Sally Brown

Here are the slides I used in my workshop on the 14th. What's hot in higher education? (665 downloads)

Here are the slides I used in my workshops on 13th February. WIT Intercultural Communication (577 downloads) ,   WIT Preparing for your viva (563 downloads) , WIT Writing for Journals (708 downloads) Thanks to Roisin Shanahan for making me so welcome.

On Thursday 31st January I am delivering a keynote on transformative assessment in the morning and a workshop on fostering engagement through assessment in the afternoon. These are the slides used. DCU Keynote (769 downloads) , DCU Workshop (690 downloads)

Tomorrow I am starting a 24 hour residential workshop with Sport staff at Liverpool John Moores University. They won a university prize for achievement and decided to spend the money on improving their publications track records. I will be using similar handouts to those I used on 25th September last year (see previous posts) but I will also be using this  new workshop task Edit this (527 downloads) . Here are the slides I used Liverpool slides (677 downloads) .  I hope you enjoy looking at how many errors you can see in this and suggesting how you would improve the text!

I’m back at Liverpool John Moores University today where I am working with staff on programme level assessment and differentiation. The slides are here. LJMU keynote (567 downloads) , LJMU prog level assessment (590 downloads) .Thanks to Clare Milsom and
Sarah Nixon for inviting me to the LJMU learning and teaching conference where I am also talking to prospective ntfs applicants.

Today I am giving a keynote at the University of the Arts, London on effective and inclusive assessment, plus two workshops on fair assessment and assessing groups. The slides for the sessions are here. UAL keynote (785 downloads) , UAL fairness (840 downloads) , UAL group work (685 downloads) .
Incidentally if you watched Utopia last night, you might be pleased to know that the producer is my niece Rebekka Wray-Rogers.

I am today giving a further presentation about the Assimilate Project at the Society for Research in Higher Education Conference at Newport, and my slides for the presentation are here. SRHE slides (621 downloads) . I am learning a great deal from the other presentations, particularly a striking analysis of higher education futures by Howard Hotson of the University of Oxford, entitled ‘Big Business at the Heart of the System: Understanding the Global University Crisis’. I am also introducing my new role as Series Editor for the new learning and teaching series with Palgrave Press.

Today and tomorrow, Phil and I are running workshops on assessment working with colleagues from Leiden University through the agency of Utrecht University. It’s lovely to work with Hetty Grunefeld again, who runs programmes promoting excellent teaching with change agents and managers at various universities in the Netherlands. We’ve also managed to fit in a little tourism, so today went to the Mondrian Museum in Amersfoort. Leiden University (715 downloads) , Leiden Handout (577 downloads)

Today I am working with the Post Graduate Certificate students at Liverpool John Moores university on assessment. We plan to play the Egg Game (see an earlier post on my website), use the  attached ‘pros and cons’ table of assessment methods and also some of the slides in this presentation. LJMU slides (759 downloads) , LJMU handout (760 downloads) .

On our third day working at Cork Institute of Technology, I ran two intimate workshops on ‘Retention’ Retention and Student Experience Cork IT (672 downloads) and ‘Streamlining Assessment’ Streamlining assessment (754 downloads) and the slides I used are here. Thanks to Marese Bermingham for making us so welcome, and building us into her important initiative on student engagement and retention.