1st International Faculty Development and Higher Educational Pedagogy Conference 2023

University of Crete, Greece

The 1st International Conference on “Developing academics’ pedagogical acuity” will be held in University of Crete, in Rethymnon, Greece, on September 15-17 2023 hosted by the Teaching and Learning Centre ‘Training of the Trainers‘ (TotT). We kindly invite you to participate in our 1^st International conference and submit an abstract for a presentation (and/or conference proceedings).

The CLT CRETE International conference focuses on trends and high impact factors regarding the “Development of Faculty pedagogical Acuity” within a range of pedagogy-related themes given the profound changes in this post-COVID online and face-to-face era. Expertise will be shared not only in terms of new modes of learning but also new modes of faculty development and training so that faculty members can successfully design inclusive and student-centred lessons in large amphitheaters.

At the CLT CRETE International conference, we hope to exchange good practices on issues that we all deeply care about, that of Higher Educational Pedagogy. Topics are wide ranging including student-centred teaching and learning, inclusive teaching, student agentic engagement, motivation, digital pedagogies in HE, assessment-for-learning, to name but a few.

You can find information about the themes here https://alliancectl.wordpress.com/

Kindly note our Centre for Teaching and Learning at University of Crete has also secured funding in order to create a website on which Teaching and learning centres, Innovation centres and Centres of teaching excellence will be identified on a map and viewers will be redirected to their websites. This initiative aims at creating an international alliance among CTLs around the globe and a breeding ground for more joint projects on Higher Education Pedagogy Interventions and resources. In this alliance, we are also seeking National Ambassadors of CTLs whose responsibility is to identify, record and notify national CTLs of our plan for an international alliance and allow them to forward the contact details so that they can be added in the main website which will serve as a global reference point

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

We are really looking forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

Ms. Ifigenia Xaidara

Teaching and Learning Centre Secretary,

Centre of Teaching and Learning

Website https://tott.uoc.gr/

University of Crete, Greece

Tel. 28310 77983

 

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Inclusion: Small changes that can be made to improve your students’ learning experiences.

“Research based development of teaching”.
Date: 10 May 2023 13:00

The Training of the Trainers Committee is organizing the 10th TOT online 2022-2023 meeting, entitled “Research based development of teaching”, Speaker: Dr Päivi Kinnunen

In this workshop we will discuss the possibilities and benefits of research-based development of teaching. I will introduce an example of how
a relatively young research field, computing education research, has evolved over the last few decades. Through this example we will
discuss topics such as motivations for doing educational research to enhance the quality of teaching and learning, practical ideas how to do
research on teaching related topics, contributions one might expect to make, and the power of the research community.

Presenter’s BIO

Dr Päivi Kinnunen is a senior lecturer in university pedagogy at the University of Helsinki in the Centre for University Teaching and Learning.
She has the title of docent in science education research. Päivi has over 20 years of experience in studying and developing university teaching
and learning. Research based development of teaching is in the core of her everyday work. Her research interests include students’ and
teachers’ academic emotions, self-efficacy perceptions, university teachers’ perceptions of online teaching, and pedagogical leadership in its
various forms. Päivi has done most of her research in STEM education context.

About

The TotT@UOC initiative embraces an open culture of formal and informal exchange of good pedagogical practices among teaching staff and Faculty at the University of Crete. The main focus of our endeavour is to promote student-centred learning in large audiences in higher education and strive for personalised learning experiences that accord with the demands of current digital learning practices.

Goals

1. Teaching practices enhancement
2. Learning outcomes achievement
3. Keep teaching staff and Faculty up to date with New Technologies that increase student engagement.