Teaching and assessing Reflection in Higher Education - Workshop

The Centre For Recording Achievement have just announced the following workshop.

Manchester Metropolitan University, All Saints Campus, Monday 2nd July 2012.
A ‘leading edge’ workshop: Ormond Council Chamber,
Further details and a booking form are attached to this email. If you have any queries, or are looking to book, then email me – Daniel Brookes – at Daniel@recordingachievement.org – or telephone Cath or I for a chat on 01942 826761. With speakers from the Queensland University of Technology, this day-long event promises to be a really illuminating experience!

The e-portfolio implementation toolkit has just been published following a JISC-funded project

The toolkit is designed to support those involved in the implementation of e-portfolios in Higher Education, Further Education and work-based learning. Follow the link below for further information and to access the toolkit.

https://epip.pbworks.com/w/page/28670505/The%20e-portfolio%20implementation%20toolkit

"Pedagogy for employability" - new HEA publication Authors Ann Pegg, Jeff Waldock, Sonia Hendy-Isaac, Ruth Lawton

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/employability/pedagogy_for_employability_update_2012.pdf

The above publication is a revised and updated version of the first version published in 2006.
The publication "has been updatd with the practitioner in mind - those teaching in the classroom and those engaging with policy and student interactions in other ways, such as careers guidance and learning development workers.
Contents include:

• The economic and policy context for the different nations and ways that individual institutions have responded to this.
• Definitions of employability
• The emergence of models for employability
• Curriculum design and development, which includes:
• learning and teaching practice;
• assessment;
• work-based and work-related learning;
• staff engagement;
• pedgogy;
• strategy.
• Areas for future work
• 10 different case studies from across the UK