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Development and Quality, Nottingham Trent University

TILT Festival of Learning 2017

27th, 28th and 29th June 2017, Nottingham Trent University

Programme and Abstracts

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In the forum come and see:

Wall of Women, Maker Club Woodworking demonstration, Creativity

TILT group, ELearning, Staff Networks, Research Posters and more!

www.ntu.ac.uk/festivaloflearning

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08:30 Registration

Level 1 forum

09:00 –

09:30

Introduction & Welcome

Professor Edward Peck, Vice-Chancellor

Lecture Theatre 2

09:35 –

10:35

Workshop 1

Adams Room

Workshop 2

Bowden Room

Workshop 3

Lecture Theatre 1

Workshop 4

Lecture Theatre 6

Visual & material delights - sharing research and building

community among staff and students

Lorraine Warde & Peter Wright 30 mins

Undergraduate research in a

community setting David Hindley

30 mins

When the going gets TEF...The

teaching needs to get Interactive!

David Ellicott, Matthew Homewood, Jelena Matic & Ayush

Thankachan

30 mins

Lecture capture with large cohorts Angela Young, Gareth Williams &

Mark Andrews 30 mins

Embedding employability into the curriculum

Employability and Work-based Learning TILT Group

60 mins

Understanding the way students engage with the academic

community in psychology through

a corpus analysis of research methods reports

Gareth Williams & Andy Grayson

30 mins

Predicting statistics anxiety

among psychology students Mark Sergeant, Jasmin

Stevenson, Lindsay Thurston & Angela Young

30 mins

10:35 –

11:00 Refreshment break & explore the market place

Level 1 forum

11:00 –

12:30

Workshop 5

Adams Room

Workshop 6

Bowden Room

Workshop 7

Lecture Theatre 1

Workshop 8

Lecture Theatre 6

Recognising the NTU Community of Practice Leaders as Senior and

Principal Fellows Alison Stewart

45 mins

Working Groups within SST:

productive communities of shared good practice

Michael Loughlin

20 mins

Outreach: supporting a wider community of those with a passion

for Science Michael Loughlin & Karen Moss

20 mins

An introduction to experiential

learning Carla Lees-Limb & Graham

Whyborn

45 mins

The transformative power of storytelling

Joanna Jones & Petra Moltan-Hill

45 mins

Always look closer to home, the creative learning community in Media

and Visual Arts at New College Nottingham.

Sarah Gilkinson

30 mins

Community through craft: re-engaging students with a personalised

programme of extra-curricular and collaborative project work.

Kerry Truman & Rebecca Gamble

30 mins

Black Writing in Britain: Scalable communities in specialist literature. Philip Pierce & Jenni Ramone &

Rachel Challen

30 mins

Creating communities with a

sense of belonging Personalisation of Learning

TILT Group

60 mins

A student conference, collaboration and a sense of

community Paula O’Brien

30 mins

12:30 –

13:30 Lunch

The Old Library

13:30 –

14:30 Keynote, Professor Liz Thomas, Edge Hill University: Developing learning communities through the curriculum

Introduction by Eunice Simmons, Deputy Vice-Chancellor

Lecture Theatre 2

14:30 –

15:00 Panel Discussion

What does a vibrant learning community look like?

Lecture Theatre 2

15:00 –

15:30 Refreshment break & explore the market place

Level 1 forum

15:30 –

16:30

Workshop 9

Adams Room

Workshop 10

Bowden Room

Workshop 11

Lecture Theatre 1

Workshop 12

Lecture Theatre 3

Workshop 13

Lecture Theatre 6 Online learning communities

Ayse Yilmaz

30 mins

The Collective Student Experience: Creating communities through

shared identity Niamh McNamara, Juliet

Wakefield, Clifford Stevenson, Mhairi Bowe & Blerina Kellezi

30 mins

Cabaret: Performative modes of (research)

dissemination

Geof Hill

60 mins

Hull City of Culture 2017 - from the streets to the classroom: Inspiring

learning in communities through creativity and

culture Nigel Morpeth

30 mins

Creativity within the

disciplines: Establishing a community of practice

TILT Creativity Group

30 mins

Developing a learning community: supporting digital

literacy Helen Boulton

20 min

How self-guided virtual reality

therapy can be used as a teaching and learning tool for

students Rosie Daly & Eva Zysk

20 min

Using video-based formative feedback as part of inclusive assessment strategies on the

BA(Hons) Fashion Management

Justine Davidson, Charlie Davis & Harriett Fox

20 min

Creating inclusive learning communities

Jalpa Ruparelia & Annette Kappert

20 min

Creating Inclusive learning communities in the School of Social Sciences at NTU

Dominic Holland & Sam Murphy

20 min

Serious fun Katryn Furmston and

Leslie Arthur

20 min

16:30 Networking and TEF Gold Celebration

Level 1 forum

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Keynote

Liz Thomas

Developing learning communities through the curriculum

Professor Liz Thomas is Professor of Higher Education at Edge Hill University and an independent

researcher and consultant for higher education. Liz is an expert member of the Teaching Excellence

Framework panel, recognising her expertise in student retention and success and learning and teaching.

