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From Innovation to Impact
A cross-faculty event organised by FASSTEST, the FASS Centre for Scholarship and Innovation

This event took place on 10th June 2019 at 10:30am (09:30 GMT)

The FASS Centre for Scholarship and Innovation (FASSTEST) event ‘From Innovation to Impact’ will explore:

  • how we know what works best in learning and teaching and where innovation is needed;

  • how we can evidence the impact of innovations in teaching and learning; and

  • what kind of impact are we looking for.

     

    Programme:

10:00   Registration and coffee

10:30   Event starts with a short introduction from Stefanie Sinclair

10:35   Collecting evidence of the impact of scholarship and innovation for promotion cases and HEA accreditation:

John Wolffe ‘Evidencing impact of scholarship and innovation as part of promotion cases’;

Carina Bossu – ‘Getting your scholarship engagement recognised through Applaud (HEA)’ – followed by questions/discussion

11:30   Short coffee break

11:45   Helen Kaye – ‘Relevance of evidencing impact of innovation and scholarship as part of the TEF’

12:15   Stefanie Sinclair (Director of FASSTEST), Lucy Rai (Director of Praxis, WELS)  and Clem Herman (Director of eSTEeM, STEM; Chair of Scholarship Steering Group) – ‘What are the challenges of evidencing impact of scholarship and innovations in teaching and learning, and how can we approach these?’

13:00   Lunch

13:30   Workshop: ‘How do we know what works best in learning and teaching and where innovation is needed? What kind of impact are we looking for?’ (depending on the weather, we are planning to offer the option of an outdoor reflective walking workshop – with accessible alternatives)

14:30   John Butcher and Darren Gray – ‘Closing the bag: Scholarship on the black attainment gap on Access and its impact’ – (followed by discussion/workshop on the wider relevance/impact of this work across Faculties)

15:15   Hélène Murphy – ‘How to communicate innovation in and scholarship of teaching and learning most effectively to promote and increase its impact: A Comms perspective’

15:45   Event close

 

For enquiries please contact FASS-Scholarship@open.ac.uk


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