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Building Brookes Learning Community Events
Hosted by the People Directorate, Building Brookes Learning Community offers some on-campus, in person, professional, academic enhancement and development sessions, exclusively for Oxford Brookes staff. These events ‘wrap around’ the Brookes International Teaching and Learning Conference, which is online and open to all. To book on to any of these events please go to the Staff Learning Portal Building Brookes Learning Community.
The Building Brookes Learning Community events and activities aim to:
- inspire academic, professional and personal ambition across the Brookes’ learning community
- consider contemporary research and its contribution to or impact on academic and professional practice
- build connection and community
- provide time to reflect and grow
The schedule offers the following activities.
9.30am - 1.00pm, Headington Campus, Clerici Building
An overview of the IDEAS framework: a curriculum model and design tool that supports programme teams at Oxford Brookes with inclusive, digitally enabled curriculum development. Followed by immersion in one ‘mini-sprint’ of your chosen strand:
- Inclusive Learning
- Digital Inclusivity
- Employability Learning
- Assessment for, as and of learning
- Sustainability Mindset
9.00am - 5.00pm, Headington Campus, JHB 205 and JHB 206
These MasterClasses are run by ‘in-house’ Oxford Brookes experts who lead the field on the topics listed below. You are invited to book in on as many MasterClassses as you like, or just one that grabs your interest.
| Timings and room | Masterclass | Expert Facilitators |
|---|---|---|
| 9.15am - 10.15am JHB 205 | Inclusive Learning: Anti-racist teaching and learning Overview: This MasterClass will focus on developing anti-racist pedagogy including looking at strategy, leadership, lessons learnt, as well as specific classroom initiatives and research. Learning objectives:
| Jill Childs, Principal Lecturer for Social Work, HLS and Dr Louise Taylor, Principal Lecturer, Education Student Experience, HLS |
| 10.25am - 11.25am JHB 206 | Digital Capability (Moodle Templates) Overview: Get a sneak preview of the new Moodle 4 interface and template, and find out what you can do to prepare your modules for the launch. Learning objectives: By the end of this session you will:
| Nicola Beer, Principal Lecturer in Digital Education and Head of Digital Inclusive Curriculum Enhancement, OCAED and Harry Kalantzis, Digital Services Team Leader |
| 11.35am - 12.35pm JHB 205 | Sustainable Mindset Overview: How should – and how can – education and learning be re-thought and re-configured to make a significant and central contribution to achieving a more sustainable and just world?” (Sterling, 2001). Come and share your views on the purpose of Higher Education at the Sustainability Mindset Masterclass and workshop the skills, values and attributes needed to navigate and thrive in a VUCA world. | Cathy d’Abreu, Senior Lecturer, Education for Sustainability, OBBS |
| 1.30pm - 2.30pm JHB 206 | Academic Integrity Overview: This session will present a holistic approach to academic integrity designed to raise staff awareness of regulations, current issues and inclusive practice. The session will involve discussion of current challenges including the emergence of ChatGPT and other Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, as well as the need to support all students with their learning and understanding of good academic practice. Learning outcomes: By the end of this session, you will be able to:
| Dr Mary Davis, Principal Lecturer, Education Student Experience, OBBS |
| 2.40pm - 3.40pm JHB 205 | Assessment for learning: Assessment Toolkit, QAA project Overview: Part of this session will run through the HSS Assessment Toolkit as a way of thinking about assessments through the lenses of inclusivity, accessibility, employability, authenticity, and academic integrity. Attendees will develop their understanding of relationships between these areas, and will learn more about the advantages of different forms of assessment, and of strategic assessment diversification. You can also find out about the results of a recent cross-institutional research project which sought to investigate what we can learn from the pandemic about the attributes of inclusive assessment. | Dr Andrea Macrae, Principal Lecturer, Stylistics, Education and Student Experience, HSS, Dr Shirley Shipman, Principal Lecturer, Education, HSS and Student Experience, Nicola Beer, Principal Lecturer in Digital Education and Head of Digital Inclusive Curriculum Enhancement |
3.50pm - 4.50pm JHB 206 | Overview: This session will introduce you to key resources and support which can help you to design and review your curriculum so that students actively engage in learning that boosts their current and future employability learning. Learning outcomes:
| Pete Smillie, Careers Counsellor, ASA |
1.30pm - 3.00pm, Headington, JHB 301
Join coaches from the Brookes Coaching Pool to find out how coaching can help individuals develop and grow at work. In this session, we will explore what coaching is and how it can help people at critical stages in their working lives. There will be an opportunity to experience a short, 'taster' coaching session, with one of Brookes Coaching Pool coaches.