Current and recent research projects include:

Understanding a whole institution approach to widening participation, commissioned by the Office

for Fair Access, 2017

Creating an evaluation framework for student engagement, commissioned by the National Union of

Students, 2016.

Student engagement in the context of commuter students, commissioned by the National Union of

Students, 2016, launched 2017

What works? Student retention and success change programme, funded by the Paul Hamlyn

Foundation, 2012-2016, launched 2017

Independent learning: Student perspectives and experiences, commissioned by the Higher

Education Academy, 2015, published 2016

Effective practice in the design of directed independent learning opportunities, commissioned by the

Higher Education Academy and Quality Assurance Agency, 2014, published 2015

Liz researches and writes about widening participation, student retention and success and learning and

teaching. She is the author and editor of over ten books, and many journal articles, reports, briefings

and practice guides. She regularly delivers keynote addresses and staff development workshops and

programmes at higher education institutions in the UK and abroad.

This keynote address will draw on research about student retention and success undertaken as part of

the first and second phases of the What works? Programme. What works?1 found that student

engagement and belonging underpin retention and success in higher education, but some student

groups have lower rates of engagement and belonging. A range of student characteristics intersect and

contribute to less engagement with the higher education experience, and poorer student outcomes.

This presentation will consider how the curriculum can be used to develop learner communities, that

contribute to a positive experience and outcomes for all students.

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27th June 2017 – The Annual Learning and Teaching Conference

City Campus - Nottingham Conference Centre

Lorraine Warde and Peter Wright

Visual & Material Delights - sharing research and building community among

staff and students

This presentation will highlight the success of Visual & Material Delights, a symposium originally

designed for Level 5 students embarking on their final year research projects in the School of Art &

Design. Since its inception, this event has grown in size and offers an interesting model for creating

community.

David Hindley

Undergraduate research in a community setting

It is widely recognised that undergraduate research should be embedded in the curriculum in part to

help foster a sense of belonging to their disciplinary or even university research community. This paper

examines one such approach, focusing on the valuable learning opportunities afforded to students

working for, and with, community partners on specific research projects.

Dave Ellicott, Matthew Homewood, Jelena Matic and Ayush Thankachan

When the Going Gets TEF...The teaching needs to get Interactive!

The session will explore methods, techniques and tools employed by NTU colleagues to increase

interaction within teaching sessions and will reflect upon the impact of such interventions and its

impact on student learning, engagement and satisfaction and how this can encourage a sense of

community for students.

Angela Young, Gareth Williams, Mark Andrews

Lecture Capture with Large Cohorts

This talk reflects on an academic year's worth of lecture capture for a module with a cohort of 450

students. We will look at staff experiences, if, when and how students used lecture recordings and

how attendance, grades and student feedback compare to years without lecture capture.

Employability and Work-Based Learning Group

Embedding Employability into the Curriculum: Presentation

This presentation aims to provide examples from across Schools of best practice at all levels and

demonstrates how employability can be embedded in the curriculum to meet the objectives of CO101.

The presentation will adopt a top down approach from a focus on attributes; demonstrating these

through synoptic assessment and then progress to the initial awareness stage. There will be time for

questions and discussion at the end. All presentation information will be available afterwards & best

practice examples found on the Employability NOW learning room.

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Gareth Williams and Andy Grayson

Understanding the way students engage with the academic community in

psychology through a corpus analysis of research methods reports

Students begin as novices to the rules of an academic community. This presentation will report a

corpus analysis of the way academic experts write. The session explores the findings then encourage

reflection on language conventions of an academic community and how corpus analysis tools can help

assessment design practices.

Mark Sergeant, Jasmin Stevenson, Lindsay Thurston and Angela Young

Predicting Statistics Anxiety among Psychology Students

Statistics anxiety is a multidimensional construct that can have a debilitative effect on academic

performance and impacts student wellbeing A study was undertaken to investigate the factors

predicting statistics anxiety among HE students. Variables of interest were identified and suggestions

for addressing this issue are outlined.

