What are the benefits?
- an opportunity to experience examples of good learning and teaching practices
- a setting in which to meet colleagues from across all departments
- discover current trends in technology enhanced learning that can enhance the learning experience of our students
- engage with world renowned learning and teaching scholars
Pre-Colloquium CPS/CPD workshop: Planning and assessing the value created by learning in communities, 7thApril ~ Limited seats.
The question of assessing or measuring learning in communities of practice is both delicate and controversial. This session will present a practical framework that integrates quantitative and qualitative methods for creating a picture of the value created by learning in communities and discuss how it can be used both for evaluating and planning and visioning a community of practice.
Colloquium Keynote: Finding yourself in a landscape of practice - imagining the future of learning, 7thApril
Learning is often viewed as something individuals do as they acquire information and skills. It is usually associated with some form of instruction. We will present a different perspective on learning, one that starts with the assumption that learning is an inherent dimension of everyday life and that it is fundamentally a social process. From this perspective, a living “body of knowledge” can be viewed as collection of communities of practice. Learning is not merely the acquisition of a curriculum, but a journey across this landscape of practice, which is transformative of the self. Achieving a high level of "knowledgeability" is a matter of negotiating a productive identity with respect to the various practices that constitute this landscape. Education is then a guided tour of the various practices that constitute this landscape. Teaching and research are just two of these practices, located like all others in a complex landscape, but with the additional twist that they have to prepare students for their own trajectory through landscapes of practice. This presentation will review the main tenets of this learning theory as well as more recent developments as they pertain to our understanding of learning in the 21st century.
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