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Teaching in extraordinary times: Reflecting for the future Swansea Academy of Learning and Teaching (SALT) Conference 2021 #SUSALT21

13th Annual SALT Learning and Teaching Conference 7th July 2021

The 13th annual SALT Learning and Teaching Conference, will take place online with live and recorded sessions on Wednesday the 7th July 2021. Please click here to register for the conference via Eventbrite.

Conference Programme:

9.30 Professor Martin Stringer, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Welcome

9.40 Excellence in Learning and Teaching/Student Support Awards and HEA Fellowship Information and Awards

10.15 Parallel Presentations Session 1: Please select one of the below options. Links to attend these sessions will be sent to registered delegates the day before the event. Alternative sessions will be available as recordings following the conference.

Adapting Practical Sessions for Online Learning

Dave Ruckley: Creating online interactive bespoke labs; Peter Esteban: Transitioning to online laboratory teaching – can we incorporate enhanced virtual learning techniques of 20/21 into our future practical teaching?; Katherine Ficken: Virtual Field classes - a model for the future?; Rocio Perez-Tattam: Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching Practical Skills in a Remote Learning Environment

Innovation and Creativity in Learning, Teaching and Programme Management

Matthew Parry: Has Zoom facilitated the perception of 'safe spaces' for skills based modules?; Scott Tuppen: Utilising Microsoft Teams for 1-2-1 student coaching and supervision; Miriam Leigh: Using a model to achieve a higher level of learning and improve outcomes for on-line learners; Sian Rees: Becoming an online Teacherpreneur during the pandemic - an analysis of Media & Communication online teaching activities

Remote Assessment Strategies and Academic Integrity

Trilby James and Liza Penn-Thomas: Remote proctoring - Reflections on 12-months of online invigilated assessment; Iwan Williams: Extraordinary times call for extraordinary assessments; Warren Perkins: Stress or Opportunity: lessons from lock-down on the drivers of academic misconduct; Tom Crick and Cathryn Knight: "Emergency remote teaching", digital disruption and a new (ab)normal: reflections on the impacts of COVID-19 on UK universities

Student Experience, Engagement and Wellbeing

Sean Walton: It’s good to talk: Using persistent on-line communities to support student learning and wellbeing; Edward Clive Pope: Flippers and fins: evaluating two different blended learning approaches; Andrew Grant: Improving Medical Student Wellbeing and Resilience through ESRT; Ioan Humphreys; Experiences and Wellbeing of Student Nurses working on paid clinical placements during the Covid-19 pandemic

11.15 Break

11.30 Parallel Presentations session 2: Please select one of the below options. Links to attend these sessions will be sent to registered delegates the day before the event. Alternative sessions will be available as recordings following the conference.

Adapting Practical Sessions for Online Learning

Zoran Jelic: Challenges in planning, organizing and executing practicals and field trips in time of pandemics; Aidan Seeley: Interactive Case-Based Learning – Bringing the Laboratory & Clinic to a Computer Near You!; Stuart Nicholson: Templating Online Labs to Overcome Issues of Student Engagement and Dissatisfaction; Nia Anne Davies: Student Induction in Extraordinary Times

Innovation and Creativity in Learning, Teaching and Programme Management

Patricia Xavier: Developing problem defining ability through puzzles!; Rebecca Pratchett and Nicola Henwood: Assessing cartoon animation as a tool for engagement and learning in Higher Education; Stephen Harrison: Reforming First-Year Ancient History Teaching: Lessons from the Extraordinary; Naomi Prady: Sourcing digital resources in extraordinary times: a Library perspective

Remote Assessment Strategies and Academic Integrity

Jo Berry and Richard Thomas: Understanding academic integrity through patterns and trends; Jill Boggs: Evidenced-based feedback on essays: Useful for students; efficient for markers; Neal Harman: Video Feedback in Canvas; Laura Roberts, Simon Bott and Patricia Xavier: Countering the COVID Competency Gaps in Transitioning Students

Student Experience, Engagement and Wellbeing

Martyn Quigley: Personality traits as predictors of students' online engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic; Philippe Dessus: How to Support Online Teaching in Pandemic Times: between Innovation and Care; Paul A Davies: Less Netflix, more Minecraft; Michelle Anderson: Using Wiki as an assessment method in Canvas

12.30 Break and film viewing: 'The impact of the pandemic on higher education and academic research' by Georgios Dimitropoulos Head of Media Suite Innovation Lab. School of Culture and Communication. This is an opportunity to view a 25 minute version of a special episode which is part of the award-winning research-led documentary series 'Welsh Affairs'.