Alison Stewart

Recognising the NTU Community of Practice Leaders as Senior and Principal

Fellows

A key part of NTU strategy (Empowering People) is to enable them to gain appropriate accreditation

and recognition for their practice - including those who influence and contribute to the development of

other colleagues' teaching and learning support practice. NTU offers support for those colleagues to

gain recognition for their contribution to wider HE practice development by achieving Senior or

Principal Fellow professional recognition. At this session you can hear from those who already hold

this recognition about the practice evidence they used to gain recognition. There will be opportunity to

ask further questions and find out about support available.

Michael Loughlin

Working Groups within SST: productive communities of shared good practice.

This session will discuss case studies where School working groups have proven effective in supporting

change within the School of Science and Technology, either by independant enhancement of the school

action-plan, or in facilitating uptake and engagement with new policies as part of the wider university

Strategic Plan.

Michael Loughlin and Karen Moss

Outreach: supporting a wider community of those with a passion for Science

Outreach produces two communities of learning, those academics keen to share their passion for their

discipline and the wider communities of schools and general public with an interest in learning more.

Here we discuss how SST successfully bridges these communities to our mutual benefit.

Graham Whyborn and Carla Lees-Limb

An introduction to experiential learning

This session will enable attendees an understanding of how to use the MTa equipment to provide an

experiential learning environment that fosters a level playing field.

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Joanna Jones and Petra Molthan-Hill

The transformative power of storytelling

Stories can be very powerful: Stories can help learners to memorize the content of a session, stories

can be transformative creating self-identity and collective identities - in this session we want to explore

storytelling in all its dimensions but especially in transforming oneself and others. Referring to the

Future Thinking Section of Curriculum Refresh (F1 to F7) the Green Academy Team will offer some

ideas on how the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals could be taught but we would also

encourage colleagues to attend who would like to explore storytelling further through collaborative

research projects.

Stephen Acquah

Developing and sharing professional experiences of Foundation Degree Law

students to engage with their legal community through inclusive learning

strategies

This presentation shares ideas and case studies of how an FdA Law course succeeds in inviting non-

traditional students to experience communities of Law. Access to these legal and professional

experiences is enhanced by external visits, home and abroad, to make students feel part of their own

collaborative groups as they enter a community of practice seemingly inaccessible to many with only

indirect opportunities in this vocation.

Kerry Truman and Rebecca Gamble

Community through Craft: re-engaging students with a personalised

programme of extra-curricular and collaborative project work

NTU Makers’ Club offers collaborative and community driven learning and teaching undertaken by a

team of technical staff, academic staff and students from within the School of Architecture, Design and

Built Environment. Addressing concerns around student disengagement, progression and attainment

(Success for All), the “Making Communities” initiative delivers a highly inclusive and personalised

workshop programme of events where low engaged students can work collaboratively alongside both

staff and peers.

Rachel Challen, Philip Pierce and Jenni Ramone

Black Writing in Britain: Scalable communities in specialist literature

The Black Writers project uses a blended approach to engage students in reviewing and sharing

critiques on specialist texts - not only within the module but nationally. Delegates will gain insights

into pedagogical community development using online tools combined with pedagogies that can be

easily transferred into their own teaching practice.

TILT Personalisation Group

Creating communities through developing a sense of belonging

The session will explore the importance of engendering in students a sense of belonging to their course,

subject and wider university communities. It will share findings from NTU research into where

students feel they belong as well as literature that demonstrates the impact on the student of personal

involvement in an institution. There will be an opportunity for staff to reflect on their own practices

and to share examples of how they foster a sense of belonging amongst their students.

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Paula O’Brien

‘A Sense of Belonging’ and potent

The paper highlights the use of a student conference to assist the transition of new students. This

session is suitable for those staff responsible for inducting new students and brings together academic

and support staff to enhance the student experience.

Ayse Yilmaz

Online Learning Communities

In this study, the views of a group moderator and members about the "Association of the History

Educators" virtual community were examined in qualitative approach.

Niamh McNamara, Juliet Wakefield, Clifford Stevenson, Mhairi Bowe and

Blerina Kellezi

The Collective Student Experience: Creating communities through shared

identity

This presentaton will provide participants with an overview of the social identity approach to education,

articulate the role played by collective identities in learning and student engagement, and detail how

we have piloted an intervention in the Department of Psychology at NTU in order to address these

issues.

Geof Hill

Performative modes of (research) dissemination - Cabaret?

