LTExChange Symposium Event - The Compassionate Curriculum
2022-11-30 15:00 (Europe/London) | MS Teams
Title: Relationship-rich education: compassionate pedagogies for students – and for us
Decades of research demonstrates that the quality of student-staff and student-student interactions are foundational to engaging, inclusive, and purposeful learning. Educational relationships influence motivation, learning, belonging, and achievement for all students, and particularly for students with identities that have been excluded from or marginalized in higher education. These relationships are not only good for students; significant conversations among trusted colleagues have been shown to be crucial for faculty and staff learning, growth, inclusion, and well-being. In this interactive session, we will explore how we can make our work – and our institutions – more relational and compassionate.
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Recognising Excellence in Learning and Teaching (RELT) Workshop
2022-12-05 10:00 - 11:30, 2023-02-07 09:30 - 11:00 | MS Teams
This workshop is specifically for colleagues who would like to seek formal recognition for the work they do in teaching and supporting learning in HE. Teesside University Professional Development Framework for Teaching and Supporting Learning: Recognising Excellence in Learning and Teaching (RELT) is accredited by Advance HE and provides participants with the opportunity to be professionally recognised through Advance HE’s Fellowship Scheme.
It is relevant for all colleagues involved in teaching and supporting learning and will provide colleagues with a greater understanding around how the UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF) relates to their professional practice. Formal, external recognition of individual teaching and supporting learning expertise is becoming increasingly important for both individual staff and HEI’s. Teesside University is accredited to award a range of Fellowships (HEA), as appropriate, to our staff at no cost to the individual.
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Teaching a Culturally Diverse Student Population: Promoting Mobility Amongst all Students
2022-12-07 14:00 - 15:00 | MS Teams
TU Global mission is to enhance the students’ experience through international student mobility. To achieve this mission, TU Global works with our partners abroad to offer a wide range of mobility programmes to our students.
Mobility is essential to our students to get them ready for the future. While less than 2% of students at a UK university study abroad as part of their studies, TU aims to increase our impact on students and double every year the number of TU students going abroad. Last year, over 60 students took part in International Mobility, and we are working on 22 mobility projects for 2022/23.
Join this session and learn how you can help your students to take part in these opportunities and how TU Global can support you in developing international mobility projects including funding proposals.
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Introduction to the Revised Assessment regulations from 2022-23 (including Foundation Degree, Undergraduate, Integrated Masters and Taught Postgraduate)
2022-12-15 10:00 - 11:00 | MS Teams
A review of the undergraduate, foundation degree, integrated master’s degree and Taught Postgraduate assessment regulations took place during 2021-22 with the roll-out of the revised regulations commencing from the 2022-23 academic year. These online workshops will provide an overview of the key changes and an opportunity for clarification. The workshops are open to all interested staff and will be of particular relevance to those involved the progression and award of students through the Assessment Board process and staff engaged in the Approval/Periodic Review of courses (professional and academic).
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PGR/PTL Learning and Teaching Induction
2023-01-10 10:00 - 11:00 | MS Teams
The Learning and Teaching Induction will introduce colleagues to the various support that exists across the University and outline the University’s strategic context (Teesside 2027) discussing Future Facing Learning and the Academic Enhancement Framework. During the session, we will signpost colleagues to key sources around learning and teaching (L & T) support, networks and information (LTE Online) and will provide further information around the key roles and responsibilities of an academic. This will include content around Personal Tutoring, Assessment and Feedback, Continuous Monitoring and Evaluation (including Module Evaluations) and Digital Learning at TU. The University’s Professional Development Framework and the UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF) will be discussed providing the opportunity for new academic staff to discuss specific needs relating to their future CPD and L & T support.
