Brookes Student Learning Experience Conference 2008: Enhancing Student Engagement

Welcome: Lloyd Lecture Theatre

Dr Petra Wend, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic)

1025-1050

• Creating a true community of academic practice through research-based learning.
  Pete Smith and Chris Rust (Reinvention Center for Undergraduate Research)

Chair: tbc

• Effective feedback and implications for practice.
  Margaret Price, Berry O'Donovan, Karen Handley and Jill Millar (ASKe)

Chair: Pete Smith

• Encouraging international and dyslexic students to develop more learning strategies for writing.
  Mary Davis (WIE) and Freda Yeang (ASA)

Chair: tbc

1115-1140

Online symposium

• The experience of Brookes students of interpersonal communication and collaboration in the e-learning environment.
  Ruslan Ramanau (OCSLD)

• The experience of international students. Do students whose first language is not English make more use of Brookes Virtual?
  Georgina Ennis-Reynolds (BE) and Berry O'Donovan (BS)
• Learner engagement during online and blended courses.
  Shalni Gulati (SHSC)

Chair: tbc

• Enhancing student engagement through writing for publication.
  Helen Walkington (SSL)

Chair: Pete Smith

• First win the hearts and minds of the staff! Disciplinary understandings of internationalisation of the curriculum.
  Valerie Clifford (OCSLD)

Chair: Juliet Henderson

1145-1210

• Using stories to engage students.
  Ian Wycherley (BS)

Chair: tbc

• The adaptation of first year overseas undergraduate students and the effect of a structured induction programme on their academic grades.
  Sarah Aitken and Steven Davey (ASKe)

Chair: Jane Spiro

• Assessment manifesto for change.
  Margaret Price, Berry O'Donovan, Chris Rust, Jude Carroll (ASKe)

Chair: tbc

Technology forum

• Demonstrating the potential of Web 2.0 software.
  Andrew Rosenthal (LS)
• An evaluation of the contribution of wikis to the student experience of collaborative learning:
  Debbie Witney and Teresa Smallbone (BS)
• Engaging students through authentic learning: presenting Brookes TV.
  Alla Cordery and James Gray (Technology)

Chair: tbc

Workshop

• Encouraging students to develop acceptable approaches to writing using a workshop developed by the WriteNow CETL.
  Jude Carroll and Chris Rust (ASKe)

Chair: tbc

Workshop

• A review of current assessment issues in the literature and a diagnosis and proposals for the assessment situation at Brookes.
  Margaret Price, Berry O'Donovan, Chris Rust, Jude Carroll and Graham Gibbs (ASKe)

Chair: Pete Smith

Workshop

• Learning from student voices. Student perspectives on international learning at Brookes.
  Juliet Henderson and Jane Spiro (WIE)

Chair: Valerie Clifford

Plenary: Lloyd Lecture Theatre

The Brookes Student Learning Experience Strategy: Priorities for 2008-9

Clive Robertson, Head of Student Learning Experience