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Welcome to the ALDinHE blog aimed at all those working in the field of learning development. If you would like to write a blog, please email admin@aldinhe.ac.uk
Embedding a success! (Leicester 22 June 2012)
(Report by Michelle Reid)The ALDinHE ‘Embedding Skills and Integrating Learning Development’ day was definitely embedded as a firm success. Over 40 delegates from as far away as Canterbury and Edinburgh gathered at the University of Leicester on 22nd June for a day of discussion and sharing ideas on what embedding means to us and how we can do it more effectively.The day was opened by Dr Mark Rawlinson (Academic Director of Leicester’s College of Arts, Humanities and Law) who made an engaging speech proposing embedding as a means of facilitating a review of the curricula with a focus on a …
Digital Literacies
Digital Literacies has been emerging as an important theme in the professional development for the Learning Development community. This importance is recognised in our CPD planning framework and resource, in which the area of professional activity ‘Teaching and Supporting Students’ Learning’ contains e-learning as an important factor, with activities like: However, in order to be able to support the digital literacies of students, it is crucial that we are confident in developing our own digital capacities. The community’s views of what digital literacies mean to us, our training needs, and changes we have noticed in the use of digital technology were sought …
Journal July 15th 2011
Write a brief summary of any work-related activities undertaken on 15th July 2011 and/or your nearest working day . In posting your reply, you consent to the potential use of anonymised extracts from this material in resources that may in future be published by the Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE), for educational and professional development purposes only. Lucy Hughes Hi all; I have been teaching fashion in FE for 7 years and after completing a masters 2 years ago I have been desperate to progress to HE (as much as i lve engaging with the 16-19 cohort, I …
Report of ALDinHE Specific Learning Difficulties in HE – Professional Development Day University of Aston 20th June
A big thank you to Ellen Pope at Aston for organising the venue and delicious lunch and for hosting and supporting the event throughout. Positive comments were made about the central location in Birmingham which was easily accessible from both the north and south of the country. We had a total of 41 attendees including presenters from as far afield as Falmouth and Ulster. Of the 41 attendees, 27 were in Learning Development and Study Advice roles, and 9 were Disability Advisors or Dyslexia Tutors, with the rest being a mixture of Lecturers, Careers Advisors and Mentors. There was a …
Journal June 15th 2011
Write a brief summary of any work-related activities undertaken on 15th June 2011 and/or your nearest working day . In posting your reply, you consent to the potential use of anonymised extracts from this material in resources that may in future be published by the Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE), for educational and professional development purposes only. Sandra Sinfield Either this is a really busy time – hence the relatively few responses so far (and the really, really late ones, like mine) or we’ve all collapsed under the strain…The 15th was a busy day: edited a paper submitted …
Journal May 15th 2011
Write a brief summary of any work-related activities undertaken on 15th May 2011 and/or your nearest working day . In posting your reply, you consent to the potential use of anonymised extracts from this material in resources that may in future be published by the Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE), for educational and professional development purposes only. Kim Shahabudin Against all sensible expectations for a Monday morning, I felt (as Becka Colley would say) extremely Tiggerish yesterday and bounced into work with a brain full of (probably unachievable) ideas. One was to rework our Study Advice website as …
Journal April 15th 2011
Write a brief summary of any work-related activities undertaken on 15th April 2011 and/or your nearest working day . In posting your reply, you consent to the potential use of anonymised extracts from this material in resources that may in future be published by the Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE), for educational and professional development purposes only. Jules Dawson On the nearest day to the 15th (the 14th) I gave an introduction to LD (what we do, how we do it and to who) to a group of new staff on our General Teaching Associates programme. A really …
Journal March 15th 2011
Write a brief summary of any work-related activities undertaken on 15th March 2011 and/or your nearest working day . In posting your reply, you consent to the potential use of anonymised extracts from this material in resources that may in future be published by the Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE), for educational and professional development purposes only. Sandra Well it’s taken me two weeks to fill this in – so I guess I am pretty busy – exacerbated by worse than usual email crashing all over the place.15th March was an email and admin day – so simple …
Journal February 15th 2011
Write a brief summary of any work-related activities undertaken on 15th February 2011 and/or your nearest working day . In posting your reply, you consent to the potential use of anonymised extracts from this material in resources that may in future be published by the Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE), for educational and professional development purposes only. Carol Elston As with most mornings I began by responding to emails; I keep joining discussion groups which prove interesting yet extremely time consuming. Once drawn in I find it difficult to unsubscribe, just in case I miss something. I’m definitely …
Journal January 15th 2011
Write a brief summary of any work-related activities undertaken on 15th January 2011 and/or your nearest working day . In posting your reply, you consent to the potential use of anonymised extracts from this material in resources that may in future be published by the Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE), for educational and professional development purposes only. Debbie Holley Monday 17th First meeting – 9.00 Carluccis in Russell Square! My ex PhD supervisor Martin Oliver & I had a planning meeting for the paper we are co-writing for CAL on why students are relcuatnt to engage with wikis. …