The Learning and Teaching Symposium is an annual event which gives all staff at the University of Westminster and colleagues from partner institutions the opportunity to share innovations; contribute to debates, and build networks and collaborations.
The world of Higher Education, today, sits in a highly contested landscape, with challenges to our ways of teaching, the relationship with learners and learning, the value of knowledge and what learning is for. Within this – how do we inspire ourselves and make a difference in this ever-changing HE landscape?
2017’s symposium took place on 22 June at the Marylebone campus with the theme of Innovate!
University of Westminster staff were invited to submit abstracts for presentations and academic posters to frame debate around issues and practice-points that are important to you.
Suggested themes included (but were not limited to):
• Innovation through Learning communities: creative and collaborative learning environments and practices – within and across disciplines and partners
• Innovations in assessment and feedback to ‘drive’ learning (and save marking time)
• Innovative pedagogies, innovative practices – why innovate?
• Innovating through digital technology and mobile learning
• Innovating for Inclusivity – inclusive learning, inclusive institutions, inclusive ontologies
• Innovation as learning – students as partners
• Learning that Matters: Education for a Changing World
• Innovation as a critical practice
Presentations
Please click on the links below to view the presentations at this year’s Learning and Teaching Symposium
Mindfulness for Students at WBS
Feedback to Feed Forward: A Cross Faculty Research Project
The FST Mobile Learning Project
Web-based systems to support undergraduate language education: pedagogy meets technology
“A Walk in Our Shoes”. Student Engagement via Creative and Collaborative Learning Practices
Postgraduate Cafes: Coffee, Conversation and Skills Development
Using virtual reality to prepare Bioscience students for practical classes
Inclusive Teaching – a route towards connected and innovative learning experience
Towards a framework of measuring effectiveness of active learning
POP GOES THE NOW. Cross-Disciplinary Innovation
Story telling for social justice: Action research with the Alevi community
From Cohorts to Connected Community
‘Willing to Learn’: Undergraduate student perceptions of their current learning experiences
Flipping Marvellous. Maximising the LEARNING in Problem Based Learning