Event programme 2023/24
SEED Teaching Innovation Collective programme Semester 1 2023-24
The SEED Teaching Innovation Collective is intended to provide a means for colleagues to support each other in framing innovations in teaching and learning. Social impact of any kind relies heavily on people joining together.
For this semester, the collective will make use of the World Café workshop format, action learning consultations and group-based speed networking. Some additional time will be allowed for networking at the end of each session. The World Café format involves several rounds of discussion focused on specific questions in small groups of 4 or 5 people, along with plenary reporting.
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World Café on disseminating teaching innovations … and getting promoted
Monday, 9 October, 12.45pm - 1.45pm
Hanson Room, Humanities Bridgeford Street
If you look at the University’s promotion criteria as they relate to teaching innovation, significant store is placed on the dissemination of teaching innovations. This session will consider different ways to disseminate teaching innovations, and how to leverage this to build a case for promotion.
World Café Conversations: Innovative Engagement with Workplaces
Thursday, 16 November, 11.30am - 1.15pm
Room 5.205, University Place
SEED expects that its graduates will go on to make a difference in the workplace. This session will allow colleagues to consider innovations to ensure that students connect with workplaces during their studies, with a choice of discussions to join. Discussion will focus on sharing examples of successful innovations in this area, strategies to build relationships with employers, ideas to identify sufficient potential placements, specialist (digital) skills that would mean employers begin to target their recruitment activities towards your students, possibilities for additional programme accreditation, and other areas.
Get support and views from colleagues on your teaching innovation
Tuesday, 12 December, 11.30am - 1pm
Hanson Room, Humanities Bridgeford Street
Would you like some input from colleagues on how you might take a teaching innovation forward? This session will follow the step-back consultation model; the person in the hot-seat presents to a small group of colleagues for 5 minutes on a teaching innovation for which the presenter is responsible, fields questions for 5 minutes, and then listens for 15 minutes to comments from their colleagues on taking forward the innovation. A final 5 minutes is available for the presenter to respond to the ideas. Time is available for two sets of consultations.
World Café on generative Artificial Intelligence in teaching, learning and assessment
Thursday, 18 January 2024, 2pm - 3.30pm
Hanson Room, Humanities Bridgeford Street
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is beginning to shift practice in teaching, learning and assessment across the university. This session will help you to stay at the forefront of this wave of innovation. An initial discussion that is common across the small groups will focus on participants sharing their emerging uses of generative AI. A second set of discussions will consider how to formulate educational tasks that are suited to being assisted by generative AI.
Facilitating teaching innovation and course-unit refresh in SEED
Thursday, 25 April, 1-2pm
Room 2.219, University Place
Would you be more likely to propose a teaching innovation on your course unit if the process of introducing a change was supported more effectively? During this session, colleagues will have an opportunity to discuss with each other in small groups their experience of introducing teaching innovations within the School. In addition, they will be able to contribute ideas towards the development of new approaches in SEED to teaching innovation and course-unit modification. The session will include a perspective from Juup Stelma, SEED Director of Teaching, Learning and Students on current processes to support teaching innovation and to approve modifications to course units within the School, and how these might be enhanced. You are welcome to post any ideas in advance of the session on the SEED Teaching Innovation Padlet.
Sharing perspectives on student use of generative AI in SEED
Monday, 10 June, 2-3.30pm
Hanson Room, Humanities Bridgford Street.
The session will provide an opportunity for colleagues to discuss with each other in small groups how to embed AI as an enabling opportunity for students and how to respond to challenges that generative AI poses. The session will include a perspective from Juup Stelma, SEED Director of Teaching, Learning and Students about current practices within the School on student use of generative AI, and an input by Peter Kahn who is leading a SEED Teaching Innovation Fund project on staff perspectives around student use of generative AI. You are welcome to post any ideas in advance of the session on the SEED Teaching Innovation Padlet.