and teams who deserve to be recognised for their excellence in teaching nationally.