Improving Student Learning – Through the Curriculum

The 16th Improving Student Learning Symposium, University of Durham, UK, 1–3 September 2008.

Conference programme

Time Event

Monday 1 September

11.00 Introductory workshops
13.00 Lunch
14.00

Welcome

Chris Rust (Oxford Brookes University)

14.15

Keynote 1

Maggi Savin-Baden (University of Coventry) - Cutting down jungles and irrigating deserts: curricula as spaces of interruption?

15.15 Afternoon coffee
15.45 Parallel session 1
16.50 Process groups 1

Tuesday 2 September

09.00 Parallel session 2
10.10 Parallel session 3
11.10 Morning coffee
11.40

Keynote 2

George D Kuh (Indiana University Bloomington) - High impact activities: what they are, why they matter

12.40 Lunch
14.00 Process groups 2
15.00 Poster session and coffee
16.10 Parallel session 4

Wednesday 3 September

09.00 Parallel session 5
10.10 Process group 3
11.10 Morning coffee
11.30

Keynote 3

Alan Jenkins (Oxford Brookes University) and Mick Healey (University of Gloucestershire) - Developing the Student as a Researcher through the Curriculum

13.00 Packed lunch and depart