How do you define innovation? What does it look like when you are teaching and how do students respond? This year’s UPE L&T conference explored the diverse ways in which our academics have adapted their teaching to support students in their learning over the past year, with presentations including independent learning, embedding diversity in the curriculum and flexible learning in the digital world.
Held on the interactive virtual platform Remo, the two-day conference brought together academics and colleagues from across the UK & Europe to explore ideas, best practice and share feedback from the classroom over the last year.
This was the second year of the UPE L&T conference, and for the first time we welcomed a student panel discussion.
We were also delighted to welcome two keynote speakers:
Mick Healey, Emeritus Professor at the University of Gloucestershire, who shared best practice on engaging students through active learning; and spoke passionately about the five factors underpinning quality learning:
Wanting - motivation & interest; Needing – necessity & saving face; Doing – practical trial & error; Digesting – making sense of it & ownership and Feedback - other people’s reactions & seeing the results.
Louisa Dale, Facilitator at JISC who talked about learning and teaching reimagined. How attitudes in higher education are changing and why now is the time to reimagine and experiment in learning & teaching.
Defining Innovation