learning and teaching
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A list of acronyms commonly used in the higher education and art, design and media sector.
AISHE - All Ireland Society for Higher Education
AISHE is a professional society whose goal is to bring together and support those people who are concerned to advance higher education in the island of Ireland.
CHED - Centre for Higher Education Development
Based at the University of Cape Town. It is a cross-faculty unit that contributes to continual improvement in the quality of higher education through widening access, promoting excellence through the research-led developments.
CONNECT - Learning and Teaching Portal
The Higher Education Academy's Online Services provide quick and easy access to information, resources and networking opportunities specifically tailored to the needs of the learning and teaching communities.
www.connect.ac.uk/
DELIBERATIONS
The London Metropolitan University's Deliberations in learning and teaching in HE website provides useful resources and links both generic and subject specific.
www.londonmet.ac.uk/deliberations/
disability web links & resources
Eduserv CHEST (Combined Higher Education Software Team)
Education conference listing service:
www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/conflist.htm
Education Guardian:
education.guardian.co.uk/
ESRC/TLRP (Economic and Social Research Council)
www.esrc.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/index.aspx
FDF - Foundation Degree Forward
FDF’s
primary objective is to support the development of high quality
Foundation degrees. It works in partnership with all relevant agencies,
institutions, organisations & interest groups to ensure that the
development of Foundation degrees is driven by the needs of students
& employers & satisfies the requirements of all stakeholders.
www.fdf.ac.uk/
GradLab
GradLab
has been set up by the London Institute Careers Service. It mixes
networking events, skills workshops, confidence building and business
techniques with personal career guidance to encourage new ways of
working.
"The whole idea is the chemical reaction of putting lots of
different ingredients together and then coming up with something quite
new - what collaboration's all about", explained Shelley Partridge,
Programme Leader as the experiment began on 12 September 2002.
www.linst.ac.uk/gradlab
HERDSA - Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia Inc
HERDSA
is Australasia's leading society in the field of higher education and
brings together and informs anybody interested and involved in the
improvement of teaching, learning and policy in higher education.
www.herdsa.org.au/
Higher Education & Research Opportunities in the United Kingdom:
www.hero.ac.uk/
JISC Collections
JISC
Collections manages licences for online resources on behalf of further
and higher education and the research councils. JISC Collections works
to a Collections Building Strategy and is advised by six Working Groups
whose membership consists of senior managers, academics and technology
experts working in UK further and higher education.
JISC
Collections actively welcomes approaches by owners of digital material
and publishers of online resources. JISC Collections is supported by
JISC.
www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/
LFHE - Leadership Foundation for Higher Education
The LFHE (formerly known as HESDA)
provides a dedicated service of support and advice on leadership,
governance and management for all the UK's universities and higher
education colleges.
www.lfhe.ac.uk/
JISC Legal Information Serivces
JISC
Legal provides the tertiary education sector with legal information in
order to prevent legal issues from becoming a barrier to the adoption
of information and communications technologies in learning, teaching
and administration.
www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/services/as_jisclegal.aspx
MOVE - A Lifelong Learning Network for the East of England
MOVE is an organisation funded by the Higher Education Funding Council of England (HEFCE) to maximise opportunities for learners in the East of England to progress to Higher Education through vocational routes. MOVE works with Universities, Colleges, employers and other organisations across the region to help provide additional, flexible and vocational progression and learning opportunities to meet the needs of a wide range of people who could benefit from Higher Education.
www.move.ac.uk
National Academic Recognition Information Centre for the UK
The
UK NARIC is the National Agency for the Department for Education and
Skills (DfES). It is the only official information provider on the
comparability of international qualifications from over 180 countries
worldwide. The UK NARIC services, supplemented by the National Centre for Vocational Qualifications and the National Europass Centre, provide the essential assistance in skills integration and progressions towards employment and further studies in the UK.
www.naric.org.uk/
OCSLD - The Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development
www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsd
POD – Professional & Organisational Development Network in HE
The POD Network developes and supports practitioners and leaders in higher education dedicated to enhancing learning and teaching.
POD
supports a network of nearly 1,600 members - faculty and teaching
assistant developers, faculty, administrators, consultants, and others
who perform roles that value teaching and learning in higher education.
