Sally Brown

This week I was delighted to launch my book Assessment, Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Global Perspectives at the SEDA conference.   Thanks so much to Amanda for supporting the event and to contributing colleagues for joining me to celebrate the book as well as the new Palgrave Teaching and Learning website which I am curating. I am particularly grateful to Suzannah Burywood and Helen Caunce of Palgrave for all their support (and for paying for the fizz at the event), to Hala Mansour for travelling  all the way from Northampton by train for the launch, to Maidie Semiras of Heavenly Cupcakes in Nottingham for making the  brilliant cake and to Phil Race.

On Thursday 6 November and Friday 7th November I am working again at the University of Luxembourg on assessment and evaluating& enhancing your own teaching. I’m looking forward to visiting again and hoping for better weather than the wintry storms that prevented us getting out into the Christmas markets on our last visit. Here are the slides and handouts I am using. Improving student assessment (954 downloads)    Evaluating and enhancing teaching (644 downloads)    Assess your own teaching quality (478 downloads)    Assessment good practice accounts (592 downloads)    Critical comparison of assessment types (494 downloads)    Feedback handout from book (501 downloads)    Peer observation handout (457 downloads)    Planning and reflecting on your teaching (456 downloads)

I am very excited about launching my new book ‘Assessment, learning and teaching in Higher Education: Global Perspectives’ on Thursday 13th November at the SEDA conference at 7pm   at the NCTL Learning and Conference Centre in Nottingham. Friends and colleagues are invited to come along for some celebratory cake if you are in the area.

Glad that my website is now up and running again after a temporary issue with ‘a permissions error’ on a system fie – many thanks Ed Phillips for sorting it out really quickly.

I’ve been working today with colleagues at London South Bank University supporting colleagues thinking about applying for National Teaching Fellowships and going for  Principal Fellowships. The slides are here. South Bank (598 downloads) , UKPSF slides (598 downloads)

I am celebrating today receiving the advance copy of my new book. I will be launching it at the SEDA conference on Thursday 13th November at 7pm. Do come along for wine and cakes if you are in the area. the NCTL Learning and Confernece Centrre, Nottingham.

In the background is an orchid I am also proud of, it’s in its fifth year of flowering.

Here are the slides I used in my workshop today at ARU on Assessing Group Work Fairly. ARU Group Work (522 downloads)

Today Phil and I together with Kate Little of NUS, Berry Donovan of Oxford Brookes, Kay Sambell of Northumbria and Fabio d’Arico  of UEA are presenting at Anglia Ruskin’s Assessment Fiesta at their bucolic Chelmsford campus. My slides on group assessment are  here and the twitter hash tag is #LTAFiesta  Small Groups (525 downloads)

At the moment there is disruption to the Leeds Met / Leeds Beckett email systems.

At the moment the leedsmet account still works at 

s.brown@leedsmet.ac.uk  and the leedsbeckett one below does not work

s.brown@leedsbeckett.ac.uk 

In case of any problems, please use my webmail address  here sally@sally-brown.net 

Today is our last day working in Chile before flying home to ( I hope) sunny England tomorrow.  Here are my today’s slides making a difference (2246 downloads)  for my workshop on assessment where we will be talking all morning about making a difference through assessment. For those who did not win the booklet about assessment at Masters level, which was awarded as a prize for the best drawing of a cat, here is the booklet as a pdf file The Prize (583 downloads) .

Thanks to Magdalena Jars and all the team for making us so welcome here. We’ve had a terrific time ! And on Thursday  if planes are on time we will see our grandchildren!

Today is the conference keynote I am giving at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de
Chile. And here I am ready to present on ‘assessment for learning’   And here are my slides.

Here also is a link to the article in ‘El Mercurio’ today

http://tinyurl.com/lcjlkpk

Today is my big day on our trip to Chile and I will be addressing the staff of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile on global perspectives in higher education. The slides to be used are here.   Chile Keynote (617 downloads) 700 people have registered so far and yesterday’s interview with the local paper El Mercurio involved an extended photo call. I could get used to this kind of life!
Phil’s workshop on ‘Making learning happen’ on Wednesday was very well received indeed. This is a university that takes learning and teaching very seriously as shown by the fact that they are the first university in Chile to require new teaching staff to take a learning and teaching programme so no wonder they loved Phil’s take on the HE world!

Further presentations and workshops on assessment follow on Monday and Tuesday before our return home on Wednesday.