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Personal Tutoring: Managing boundaries and knowing when to refer when dealing with student mental health and welfare
2023-01-11 09:30 - 11:00 | MS Teams
This session will focus on information for student facing staff who might be presented with a student in distress. The session aims to inform staff about strategies they can use to de-escalate a situation and what questions to ask to find out relevant information to refer appropriately. Boundaries will be explored so that staff feel confident about appropriate actions when managing a potential crisis situation and can identify when specialist intervention is required. The session will inform staff how to refer to appropriate services both within TU and externally.
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New to Teaching Workshop
2023-01-11 10:00 - 14:00 | Room T2.03, The Curve
This New to Teaching Workshop is facilitated by colleagues from the Education and Social Work Department in SSSHL. The session will mainly focus on planning and delivering sessions but will also consider assessment, feedback and marking. There will be an opportunity for you to share challenges, experiences and concerns that you may have around teaching and supporting learning in Higher Education. The session will be delivered on campus, government guidelines permitting, but there will also be a synchronous BB Ultra collaborate room and/or a Teams meeting available so that those who cannot attend in person can join in the learning and the discussions.
Attendance at these sessions is a requirement for PGRs who will be involved in teaching and supporting learning at Teesside University.
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Developing Practice in Personal Tutoring: Personal Tutoring Code of Practice
2023-01-16 09:30 - 11:00 | MS Teams
This session will focus around the University’s Personal Tutoring Code of Practice; we will discuss its aims and rationale and the key principles that form the basic underpinning of the Code. We will explore the key responsibilities of Personal Tutoring at Teesside and the pastoral, academic and professional/career conversations that take place between tutor and tutee.
Colleagues will be introduced to the Academic Enhancement Framework (AEF) and particularly the ‘Student Success’ strand which incorporates the expectations around personal tutoring and working with data held within StREAM to support success. Key guidance around handling and recordings of personal and sensitive data under GDPR legislature will also be provided.
Staff will be encouraged to work towards enhancement and excellence in these areas.
Personal Tutors should be proactive in their role and focus on improving student performance providing a consistent, equitable, structured and data informed approach for all students to pastoral, general academic and professional support. Providing general academic support will be focussed around assisting the student achieve their potential (drawing on analytics to facilitate the discussions). In supporting students around pastoral and professional related issues it may be appropriate to direct them to colleagues across the University who can provide more bespoke support (for example SLS and Student Learning in SLAR).
This session is relevant to all new academic colleagues who are Personal Tutors within their Schools and may also be relevant to other academic and support staff who wish to find out more about Personal Tutoring at Teesside University.
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LTExChange Event 'The Compassionate Curriculum' - Part 2
2023-01-18 13:00 - 15:00 | MS Teams
Working with compassionate pedagogies for students – and for us: continuing the conversation
We are delighted to have Professor Felton (Elon University, US) returning to facilitate a second (virtual) interactive event on Wednesday January 18th (13:00 – 15:00) that will garner a collective response to questions generating during the LTExChange Symposium Event on November 30th with focus on practical steps we can take on our own and with our colleagues to create a more relational, compassionate university.
Taken together, this two-part interactive series offers a timely exploration of how we can make our work – and our institutions – more relational and compassionate.
Professor Peter Felton delivered the first symposium event of the year on November 30th with a focus on the theme of ‘The Compassionate Curriculum’.
We invite colleagues to review the recording of Professor Felton’s talk and consider the three questions posed (see above) ahead of attending the second interactive event on January 18th.
In this interactive talk Professor Felton discussed his respected international work in relationship-rich education in a wide-ranging exposition of relational approaches to pedagogic practice and learning design in higher education.
Building on his review of this shifting landscape for student learning, Professor Felton posed several key questions:

