Tag: higher education

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Call for participants

Exploring Academic Identity in Higher Education: Education-Focused Academic Identity, call for participants

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Jennifer Taylorson, Associate Lecturer, International Education Institute, St Andrews  Having facilitated a workshop on ‘Understanding Educator Identity in the Higher Education Sector using the Social Identity Approach’ at the Enhancing Student Learning Through Innovative Scholarship Conference earlier this week in which I shared findings from my research to date, I extend a call for participants… Continue reading Exploring Academic Identity in Higher Education: Education-Focused Academic Identity, call for participants

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Annual NTF Symposia

Block Teaching and Playful Learning

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Roger Saunders, Associate Professor & University Teacher Fellow, De Montfort University  My institution, De Montfort University, now delivers modules sequentially in six week blocks (followed by an assessment week) with 2 hours of pre-recorded material, 2 hours of live ‘lecture’ and 2 x 3 hour seminars, per week. To maintain energy, enthusiasm and engagement for… Continue reading Block Teaching and Playful Learning

Collaborative Innovation Project

Launching the Collaborative Innovation Project Fund (2024-25)

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Are you a National Teaching Fellowship (NTF) recipient with an idea (or more likely ‘ideas’) for a collaborative learning and teaching project? Perhaps you are already involved in collaborative project work that, with the right support, could be taken to the next level? The ANTF launched Collaborative Innovation Projects (CiP) funding scheme in April 2023.… Continue reading Launching the Collaborative Innovation Project Fund (2024-25)