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			Faculty of Science Annual Learning, Teaching and Assessment (LTA) Development Day Monday 15^th December 2014
The aim of this event is to share good practice in LTA and all sessions are open to all Faculty of Science Staff. We have selected the presentations to address issues of current relevance and hope that you will find them useful.
	Time	Session		Facilitator	Room
	09.30	Arrival Coffee/Tea			BS/228
1	09.45	Welcome (27 attendees)		Phil Denton	BS/243
2	10.00	Personal Tutoring (27 attendees) Matt will explain about how he has managed to improve his student engagement with the personal tutoring system using various interventions		Matt Tucker School of Built Environment (BLT)	BS/243
3	10.40	2015 NSS: What’s new? (25 attendees) This session will highlight some new practices in Schools relating to the organisation of the 2015 NSS, and summarise changes to the survey that affect the entire institution.		Shaqil Chaudary, Phil Denton, Jason Kirby, Mark Scott	BS/243
	11.00	Coffee/Tea			BS/228
4	11.20	Curriculum Enhancement Project and Internship Activity (27 attendees) A timely update from five University-funded curriculum enhancement activities supported by Faculty staff: · Development of laboratory videos to support lecture content and applicant days. · Chemistry for All: A national curriculum enhancement project for schools. · Developing an integrated online resource for mathematics.		Nathan Foster, Ian Bradshaw, Bob Morris	BS/243
	12.30	Lunch			BS/228
5	13.15	Student Engagement (24 attendees) Phil will discuss the work that his University wide group has undertaken with regard to improving students engagement. He will also give us some ideas as to what initiatives that we may want to try.		Phil Carey Faculty of Education, Health and Community (EHC)	BS/243
6	14.00	Learning Technologies (18 attendees) Jim will look at some of the changes to the Blackboard Assignment tool and highlight some important changes since last year. There will also be a review of some other learning technologies: Please email Jim J.C.Turner@ljmu.ac.uk in advance if there is anything you have seen and would like to be covered.		Jim Turner Education and Academic Quality Services (EAQS)	BS/243
	15.00	Coffee/Tea			BS/228
7	N/A	HEA Fellowship Application Guidance (via Outlook meeting requests) LJMU has set a target that by 2017 all staff that teach should have either a teaching qualification and/or be a Fellow of the HEA. Anyone with three years teaching experience can apply for Fellowship and Rach will familiarise you with the process of application.		Rach Boulter EAQS Education and Academic Quality Services (EAQS)

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