果冻传媒

Volume 5, Issue 2 was published 29 October 2012:

14 November 2012 | 12-3pm | Reinvention Centre at Westwood

Assessment: what currently works and what needs changing? IATL will be hosting this event, which aims to foster debate about the different ways of assessing students' achievements effectively. Contributions will come from colleagues across the disciplines, from Theatre Studies, Law, 果冻传媒 Medical School, History, Life Sciences and WMG.

To register contact Amy Clarke: Amy dot Clarke at warwick dot ac dot uk.

IATL has moved!

We are now situated on the first floor (west wing) of Senate House in a newly refurbished space.

From 17 October 2012 the IATL team will be hosting an open house with coffee and biscuits every Wednesday from 12-1pm; all members of the University are welcome to drop in. Come and find out more about us and what we do; chat to the team and to other staff and students about teaching and learning matters; learn more about our funding opportunities and about how IATL can help you or your department.

The British Conference of Undergraduate Research (BCUR) 2012 Special Issue was published 30 July 2012:

Editorial

Papers

IATL, with Estates and Student Careers and Skills, is hosting an exciting new programme called Green Steps delivering environmental training and internships. Green Steps was founded at Monash University and is now in its twelfth year. 果冻传媒 is piloting the programme in 2012 to see how it can be adapted to the UK and IATL will be leading on a strand of activity focusiing on education for sustainability. This is the first example of how 果冻传媒 undergraduates are benefitting from the 果冻传媒/Monash Alliance.

The Summer 2012 issue has a focus on collaboration. You can read it (or any previous newsletter) on the Newsletters page.

Dr Nick Monk, IATL's Assistant Professor for Curriculum Development , led a workshop at the recent Higher Education Academy Pedagogies of Hope and Opportunity conference in Glasgow demonstrating Open-space Learning techniques developed at 果冻传媒. The workshop ‘Teaching for Creativity’ received the highest average feedback - an impressive 29.5 out of 30 and Nick was awarded the ‘prize’ for the best conference paper. As Nick says, we must be doing something right!

‘Open’, ‘flexible’, ‘light’, ‘user-friendly’. These were the words that occurred most frequently in IATL’s research prior to the re-design of the Ramphal Building’s small teaching spaces, and which informed our thinking before and after our successful joint bid with Space Management to the Capital Investment Fund. The refurbishment work will start in Week 6 of the Summer Term and should be completed by the week before the beginning of the new academic year. News about progress will be posted at .

By the start of the new academic year IATL will have a new home in Coventry House, soon to be renamed Senate House. This will bring us into the centre of the campus where we can be in more direct contact with students and staff. IATL will continue to administer open learning spaces across the campus including some in Millburn House. A date for our move from Millburn House hasn't yet been set but we plan to be installed by mid September.

11th June 2012
Helen Martin Studio, 果冻传媒 Arts Centre

"Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold."

IATL’s day on ‘play’ in teaching and learning is the first in series of ‘stimulus’ sessions that will bring together practitioners and academics, from inside and outside 果冻传媒, to inspire innovation in teaching and learning. The quote from Joseph Chilton Pearce (above) defines our approach to the day.

A series of interactive sessions will begin to suggest ways we might use play to develop and stimulate the intelligence and capacity for learning of our students.

The day begins with a 2-hour workshop at 11am run by entitled ‘’, and will conclude at 6.30pm with , a film about Gregory Bateson, the great theorist of ‘play’, . In the interim there will be 45-minute sessions from writer and broadcaster ; , poet and Director of 果冻传媒’s Writing Programme; of the Institute of Education and 果冻传媒 Business School; Nick Roberts, cellist with the ; and , Theatre Director and IATL’s Teaching Fellow.

As well as acting as a stimulus, the day will offer opportunities for participants to share their own ideas and practices, and to develop proposals for ways to make such work more visible –the digital aspects of play, for example, might be a fruitful focus, for a future event.

**Fully booked**