Research publication is one of the threshold concepts of research practice, and therefore of teaching

research. As with other educational practice, the hegemony associated with research and research

publication often inhibits creativity. Students may need to be encouraged to constantly question the

unchallenged assumptions associated with both research and research publication. This presentation,

in a performative mode of cabaret, models one of the creative ways in which research and in fact any

topic can be disseminated or taught.

Nigel Morpeth

Hull City of Culture 2017 - from the streets to the classroom: Inspiring

learning in communities through creativity and culture

The city of Kingston-upon-Hull in 2017, has become the second UK city, after the City of Derry in 2013

to be designated as the UK City of Culture (Hull 2017) The overall mission for Hull “is to deliver 365

days of culture through a programme of high profile cultural events and projects” (Hull UK City of

Culture 2017: Strategic Business Plan 2015-2018).

Whilst there is a clear emphasis to stimulate audience participation in cultural experiences, additionally

as part of creating a sustainable cultural infrastructure within the city, one of the key objectives of the

programme, is to leave a lasting and lifelong legacy of education and skills. There are two distinct ways

in which it is intended that this will be achieved in terms of using the concept of culture as a conduit

for learning.

Firstly, as part of the programming and projects of Hull 2017, the No Limits programme has a target of

63,000 school children in Hull, to receive class room input from a range of creative performers by the

end of 2017, to stimulate learning through cultural engagement in the classroom.

Secondly, the other aspect of the lifelong legacy of education and skills, is through the volunteering

programme, in which it is estimated that over 4000 people largely from Hull, will become trained

volunteers by the end of the year. As part of this programme volunteers receive the opportunity for

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‘Master Classes’ to develop a range of new skills and learning within indoor and outdoor classroom

environments.

This paper evaluates the on-going pedagogical approaches through the No Limits project and offers

direct observations of my role as a volunteer, to report on the different aspects of a programme of

training and educative courses that promote learning through culture.

Having initially in the presentation explored the work of both Rudolf Steiner and Joseph Beuys, in their

use of culture and creativity to inform pedagogic processes, observations and conclusions will be made

on how the focus on culture has offered wider opportunities for pedagogy to inspire formal and

informal learning within classroom settings for diverse communities in Hull.

TILT Creativity Group

Creativity within the Disciplines: Establishing a community of practice

The Royal Society of Arts argue that all human beings have creative capacities that, when understood

and supported, can be mobilised to deliver a 21st century enlightenment. How do we, at NTU, mobilise

this? Come along to either/both of the TILT Creativity group sessions: Interactive Poster Site and/or

Community Debate, where you can springboard and contribute to discussions about the place and role

of creativity within the disciplines and our role as tutors within this.

Helen Boulton

Developing a learning community: supporting digital literacy

This paper will focus on how a community of practice was established in the Nottingham Institute for

Education (previously School of Education) to support the development of digital literacy skills using

iPads. The paper will present the journey from successfully bidding for iPads, through training,

developing the community of practice and wider network, and the impact of this project on both

academic staff and students.

Rosie Daly and Eva Zysk

How Self-Guided Virtual Reality Therapy can be used as a Teaching and

Learning tool for students

Public Speaking Anxiety (PSA) is common amongst University students. We have designed and tested

a self-guided Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET) which, following 20min speeches given to a

virtual audience over 2 sessions, has successfully decreased PSA in 32 students. We will discuss how

the app can be practically used by students and teachers as a resource for teaching and learning.

Justine Davidson, Caroline Travell, Charlie Davis

Using video-based feedback aimed at developing students' professional

knowledge for entry into the highly competitive world of Fashion

Management

This presentation is for staff, interested in using video-based forms of feedback as part of inclusive

assessment practices. We discuss our experiences facilitating and using video-based feedback from our

perspectives as an academic, student and digital practice adviser on the BA (Hons) Fashion

Management course.

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Jalpa Ruparelia and Annette Kappert

Creating Inclusive Learning Communities

This session aims to raise awareness of how the Success for All agenda addresses the creation and

development of academic and social communities. It will help both academic and professional support

staff to develop meaningful input to the Curriculum Refresh process, and provide an opportunity to

exchange ideas on how best to implement them.

Dominic Holland and Sam Murphy

Creating Inclusive Learning Communities in the School of Social Sciences at

NTU

What are the conditions for creating an inclusive learning community at course level? Drawing on the

results of our research on student progression, we argue that (a) students must be supported in their

understanding of what independent study and assessment in higher education involves and (b) they

must be given opportunities to develop the academic skills they need to succeed in assessment.