What do you do to cultivate educational relationships with/among your students?

What are significant barriers to developing these relationships?

What do you do to develop relationships that support your professional thriving?

Professor Felton will be facilitating discussions in response to these questions as we continue to consider what compassionate pedagogy means for us both now and in the future.
Book your place on the event here.

Integrating Students from Various Parts of the World
2023-02-01 13:00 - 14:00 | MS Teams
Teaching a Culturally Diverse Student Population – Staff Training Series
Teesside University aims to be a global institution that provides an excellent international experience through partnerships and networks across the world, for example through diversifying and enriching the University by recruiting students and staff from across the world and encouraging students to become global citizens by creating international opportunities throughout their University experience.
Thus, integrating students from various parts of the world, including from the United Kingdom, is crucial if we want to continue to promote a truly international learning and teaching community at Teesside.
In this session ‘Integrating students from various parts of the world’, we will explore what this means at TU, examples of what has been done successfully in TUIBS will be shared with participants, and there will be plenty of opportunities for discussion of how academics can contribute to the internationalisation of the learning environment.
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Introduction to the Revised Assessment regulations from 2022-23
2023-02-14 11:00 - 12:00

Chairing Collaborative Partnership & Validation
2023-02-15 14:00 - 15:30 | MS Teams
This is a mandatory briefing for all Chairs and will take place via MS Teams.
Target Audience: All new and existing Chairs nominated by Schools to Chair validation/re-validation events.
The briefing session will outline the following:

The Teesside University Quality Framework and course validation process
The various types of validation events
Your role as Chair
Operational aspects of events and post-event actions
Quality assessment and external drivers
Internal drivers – Teesside’s approach
Support and resources
Example scenarios and guidance

To book a place on this please contact QAV@tees.ac.uk

Supporting Successful Validation as a Panel Member
2023-02-27 14:00 - 15:30 | MS Teams
This briefing is aimed at colleagues with a keen interest in participating as a panel member for Teesside University Collaborative Partnership and Course Validation Events. This session would also benefit experienced Panel Members as an opportunity to refresh and update recent enhancements to validation practices and processes.
The briefing session will outline the following:

Why we validate courses, the TU validation stages and types of events
Your role as a Panel Member
Operational aspects of validation events and your role during and after the event
Quality assessment and external drivers
Internal drivers – Teesside’s approach
Support and resources
Examples and scenarios and guidance

To book a place on this please contact QAV@tees.ac.uk

Introduction to the Revised Assessment regulations from 2022-23
2023-03-01 15:00 - 16:00 | MS Teams

Students’ academic skills development in a culturally diverse learning environment: How the Language Centre can help.
2023-03-03 14:00 - 15:00 | MS Teams
Students’ academic skills development in a culturally diverse learning environment: How the Language Centre can help.
It is well recognised that teaching students in a culturally diverse learning environment is extremely rewarding, but also present challenges, both for academics and students. Such challenges will be daunting for those who have limited experience of supporting and teaching overseas students, but also for students experiencing for the first time an international classroom.
This session will address the following questions:

Who is in the Language Centre and what does it do?
What are the main challenges facing students who are not native speakers of English?
What are these ‘academic skills’ that all students are expected to come to university with or to develop?
How can the Language Centre help you support students with academic skills development?

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Generative AI for Academic Writing and Assessment: Issues and Opportunities - External Event
2023-03-08 12:00 - 13:00
Wednesday 8th March. 12:00 – 13:00
Mike Sharples
New generative AI systems such as ChatGPT are powerful general-purpose language devices. They can hold conversations, write plausible student essays, summarise scientific texts, produce lesson plans, and draft academic papers. But they have a serious flaw – they are language models not knowledge bases; they output “continuations” not facts. As such, they need to be approached with great care. In this talk I show examples of their use and misuse, discuss the implications for student assessment and plagiarism, suggest new opportunities for creative writing and argumentation with AI, and end with some implications for educational development and policy making. Mike Sharples is Emeritus Professor of Educational Technology in the Institute of Educational Technology at The Open University and is the co-author of the book which is a great introduction to this form of software and its development https://www.routledge.com/Story-Machines-How-Computers-Have-Become-Creative-Writers/Sharples-Perez/p/book/9780367751975
Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84984560388?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 849 8456 0388
Passcode: [REDACTED]
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Academic Learning & Teaching Induction
2023-03-08 13:00 - 16:00, 2023-04-05 13:00 - 16:00
New members of academic staff to Teesside University will be invited to attend a face to face induction session.

