The Westminster Centre for Education and Teaching Innovation (CETI) provides strategic academic leadership in learning and teaching at the University of Westminster. It supports a university-wide culture of pedagogic reflection, development, innovation, scholarship and research, and champions professional development in learning and teaching. The CETI also provides university leadership for cross-disciplinary learning and teaching, student partnership and curriculum development and innovation. The CETI acts as an incubator for staff and students to collaborate on creating the kind of unique learning opportunities that our students need in the ever-changing 21st century world, and to think critically about the future challenges of higher education and the big issues that will shape the future of knowledge production both within and beyond academia. Through its activities, the CETI champions learning and teaching within and beyond the University, encourages future scoping to ensure that our curriculum offers the flexibility, accessibility and interdisciplinarity that will enhance the lives and employment prospects of our students, facilitates learning communities that are inclusive to all, and engages students as critical co-creators of their higher education experience. The Centre is led by Dr Andy Pitchford. He is joined by Dr Christina Delistathi, University Director of Westminster Foundation Pathways, Dr Julio Giminez, Principal Lecturer in Academic English; Dr James Moran, Director of Curriculum Development; Dr Jennifer Fraser, University Director of Student Partnership and Dr Yaz Osho, Director of Academic Professional Development. Find out more on the CETI website.
External link for CETI University of Westminster
309 Regent Street
London, England W1B 2EL, GB
Congratulations Julio Gimenez and Katherine (Katie) Mansfield
A recent piece on unlocking the benefits of multilingualism in higher education that Katherine (Katie) Mansfield and I wrote for the Times Higher Education: https://lnkd.in/dzbFU9mk #multilingualism #highereducation #EDI
📣 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐚 𝐰𝐫𝐚𝐩. What a busy semester we have had at CETI! As we look ahead to 2025, here is a rundown of some of the sessions planned for the new term. ESD Series- LiveProjects - LivePractices- 13 Jan 2025 13:00 - 14:00 Developing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning- 14 Jan 2025 10:30 - 14:00 Creating Engaging Reading Lists- 16 Jan 2025 11:00 - 12:00 Embedding Wellbeing in the curriculum café- 20 Jan 2025 13:30 - 14:30 ESD Series- Building student self-efficacy for social change- 20 Jan 2025 10:00 - 11:00 Inclusive Curriculum café- 21 Jan 2025 13:00 - 14:00 The Experiential Educator: Employment-Focused Learning- 29 Jan 2025 10:30 - 11:30 Education Research Conversations: Lessons from a multimodal participatory inquiry into student life at an English medium university in Japan- 30 Jan 2025 16:30 - 17:30 As part of our CETI x LIDE partnership, we also have digital pedagogy sessions delivered by CETI Academic Professional Development Fellow Matthew Galton and LIDE colleague, Dr. Syada Dastagir. Building relationships using blackboard- 15 Jan 2025 13:00 - 14:00 Optimise your blackboard site- 22 Jan 2025 13:00 - 14:00 Picture perfect: the power of visuals- 29 Jan 2025 13:00 - 14:00 Optimise your use of Panopto- 05 Feb 2025 13:00 - 14:00 Assessment in the age of AI- 12 Feb 2025 13:00 - 14:00 Polleverywhere for formative Assessment- 19 Feb 2025 13:00 - 14:00 Adaptive learning and accessibility- 26 Feb 2025 13:00 - 14:00 Last but not least, click on the image below for our Active Learning sessions 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐮 from CETI Academic Professional Development Fellows Pamela Abrams and Avis Whyte University of Westminster colleagues register via the WPDA https://lnkd.in/gXseaQGd See you in 2025!
