PedRIO Conference Programme - 18 April 2012 - Plymouth University

PedRIO Conference Programme - 18 th April 2012
Time
Description
9.00 – 9.30 Registration (First Floor Rolle Building)
9.30 – 9.45 Welcome – Professor Pauline Kneale, Director of PedRIO and Teaching and Learning Directorate (Rolle LT, 018)
9.45 – 11.15 Session A – Student Voice (Rolle 117)
Re-imagining the digital capital of disabled students: An
evaluation of the value of participatory methods in giving
voice to students’ technology related learning experiences -
Jane Seale
Exploring the transition from Foundation Degree to
Honours Degree from the inside - Darren Moore
Autarchic Pedagogy 2.0 creating creatives and de-limiting
education - Tim Unsworth
Students as producers of multimedia curriculum content:
an investigation of pedagogical merit - Priska Schoenborn,
Verity Campbell-Barr, Tracey Collett, Fiona Dalton, Valerie
Huggins and Oxana Poverjuc
Session B – 21 st century learning challenges/new learning
cultures (Rolle 115)
Changing 21st century teaching and learning: future proofing
Plymouth university - Pauline Kneale, Debby Cotton, Jennie
Winter, Laura Lake and Jane Collings
Facilitating Creative Thinking through Play - Robert Brown and
Patrick Clark
Institutional marketing: a comparison of Universities and HE
in FE colleges - Cathy Schofield
Becoming a university lecturer in the UK: negotiating
knowledge, experience and learning - Rebecca Turner, Rong
Huang, Oxana Poverjuc and Pollyanna Magne
11.15 -11.30 Tea, Coffee and Poster Session (First Floor Lobby, Rolle Building)

PedRIO Conference Programme - 18 th April 2012
11.30 – 13.00 Session C – Education for Sustainable Development
(ESD) (Rolle 117)
What is learning for change? - Joanna Blake and
Stephen Sterling
Experiential Learning and Environmental Activism -
Roger Cutting
Sustainability and Transformation: a student
perspective - Jennie Winter, Debby Cotton and Vivien
Tucker
“Low Impact Communities” and Their Value to
Education for Sustainability (EfS) - Robert Cook and
Roger Cutting
Session D - 21 st century learning challenges/new learning cultures
(Rolle 115)
Reframing perceptions of the lecture from limitations to
opportunities: Embedding active learning and formative
assessment into the teaching of large classes - Naomi Winstone
and Darren Moore
When Distance Learning Meets with Foreign Academic Cultures -
Jingjing Xu, Terri Rees, Peter Ingram, Phil Megicks and Simon Payne
Coaching GGA - a new learning culture - riposte to the de la Harpe
(2011) challenge - Armani Shepherd
Experiences of transnational teaching and learning: perspectives
from academics and students engaged with a transnational
programme in Hong Kong - Pollyanna Magne, Troy Heffernan and
Oxana Poverjuc
13.00 – 13.45 Lunch and poster session (First Floor Lobby, Rolle Building)
13.45 – 13.55 Introduction and Welcome - Bill Rammell, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Plymouth University (Rolle Lecture Theatre, 018)
13.55 – 14.30 Keynote – Pedagogical research in higher education: some methodological issues - Professor Glynis Cousin,
Director of Institute of Learning Enhancement, University of Wolverhampton
(Rolle Lecture Theatre, 018)

PedRIO Conference Programme - 18 th April 2012
14.30 – 15.45 Session E – Pedagogic Research Methods/ New learning
Cultures (Rolle 117)
Testing a conceptual model of simulation education in
emergency care: outcomes for learners and patients -
Ruth Endacott
Conceptualising writing as both method of inquiry and
creative co-construction of emergent professional
identities and practice styles - Ken Gale, Rebecca Turner
and Liz McKenzie
Session F – Student Voice (Rolle 115)
The National Student Survey: measure of quality or stakeholder
engagement tool? - Alex Buckley
Investigating the student voice within vocationally based Higher
Education – parlez vous HE? - Claire Gray and Julie Swain
What can we learn from the NSS - Paul Hewson
Engagement in the Design Process: Enhancing Designbased
Teaching through the Use of Ubiquitous Media
in Real-World Settings - Katharine Willis and Karen
Martin
15.45 Closing Plenary – Pedagogic Research Networking and Book Launch (First Floor Lobby, Rolle Building)
Session Chairs
Session A – Professor Jocey Quinn
Session B – Dr Karen Gresty
Session C – Professor William Scott
Session D – Dr Tracey Collett
Session E – Professor Linda La Velle
Session F – Dr Debby Cotton

PedRIO Conference Programme - 18 th April 2012
Poster Session
A) Student and staff views of research activities and publishing - Cathy Schofield
B) Further/Higher Education (F/HE) partnerships – why, how and where next? - Claire Gray
C) Student Experience Enhancement through Driving the Plymouth embedding of Digital literacies (SEEDPoD Project) – Neil Witt, Anne
McDermott and Robert Stillwell (project partner ALDinHE)
D) Higher Education and Commitment to Environmental Sustainability: Mapping the Relationship - Debby Cotton
E) Decoding Pedagogy for Pedagogy: A Cross-Cultural Perspective “The Importance of Metalinguistic Awareness in Architectural
Education” – Efthimia Papaefthimiou
F) Undergraduate Background as a Critical Factor in the Learning and Skills Development of Chinese Master's Degree Students - Jingjing
Xu, Terri Rees, Dominic McKeith and Phil Megicks
G) Toward an understanding of MIT faculty engagement in OpenCourseWare (OCW) - Lynne Callaghan, Susan Eick, Stephen Gomez,
Holger Andersson, Dan Carchidi and Steve Carson
H) Pilot study to develop an instrument for measuring attitudes towards mentoring podiatry students - Sally Abey
I) Sustainability and Secondary School Culture: lessons for HE? - Ciaran O'Sullivan
J) Research-informed Teaching: risks uncovered? - Wei Pan, Troy Heffernan, Karen Gresty and Andrew Edwards-Jones
K) Revalidation: ‘It’s always been eighteen months away’ - Julian Archer, Samantha Regan De Bere, Jonathan Clark, Oonagh Corrigan
and Suzanne Nunn
L) Empirically informed student selection and personalised learning support - Paul Lambe and David Bristow
M) Integration through faculty development: exploring the value of clinician / scientist partnerships in undergraduate medical
education - Tracey Collett, Reza Zamani, David Mabin and David Bristow
N) Posters from PedRIO 2011 Research Fund Projects
Book Launch (15.45pm)
Pedagogy of Climate Change. Produced by the Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES) Subject Centre. Edited by Simon
Haslett, Derek France and Sharon Gedye
Study Skills for Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Students. Published by Routledge. Author Pauline Kneale
Putting the ‘S’ into ED – Education for Sustainable Development in Educational Development. SEDA Special 31. Edited by Debby
Cotton, Stephen Sterling, Vivian Neal and Jennie Winter
The Future Fit Framework: An introductory guide to teaching and learning for sustainability in HE, Higher Education Academy
Publication. Author Stephen Sterling