While POD members come primarily from the U.S. and Canada, the
membership also represents twenty-three other countries. The POD
Network and its members lead and support change for the improvement of
higher education through faculty, instructional, and organisational
development activities.
www.podnetwork.org/
Problem Based Learning Directory
The
unique quality of this particular site is that it is more than a mere
list. It contains brief information about how PBL is managed by various
departments and different disciplines, in many countries, in order to
facilitate international collaboration in Problem-Based Learning. These
details have been provided by practitioners themselves via the online
questionnaire. The Database currently contains details of 103 courses
at 89 institutions across 28 countries.
interact.bton.ac.uk/pbl/index.php
Reseach Councils links
National and international links found on BULB Link Catalogue of Internet Resources
bubl.ac.uk/link/r/researchcouncils.htm
Research Training Initiative (RTI) website
Research
Training Initiative (RTI) is a project based at UCE Birmingham
Institute of Art and Design (BIAD), which aims to develop and support
research education and training in art, design and media. RTI seeks to
encourage debate about research skills, methods and approaches; and
supports researchers, research students and research supervisors
through the publication of PhD case studies, methodological papers and
reviews. The project was set up in January 1995, and has been online
since 1998.
www.biad.uce.ac.uk/research/rti/riadm/
Search Engine Watch
A site devoted to monitoring and evaluating search engine developments.
www.searchenginewatch.com/
SEDA - Staff and Educational Development Association
A useful site for links to other HE resources in the UK and internationally
www.seda.ac.uk/
SRHE - Society for Research into Higher Education
An
independent society which aims to improve the quality of higher
education through the encouragement of debate and publication on issues
of policy, on the organisation and management of higher education
institutions and on the curriculum, teaching and learning methods.
www.srhe.ac.uk/
Supporting New Academic Staff Project
Most
UK institutions now offer PG Cert (HE) courses to support new academic
staff. The SNAS (Supporting New Academic Staff) project arose from a
desire expressed amongst Course Tutors and Subject Centres to share
information about subject specific resources to support new academic
staff.
www.heacademy.ac.uk/snas
TASI
The
Technical Advisory Service for Images is a service that has been set up
by JISC to provide advice and guidance to the Further and Higher
Education community on the issues of creating, delivering and using
digital images together with managing digitisation projects. TASI also
provides training workshops.
www.tasi.ac.uk/
TASI Review of Image Search Engines
www.tasi.ac.uk/resources/searchengines.html
Techdis Staff Development Packs
Techdis
has produced packs to facilitate the changes required by recent
disability legislation. The packs (including a CD) contain easily
adaptable presentations, activities, icebreakers, information sheets
and resources designed for use within staff development courses or
processes. The packs cover topics such as:
- Dyslexia and the use of Assistive Technology
- e-Assessment
- Checking the Accessibility of your e-Resources
- Introduction to Web Accessibility
The packs may be obtained via the TechDis website:
www.techdis.ac.uk/getstaffpacks
The Times Higher Education Supplement
www.thes.co.uk/
UK HE Institutions interactive map
A useful interactive map created by Peter Burden of the School of Computing and Information Technology at the University of Wolverhampton
www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/ukinfo/uk.map.html
UK Galleries & Museums Guide (Artguide)
A useful site that provides comprehensive information about the location, special collections, opening hours, admission prices etc.
Universities UK
Universities
UK is the representative body for the executive heads of UK
universities and is recognised as the umbrella group for the university
sector. It works to advance the interests of universities and to spread
good practice throughout the higher education sector. Universities UK
is a Company limited by guarantee with charitable status.
www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/
Video Streaming - a guide for Educational Development
A free guide published by the JISC 'Click and Go' Video project aimed at technical and non-technical educators to assist them produce teaching material to be broadcast on the web.It can be downloaded as pdf document from:
Web based courseware
Synergy produce a range of web based courseware - interactive tutorials, training videos, educational games, practical exercises, podcasts, assessment tasks, virtual tutors, tutor notes, lesson plans, schemes of work and assignments for use on courses in the Design, Multimedia and Gaming areas.
ADM-HEA would be interested in receiving reviews from anyone using these in an HE context.
www.synergy-learning.com/