08:15 - 09:00 : Registration & Refreshments
Deli Area - Tea and Coffee
09:00 - 10:45 : Welcome & Keynotes
Stoddart Lecture Theatre
Helen Scott PVC (Learning Teaching & Student Success)
Sam Giove & Alison Purvis (Associate Deans Of Teaching & Learning)
Education 4.0: Unleashing Innovation, Resilience, and Human Potential (Michael Conlon)
Education 4.0 represents a fusion of physical and digital resources, integrating emerging technologies and innovative pedagogical approaches. Its purpose is to cultivate critical competencies among our students, enabling them to thrive in the present and shape the future. It asks us to graduate our future generation of students with future-ready skills that have modelled across our disciplines. In this session we'll explore how students and educators can leverage technology to build resilience in a period of accelerated digital innovation. If technology can carve out time for us to ask better questions, we can strive to be more human, elevating our uniqueness in being better communicators and better collaborators. We will redefine, in a new world obsessed with AI, exactly what we mean when we talk about "Assistive Technologies".
Education 4.0 compels us to forge a new relationship with technology, ensuring that it becomes our ally in connecting authentically to learning experiences and each other. It calls for a strategic integration of technology, allowing us to address both our educational challenges and the societal issues of our time. It asks us to develop our students' digital skills so that they are useful in their future workplaces. Together, we will explore strategies to empower our students and foster a human-centric approach to education.
Michael Conlon has spent 30 years in teaching, with a wide variety of leadership roles in secondary schools and local authority quality improvement. He then worked at Education Scotland, the Scottish Government executive agency responsible for quality and improvement in Scottish education, supporting all 32 local authorities with their strategic and operational approaches to learning and teaching. Before joining XMA as their Education Transformation Consultant, his final role was as an Education Officer in Glasgow City Council, which had deployed 50,000 iPads across the city schools, a 1:1 device for every pupil from Primary 6 to Senior year 6. This focused on professional learning and leadership initiatives across the city, which at that time in 2018 was the largest Educational ICT deployment in Europe.His role at XMA is about supporting customers with their strategic thinking and operational excellence around vision, learning & teaching, and IT environments. Passionate about accessibility and creativity, Michael has shifted the thinking within his own organisation to a more mature understanding of the role of the teacher in technology rich environments.
10:45 - 11:00 : Break
Deli Area - Tea and Coffee
11:00 - 11:45 : Delivery Models and Digital Transformation
Stoddart Lecture Theatre - Alison Purvis
Digital technology has been pervasive in all aspects of life for many years; it develops rapidly, extends possibilities, and continually shifts society's expectations and behaviours. The sector has undergone unprecedented change during the pandemic to enable teaching and support for students using technology and now we must move beyond this and fully embed the pedagogic use of technology to digitally transform learning. The LTA Framework 2022-2030 sets out the position of digital as a core principle of our learning, teaching, and assessment approaches. The University is in a period of redevelopment of the undergraduate curriculum and the approach to digital learning in an emergent, post-pandemic context. Our priority is to ensure that there is alignment between the spaces that we are creating in our new campus developments, the activities and pedagogical practice that will take place in these spaces, and the required enabling factors. The Delivery Models project has established academic parameters for teaching and learning: how we describe the learning experience, the expectations for learning hours (including the use of digital) and using efficient timetable models. We now need to be clear about our vision and direction for digital learning into the future. Bringing together several areas of work for a combined approach and timelines for the transformation of digital learning at Sheffield Hallam is necessary to give clarity of vision and direction. We are embarking on a new project, Digital Learning Transformation. This session will outline the key principles of Delivery Models and introduce the aims and initial plans for Digital Learning Transformation at SHU.