Wednesday 14 June Brookes International Teaching and Learning Conference ‘Pedagogies of Possibility: Tales of Transformation and HE Hope’
This conference is online, and open to colleagues from across the globe. See the conference website for more details and registration.
A week of EXPLORE’s ‘greatest hits’ and other useful workshops that speak directly to the Turnaround Plan focusing on: Student Engagement, Assessment Design, Academic Advising, Academic Literacies, and Teaching International Students.
| Date and Time | Brookes Boost Session Title | Facilitator |
| Monday 19 June 2023, 9.30am - 11.30am | Engaging students in dynamic learning In this workshop we will: review principles of active learning and group work; consider a range of learning activities and challenge participants to apply these appropriately within their own disciplinary context. | Mary Kitchener, Senior Lecturer, OCAED |
| Monday 19 June 2023. 1.30pm - 3.30pm | Assessment of, for and as learning In this session participants will explore the rationale for assessment, consider how this affects assessment design, and design an assignment brief. | Adrian Wallbank, Lecturer, OCAED |
| Tuesday 20 June 2023, 9.30am - 11.30am | Academic advising The aim of this session is to understand the role of the Academic Adviser at Oxford Brookes and gain support to undertake this role effectively. | Ben Walker, Senior Lecturer, OCAED |
| Wednesday 21 June 2023, 1.00pm - 4.00pm | Academic literacies This session will focus on the unwritten rules and norms that students are often assumed to have an understanding of (QAA 2022), also known as the Hidden Curriculum. You will explore the concept with reference to your own discipline and consider how collaborative and creative learning opportunities can be provided to students to help uncover what may not always be obvious. | Martha O’Curry, Deputy Head of Centre for Academic Development |
| Thursday 22 June 2023, 1.30pm - 3.30pm | Teaching international students This session will invite participants to consider the experience of the international student and ways in which inclusive curriculum design can enhance the learning environment and support the individual’s learning journey. | Polly Magne, Principal Lecturer, Head of Academic Practice, OCAED |
| Friday 23 June 2023, 10.00am - 11.00am | Digital Capability (Moodle Templates) Get a sneak preview of the new Moodle 4 interface and template, and find out what you can do to prepare your modules for the launch. | Nicola Beer, Principal Lecturer in Digital Education and Head of Digital Inclusive Curriculum Enhancement, OCAED |
OCAED Faculty Partners offer Academic Enhancement and Development support to you in your faculty. The regular surgeries provide opportunities for you to drop-in or book a slot for informal conversations to talk about curriculum design, teaching, learning or assessment with an expert Educational Developer.
Meet your Faculty Partner 1-2-1, online on the following dates. Please book via the links below:
- Technology Design and Environment, Mary Kitchener, 21 June 2023, 3.00pm - 4.00pm
- Health and Life Sciences, Sue Morón-García and Louise Rickard, 21 June 2023, 2.30pm - 3.30pm
- Humanities and Social Science, Adrian Wallbank, 21 June 2023, 4.00pm - 5.00pm
- Oxford Brookes Business School, Ben Walker, 28 June 2023, 3.00pm - 4.00pm