Katryn Furmston and Leslie Arthur

Serious Fun

This paper-copter making workshop demonstrates how vibrant communities can be facilitated among

new undergraduates through the design techniques of play, haptic learning and creativity in low-risk,

high-engagement safe spaces that encourage cohesive design communities that will stay with students

throughout their design career.

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Date: 28 June 2017

Time: 12:00 – 17:00

Location: Antenna Media Centre on Beck Street (separate building to Confetti)

Version 3.3

12:00 – 13:00

Registration and lunch

Antenna Cafe

13:00 – 13:25


Darren Bourne

Antenna S11

13:30 – 14:30 Workshop 1

Antenna, S11

Workshop 2

Antenna, S15

Workshop 3

Antenna, Notts TV Studio

Workshop 4

Confetti, HB02

CMG community

Andy King, Rob Baldock &

Rob Bassett

In the zone: How academic

communities make place

Andrew Middleton & Ian

Glover

Connecting with the city: Two

way cultural community

Andy Pepper

Do it for real with Notts TV

Alison Whitlock & Jamie Cash

Gaming insight

Gin Rai

14:30 – 15:00

Refreshment break

Antenna Cafe

15:00 – 16:00 Workshop 5

Antenna, S11

Workshop 6

Antenna, S15

Workshop 7

Confetti, H003

Workshop 8

Antenna, Spool Studio

Collaborative filmmaking

Rob Hoare, Phil Nodding &

Anna Dawson

Assessment on location - TV &

film residential

Paul Wallis & Sam Wheatley

Project management with

students

Mike White

Spool workshop

Mary Kearns

16:05 – 16:35 Workshop 9

Antenna, S11

Workshop 10

Antenna, S12

Workshop 11

Antenna, S15

Workshop 12

Confetti, H003

Engaging students in aspects

of Nottingham’s identity and

development: Co-creating

products and artefacts for the

Caribbean Heritage Museum

at NTU global week

Christopher Lawton,

Andrew Langley, Ana

Souto

Engaging communities in

health promotion activities to

enhance learning

Chris Sweetman

Coaching and the lesson

observation process

Rosie Francis

Creating inclusive learning

communities

Janette Thompson & Tony

Cegielka

16:35

Drinks reception and TEF Gold Celebration

Antenna Cafe

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28th June 2017 – 12.00-5.00pm

The Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies

Andy King, Rob Baldock and Rob Bassett

CMG Community

Each year, staff and students from across the Confetti Media Group work collaboratively on a range of

activities at the Nottingham Splendour Festival. The festival is an opportunity for students studying on

TV, Film, Music and Technical Events courses at Confetti to 'Do it for Real'. This session is a chance to

hear from staff involved about the numerous benefits for the students taking part and how this type of

multidisciplinary working enhances the student experience.

Andrew Middleton and Ian Glover

In the zone: how academic communities make place

In this session we will use group whiteboarding techniques to explore the topic of active learning

spaces. Together we will construct a ‘living picture’ by constructing a video narrative that answers our

question: “What is it that academic communities do to establish shared identities in course and subject

spaces?”

Andy Pepper

Connecting with the city: Two way cultural community

The studio-based fine art course has developed a number of initiatives to foster social, skill and

creative communities which then connect to key arts venues within the city. Influence, knowledge and

social networks flow between the university and the city venues, fostering collaboration and

professional initiatives. The presentation will highlight some of these key initiatives – give practical

examples of community building and offer outlines of best practice which could be adapted in other

learning and teaching structures.

Alison Whitlock and Jamie Cash

Do it for real with Notts TV

Since 2014, Notts TV has recorded hundreds of hours of programmes in the Notts TV studio, based in

Confetti’s main building, whilst providing hundreds of work experience opportunities for Confetti HE

students to DO IT FOR REAL and receive broadcast credits. Visit the studio, and find out how this

benefits students’ industry practice in this workshop.

Gin Rai

Gaming Insight

This session focuses on the multiple uses of the ‘Faronics Insight’ classroom management software

used in the digital classrooms and studios at Confetti each day. Using a range of demonstration modes,

application restrictions, one-to-one virtual support, resource handling and assessment methods it is

possible to effectively monitor performance, in turn managing the classroom environment and creating

a community of learning.

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Rob Hoare, Phil Nodding and Anna Dawson

Collaborative Filmmaking

Confetti, Arts and Humanities and Art and Design have recently collaborated on a new BA Filmmaking

course within the School of Art and Design. The course was successfully validated in March 2017 and

this session will discuss the collaborative planning and development of the course and the proposed

content and structure in preparation for the first intake in 2018.