11:45 - 12:30 : Parallel Sessions 1
Developing Students' Digital Skills - Room 7138
Gamechangers (Sport EDI Project): Student led digital practice (Helen Mann & Jude Langdon)
Student Consultants’ experiences of digital surveying (Andrea Subryan)
Chair: Emma Heron
Digital Assessment - Room 7139
Assessing process over product in an AI world (David Smith)
Get them In or Lose them Out: International students and the UK system (Walid Omara)
What could a modern, numerate e-assessment system do for SHU? (Peter Rowlett)
Chair: Josie Wilson
Developing a Digital Culture / Building Digital Networks (i) - Room 7331
Re-Visiting the Co-Creation of a Digital Curriculum in the Academy of Sport and Physical Activity: What Happens Next? (Damian Kingsbury)
Rethinking module feedback and evaluation in Service Sector Management (Richard Telling & Jenny Paxman)
It’s more about the culture than the tool (David Carr)
Chair: Beth Fielding-Lloyd
Digital Pedagogies (i) - Room 7332
Hope Through ‘HOTS’: Providing International Support to a Ukraine University using the Hotel Operations Tactics and Strategy (HOTS) Simulation Platform" (David Graham & Ian Elsmore)
How are you evaluating your digital pedagogies?" (Helen Parkin & Julian Crockford )
#DecolHallam Project – How accessible and inclusive are the teaching and learning materials we use?" (Helen Kay)
Chair: Helen Parkin
Digital Pedagogies (ii) - Room 7401b
Sustainable Digital Pedagogies (Christopher Hall)
Where are the ideation tactics? Embedding crowdfunding principles and guidelines in enterprise education (Shingairai Masango)
There is an AI for that (Leisa Anderton)
Chair: Brian Irwin
Developing a Digital Culture / Building Digital Networks (ii) - Room 7410
Using social media safely and appropriately in higher education: A reflection on the last 10 years (Sue Beckingham & Alison Purvis)
Developing a digital culture - Lessons from down under – recognising and promoting digital rapport following results of a pilot study (Alexandra Mudd)
'It’s hard to make friends on Zoom calls' : Navigating culture shock, belonging and academic identity development in higher education students (Jessica Mason, Bryony Rose and David Peplow)
Chair: Michelle Blackburn
12:30 - 13:30 : Lunch, Posters & Stalls
Deli Area
Buffet lunch, posters & stalls - staffed by The Digital Learning Team. Come and talk to us about our new quick CPD programme, the impact of accessibility and how to make your resources more engaging.
13:30 - 14:00 : Student Film
Stoddart Lecture Theatre
A short 15 minute student-made video, asking students about digital teaching at SHU.
14:00 - 14:45 : Parallel Sessions 2
Developing Students' Digital Skills - Room 7138
The SHU Development Process, a reference documentation for software development projects and the state of play in 2022/23 (Carlos Eduardo Da Silva)
Assistive Technology at SHU from arriving to thriving (Marissa Hill)
How to Search - A Resource to Enhance Information Literacy Skills for Students (Thomas Flanagan)
Chair: Josie Wilson
Digital Assessment - Room 7139
Chat GPT and Me: a personal reflection on the benefits and challenges of Artificial Intelligence in teaching (Andrew Robinson)
Dr Strangelove or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb AI (Alonso Blanco-Velo)
Designing an electronic portfolio for assessment (Nicola Aberdein)
Chair: Helen Parkin
Developing a Digital Culture / Building Digital Networks (i) - Room 7331
Students’ use of social media to support their learning journey (Melissa Lacey)
How the novel use of technology in experiential learning and industry collaboration can be used to enhance student employability (Natalie Haynes & David Graham)
Expanding the reach of the Skills Centre: A digital first approach to research and collaboration with students (Sam Dougherty & Iosif Giechos )
Chair: Damian Kingsbury
Digital Pedagogies - Room 7332
Affordances of Extended Reality for Higher Education: Bridging the Technology-Pedagogy Divide" (Tom Garner)
Getting Creative with Online Learning" (Rachel Stone and David Beasant)
Tips and tricks for making the most of your remote learning event" (Deanna Taylor)
Chair: Michelle Blackburn
Digital Pedagogies - Room 7401b
Effective leveraging of technology in HE practice (Anne Kellock & Mick Marriott)
Towards Digital Learning with ROS for Robotics using ‘The Construct’ (Yogang Singh)
