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Education focussed mentoring scheme launches

CoP mentoring brings together experienced education practitioners with colleagues seeking support and guidance across one or more aspects of education practice and education management.
The scheme is in its infancy but growing fast with mentoring topics ranging from blended and flipped learning to assessment, module design, personal tutoring, using media to enhance the education experience and achieving work/life balance.
 
With numbers increasing, ILIaD are now calling for new mentors and mentees to join the scheme. To find out more and hear from staff already involved please visit the CoP mentoring site

Congratulations to our Blackboard Award winners 2015
Blackboard award 2015

On the 21st of April ILIaD hosted its 3rd Annual Blackboard Awards. Over 70 modules from all faculties were nominated by students this year. A record 18 courses were shortlisted and 3 overall winners were selected. Winners received a trophy, presented by Alex Neill and Hugh Davis, and will also receive a bespoke banner for their courses, designed by the ILIaD multimedia team. The competition was very close this year and the judging panel (comprising ILIaD staff, iSolutions MLE staff and an Associate Dean Education) had a difficult time deciding the winners.

Read more about the winners
 

 

eChamps award to boost Southampton’s enterprise activities

National StudentshIP Enterprise Award winners
The University of Southampton has received a National StudentshIP Enterprise Award, funded by the UK government’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO), to develop a team of students to help raise the profile and understanding of enterprise activities and Intellectual Property (IP) across the University community.

The financial award of £24,120 will be awarded to the University to create the new team of eChamps (Enterprise Champions) to encourage and enable a further step change in Southampton’s Enterprise culture.       Read more

Students as Creators and Change Agents
BUFVC awards

Mark Gatenby and Lisa Harris, both from Southampton Business School, are running an Education Enhancement Fund project called “Students as Creators and Change Agents”. A team of students from across the University will help them to design the structure and create content for a new common first year which will be delivered to all undergraduate business programmes in 2015/16.
The aim for the new programmes is to offer a broad education that is organised around a liberal interest in ideas, along with contemporary relevance, to help students to understand the impact that business has on their lives. L.J.Harris@soton.ac.uk
Read more about the Business School Student Champion Project 
 

TEL Conference - a lively start to the Enhancement theme 
 
TEL conference

Taking place on a particularly sunny April day the Technology-Enhanced Learning Conference took place.  There was a great deal of interest both internally and externally about the conference programme and this generated a great buzz about the day both online and in the venue.

The conference provided a fantastic opportunity to meet with colleagues and to share ideas and innovations that are taking place across Southampton and beyond.

Find a wealth of resources and more about what happened at this event on our conference resources page

Success for our Media Development team at BUFVC Learning on Screen Awards
BUFVC awards

The ILIaD Media Development team enjoyed an evening at the BUFVC Learning on Screen awards at BFI Southbank for the nomination of Medieval Seafaring for the Courseware & Curriculum In-House Production award. This is the eleventh year of Learning on Screen which is the only UK awards celebrating media production in learning, teaching and research.

Stephan Caspar, Media Development Team Lead, had this to say about his team's success
“We’re really thrilled with the recognition that all those supporting Media Development received last night at the BUFVC awards, from the academics and learning designers to those involved in the production and behind the scenes. It was great to be in nominated in such company as BBC Learning and The Open University, we were very pleased to see that our productions are up there with some of the best and there was so much talent and creativity on show, much to inspire us and keep us innovating and working towards.” #LoSAwards @BUFVC

Watch our nominated video here


 
TEL conference

On the 6 May 8 Faculty Finalists will be presenting their PhD in just 3 minutes using one PowerPoint slide and no other visual aids or props. You are invited to see how they fare in this hotly contested competition!  Returning for a second year in a row this entertaining event promises to be even better this year.

Book your place now. For more information about the competition and the 8 Finalists, please go to www.soton.ac.uk/3MT.

You can also check out this trailer for the event here  http://tinyurl.com/pqjr9zq
#3MTSoton. Wednesday 6 May, 5.00-6.30pm, EEE main lecture theatre (32/1015).

ALL staff, undergraduates and postgraduates welcome.
 
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For more information or to advertise an education enhancement activity or event please contact Katie Eason, ILIaD Engagement Officer