Over 170 colleagues attended the Conference at some point in the day, 156 of these as full Conference delegates. Delegates enjoyed a range of sessions on pedagogic projects and overall rated the Conference as 'Stimulating', 'Constructive', 'Instructive', and 'Participative' as well as 'Professional' and 'Inspiring'. Most reported that the standard of the papers and workshops attended were 'very good', and that the Conference was 'Definitely the best L and T conference yet'. Some even took the plunge to give us video feedback in our new eyeBox video feedback facility!
Keynote speaker, David Robinson OBE
David Robinson's OBE keynote speech focused on: ‘Building a sense of possibility and excitement: creating opportunities to enhance student learning'. David's speech was considered overwhelmingly 'excellent' by delegates who were inspired by his attitude to change.
External presenter Jude Carroll gave two workshops on teaching and assessing international students which received very good feedback from the delegates who attended her session: 'My work and understanding of working with international students was much enhanced by attending the workshop by Jude'.
University of Huddersfield and National Teaching Fellow, Dr Cath Ellis, ran a workshop on using Turnitin GradeMark for online submission, marking and feedback. This was very well received: 'I attended the workshop on e-submission and marking - cannot wait to get started - this was inspiring BRING IT ON'!
Our Vice Chancellor, Professor Mike Thorne, also gave a keynote address in which he launched our new Learning, Teaching and Assessment Strategy (pdf), and was kept busy throughout the day with presenting a range of Awards including this year's Vice Chancellor's Awards winners and Highly Commended; the Arro Competition winner; our new Teaching Fellows and the announcement of this year's learning and teaching projects.