ΤΟtΤ Committee

Vice Rector: Giorgos Kossioris

Coordinator: Kallia Katsampoxaki-Hodgetts

Members:

  • Eleni Katsarou
  • Giannis Kardamoglou
  • Giannis Karakasis
  • Giannis Pavlidis
  • Giannis Spantidakis
  • Dimitris Stavrou
  • Michalis Theodorakis

ΤΟtΤ Committee

Vice Rector: Giorgos Kossioris

Coordinator: Kallia Katsampoxaki-Hodgetts

Members:

  • Eleni Katsarou
  • Giannis Kardamoglou
  • Giannis Karakasis
  • Giannis Pavlidis
  • Giannis Spantidakis
  • Dimitris Stavrou
  • Michalis Theodorakis

Training of the Trainers

A successful bottom-up initiative that became a forwardlooking Teaching and Learning Centre for Faculty

1st International Faculty Development Conference, “Developing Faculty members’ Pedagogical Acuity”

Preliminary Conference Programme

Teaching and Learning Centre

‘Training of the Trainers‘ (TotT)

University of Crete, Greece

We are excited to share with you the preliminary programme of our International Faculty Development and Higher Education Conference “Developing Faculty members’ Pedagogical Acuity”. We are pleased to announce our keynote speakers: Professor Marina Di Carro, Professor Meeri Hellstén, Dr. Kallia Katsampoxaki- Hodgetts, Dr. Elena Marin, Dr. Gabriela Pleschová,                Dr. Helena Reierstam.

Link to programme

Link to Keynote speakers

Proceedings (Paper submission)

Deadline Extension!

Abstract submission deadline extended: May 3rd, 2023.

We are pleased to announce that the deadline for submitting abstracts for the International Faculty Development Conference, “Developing Faculty members’ Pedagogical Acuity”, has been extended until May 3, 2023.

Reminder: Call for Abstracts-1st International Faculty Development and Higher Educational Pedagogy Conference 2023-University of Crete, Greece.

We are kindly inviting you to submit an abstract and give an oral presentation at the 1st International Faculty Development and Higher Education Conference “Developing Faculty members’ Pedagogical Acuity” at the University of Crete, Greece by the 23rd March 2023.

Share good academic development or teaching practices with colleagues around the world and/or put your University’s Teaching and learning centre in our global reference map. Find out more here:

https://alliancectl.wordpress.com

Alongside the conference we are running an Erasmus staff week on Higher Education pedagogy which will enable teaching fellows and Faculty from other European Universities to receive funding and also attend the 1st International conference on Faculty Development at the University of Crete.

Find out more in this link

http://staffmobility.eu/staffweek/higher-education-pedagogy-and-faculty

 

Call for Abstracts

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 1st 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

 

Historical Overview of the Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Crete

 

 

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.

You can also follow TOT’s announcements on the website: https://tott.uoc.gr and on Facebook.

For more information, please contact the Centre of Teaching and Learning TotT (2022-2023. https://tott.uoc.gr

 

 

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.