Sally Brown

With a particularly beautiful view over Galway Bay visible from the Galway and Mayo Institute of Technology campus, it’s a real pleasure for Phil and I to be here contributing to their Staff Development Week. My workshops are all focusing on aspects of assessment and the slides for all the sessions are here. First Year (622 downloads) , Streamlining (1223 downloads) , Programme level (660 downloads) , Integrating assessment (708 downloads) “If you ever go across the sea to Galway…”

Today’s sessions at South Bank University were explaining the NTFS application process  (slides here: South Bank (793 downloads) ) and acting as external to their ACHIEVE scheme awarding UKPSF Fellowships. Thanks to Ruth Brown and Tom Hall for making me so welcome.

Today in Carmarthen, Trinity St David University of Wales.  I will be working with university and college staff on a whole day thinking about assessment. My slides are here. Trinity, Carmarthen (1290 downloads) . It’s a long way from Newcastle but well worth the journey. I’m flying home on Wednesday and then getting excited about the SEDA conference in Newcastle on Thursday and Friday where I will be presenting some of my thoughts on global pedagogies, drawing on the 35 good practice accounts from round the world I am including in my new book for Palgrave due out in February next year.

On Monday 28th and Tuesday 29th April I am at the Association of National Teaching Fellows conference at Birmingham, networking with friends and colleagues and running a session on re-purposing dissertations for publication From Dissertation to Publications (649 downloads) , and also talking about my book for Palgrave on Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Global Perspectives,  which is just about to go to press in three  weeks, and will be published in February 2015.

After a lovely weekend at home with the family, this week Phil and I are working with colleagues at the University of Segovia and Valladolid in Spain as part of our work with their network on formative assessment in higher education on publishing in journals. Our handouts in Spanish and English are here.  Publishing in Journals 1 (Eng) (680 downloads) ,  Publishing in Journals 2 (Eng) (648 downloads) .   Spanish handout 1 (744 downloads) , Spanish handout 2 (664 downloads) and here are the slides we used Sally's slides (773 downloads) . 

Here are the slides which Graham Webb used Graham Webb's presentation (704 downloads) .

After a great trip to the rural Netherlands for a wedding this weekend and prior to a trip next week to work at universities in Segovia and Valladolid  in Spain next week I am today working at Edinburgh Napier on Masters level assessment: the slides I am using are here Napier M-level (638 downloads)   After that a peaceful Easter at home with the family, with Dutch asparagus, chocolate, flowers, beer, fruit…..( good job we took the car!)

Today I met with departmental learning and teaching chairs and others at Roehampton University talking about ways of managing change. Here are the slides I used. Roehampton (678 downloads) .

On Tuesday 24th, Phil and I are helping with HEA Fellowship panels at South Bank University.
On Wednesday I will be meeting colleagues from Palgrave press to discuss the Learning and Teaching series I edit for them, and particularly my own book on global perspectives in higher education teaching and learning. I will also meet a representative from Assessment Management System Livetext.
On Thursday I fly to Dublin to support the AISHE event on Repurposing your Masters or Doctoral Thesis for publication. The handout I am using is  here. AISHE handout (708 downloads) . You may also find it really useful to think about the thoughts which Patrick Dunleavy has made available on the web from his Palgrave books, some of which are collected here on ‘titles, chapter starts and abstracts’ Titles, starts, and abstracts (733 downloads) .

On the train to London I was responding to THES series of Tweets about about how many UK and international HEIs I’ve visited: currently my count is 109 UK HEIs and 75 international ones but I keep remembering more! I bet Graham  Gibbs could beat that total though!

In January I spoke at the Keele Assessment Conference. You might like to see a short video of me talking about assessment made at the event.

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