Paul Wallis and Sam Wheatley

Assessment on location - TV and film residential

This year students studying the FdSc in Film Production Technology were taken to the Peak District to

undertake the filming required for their module assessment. Whilst on location students were assessed

formatively throughout the two days across a range of learning outcomes. During this session will

share how we recorded this evidence and fedback to students.

Mike White

Project Management with Students

The “Pareto principle” states that 80% of your success comes from 20% of your activity. Students

should take a few minutes to work out what exactly they want to accomplish in their day. This way,

they will know what their personal goals are and how successfully they have met them. This session

covers the use of industry standard project management techniques in a teaching environment,

allowing students to measure their own productivity.

Mary Kearns

Spool Workshop

What does it take to get a film or TV programme made and who is involved? We give you a tour of

Spool Films | Post studios and an opportunity to meet with key personnel in both production and post

production. There will be a chance to see film and TV content created here in Nottingham and to ask

questions about the thriving filmmaking and post production community outside of Soho.

Christopher Lawton, Andrew Langley, Ana Souto

Engaging Students in Aspects of Nottingham’s Identity and Development:

Co-Creating Products and Artefacts for the Caribbean Heritage Museum at

NTU Global Week

This session reflects on a project for NTU Global Week. The Departments of Architecture, Product

Design and Economics facilitated their students to work together in an interdisciplinary learning

community, building on the teaching team’s academic and public-policy research and external

networks. Students and staff worked with the National Caribbean Heritage Museum to produce

artefacts related to the Caribbean community and its contribution to society and culture in Nottingham.

Chris Sweetman

Engaging Communities in Health Promotion activities to enhance learning

With the ongoing rise in 'preventable' lifestyle diseases in the UK, Nottingham College’s Access to

Nursing and HE students engaged with the local Nottingham community in promoting health awareness

and physical activity. This session explores how such an initiative can be used, including health walks,

displays and presentations, to create a community of students who raise health awareness while

improving their own wellbeing.

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Rosie Francis

Coaching and the lesson observation process

This session will cover Confetti’s current lesson observation process and the coaching and mentoring

practice that we currently implement at Confetti. The session will allow staff to engage in coaching with

their peers and discuss the benefits of using a coaching and mentoring to help empower and develop

staff in their departments.

Janette Thompson and Tony Cegielka






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Date: 29 June 2017

Time: 09:00 – 13:00

Location: Brackenhurst Campus, Bramley building

Version 4.1

09:00

Registration

Bramley building, TG10

09:15 – 09:45


Martin McGinnity

Bramley Building, TG10

09:50 – 10:50 World Café Session 1


Table 1

Teaching BTEC students at

University

Pam Ellis

Table 2

Building learning communities

which are inclusive of

student-parents

Zara Hooley

Table 3

Strategies for supporting

international students learning

science literacy

Carla Smedberg

Table 4

Creating inclusive learning

communities

Andre Koziello & Jenny

Hambling

10:50 – 11:10

Refreshment break

TG10

11:10 – 12.15 World Café Session 2


11.10 – 11.40

Workshop 1


Table 1

Duolingo for stats: developing a stats

app to support maths and stats for non-

mathematicians

Sally Andrews & Gareth Williams

Table 2

Developing and sharing professional

experiences of Foundation Degree Law

students to engage with their legal

community through inclusive learning

strategies

Stephen Acquah

An inclusive approach to examinations

Andy Grayson

Table 3

Building supportive multi-cultural groups

to enrich student learning - an action

research

Sabine Gerlach

Table 4

Understanding the local community and

previous experiences of education

through research into students'

backgrounds to encourage participation

and achievement in further education

Nadia Anderson

Participants from workshop 1 join

world café session 2 at 11.40

12:15 – 13:00 Lunch and TEF Gold Celebration


13:00 Leave for Clifton

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29th June 2017 – 9.00am – 1.00pm

Brackenhurst Campus

Pam Ellis

Teaching BTEC students at university

The aim of the session to facilitate discussion about the transition of students to HE study following

BTEC and other vocational courses

Zara Hooley

Building learning communities which are inclusive of student-parents

This session will examine the creation of inclusive learning communities for student-parents. It will

begin with a review of literature, followed by a discussion of a webinar run by De Montfort University to

support the learning needs of a group of student-parents. The session will close with idea sharing and

capture for dissemination.

Carla Smedberg

Strategies for supporting international student learning science literacy

Science literacy is a challenge for students, particularly international students. In this session we will

address some of these challenges and provide the attendees with a small tool kit of strategies that

they could easily implement into the teaching and learning of science.