13.00 Interactive workshops: Please select one of the below options. Links to attend these sessions will be sent to registered delegates the day before the event. Alternative sessions will be available as recordings following the conference.

  • Workshop 1 Embedding skills and assessment strategies for students transitioning to higher education; 3 short workshops to support learning, teaching and assessment in Level 3 and 4. Simon Bott, Ben Martin and Patricia Xavier, Suzie Pugh, Laura Roberts and Jo Berry
  • Workshop 2 Creating engagement in an online environment Emma Spacey, Chris Wolfe and Ross Evans; Infographics for teaching and assessments Aled Roberts
  • Workshop 3 Innovation and creativity in delivering public/patient engagement in Higher Education Beth Griffiths, Hilary Clarke, Peter Clarke, Barry Fox, Beki Lewis; More than documents and digitisation! How can the Archives support learning and teaching in an online world? Katrina Legg and Stacy O'Sullivan

14.00 Panel discussion - Chair: Paul Holland, College of Engineering. Panellists: Laura Roberts, College of Science; Tom Crick, School of Education; Sian Rees,  School of Culture and Communication; Phillipe Dessus, University of Grenoble-Alpes. Change towards online practices has altered how we work and live, never mind how we teach. How should we emerge from Covid-19? What should we retain, and how will it integrate with face-to-face instruction and assessment? How do we develop more inclusive practices? How do we help students who have spent much of their post-16 education studying from home? Conference attendees are invited to pose their questions for the panel in advance

15.00 Closing Key note speaker Dr Sonia Feigenbaum, Senior Vice Provost for Global Engagement and Chief International Officer. The University of Texas at Austin “Creating Opportunities Amidst Challenging Times: An Unwavering Commitment to Global Engagement in Higher Education”

15.30 Close of Conference

Pre-recorded Poster presentations available 'on demand' https://bit.ly/SUSALT21Posters

Louise Giles - Clinical Supervision during the pandemic with our NHS partners – can we do it online?; Helen Davies - Facilitiating online Learning and Delivery (FOLD); Simon Bott - Poster sessions in breakout rooms; Simon Bott - GCSE Materials Project; Claire Jackson and Nikki Williams - Interprofessional Learning (IPL): Cultivating collaborative Clinicians; Karin Ennser - Virtual labs to enhance engagement and learning during the pandemic; Ginny Chappell - Scoping the study skills of post-registration students; Marcela Bezdickova - Breakout rooms in Zoom - experience what works and what does not; Jonathan Thomas - Reflecting on staff and student experiences of a new assessment approach; D. Rowberry and C. Williams - Placement enhancement not placement replacement; Shehzad Peerbaccus - Hospital based Audiology Summative Assessments during the COVID19 Pandemic: An insight into assessment adaption and feedback; Adam Turner - Developing a digital thread in a new pharmacy programme; Neal Harman - Automating quiz creation with QTI in canvas; Neal Harman - Video feedback in canvas; Leigh Ham - Enhancing placement learning in Covid times: trialling collaborative learning in practice (CLIP); Mandy Jack - A pinch of SALT!; Dr Alexia L. Bowler and Dr Adele Jones - A plague o’ both your houses: Teaching drama in an online setting; Wendy Churchouse - Virtual flexibility, the key to advanced practice in health care during a pandemic and beyond.

Please note that the conference programme may be subject to change. Please click here to register for the conference via Eventbrite.

Queries

If you have any queries about the conference please contact: Suzanne Wells (Senior Academic Developer) s.m.wells@swansea.ac.uk or Rhian Ellis (Academic Developer) r.e.ellis@swansea.ac.uk

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