Available support and development sessions: Learning Services

The Learning Services Team at UCS was created on the 1st August, 2014 with the aim of enhancing the way members of UCS are supported to develop appropriate skills and strategies to enable them to become a more effective learners.

This is achieved through various routes, including the provision of workshops. These workshops are designed around active and collaborative learning principles. The October 2014 workshop programme is outlined below, and you can register your place via the Learning Services Workshop Sessions area: http://ucslssessions.blogspot.co.uk

If you would like to discuss how one of more of these sessions might be useful for you, please email learningservices@ucs.ac.uk

13th: Enhancing your learning with social media
13th: Assignment planning
13th: Reading Journal Articles
14th: Dissertation planning
14th: Electronic is the new Black: Navigating ebooks at UCS
14th: Harvard Referencing
15th: Keeping your references organised with RefWorks
15th: "Too descriptive. Not enough critical analysis" An introduction to critical writing
15th: Enhancing your employability through managing your online presence
16th: Ways to design and develop effective presentations
16th: Literature Searching
17th: Developing your reflective practice
17th: How to get the most out of Learning Services
17th: Technologies to facilitate reflection

Staff Only: Technology Enhanced Learning

21st: Flipping your teaching model: the how and the why
21st: Getting more out of your LearnUCS module 22nd: (Staff) Using social media to become a connected educator
22nd: How clickers can change the way you teach
22nd: Monitoring student engagement and performance in your LearnUCS module
22nd: Creating talk over powerpoints and similar videos
23rd: Designing a group based learning activity
23rd: Getting started with objective testing (LearnUCS tests and MCQs in the optical mark reader)

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Elevate Team: Staff development programme Sept to Dec, 2013

This is the first heads up of our staff development package to cover September to December 2013. The emphasis of the programme is to offer shorter sessions which act to stimulate your ideas about applying these technologies within your teaching and assessment strategies.

These sessions include;

Masterclasses (30 mins)

November 12th AM in W315

• Using the peer assessment tool in LearnUCS
• How might I use a tablet (iPad or equivalent) in my teaching, learning and assessment
• What is the LearnUCS Retention Centre, and why might it be useful for a lecturer?

November 13th PM in W315

• How can I extend my teaching and assessment using web conference tools?
• I've used clickers for multiple choice questions in class, so what else can I use them for?
• What does LearnUCS offer as a learning and teaching tool?

Tasters (15 mins)

October 8th, AM in W315

• Using Clickers in your teaching
• Changing the look of your LearnUCS module
• Using the LearnUCS wiki for Student Group Work
• What does Twitter offer for your teaching?
• Bring externals into your teaching using the GoTo Meeting Conference Software

These short sessions are supported through the 1-2-1 mechanisms with a more structured deployment of the hub and spoke model at UCS Ipswich. A timetable will be made available of when and where we'll be based for staff drop-ins.

• Waterfront (Floors 2 & 3): Wednesday 9.30 to 12.30
• James Hehir: Thursday 9.30 to 12.00
• Arts: Monday 9.30 to 12.00

Our generic workshop programme will start in January 2014. However, we will be providing a selection of online workshops through LearnUCS from October 2013, and we would encourage you to request bespoke workshops for your course team. Please email elevate@ucs.ac.uk to discuss your ideas.

The online workshops include;

• Using objective testing (LearnUCS Quiz) in your teaching and learning
• ePortfolios for the reflective learner
• Making time for discussion: how to flip your classroom

For background and reflections on the Elevate Team staff development programme (2012/13), see

• https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12497737/reports/DevelopingstafftoeffectivelyuseLearningTechnologiesatUCSReflectionsfrom201213.pdf