Academic Professional Development

Following the launch of the Academic Professional Development Programme for Semester 2, the Academic Development team have relaunched the 'Events and workshops' section. You are now able to see all of the events listed in one location and go directly to the Booking System to secure your place.

The Academic Development programme offers over 30 workshops and webinars. The events are themed, for example: assessment and feedback, digital fluency and targeted by role such as Course Director and Module Leader.

Louise Wilson

Overall Satisfaction - 92.3% (academic year 2018-19)

APD Programme

New dates available for Practical Skills for Managers Programme

As an organisation we want to invest in our managers to be the best that they can be and to lead the Coventry Way. To enable this we recently launched the first programme of its kind at Coventry University Group: Practical Skills for Managers. This modular programme is aimed at those that lead others and/or manage managers and will run several times a year. The aim of this Group wide programme is to help our managers develop the core skills set out in the Leadership Framework.

Cycle 2 dates were released in December 2019 and modules will start in February 2020. You can find out more about the programme here and book sessions through the course booking system here by searching for ‘Practical Skills’.

Grainne Hearne

Programme

Assessment & Feedback Series

The first series of workshops on Assessment and Feedback Practices in Higher Education took place over the last semester. More than 120 colleagues attended these events, 65 in the face-to-face sessions and 61 in the webinars. These were very well received.

I very much enjoyed the session on 'Exam Alternatives - What are the alternatives' and found it very useful for further contemplation on the subject. This information provided a good base for us to build on existing knowledge.

Rija Bobby | Lecturer in Adult Nursing

The workshops are running again and everyone is welcome to come either to the f2f or to the online sessions.

Hannelie Du Plessis-Walker

More workshops

Congratulations to the PGCAPHE in Oman

Huge congratulations to our 20 (needs confirmation) recent graduates from the PGCert Academic Practice in Higher Education In December 2019. This is our international cohort in the Middle East Colleague (MEC) in Muscat. Our lovely students have just joined the group of Fellows of HEA. We got very kind messages from our graduates:

Thanks to Hannelie, Luis, Dhivya & team and all the colleagues in this group for making the program a great success. Thanks to the MEC management for giving us a wonderful chance to refresh our knowledge.

Great thanks to Hannelie and all the organisers of PGCert from MEC and CU for the wonderful opportunity you gave to us and congratulations to all my colleagues.

Hannelie Du Plessis-Walker

Join the New Academics Network Programme

If you would you like to join the community of new starters across your faculty and across the university, please join our New Academics Network Programme.

Have a look at the programme and come along to any of the sessions you feel would be useful. There will be invited speakers and an opportunity to have a coffee and network with new colleagues.

Gail Forrester-Gale and Xue Zhou

New Academics Network Programme

Interested in podcasts?

Coventry University Online is soon to deliver a brand new Podcast and they would like to hear from all the colleagues across the wider university who might be interested in taking part in one of their upcoming episodes or have a great idea for topics we could cover.

If you’d be interested in finding out more about the podcast, taking part in a future episode, or have an idea that you’d like to share, pop along to meet the podcast team in the HUB on:

Tuesday 21st January | The Hub

Ana Karnesova (CU Online)

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