Assessment Regulations and Assessment Boards (Open Sessions)
2023-03-15 10:30 - 12:00, 2023-04-18 14:30 - 16:00 | MS Teams
These Workshops are available to academic and professional staff who are involved in the progression and award of students through the Assessment Board process. The workshops will provide a summary of the role of Assessment Boards and External Examiners, a summary of the Assessment Regulations, including the revised assessment regulations introduced in the 2022-23 academic year (focus on undergraduate but with reference to other assessment regulations) and consideration of some case studies through sample Assessment Board reports. There will also be an opportunity to bring anonymised examples for discussion, subject to sufficient notice.
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Teaching with ChatGPT: Examples of Practice Webinar - University of Kent
2023-03-15 14:00 - 16:30 | Online
The E-Learning Team are pleased to announce that the next event in our series of ‘Digitally Enhanced Education webinars’ will take place on Wednesday 15th March 2023 from 14:00 – 16:30 (GMT), and will follow the theme ‘Teaching with ChatGPT: Examples of Practice’
During this webinar we will hear from academics who have begun having conversations with their students about ChatGPT, and have successfully incorporated ChatGPT or other large language models, into their teaching practices, or plan to in the near future. We will also hear a students perspective on the use of ChatGPT in Education.
Agenda:

14:00 – 14:05 – Dr Phil Anthony (University of Kent): Introduction
14:05 – 14:20 – Professor Maha Bali (The American University in Cairo): Promoting Critical AI Literacies in Egypt
14:20 – 14:35 – Zaid Mahmood (Kent Union President, University of Kent): The use of ChatGPT in Education: A Student Voice
14:35 – 15:50 – Debbie Kemp (University of Kent): Chat GPT: Love it or hate it, but ultimately embracing it!
14:50 – 15:05 – Neil McGregor (University of Manchester): AI-generated article summaries for reading comprehension assessment
15:05 – 15:15 – Break
15:15 – 15:30 – Professor Margaret Bearman (Deakin University): Preparing University Assessment for a World with AI: Tasks for Human Intelligence
15:30 – 15:45 – Marion Sadoux (University of Oxford): Using ChatGPT for error correction in language teaching
15:45 – 16:00 – Dr Abdullahi Arabo (UWE Bristol): Authentic Assessment Case Study: Utilizing ChatGPT for Offensive Cybersecurity
16:00 – 16:15 – Professor Laura Dumin (University of Central Oklahoma): Using AI in the writing classroom

Further Information and how to book
Colleagues from outside the University of Kent are very welcome to join this community and so feel free to circulate. Please ask anyone wishing to join to complete the Digitally Enhanced Education registration form if they haven’t already. We add them to the mailing list linked to the series.
Everyone on the Digitally Enhanced Education Webinars mailing list will receive the joining link via email on the 14th of March.

Student Learning Insights Roadshow
2023-03-22 10:30 - 12:00 | MS Teams
Please join us at the Student Learning Insights Roadshow, which will be presented via Microsoft Teams on Wednesday, 22 March from 10:30 to 12:00.
Highlights of the presentation will include:
–An overview from Dr Nicola Watchman Smith, Deputy Director of Student Learning
–From the Student Journey Team, a discussion of headlines from the January STEP survey
–From the Student Learning Team, a discussion of recent indicators of SST impact, including quantitative indicators from the team’s most recent monthly report, plus student testimonials
We look forward to seeing you soon.
For more information on how to join, please email studentsuccess@tees.ac.uk

ChatGPT: To ban or not to ban
2023-03-22 11:00 - 12:00 | QAA Weblink
ChatGPT Online Events: Exploring Responses to AI in Higher Education
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed various aspects of our lives, including education. AI-powered technologies such as ChatGPT are becoming more popular in higher education, providing students and educators with new ways to engage with course material, collaborate, and evaluate learning outcomes. However, the increasing use of AI in education also raises important questions and concerns about its impact on teaching and learning.