Sally Andrews and Gareth Williams

Duolingo for stats: developing a stats app to support maths and stats for

non-mathematiciansT

We have developed a prototype app to aid students' learning and confidence with basic statistics (from

means to one-way ANOVA and simple regression). This app gives students the opportunity to test their

knowledge and understanding of different statistical tests on different examples until they are

confident with their abilities.

Stephen Acquah

Developing and sharing professional experiences of Foundation Degree Law students to engage with their legal community through inclusive learning

strategies

This presentation shares ideas and case studies of how an FdA Law course succeeds in inviting non-

traditional students to experience communities of Law. Access to these legal and professional

experiences is enhanced by external visits, home and abroad, to make students feel part of their own

collaborative groups as they enter a community of practice seemingly inaccessible to many with only

indirect opportunities in this vocation

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Nadia Anderson

Understanding the local community and previous experiences of education through research into students' backgrounds to encourage participation and

achievement in further education

Previous educational experience has an impact on learners’ future expectations, motivation and

attainment. This session uses research to explore how practitioners can create an inclusive learning

environment to help disengaged, disadvantaged and underachieving learners, aiming to build the skills

and confidence needed to achieve educational success by recognising the very communities that

students come from.

Andy Grayson

An Inclusive Approach to Examinations

The provision of effective, personalized examination feedback to large cohorts of students is a major

and current challenge for HEIs. This paper explores a set of technologies and techniques for providing

such feedback, as one way of including students more in the process of being examined.

Andre Koziello and Jenny Hambling






Sabine Gerlach

Building supportive multi-cultural groups to enrich student learning - an

action research

The action research shows how multi-cultural group work is used in conjunction with teaching subject

content and transferable skills, to enrich the student learning experience within the module. Students

were able to utilise the group work for creating friendships and support, which lead to increased

motivation and satisfaction levels.

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Date: 29 June 2017

Time: 13:30 – 17:00

Location: Clifton, Pavilion Plaza

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13:30

Registration and refreshments

Pavilion Plaza

14:00 – 14:30


Jane McNeil

Pavilion 121

14:40 – 15:10 Workshop 1 (14.40 – 15.45)

The outdoor classroom

Workshop 2 (14.40 – 15.10)

Pavilion 122

Workshop 3 (14.40 – 15.10)

Pavilion 123

Storytelling around the campfire

Petra Molthan-Hill, Heather Luna,

Joanna Jones & Lina Erlandsson

Including woodworking with Kerry

Truman, Lee Bollard & Mark Beeston

Using virtual 3D spaces in lectures to

explore hidden worlds

Karen Slade & Adam O'Rourke

A day in the woods: volunteering activity

promotes creation of integrated staff-

student communities

Rachel Stubbington & Laura

Nassaralla

15:15 – 15:45 Workshop 4 (15.15 - 15.45)

Meet outside Pavilion 122 to walk to the

woods

Workshop 5 (15.15 - 15.45)

Pavilion 123

A "Forest Schools" approach to

undergraduate tutorials

Dave Fairhurst

Freedom to learn: Student engagement

and digital literacy

Kerry Myler

15:45 – 16:00 Refreshment break

Pavilion Plaza

16:00 – 17:00 Workshop 6

Learning and Teaching Building P04

Workshop 7

Pavilion 122

Workshop 8

Pavilion 123

Creating learning communities through a

SCALE-Up approach

Nicky-Jane Kerr-Gilbert

Creating an innovative VLE to maintain a

community of learning and student

engagement whilst on worldwide work-

placements

Sue McKinnon

Reflecting on ten years of a departmental

student ambassador scheme

Jo Hartley

Technology-free interactive teaching

Eleanor Power


Paul Whitehouse & Esther Akanya

17:00

Close – BBQ and TEF Gold Celebration

Pavilion garden

In the Pavilion Plaza:

Scientific art display, the wall of women, staff networks and much more!

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29th June 2017 – 2.00-6.00pm

Clifton Campus

Petra Molthan-Hill, Heather Luna, Joanna Jones, Lina Erlandsson

Storytelling around the Campfire

This session aims to inspire academics to adapt storytelling techniques to teach sustainability within

their disciplines. Using innovative methods such as games participants will get an introduction to

teaching sustainability through storytelling and get the chance to try out teaching materials developed

by the NTU Green Academy, a team at the university dedicated to support academics to embed

sustainability in their teaching. These fun activities will support the Future Thinking Section of

Curriculum Refresh especially F1 on addressing the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals,

but also encourage participants to consider the transformative power of stories.

