Led by Dr Miriam Firth FHEA, Senior Lecturer in Education Management and Leadership, Manchester Institute of Education and Academic Lead for Assessments, Flexible Learning Programme

Monday, 17th October, 2022 – 12:00 - 13:00, online

This session offered information, activity and discussion on the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SOTL) in Higher Education. Through participant engagement in the session we explored and critiqued the definitions of SOTL to appraise its use in the academy and for academics in Higher Education.

This session is the first of a series of sessions on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. The next sessions are Enhancing Learning through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Explaining your Teaching & Learning for Reward and Recognition.

This session wasn't recorded but the slide pack can be downloaded via the University Document Store.

Led by Diane Butler SFHEA, Associate Dean (Academic Excellence), Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics, The Open University

Wednesday 2nd November 2022, 10:30-11:30, online

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is defined as: Systematic practitioner-led inquiry into student learning that advances the practice of teaching in higher education by making inquiry findings public.

In this workshop we reflected on the significance of SoTL through the following perspectives:

• For students allowing academics/professional services staff to systematically evaluate teaching/student support to improve the quality student learning.
• For academic disciplines and institutions ensuring that they base innovation and future development in teaching and learning on robust evaluation
• For practitioners allowing staff to develop their professional practice in the field of teaching and learning.

The workshop included opportunities to discuss participants’ own experience of reflective and scholarly practice in their professional careers and examine the barriers and enablers to involvement in SoTL in Higher Education settings. The session concluded with an examination of support structures and mechanisms deployed at a number of UK universities to support SoTL activity with particular emphasis on the Open University’s approach.

This session was the second of a series of sessions on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. The previous session was Setting the scene: What is the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning? The next session is Explaining your Teaching & Learning for Reward and Recognition.

Led by Professor Hannah Cobb NTF SFHEA, Professor of Archaeology and Pedagogy, School of Arts, Langauges and Cultures and Academic Lead for Academic Development, Institute of Teaching and Learning, University of Manchester and Dr James Brooks, Senior Lecturer, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Faculty Academic Lead for Pedagogy and Distance Learning, Faculty of Science and Engineering

Thursday 10th November 2022, 10:00-12:00, on campus 

This was a hands-on workshop where we helped you structure your narrative around your T&L work (e.g. for promotion and awards). In the session you were taught a framework for discussing your scholarship of teaching and learning (reach/value/impact) and worked together to join those pieces into a compelling ‘golden thread’. 

This session was the third in our Scholarship of Teaching and Learning series. The previous sessions were Setting the scene: What is the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning? and Enhancing Learning through Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Led by Professor Hannah Cobb, Professor of Archaeology and Pedagogy and Associate Director for eLearning and Teaching Innovation, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, and Dr James Brooks, Senior Lecturer, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Wednesday, 6th July, 2022 – 14:00 – 16:00

• Download the presentation slide pack via the University Document Store

This session aimed to provide an opportunity to forge a community of practice in the scholarship and research of teaching and learning at the University of Manchester. Participants were invited to come prepared to talk about their pedagogy for 5 minutes in a safe, non-judgemental space, and receive peer feedback and shared insights into how they might develop their work further.

We welcomed people at all stages of their SoTL or pedagogic research, from those looking to articulate this for the first time to those who are experienced pedagogic researchers.

Led by Alison Fairclough, Head of Business Intelligence, Directorate of Planning; and Andy Peet, Lead Data Analyst, Directorate of Planning

Thursday, 23rd June, 2022 – 12:30 - 13:30

This session introduced the types of data and evidence which are used in the TEF exercise, and how they contribute to evidencing success cases. It also discussed how data can be used in more purposeful and nuanced ways, to interrogate, understand and evidence success in established processes and innovations.

This is the second of three sessions in our TEF mini-series which covered the TEF exercise, the utility of TEF data and the evolution of the TEF in light of the 2022 consultations round.

Led by Professor Linda Evans, Professor of Education and Associate Dean for Academic and Research Staff Development, Manchester Institute of Education

Thursday, 9th June, 2022 – 13:00 - 14:30

This workshop was aimed at T&S colleagues who have little or no experience of, yet who want to undertake, publishable pedagogic research.

The workshop was designed to motivate you to start publishing your pedagogic research, and giving you pointers for doing so effectively, Linda Evans talked about what journal editors are looking for, and outlined in general how to develop your pedagogic research project with a view to publication.

The presentation that forms part of the workshop was very similar to one that Linda delivered in June 2021, under the aegis of AMBS. 

Led by Professor April McMahon, Vice President for Teaching, Learning and Students; and Craig Best, Head of Student and Academic Services

Thursday, 9th June, 2022 – 11:00 - 12:30

In 2022, Universities across the UK are gearing up for the next round of submissions to the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), and consultations on the future of TEF are in full swing.

Professor April McMahon (Vice President for Teaching, Learning and Students) and Craig Best (Head of Student and Academic Services) discussed how TEF is shaping up for the next round of submissions, and what the implications are for teaching, learning and teaching support colleagues now and in the future. This session aimed to help you understand how the TEF and its methodology can be useful for understanding how teaching practices, improvements and innovations can be made impactful, scalable and closely aligned to national markers of success.

A recording of the event is available to view on the University video portal. Please remember to log in via the button on the top right in order to be able to view the video. You can also access a copy of the slides from this session via the Document Store.

This was the first of three sessions in our TEF mini-series which will cover the TEF exercise, the utility of TEF data and the evolution of the TEF in light of the 2022 consultations round.

This open panel session was led by Lisa McDonagh SFHEA (Teaching and Learning Adviser, Institute of Teaching and Learning) and Jennie Blake NTF (Head of Teaching and Learning Development, Library and University Academic Lead for Student Success). 

They were joined by colleagues from Faculties who shared details of showcases and resources across the University.

Monday 16th May, 2022 - 10:00 - 11:00 

This open panel session explored how to recognise good practice in teaching and learning, and what to do with it. We discussed how colleagues can find good practice (including where to look!) and how to share our own good practice that we have developed. We were joined on the panel by colleagues from across the University who shared details of the showcases and resources available, the opportunities to share practice on the ITL website and blog, and the sector resources we can access such as the National Teaching Repository. 

A recording of the event is available to view on the University video portal. Please remember to log in via the button on the top right in order to be able to view the video.