How can we ensure that AI is used ethically and effectively in higher education?
What is the appropriate response to the use of AI in assessments?

ChatGPT: To ban or not to ban
About this event
Is it possible to detect the use of ChatGPT in assessments? Is it right to punish students for using it or should we be trusting them? And is banning ChatGPT as futile as banning google? Join us to hear from a range of perspectives on the appropriate response to ChatGPT in higher education.
Speakers confirmed:

Dr Phil Anthony, Head of Technology Enhanced Learning at the University of Kent
Stella Maris, Rector’s Assessor at St Andrew’s University and QAA Student Strategic Advisory Committee member
Dr Bronwyn Eager, Senior Lecturer at the University of Tasmania
Dr Irene Glendinning, Academic Manager for Student Experience at Coventry University

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Using Learner Analytics impactfully for student support via StREAM
2023-03-23 15:00 - 16:00 | M6.08, Middlesbrough Tower
StREAM is the University’s learner analytics platform. The use of learner analytics is designed to support all our students in maximising their chances of success and realising their potential. SLAR will be hosting a series of monthly institution-wide sessions on StREAM aimed at teaching staff to will help you understand the platform and the affordances of learner analytics for timely student support. We will cover:

Using Real time data – StREAM takes data from a wide range of digital touch points, which together represents participation in academic learning.
Understanding engagement Algorithm – An algorithm is applied to our data, tailored to reflect how engagement is represented at Teesside, which calculates an overall “engagement score” indicator for each student.
Interpreting engagement Score – A simple measure of engagement for easy-to-understand visualisation and interpretation of data.
Reviewing holistic View – Taking the engagement information en-masse, StREAM also provides a holistic view of how students are engaging at school and course level.

In the meantime, user guides, and associated materials around the Personal Tutoring Code of Practice, Information Governance and guidance from SLS can be found here: Student Learning & Academic Registry – Learner Analytics (tees.ac.uk
Please note this session is face to face.
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LTExChange Symposium Event - Decolonising Learning and Teaching
2023-03-29 09:00 - 11:00 | MS Teams
We are delighted to welcome Professor Sally Everett (Kings College London, UK) as keynote speaker for the second LTExChange Symposium of the year entitled ‘Decolonising Learning and Teaching’ – book your place now!
Decolonising Learning and Teaching
In this keynote talk we will explore issues of power, privilege, and pedagogy in our post pandemic learning landscape. Against a background of raging culture wars, the Black Lives Matter movement, and ever-increasing awarding gaps for black and minority ethnic student groups, it has never been more important and more urgent to collectively “consider how our pedagogic practices might positively respond to calls for a more culturally sustaining pedagogy” (Hanesworth, Bracken, and Elkington, 2019). In positively responding to this challenge, I encourage us all to embrace the opportunity to become less myopic in our perspectives and strive towards practices that aim to liberate our students, our pedagogies, and ourselves, from approaches built on European-centred and western frameworks that have invisibilised subaltern voices and indigenous knowledges.

Although this talk will be underpinned by literature, its primary focus will be on sharing some practical ways to approach the decolonisation and diversification of our learning and teaching – thereby reframing and reconstructing the way we engage in university education. Challenging an institutional hierarchy and monopoly on knowledge is an incredibly daunting prospect and knowing where to start can lead to fear, paralysis, and confusion. Therefore, I hope the discussion might help Teesside University continue in its development of a powerful and penetrating community of inclusive practice. This talk may mark the start of a journey for some, and for others, offer a useful reflection point and some encouragement to continue in their pursuit to overturn and challenge pedagogic tools of exclusion. In sharing ideas and coming together, we are well positioned to collectively explore how we can sensitively and authentically occupy uncomfortable spaces and foster approaches that promote greater social justice, and a more truthful view of the world to our students.
To book a place on this workshop, please click here.
This session is for TU staff only.