Karen Slade and Adam O'Rourke

Using virtual 3D spaces in lectures to explore hidden worlds

This session will showcase a virtual 3D environment which can be used in teaching to aid student

learning. After explaining its development, the session will demonstrate methods to explore hidden

environments through viewing prison cells via smartphones through 3D Google viewers; with an

accompanying teaching narrative.

Dave Fairhurst

A "Forest Schools" approach to undergraduate tutorials

A Forest Schools approach to undergraduate tutorials. Included fire-lighting, physics and

marshmallows.

Kerry Myler

Freedom to learn: student engagement and digital literacy

Freedom to learn: building communities through digital literacy This session explores some of the

challenges associated with digital learning and teaching and offers a model for successfully embedding

digital practice into a module through an emphasis on collaborative learning, links to assessment, web

residency, and student-led learning. The session will include a Q&A with students on digital literacy and

community building.

Rachel Stubbington and Laura Nassaralla

A day in the woods: volunteering activity promotes creation of integrated

staff-student communities

We organized an NTU-supported volunteering 'Team Challenge' involving conservation of a nature

reserve. The event was attended by students from across all three years of a biosciences degree,

academic staff and technical staff. This promoted development of our `course community' and was

celebrated by staff and students on social media.

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Nicky-Jane Kerr-Gilbert and Alison Murphy

TILT 2017: Creating learning communities through a SCALE-Up approach

Critical evaluation of teaching methods led to employing SCALE-Up, promoting inclusive, collaborative

and interactive learning opportunities, incorporating technologies as learning tools to increase

motivation and engagement. Collaboration and reflection allowed active learning, cognitive rehearsal,

peer teaching and questioning, leading to the creation of resources, living documents, developed and

used by a vibrant community of learners.

Sue Mckinnon

Creating an innovative VLE to maintain a community of learning and student

engagement whilst on worldwide work-placements

Much of the highly important and profound experiences of HE students in industrial communities are

not successfully captured or recorded, especially whilst on placement. This presentation offers a

reappraisal of using a novel, dynamic VLE to maintain learning relationships during vocational work by

students through interactive modes of learning, ensuring community participants can share, discuss

and reflect from worldwide placements.

Jo Hartley

Reflecting on Ten Years of a Departmental Student Ambassador Scheme -

and Plans for the Future

The various mentoring, peer-to-peer schemes, which were considered when setting up the Computing

and Technology (C&T) Student Ambassador Scheme ten years ago, will be compared and contrasted.

The three main strands of the scheme - mentoring, in-class support and engagement with open

event/outreach activities - will each be discussed.

Eleanor Power

Technology Free Interactive Teaching

Interactive learning is seen by many to focus on the increased use of technology. However, it is about

creating a dynamic relationship between what is being learned, the student and the facilitator. The

aim is to promote engagement and ownership of the content thus impacting on learning.

Paul Whitehouse and Esther Akanya






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TILT Festival of Learning June 2017 Marketplace Stands and Poster Displays

On Tuesday 27th and the afternoon of 29th delegates will be able to visit the Marketplace to see the following:

NTU Makers’ Club:

Demonstration of the Maker Club. Kerry Truman has won an NTSU Outstanding Teaching Award as well as successfully increasing student engagement—go along and make something

out of green wood

Staff Network and Wall of Women: Head to the Forum to find out about NTU’s Staff Networks and see how they support and engage diverse communities across the University. You’ll be able to see the impressive Wall

of Women, as well as other examples of network activity which highlights and celebrates our staff communities here at NTU.

Poster in Parliament: See NTU students’ posters recently displayed in Parliament

Estates Team:

There is an opportunity to tell us how NTU’s large learning spaces support your learning and teaching and contribute your ideas to improve them in the future

Green Academy: In the Green Academy stand, you can find information on anything relating to Education for

Sustainable Development and get ideas on how to embed sustainability in your teaching. You will also be able to explore the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and how you can contribute to a better world.

CADQ ELearning Development Team:

The CADQ Elearning Development team are showcasing NTU’s new elearning production services, which now include hands-on help with creating online courses, learning materials

and activities. Visit their stand to discuss your ideas and needs and arrange support with digital content creation.

CPLD: Encourage you to find out about CPLD’s transition to Organisational Development and how

Organisational Development will come alongside you to build: collaborative, responsive leadership; excellence in teaching and research; digital capability and innovation.

Also featuring:

Alumni Fellowship Programme Creativity TILT Group

Blackwells Library

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