July 7th 2017: Final Call to Register

Open to all Business School staff and will take place on the first floor of the Edward Street Building. It will be followed by a BBQ in the Grand Parade Gardens.

Key Note  Presentations

Barney Roe –  Director of Communications & External Relations Chartered Association of Business School (CABS) https://charteredabs.org/   Higher Education Policy and Business Schools: Opportunities and Challenges

Katie Piatt  – e-Learning Services Manager & Jason Bailey – Learning Technologies Advisor – What would you do differently if you knew you were top of the class? BBS Learning Analytics Pilot Results and Future Plans

There will be Pop- Up Technologies! through-out the day

The presentation for Your School Learning & Teaching Award will take place 36 nominations were received &  well done to our 6 finalists Jeanette Ashton, Dan Bennett, Stuart Francis, Anastasia Khanina,  Barry Lee-Scherer  & Hamid Salimian

Programme 

Register to attend here

 July 7th 2017

Open to all Business School staff and will take place on the first floor of the Edward Street Building. It will be followed by a BBQ in the Grand Parade Gardens.

We are delighted to confirm  Key Note  Presentations

 Barney Roe –  Director of Communications & External Relations Chartered Association of Business School (CABS) https://charteredabs.org/   Higher Education Policy and Business Schools: Opportunities and Challenges

Katie Piatt  – e-Learning Services Manager & Jason Bailey – Learning Technologies Advisor – What would you do differently if you knew you were top of the class? BBS Learning Analytics Pilot Results and Future Plans

There will be Pop- Up Technologies! through-out the day

The presentation for Your School Learning & Teaching Award will take place 36 nominations were received &  well done to our 6 finalists Jeanette Ashton, Dan Bennett, Stuart Francis, Anastasia Khanina,  Barry Lee-Scherer  & Hamid Salimian

Provisional Programme 

We hope to create a conference proceeding book as an official output from the conference.

Register to attend here

Colleagues

On January 6th Peter Mccullen and Julie Fowlie launched BBS Quality Learning and Teaching blog site  it is still a work in progress however it  has links to a wide range of supporting information. It has a search function to enable you to easily find any relevant information

Pete has prepared some excellent guidance for writing exams. These notes are intended to help module leaders and teams to think about ways to improve students’ achievement of module learning outcomes during the ‘run up’ to the summer exams covering: the design of examination papers, student engagement and learning support, and revision lectures.

This is to remind everyone review the assessment and feedback guidance provided.

Feedback Guidelines

• Based on criteria – that have been made available (marking grid or rubric) using % weightings (this is a requirement)
• Non-judgemental language –  avoiding using words such as ‘fails’, ‘lacks’, etc – the mark gives the judgement
• Developmental – tell the student how to develop, including appropriate resources

Assessment Feedback 

And updated for 2019  Assessment Review and Submission point form

If there is anything missing please let us know and we can add it to the blog.

Colleagues

On January 6th Peter Mccullen and I launched BBS Quality Learning and Teaching blog site  it is still under development however it  has links to a wide range of supporting information.

This is to remind anyone who was not able to make it to please review the assessment and feedback guidance provided.

Feedback Guidelines

• Based on criteria – that have been made available (marking grid or rubric) using % weightings
• Non-judgmental language –  avoiding using words such as ‘failure’, ‘lacks’, etc – the mark gives the judgement
• Developmental – tell the student how to develop, including appropriate resources

Assessment Feedback 

This pilot project has been underway since the beginning of term.

Please check the link below for the improved although not perfect attendance recording system we are piloting across all level 4 modules, all undergraduate degrees.

Learning Analytics – Attendance-Assessment

Without tutors recording attendance the pilot will not be as successful as it could be.

Tip –  if you are finding using the computer in the seminar room not working as well as you would like you can use an iPad – the technicians do have a limited number you can borrow.

If you need some help please contact  Marion Curdy  M.E.Curdy@brighton.ac.uk or Julie Fowlie j.fowlie@brighton.ac.uk

Any feedback please direct to Marion and that will inform the next stages.

Student Finder 

The new and exciting addition is Student Finder, details on above link or direct to the video  – Viewing a student’s  My Engagement view  Anyone involved in supporting Level 4 students should see the Student Finder Widget on your home page of Studentcentral. This will enable you to look up any level 4 student and see their overall attendance (to be treated with caution as attendance is not complete for all students), engagement with studentcentral and their current assessment marks against their cohort.

If you cannot see the Student Finder widget and you need access please let Marion know.

To follow– As part of the pilot the students in four seminar groups have  had access to their own student engagement view  and the results of the pilot will be posted very soon.

Students tell us they want more contact – what do they do with it? Learners have mobile devices, pen and paper are less visible, but how are the devices being used for learning? With the new cascade/curriculum design discussions suggesting students start with more contact to develop skills for more independent learning later in their study: this session involves talking with colleagues about how we encourage student learning in and out of class. Particular focus on note-taking, active reading, engagement with text, blogging, revision and a deeper engagement with what learners study.

Wednesday 8^th February

1.00 to 2.00

Mithras House Room M138

There are a number of ways that technology can help with giving students access to our teaching and learning resources and with our need to provide students with feedback.
After the recent, excellent Work In On Assessment, organized by Julie and Pete – I thought it might be helpful to remind colleagues that if there are “things you want to try out” – a number of us are happy and willing to show you how – this message might be especially useful to new colleagues, but is there for all.

So if you want to:
Capture your voice while giving a lecture – and make the combined Powerpoint & audio available (very nice for students who do not have English as their first language)
or,
Use a rubric to mark (maybe with audio comments)
or,
Mark on an iPad (loaned from the technicians)

Do feel free to pop in and ask for hands on help  from me:

asher, room 145 or
Hazel (professional office),
Donna (undergraduate office)
Julie  (post graduate office)

or Julie (room 149)