Chair: Carolyn Fearn
Developing a Digital Culture / Building Digital Networks (ii) - Room 7410
Ethical and professional perspectives of artificial intelligence in Higher Education (Marjory Da Costa Abreu)
Course Leaders Road Map to Success: Case Study (CSwF Course) (Shahrzad Zargari)
Chair: Juilian Crockford
14:45 - 15:00 : Break
Deli Area - Tea and Coffee
15:00 - 16:00 : Workshops / Find Out More 1
Room 7138 : Blackboard Ultra Workshop (Digital Learning Team)
See a preview of Blackboard Ultra, the new virtual learning environment that will be introduced at Hallam in 2024/25. The workshop will give examples from early adopter departments, and allow you to think of how the new features and improvements of Ultra can be ultilised in your own disciplines.Chair: Digital Learning Team
Room 7139: Green is the Goal! Supported time for improving the accessibility of your Blackboard content (Digital Learning Team)
How many fixes can you achieve to improve the accessibility of your Blackboard content in 45 minutes? Come along to this supported-time, hands-on workshop where colleagues from the Digital Learning Team will be on hand to help you improve the accessibility of materials in your Blackboard sites. During the workshop, use your Blackboard Accessibility Reports to identify and remediate content that require immediate attention or could use improvement. You will receive guidance, hints, and tips to resolve common accessibility issues in course content, which then can be applied when creating new materials.Please bring a laptop with you to this session.
Chair: Peter Rowlett
Room 7331: Sheffield and London: Students co-learning across two campuses (Luke Desforges)
Sheffield Hallam University’s new campus in Brent Cross Town in North London provides an opportunity to use digital and communications technology to bring students together for learning activities. In this workshop we introduce the London campus, and explore the possibilities for cross-campus teaching and learning. What benefits could co-learning between London and Sheffield students bring to each? What kinds of learning activities would enable these benefits? What are the barriers and challenges to students learning together, and how could we overcome these? Come along to this session to contribute your insight to our new campus.Chair: Emma Heron
Room 7332: Engaging Online Learning Co-design Workshop (Digital Learning Team)
In this workshop, you’ll have the opportunity to work with colleagues to design a series of engaging online learning activities that you can use in your teaching. The workshop will be supported by members of the Digital Learning Team, who will be available to discuss the possibilities and practicalities of the activities you design.Chair: Diarmuid Verrier
Room 7506 : The growth and potential of XR technology in teaching and learning (TORS - Jan Timms)
Igloo - Immersive learning / simulation. An opportunity to discover the meaning of XR technologies, how SHU are currently implementing these with demonstrations of available XR headsets. What potential there is, and how to access the technical expertise to generate new resources.Chair: Alison Purvis
Room 7410: Using IT effectively to deliver engaging and impactful teaching: a practical view of what teaching can look like using Microsoft Teams (Mary Hill)
Online or a blend of in-person and online teaching can be highly effective if the educator has knowledge of and confidence in using online tools and functionality. Knowing, and importantly seeing, what is possible can help us design courses to make full use of these tools and functionality, rather than just delivering in front of a webcam material previously designed for in-person delivery. This session will show what online teaching can look and feel like by exploiting the functionality of Microsoft Teams before, during and after the event.Do you know how to make a teaching session using Teams have an engaged and interacting audience, and convey its messages impactfully? This session will show you the art of the possible.
Chair: David Smith
Room 7516: UGD3 – University Grade Descriptor (Joel Gray & Juliun Ryan)
Have questions, need help, advice, or information? – come and see us! – BIG BANG changes for all courses and levels from September 2023!Chair: Joel Gray