2021 UEL Learning and Teaching Symposium: 'The View from the Other Side'

The 2021 UEL Learning and Teaching Symposium is an opportunity to share best practices and innovative approaches to improving the experience of our students in the classroom and beyond. Through professional partnerships across London, we are providing a one-day intensive workshop style symposium for participants to acquire these tools to implement in their university context.

The 1-day event will take place on Thursday 16th September 2021 and will take place entirely online via Microsoft Teams.

This year's symposium is designed to showcase your scholarly approaches to learning and teaching and has the following four main themes for higher education:

1. Engagement, Retention and Success

2. Beyond Adversity

3. Coaching and Mentoring

4. Careers and Employability

The conference will feature both morning and afternoon keynote sessions in addition to parallel sessions of related papers organised into thematic panels.

We are pleased to welcome Dr Michelle Morgan and Prof Ale Armellini as our keynote speakers.

Dr Michelle Morgan is an educational transitions and student experience specialist, author of the “Student Experience Transitions (SET) Model” and currently Dean of Students at the University of East London. Prior to joining UEL, Michelle was Associate Professor and Associate Dean for the Student Experience at Bournemouth University, and Learning and Teaching Coordinator at the University of Kingston.

Michelle is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, as well as Fellow of the Association of University Administrators (AUA). She has presented her work in over 120 national and international conferences and is the editor and contributors to two books on the student experience: Improving the Student Experience: The practical guide for universities and colleges (2011) and Supporting Diversity in Higher Education: A practical guide (2013). For more information on Michelle and the SET Model, please visit http://www.improvingthestudentexperience.com/

Prof Alejandro (Ale) Armellini is Professor and Dean of Digital and Distributed Learning at the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom. His key role is to provide leadership in digital learning and learning innovation, including on-campus and distance provision, across all Faculties. Before joining Portsmouth, Ale was Dean of Learning and Teaching at the University of Northampton, where he was the strategic lead for the redesign of all programmes for active blended learning. Ale is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Ale’s research and doctoral supervision focus on learning innovation, blended and online pedagogy, institutional capacity building and open practices. He holds visiting professorships at several UK and overseas universities. His latest co-edited book is Cases on Active Blended Learning in Higher Education (2021). For more information, please visit his profile page at the University of Portsmouth: https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/our-staff/ale-armellini

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