Chrissi Nerantzi Academic Developer Manchester Metropolitan University @chrissinerantzi

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Get involved!!! participatory bite-size CPD, cross-institutional examples from practice

MELSIG event, 20 January 2015 Nottingham University

(in)formal CPD?

• Conception that only formal CPD is proper CPD? (King, 2004; Crawford, 2009)

• non-formal, practice-based activities also CPD > the “invisible curriculum” (Blackmore & Castley, 2006)

• after PgCert no engagement in CPD (TESEP, 2007) > no formal engagement perhaps?

Reasons for joining #BYOD4L (Jan 14)

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sharing experiences, learning with and from others, networking

research interest

professional development for application

new ideas

interested in open course design used

interested in course themes

frequency

frequency

Sue Beckingham Sheffield Hallam University

Chrissi Nerantzi Manchester Metropolitan University

Challenges time, workload rapid changes less with more and better just-in-time, on-the job CPD needed, pro-active, harness open offers

Work smart!

Teaching and Learning Conversations since 2011

Nerantzi, C. (2011) Teaching and Learning Conversations. Flexible, bite-size staff development by, with and for academics, UCISA Best Practice guide on Engaging Academics with TEL, available at http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/publications/engaging.aspx, pp. 4-8.

Teaching and Learning Conversations

Monthly webinars by academics for academics

to share good practice

Teaching & Learning Conversations, monthly webinars

Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, weekly tweetchats

Creativity for Learning in HE, MMU unit and open course, start on the 19th of January 15, ongoing engagement

Bring your own device for learning, 5-day open learning event, starts on the 12th of January

Also available: • open

Assessment course

• Open Programme Leadership course, starts 16th of January

http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/flex

• started in March 2014 in collaboration with other HEIs in the UK

• monthly lunchtime Webinars, last Tuesday of the month

• moderators and presenters from participating institutions

• learning & teaching themes selected by presenters

• webinars open to all

• recordings are openly licensed and available on TLC website

• SOS: to evaluate this initiative with collaborators!!!

http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/flex/tlc.php

http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/flex/tlc.php

9 webinars: 188 participants in total per webinar :21 recorded views: 394 (up to end of 2014)

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Learning and Teaching in HE chat (#LTHEchat) since Oct 2014

Sue Beckingham Sheffield Hallam University

Dr David Walker University of Sussex

Peter Reed University of Liverpool

launched: October 2014

code by Martin Hawskey visualisation for BYOD4L by Peter Reed

Chrissi Nerantzi Manchester Metropolitan University

• Guest speakers

• Student-led chats from 2015

• Polls

• Resources (Question sets, games under development)

• Twitter bird badge!

Dr Liz Bennett Huddersfield University

Dr David Smith Sheffield Hallam University

Ruth Lawton Birmingham City University

Dr Nicola Whitton, Manchester Metropolitan University

Dr Alison James London College of Fashion

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#LTHEchat tweets 2014

#LTHEchat tweets

total tweets: 4452

per tweetchat (average): 556.6

per minute: 9.2

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Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Tweetchats 2015

21 January, 8-9pm, UK time and every Wednesday

http://oer15.oerconf.org/

References

Blackmore, P. & Castley, A. (2006) Capability development in universities. London: Leadership Foundation for Higher Education.

Crawford, K. (2009) Continuing Professional Development in Higher Education: Voices from Below, EdD thesis, University of Lincoln, available at http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/2146/1/Crawford-Ed%28D%29Thesis-CPDinHE-FINAL%28Sept09%29.pdf

King, H. (2004) Continuing Professional Development in Higher Education: what do academics do?, in: Educational Developments, Issue 5.4, Dec. 2004, pp. 1-5, available at http://www.seda.ac.uk/resources/files/publications_25_Educational%20Dev%205.4.pdf

TESEP (2007): Transforming and Enhancing the Student Experience through Pedagogy, Scottish Funding Council, e-Learning Transformation Programme, JISC, available at http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140702233839/http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/elearningsfc/sfcbooklettesep.pdf

Chrissi Nerantzi Academic Developer Manchester Metropolitan University @chrissinerantzi

image source: https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3429/3996198265_76cefbdc1c_z.jpg?zz=1

Get involved!!! participatory bite-size CPD, cross-institutional examples from practice

MELSIG event, 20 January 2015, Nottingham University