No Images? Click here Welcome to the conferences issue!We've got not one but two Glasgow conferences to tell you about with this edition, and our Ask the Experts section is all about how we can support you in educational research / development projects you might one day share with the rest of the institution. Registration for the 11th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference is now open! This year, the Conference will run for two days on 28th and 29th March, with an overall theme of Learning Spaces and a sub-theme on day one of Visualisation in Learning and Teaching. Full details of the two-day programme and a link to register can be found on the LEADS web pages. This year, we have three keynote speakers. On day one, we welcome Dr Claudia Krebs from the University of British Columbia, who will give a talk entitled ‘Transformative education – a new map for learning’, as well as Professor Paul Chapman from Glasgow School of Art who will talk about ’The Pros and Cons of Augmented and Virtual Realities for Learning and Teaching’. On day two, our keynote speaker is Adam Finkelstein from McGill University, and his talk is called ’Space Matters: Supporting active learning anywhere’. We have a full programme of presentations, workshops and lightning talks over the two days, and we are also delighted to announce that a selection of external companies who are working in visualisation, AR and VR will have stalls at the Conference. There will be plenty of opportunities for you to talk to them over the two days of the Conference to find out about the latest technologies in AR and VR, and to try them out for yourselves. Please note that registration will close on Wednesday 28th February, and that any questions about the Conference should be directed to the Conference Inbox in the first instance. Listen to what last year's attendees had to say about it: Our multidisciplinary event is open for staff & student registration!From the medicine of ancient Egypt, to denuclearisation in North Korea; from the relationship of traditional Scottish music to contemporary jazz, to the ethics of drone warfare; every College features in our multidisciplinary research event, now in its 4th year. Let's Talk About [X] was recently nominated for a Times Higher Education Award.See this year's programme and abstracts over at talkaboutx.net! Ask the ExpertsQ: As someone with very little experience in research or scholarship, is there any way in which LEADS would support me to actually carry out my proposed scholarship project? I don’t feel like I have enough experience to do it alone. Answer by Dr Michael McEwan, Dr Janis Davidson, Dr Matthew Williamson, and Sarah Honeychurch Extracts from the Answer (full response linked at the end): In one sense, it depends on how you intend to carry out your project. Support would normally be available through our network of College Contacts, which ensures that at least one member of LEADS staff is a point of contact for each of the 4 colleges ... ... If you apply for LTDF funding then you will automatically have access to a named member of LEADS for advice ... ... It may well be that someone other than your College Contact could support you, or that LEADS may be able to link you up with someone else in the University who is working in a similar area or who is looking for mutual support ... ... At the moment, LEADS are setting up and 'seeding' an annotated bibliography that we anticipate will be a useful resource for anybody wanting to engage with SoTL (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning). Once it's ready, we'll announce it here in the Magazine. CPD, Events and Staff CoursesA Conversation about Student Engagement in Assessment - Dr Susan DeeleyFebruary 9, 12:00 - 13:00
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