Watch yesterday's #TalkTeaching session with Ioannis Glinavos
🎓 Reflecting on Yesterday’s #TalkTeaching Event: A Real Eye-Opener! 🎓 Yesterday’s #TalkTeaching session with Ioannis Glinavos was truly inspiring! It was an eye-opener to see the potential of AI tools to make our classes more dynamic, engaging, and supportive for students. From streaming avatars to chatbots, Ioannis highlighted practical ways we can embrace AI to enhance teaching and learning. 💻 Missed it? Catch up with the talk on YouTube here: https://lnkd.in/gDbrGry3 🌟 And there’s more to look forward to! Ioannis Glinavos has promised a face-to-face session in early 2025, where we’ll get to see some of these key AI tools in action. Stay tuned for details – you won’t want to miss it! Let’s keep the conversation going: How are you using AI in your teaching, or how would you like to start? Share your thoughts below! #TalkTeaching #AIinEducation #CETI #TeachingInnovation #StudentSupport #UniversityofWestminster
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𝐉𝐎𝐈𝐍 𝐔𝐒: 📣 #Talkteaching: What the students always wanted: 24/7 support 🗓️ Wednesday 11th December 2024 ⏰ 13.00-14.00PM 💻 Online 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 AI tools open up a whole new ecosystem for remote learning. In addition to enhancing traditional pre-recorded content, AI tools can offer automated synchronous engagement that would have looked like science fiction only a few months ago. In this presentation, Ioannis presents streaming avatars, chat bots and assistants as methods of delivering student support around the clock in new engaging ways. Facilitator: Ioannis Glinavos Ioannis is an academic entrepreneur with a keen interest in AI and educational technology. Ioannis works with the University of London and the Open University in educational design and has produced micro-credentials courses on behalf of the University of Westminster. Visit his YouTube channel to watch a series of experiments with animation and AI in education and legal tech. V2 promote engagement in learning and equity of opportunity for all to reach their potential V4 respond to the wider context in which higher education operates, recognising implications for practice K1 how learners learn, generally and within specific subjects A4 support and guide learners Sign up here 👇🏼 https://lnkd.in/eBWk8iMG
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Our Graduate School has announced it will offer ten full Quintin Hogg Trust-funded PhD studentships to support our students set to begin their studies in the 2025/26 academic year! 👏 The Quintin Hogg Trust PhD studentships will consist of a tuition fee waiver for ten of our PhD students in addition to a three-year London-weighted annual stipend. This has been made possible by the generous funding of the QHT to enhance the student learning experience at our university ✨ These studentships intend to tackle the link between PhD drop-out rates and funding, which particularly affects students from under-represented backgrounds. By offering PhD studentships, we aim to support PhD researchers formerly excluded from the opportunity of doctoral study due to financial barriers and make postgraduate education more inclusive, encouraging better representation across both the research community at our university and academia as a whole 💫 Applications are now open to candidates across our 12 schools. Successful research proposals will fit with one or more of our Research Communities’ key themes, have a strong interdisciplinary potential and meet our university’s commitments to equality, diversity and inclusion 💛 🔗 Find out more in our news story: https://bit.ly/3CNKC61
𝐓𝐎𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐖 - 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 📣 Embedding Wellbeing in the curriculum café 🗓️ 05 Dec 2024 ⏰ 12:00 - 13:00 💻 ONLINE 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 The café aims to foster collaborative discussions on integrating student wellbeing into teaching practices. Participants will explore various approaches to address student wellbeing and resilience within their disciplines, sharing experiences and best practices. The café will cover the "Five Ways to Wellbeing" framework, and implementing assessment strategies that support student wellbeing. The goal is to inspire practical, discipline-specific ideas that academic colleagues can implement in their courses to enhance student wellbeing and academic success 𝐎𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 1. Enhance Understanding of Wellbeing: Facilitate discussions among university lecturers to deepen their understanding of wellbeing and its critical relationship with student learning, enabling them to recognize the various dimensions of wellbeing that can be integrated into their curricula. 2. Share Best Practices: Create a collaborative environment where lecturers can share successful strategies and innovative practices for embedding wellbeing into their teaching, fostering a community of practice that encourages ongoing development and support. 3. Develop Actionable Strategies: Equip participants with practical tools and frameworks, such as the "Five Ways to Wellbeing," to implement specific, discipline-relevant initiatives that promote student wellbeing and resilience within their courses 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 Daniela de Silva To register for this session, click 👇🏼 https://lnkd.in/gWWH5iG6
