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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\u00a0share innovations; contribute to debates, and build networks and collaborations.<\/p>\n
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 \u2013 how do we inspire ourselves and make a difference in this ever-changing HE landscape?<\/p>\n
2017’s\u00a0 symposium took place on\u00a022 June <\/b>\u00a0at the Marylebone campus\u00a0with the theme of\u00a0Innovate!<\/b><\/p>\n
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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.<\/p>\n
Suggested themes included (but were not limited to):<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0Innovation through Learning communities: creative and collaborative learning environments and practices – within and across disciplines and partners
\n\u2022\u00a0Innovations in assessment and feedback to \u2018drive\u2019 learning (and save marking time)
\n\u2022\u00a0Innovative pedagogies, innovative practices \u2013 why innovate?
\n\u2022\u00a0Innovating through digital technology and mobile learning
\n\u2022\u00a0Innovating for Inclusivity \u2013 inclusive learning, inclusive institutions, inclusive ontologies
\n\u2022\u00a0Innovation as learning \u2013 students as partners
\n\u2022\u00a0Learning that Matters: Education for a Changing World
\n\u2022\u00a0Innovation as a critical practice<\/p>\n
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Presentations<\/b><\/p>\n
Please click on the links below to view the presentations at this year’s Learning and Teaching Symposium<\/p>\n
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Onotologies for Inclusivity<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Mindfulness for Students at WBS<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Feedback to Feed Forward: A Cross Faculty Research Project<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n The FST Mobile Learning Project<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Why Innovate?<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Web-based systems to support undergraduate language education: pedagogy meets technology<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n “A Walk in Our Shoes”. Student Engagement via Creative and Collaborative Learning Practices<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Postgraduate Cafes: Coffee, Conversation and Skills Development<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Using virtual reality to prepare Bioscience students for practical classes<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Inclusive Teaching – a route towards connected and innovative learning experience<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Towards a framework of measuring effectiveness of active learning<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n POP GOES THE NOW. Cross-Disciplinary Innovation<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Performance, Transition and ‘Communitas’: The Student Journey to Practice from a Symbolic Perspective<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n How to be Excellent<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Story telling for social justice: Action research with the Alevi community<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n From Cohorts to Connected Community<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n ‘Willing to Learn’: Undergraduate student perceptions of their current learning experiences<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Research Skills Workshops<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Flipping Marvellous. Maximising the LEARNING in Problem Based Learning<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Reciprocal Peer Coaching<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n