Steve Cayzer

From July 19-21 I was in the beautiful city of Sheffield attending #ESLTIS2017 (Enhancing Student Learning through Innovative Scholarship).

It was great to connect again with a national community of teaching focussed academics. There were some interesting talks although for me the most productive sessions were hands on workshops: one dealing with embedding external partnerships within the curriculum(enterprise @sheffielduni); one on team based learning @KeeleUniversity. Both will directly inform my activities over the next year. Themes of most resonance to me:

1. Programme Level Assessment
2. Enterprise Engagement
3. Peer Learning
4. MOOCs
5. Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL)

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On Friday I went to the FutureLearn Academic Network (FLAN) meeting in Milton Keynes to present my work with Bath Mechanical Engineering graduate Simon Coton.

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Well, the 2016-17 season has started well. Again, the Innovation and Technology Management MSc cohort is both international (15 nationalities) and diverse (automotive engineering, economics and marketing to name a few). The first intensive week of teaching is now complete; after a day of looking at innovation case studies, by day 2 students had researched and were presenting their own examples of Architectural Innovation.

Yesterday we visited the Innovation Centre in Bath to meet local entrepreneurs, all of them recent alumni of the University. I have a feeling that some of this year’s cohort will be following in their footsteps….