University of Westminster colleagues, would you like to learn more or refresh your knowledge on creating learning outcomes, marking rubrics, and engaging students with feedback? 𝐉𝐎𝐈𝐍 𝐔𝐒 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫: Rubrics: Providing Feedback and Promoting Learning 10 Dec 2024 11:00 - 12:30 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 This workshop aims to introduce participants to the use of marking rubrics as a tool for providing feedback and promoting learning. It will evaluate the pros and cons of different types of rubrics and consider the key pedagogical principles and steps involved in designing marking rubrics. Finally, it will outline some examples of good practice in working with marking rubrics. 𝐓𝐨 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐮𝐩 👇🏾 https://lnkd.in/ecXBRq2g Writing Effective Learning Outcomes- Dec 2024 11 Dec 2024 14:00 - 15:00 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 This is an introductory / refresher one-hour online workshop on how to write learning outcomes for undergraduate and post graduate courses and modules. You will cover how learning outcomes are constructed, ensuring that they are aimed at the right level, and enhancing constructive alignment with assessments. There will also be an opportunity to have a go at constructing some learning outcomes and working with other participants in the session. 𝐓𝐨 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐮𝐩 👇🏾 https://lnkd.in/e3ThDAr8 Engaging Students with Feedback 11 Dec 2024 11:00 - 12:30 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 This workshop aims to introduce participants to recent scholarship and best practice in feedback, focusing on the key concept of feedback literacies. It seeks to highlight some of the barriers that prevent students from engaging with feedback, and provides a space for participants to share good practice in engaging students with feedback and discuss possible solutions to common challenges. Finally, it seeks to outline some practical strategies for engaging students with feedback. 𝐓𝐨 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐮𝐩 👇🏾 https://lnkd.in/eTw3XWQj All sessions are open to University of Westminster colleagues and accessible via 𝐂𝐄𝐓𝐈 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐏𝐃𝐀 https://lnkd.in/eAz3DzQv
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We have published our Sustainable Development Goals report 2023-2024, outlining how our university has embedded SDGs into teaching, research and operations over the 2023/24 academic year to help support a more sustainable society! 🌳💛 The 17 Sustainable Development Goals were created by the United Nations in 2015 to provide achievable aspirations to guide people and organisations on how to create a more sustainable future. We adopted these SDGs in 2019, embedding them into teaching, research and operations while using the goals to frame our strategic decisions to support our commitment to being progressive, compassionate and responsible. In doing this, We have been recognised as one of the top 15% out of over 1,400 universities globally for our work on contributing to these 17 SDGs. The report highlights the ways in which our university has worked to achieve each of these goals 👏 We have prioritised the integration of sustainable development across our entire undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum, ensuring that all of our students gain exposure to sustainability concepts and challenges. Since September 2024, every final-year undergraduate course we offer has included an assessment component tied to at least one of the SDGs, reinforcing sustainability as a shared value across disciplines 💫 For example, our International Relations and Development students can take on modules that look at the evolution of partnerships between states, markets and NGOs in implementing the SDGs. We have also incorporated sustainability into our research and knowledge exchange. This commitment was demonstrated during our first-ever Teaching and Research Day, where colleagues from across the University, including our Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Peter Bonfield, gathered to discuss accessibility and inclusivity in research and education. Our students are also actively involved in research initiatives, often partnering with our faculty members to develop solutions for sustainability challenges 🙌 In addition to academic initiatives, we have worked to make our physical campuses more sustainable. Throughout the year, additional solar panels have been installed at both our Harrow and Marylebone campuses. Our panels at Marylebone alone are expected to generate over 78,000 kWh annually, which is approximately 3.5% of our total electricity usage. Together, these installations will reduce our carbon footprint by about 15.2 tonnes of CO2 each year, equivalent to planting nearly 700 trees annually ✨ 🔗 Find out more about our Sustainable Development Goals report: https://bit.ly/4gavAFB
𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐑𝐓: 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐒𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦 The Colleague Disability Network at the University of Westminster is holding its second Accessibility Symposium on Wednesday 4 December, 9.30 AM-3.00 PM The focus of this year's Symposium is on designing practical outputs to enhance accessibility. Themes include: (i) Connecting physical and digital accessibility (ii) Impacts of the European Accessibility Act on UK higher education. For more details about the event and to secure a ticket, click 👇🏾
Yesterday CETI University of Westminster delivered a new workshop on the Open Programme: Coaching Skills for Teaching and Learning (T&L). The highly participative session helped colleagues to identify where coaching can applied in T&L, apply the GROW model to teaching scenarios and to appreciate the value of creating a Thinking Environment. Thank you to facilitators Saire Jones and Kathryn Waddington For more information about CETI workshops, courses and resources, click 👇🏾 https://lnkd.in/eAz3DzQv