• Senior Staff responsible for academic affairs
• Associate Deans and academic leaders in teaching & learning
• Directors of Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning and their staff
• Directors of Academic Policy Units and their staff
• Student officers of student associations / bodies

With research-led universities garnering much criticism in recent months for being too research-focussed, Universitas 21 was delighted to have the opportunity to show that its members are taking Teaching and Learning as seriously as research in its fourth international conference on the subject. Participants represented Australasia, Europe, Asia and the Americas in the two-day conference hosted by the University of Glasgow from 21-22 February.  This was the first U21 teaching and learning conference to focus on a variety of subject areas and include delegates from a wide range of disciplines and has set teaching and learning firmly on the network's agenda.

The conference focussed around two key themes – Internationalisation and The First Year Experience – and with highly-regarded keynote speakers from around the world (Dr Diana Oblinger, CEO of EDUCAUSE; Dr Marcia Devlin, University of Melbourne; Professor Kerri-Lee Krause, Griffith University and Professor Ron Piper, St Andrews University) stimulated a great deal of discussion, debate and enthusiasm.

With over 70 participants, a great deal of common ground was found and projects are now being formulated by the conference’s academic leads, Professor Andrea Nolan of the University of Glasgow and Dr Philip Nolan of University College Dublin, to take ideas and collaborations forward within the Universitas 21 network and run alongside the research projects which already feature highly on the network’s strategic plan.

Keynote Speakers

Click to see a video clip from each of the keynote speakers at the conference, as they become available.

	Diana Oblinger Technology and the Global Commons		Kerri-Lee Krause Transitions and translations: making connections in the first year
	Marcia Devlin An international and interdisciplinary approach to curriculum: the Melbourne model		Ron Piper Challenge or support? Approaches to the first year and the Scottish experience

Conference presentations

Listed below are the speakers from the conference, in the order they spoke, with links to their presentations. 

	Dr Diana Oblinger EDUCAUSE	Technology and the Global Commons	download slides handout
	Dr Marcia Devlin University of Melbourne	An international and interdisciplinary approach to curriculum: the Melbourne model	download slides download paper
	Professor Christine Ennew & Dr Wyn Morgan University of Nottingham	Internationalisation at the University of Nottingham: the challenges and opportunities of a multinational university	download
	Associate Professor Malin Irhammar Lund University	Globalisation: joint programmes as a strategy for the future	download slides download paper
	Dr Gayle Pringle, Dr Moira Fischbacher & Ms Annelli Williams University of Glasgow	Assisting international students to manage their transition to UK academic culture	download slides download paper
	Ms Anneli Williams & Dr Esther Daborn University of Glasgow	Making time and space for role adjustment: supporting international students in transition	download slides download paper
	Ms Poay Hoon Lin University of Nottingham (Malaysia campus)	Student Evaluation of modules for improving teaching-learning effectiveness	download slides download paper
	Dr Eillis Hennessy, Ms Rosario Hernández, Dr Patricia Kieran & Mr Henry McLoughlin University College Dublin	Translating teaching and learning across disciplines in a modular system	download slides download paper
	Associate Professor Irina Mitrea University of Virginia	Student engagement in mathematics at the University of Virginia	download slides download paper
	Assistant Professor Kanishka Bedi U21Global	Utilising first term experience in a blended programme for improving student engagement: a case study	download slides
	Professor Keri-Lee Krause Griffith University	Transitions and translations: making connections in the first year	download slides
	Professor Ron Piper St Andrews University	Challenge or support? Approaches to the first year and the Scottish experience	download slides
	Associate Professor Carol Johnson University of Melbourne	The first year experience: perceptions of feedback	download slides download paper
	Dr Mary Gilmartin & Dr Niamh Moore University College Dublin	Making it different: a blended learning pilot project with first year geography undergraduates	download slides download paper
	Dr Amanda Gibney, Dr Niamh Moore, Mr Feargal Murphy & Dr Sara O'Sullivan University College Dublin	"Won't someone tell me all I need to know?"  First year expectations of university life	download slides download paper
	Dr Simon Bates University of Edinburgh	Three of the best: exemplars of enhancing student engagement in the first year	download slides download paper
	Professor Lorraine Stefani University of Auckland	Shaping up the research agenda on student engagement	download slides download paper
	Professor Dai Hounsell University of Edinburgh	What's distinctive about first year undergraduate courses as teaching-learning environments?  Some empirical findings	download slides download paper
	Mr Torgny Roxå & Ms Katarina Mårtensson Lund University	Quality culture in research intensive institutions - university teaching improved	download slides download paper
	Dr Bairbre Redmond University College Dublin	Teaching a academic housework: exploring the nature of perceived inequities between teaching and research	download slides download paper

In addition there was a poster session running concurrently with the conference.

There were also two group sessions which took place on Thursday afternoon.  Presentations from these can be found below.

Delegate list

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