Video recordings from our #QualityInsights Conference are now available to watch online ⏩ log back into the event platform, head to the Attendee Hub and return to the event ‘Schedule’. Click on the title of an event session to ‘Watch recording'. If you have questions, please email events@qaa.ac.uk.
Join us for the final session of our #QualityInsights Conference; a panel discussion on 'The power of effective quality assurance and enhancement in action'.
Access the talk using the online platform shared with conference registrants over email.
"We found that teaching is fundamentally relational; students learn best when they feel valued and cared for...Creating an environment where students feel safe to express their needs without fear of judgement is important." - Dr Indrani Lahiri, speaking in breakout session 10 #QualityInsights day 2
"Learning environments are not neutral, power is exercised through learning design, activities and relationships with things such as technology..." - Dr @emmakeddev.bsky.social, #QualityInsights day 2.
"We found that the student-teacher connection was important for staff wellbeing. We wanted to find out whether students also found this important for their wellbeing..." - Dr @emmakeddev.bsky.social #QualityInsights day 2.
"The most important thing in terms of effective assessment design and assessment briefs is talking to the students themselves." - Professor @diervilla.bsky.social, #QualityInsights day 2
"Our 2024 Curriculum Framework 'Assessment' strand sets out five key priorities: authentic assessment, choice and flexibility, student-centred scheduling, clear explanation and providing a feedback rich environment." - Dr Steve Briggs speaking at #QualityInsights breakout session 8 today.
At 12pm GMT, #QualityInsights registrants can join breakout session 8, in which Dr @emmakeddev.bsky.social will share the results of a compassion-focused study of students’ experiences in large-group lectures.
🔁Join this session and more through the online conference platform shared via email.
The second day of our #QualityInsights Conference is underway! Today opened with a panel focused on approaches to the ongoing enhancement of quality in higher education.
Learn more about the discussion: lnkd.in/e7nYx5Hd
Coming up at 10:45 GMT, we have a breakout session on institutional and curricular reform, which features a presentation from Professor @diervilla.bsky.social on ensuring flexibility in assessment design while improving quality processes. ☑️📝 #QualityInsights day 2
"The focus on improving learning, teaching, collaboration, sharing good practice, development for staff, and students at the heart of things, as well as the benefits for institutions and wider sector are core parts of an enhancement-led approach." - Maggie King #QualityInsights day 2
Collaborative Enhancement Projects from @qaa.ac.uk offer useful case studies on various key themes in higher education. www.qaa.ac.uk/membership/c... #AberPGCTHE #QualityInsights
It's day two of our #QualityInsights Conference! 💡
First up at 9:30 GMT is a chaired panel session on 'Using enhancement as a tool in times of change'; which will see QAA & sector colleagues explore different approaches to quality enhancement across higher education.
See you there!
Quality Insights speakers address the impacts of AI
That's a wrap on day 1 of our #QualityInsights Conference!
The conference opened with a keynote address from @deakinuniversity.bsky.social's Prof Phillip Dawson & featured presentations on sustainable enhancement, compassion, curricular reform & dynamic quality processes: tinyurl.com/57u2y4c2
Thank you for joining us @maryjacob.bsky.social, we are really glad you are finding the sessions useful and engaging so far. #QualityInsights
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wonderful sessions all day today, thanks for offering these sessions and resources, much appreciated. Looking forward to tomorrow.
"This is a moment for HE to reflect on what we are trying to achieve & to support our students as graduates out a world of Gen AI. Creating authentic experiences, bringing in live briefs and assessing the process of students doing things in the classroom is key" - Dr Annie Hughes #QualityInsights
"We need to adapt how we assess students...so that they are learning to use AI tools appropriately. Gen AI poses an existential question for us as educators: What are the skills we are trying to engender within our students?" - Dr Ruth Stoker, #QualityInsights conference, day 1 plenary session.
Conversations over students using AI to cheat in exams are masking wider conversations about how to improve assessments, Phillip Dawson tells @qaa.ac.uk #QualityInsights conference www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ai-chea... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social
'Walking the Tightrope: Maintaining academic integrity through effective assessment design'.
💡Join us at 15:00 GMT for our #QualityInsights Conference Plenary session 'Walking the Tightrope: Maintaining academic integrity through effective assessment design'.
Our panel of experts will delve into issues surrounding academic integrity in relation to undirected student use of #GenerativeAI.
"Until we live in more of a meritocracy, we need positive community-building interventions to make our curriculum and learning environments inclusive" - Professor Carl Larsen, speaking today in our inclusion focus breakout session as part of QAA's #QualityInsights conference.
At 13:45 GMT, @nottinghamtrentuni.bsky.social's @bryonyharper.bsky.social will be presenting as part of our #QualityInsights breakout session on inclusion strategies.
Bryony will share the collaborative LGBTQ+ inclusion work taking place at the university.
View the programme: tinyurl.com/2suttwku
Our annual #QualityInsights conference opened today, with a keynote address delivered by @deakinuniversity.bsky.social's Professor Phillip Dawson, an internationally renowned expert in assessment, artificial intelligence and academic integrity.
📰 Read the full story: tinyurl.com/msfewnsc
"A decolonial approach to compassion identifies the unique needs of individual learners, recognising how these needs influence the development of their sense of affiliation with engineering profession." - Dr Salma Al Arefi, who is currently speaking in #QualityInsights Conference breakout session 1
We are currently hearing from Dr Salma Al Arefi, who is speaking on compassion in education for fostering a sense of belonging through a decolonial lens in the first breakout session of our #QualityInsights Conference today.
View the programme: events.qaa.ac.uk/event/df00c3...
"We need to prepare students for a world in which AI is ubiquitous, while still ensuring we are assessing what we mean to assess." - Prof Phillip Dawson, who is currently delivering the keynote address for our flagship #QualityInsights Conference.
View the conference agenda: tinyurl.com/4bkkf58h
Today marks the start of our flagship #QualityInsights Conference💡
Kicking off proceedings at 9:30am GMT is a keynote address from Prof Phillip Dawson on assessment design for a time of #ArtificialIntelligence.
View the agenda: events.qaa.ac.uk/event/df00c3...
We hope to see you there!
2 days until our 2025 #QualityInsights Conference! Have you booked your place?
💬 @maudmc.bsky.social, Director of School Operations @official-uom.bsky.social, will be speaking at our session on 'The power of effective quality assurance and enhancement in action'.
Register: tinyurl.com/2suttwku
For @uniofbath.bsky.social SU President Jimena Alamo, 'embedding feedback from students as beneficiaries from the sector in day-to-day improvement practices' is key to sustainable enhancement.
Catch the full discussion at our #QualityInsights Conference next week.
Register here 👉 lnkd.in/eXMWtwNS