Questions of English in the classroom
2023-03-29 14:00 - 15:00 | MS Teams
Teesside University aims to be a global institution that provides an excellent international experience through partnerships and networks across the world, for example through diversifying and enriching the University by recruiting students and staff from across the world and encouraging students to become global citizens by creating international opportunities throughout their University experience.
The accompanying drive for internationalising learning and teaching at the University leads to an interesting discussion regarding the English which is used in the classroom by both the teacher and the learners.
In this session, ‘Questions of English in the classroom’, the English Language Centre will lead an exploration of approaches to effective communication, how audience and purpose play a role in this consideration and what strategies can be used to promote better understanding for all students.
To book a place on this session please click here.

ChatGPT: How do I use it as a force for good?
2023-03-31 11:00 - 12:00 | QAA Weblink
ChatGPT Online Events: Exploring Responses to AI in Higher Education
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed various aspects of our lives, including education. AI-powered technologies such as ChatGPT are becoming more popular in higher education, providing students and educators with new ways to engage with course material, collaborate, and evaluate learning outcomes. However, the increasing use of AI in education also raises important questions and concerns about its impact on teaching and learning.

How can we ensure that AI is used ethically and effectively in higher education?
What is the appropriate response to the use of AI in assessments?

About this event
It’s right to address the threat ChatGPT poses to academic integrity. But it’s also an amazing new tool. How can ChatGPT support and facilitate deeper learning? How can it make teaching easier? This online panel discussion will explore the opportunities ChatGPT presents the sector, from admin, to teaching, to learning.
Speakers confirmed:

Maha Bali, Professor of Practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo
Dr Bronwyn Eager, Senior Lecturer at the University of Tasmania
Jack Medlin, Education Officer at Keele University Students’ Union and QAA Student Strategic Advisory Committee member

To book a place please click here.

ChatGPT: What should assessment look like now?
2023-04-18 10:00 - 11:00 | QAA Weblink
ChatGPT Online Events: Exploring Responses to AI in Higher Education
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed various aspects of our lives, including education. AI-powered technologies such as ChatGPT are becoming more popular in higher education, providing students and educators with new ways to engage with course material, collaborate, and evaluate learning outcomes. However, the increasing use of AI in education also raises important questions and concerns about its impact on teaching and learning.

How can we ensure that AI is used ethically and effectively in higher education?
What is the appropriate response to the use of AI in assessments?

About this event
How do you design assessments now that students can use ChatGPT? What does ‘innovative authentic assessment’ even mean? Do I have to re-write all my modules? This online webinar will unearth the true meaning of authentic assessment and give attendees real life examples of assessment design that account for ChatGPT but still offer an accurate way to assess what a student has learned.
Speakers confirmed:

Jan McArthur, Senior Lecturer in Education and Social Justice at Lancaster University, UK
Matthew Glanville, Head of Assessment Principles and Practice at The International Bacalaureate
Dr Thomas Lancaster, Senior Teaching Fellow at Imperial College London and Chair of QAA’s Academic Integrity Advisory Group
Libby Farrier-Williams, Senior Lecturer in Marketing and Higher Education researcher at Canterbury Christ Church University

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Designing Learning Experiences on Blackboard Ultra
2023-04-18 15:00 - 16:00 | M3.04
Blackboard Ultra is the University’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a modern, responsive platform, designed to function on all devices (including mobile), and is used for all our campus taught courses.
A series of monthly institution-wide sessions aimed at colleagues in Schools understand the basics of Blackboard Ultra and get to grips with the features they will be expected to use when setting up and delivering modules and assessing learning. A key feature of these sessions will be to help colleagues design impactful learning experiences on the VLE, ensuring that the VLE becomes an expansion of the learning ecosystem.
To book a place on this session please click here.
In addition to these monthly sessions, we encourage you to reach out to us for one-to-one coaching on course design on the VLE via elearning@tees.ac.uk.
We have prepared for all staff a self-study CPD package of learning here: https://blogs.tees.ac.uk/lteonline/2021/10/05/blackboard-ultra-self-study-cpd-2/
