Unpacking the Education Framework
The workshops listed below will be repeated throughout the year, both in person and online. For most, colleagues only need to attend one iteration, Embedding Graduate Attributes will focus on a different aspect in each workshop.
Audience: all staff teaching or supporting Lancaster University validated provision
Aims:
- Exploration of the key themes in the Lancaster University Education Framework
- Consideration of how practice in your context currently aligns
- Plan how to enhance your practice in line with the theme explored
These workshops will unpack various key themes emerging from the framework, based on the framework points and the related guidance.
The education framework can be found on a new set of webpages and is accompanied by definitions, design and implementation guides, and recommended reading.
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This workshop will support you to understand Programme-focus issues such as FHEQ levels, connected curriculum and creating a Programme Team culture and apply them to your own context. This is a key underpinning principle of the Education Framework. You will have the opportunity to share practice, discuss challenges and offer solution in a collegiate and supportive way with colleagues from across the University.
November Workshops
In-person: Wednesday 13th November 2024, 2 - 4 pm
Facilitated by Amanda Chapman
Online: Thursday 14th November 2024, 10 am - 12 pm
Facilitated by Amanda Chapman and Andy Folkard
February Workshops
In-person: Wednesday 19th February 2025, 2 - 4 pm - Click here to register
Facilitated by Clare Stone and Amy Pearson
Online: 25th February 2025, 10 am - 12 pm - Click here to register
Facilitated by Clare Stone and Amy Pearson
May Workshops
In-person: Wednesday 7th May 2025, 2 - 4 pm - Click here to register
Facilitated by Clare Stone and Amy Pearson
Online: Friday 9th May 2025, 10 am - 12 pm - Click here to register
Facilitated by Clare Stone and Amy Pearson
This workshop will support you in understanding the meaning of ‘Inclusive by default’ and how you can apply this in practice to your own context. We will look at various aspects of inclusion focusing on teaching, learning and assessment design. You will have the opportunity to share practice, discuss challenges and offer solutions in a collegiate and supportive way with colleagues from across the University.
November Workshops
In-person: Wednesday 20th November 2024, 2 - 4 pm - Click here to register
Facilitated by Caroline Briggs and Amanda Chapman
Online: Thursday 21st November 2024, 10 am - 12 pm - Click here to register
Facilitated by Caroline Briggs and Amanda Chapman
February Workshops
In-person: Wednesday 26th February 2025, 2 - 4 pm - Click here to register
Facilitated by Caroline Briggs and Amanda Chapman
Online: Thursday 27th February 2025, 10 am - 12 pm - Click here to register
Facilitated by Caroline Briggs and Amanda Chapman
May Workshops
In-person: Monday 19th May 2025, 2 - 4 pm - Click here to register
Facilitated by Caroline Briggs and Amanda Chapman
Online: Tuesday 20th May 2025, 10 am - 12 pm - Click here to register
Facilitated by Caroline Briggs and Amanda Chapman
December Workshops
The first Embedding Graduate Attribute Workshop will focus on Professional Excellence, outlined below.
Lancaster Graduates are fully prepared for graduate employment opportunities, professional in outlook and approach.
- Confident and reflective about their own professional goals and values.
- Equipped with the knowledge, experience, attitude and skills for graduate-level opportunities, including those of teamwork, leadership and communication.
- Able to articulate positively the relevance of their Lancaster experience to future employers.
This workshop will support you to identify, and communicate to learners, where teaching and assessment currently develops professional excellence. The workshop will provide inspiration and sharing best practice in planning and embedding employability, entrepreneurship and work-related learning into subject teaching and assessment, as well as in professional skills modules.
In-person: Wednesday 11th December 2024, 2 - 4 pm - Click here to register
Facilitated by Sarah Fox and team
Online: Thursday 12th December 2024, 10 am – 12 pm - Click here to register
Facilitated by Sarah Fox and team
March Workshops
The second Embedding Graduate Attribute Workshop will focus on Global Citizenship with specific reference to developing:
- positivity about opportunities to operate in a range of different cultural contexts.
This workshop will support you to identify, and communicate to learners, where teaching and assessment currently develops learners’ abilities to operate in a range of different cultural contexts. The workshop will provide inspiration and sharing best practice in planning and embedding internationalisation into subject teaching and assessment, as well as in professional skills modules.
In-person: Monday 3rd March 2025, 2 - 4 pm - Click here to register
Facilitated by Sarah Fox and team
Online: Thursday 6th March 2025, 10 am – 12 pm - Click here to register
Facilitated by Sarah Fox and team
June Workshops
The third Embedding Graduate Attribute Workshop will focus on Sustainability with specific reference to:
- consciousness of the importance of economic, social and environmental sustainability and the impact of own actions on others in the global and local community.
This workshop will support you to identify, and communicate to learners, where teaching and assessment currently develops learners’ consciousness of the importance of economic, social and environmental sustainability and the impact of own actions on others in the global and local community. The workshop will provide inspiration and sharing best practice in planning and embedding sustainability into subject teaching and assessment, as well as in professional skills modules.
In-person: Monday 9th June 2025, 2 - 4 pm - Click here to register
Facilitated by Sarah Fox and team
Online: Thursday 12th June 2025, 10 am – 12 pm - Click here to register
Facilitated by Sarah Fox and team
This workshop will support you in understanding the purpose of assessment, and how to create assessments that are meaningful and authentic to the learning. You will have the opportunity to share practice, discuss challenges and offer solutions in a collegiate and supportive way with colleagues from across the University.
December Workshops
In-person: Monday 9th December 2024, 2 - 4 pm - Click here to register
Facilitated by Ruth Mewis and Radka Newton
Online: Friday 13th December 2024, 10 am - 12 pm - Click here to register
Facilitated by Sadie Whittam and Ruth Mewis
March Workshops
In-person: Wednesday 12th March 2025, 2 - 4 pm - Click here to register
Facilitated by Radka Newton and Amanda Chapman
Online: Thursday 13th March 2025, 10 am - 12 pm - Click here to register
Facilitated by Sadie Whittam and Ruth Mewis
June Workshops
In-person: Monday 23rd June 2025, 2 - 4 pm - Click here to register
Facilitated by Clare Stone and Amanda Chapman
Online: Wednesday 18th June 2025, 10 am - 12 pm - Click here to register
Facilitated by Sadie Whittam
This workshop will support you to engage your students through digital learning. We will focus on the options available to you ahead of rethinking your programme design to transform your practice and provide consistency in the student experience. You will have the opportunity to share practice, discuss challenges and consider solutions in a collegiate and supportive way with experts in digital learning from across the University.
January Workshops
In-person: Wednesday 8th January 2025, 2 - 4 pm - Click here to register
Facilitated by the Digital Learning Team and Radka Newton
Online: Tuesday 7th January 2025, 10 am - 12 pm - Click here to register
Facilitated by Digital Learning Team
March Workshops
In person: Monday 24th March 2025, 2 - 4 pm - Click here to register
Facilitated by Digital Learning Team
Online: Wednesday 26th March 2025, 10 am - 12 pm - Click here to register
Facilitated by Digital Learning Team
July Workshops
In person: Monday 7th July 2025, 2 - 4 pm - Click here to register
Facilitated by Digital Learning Team
Online: Wednesday 9th July 2025, 10 am - 12 pm - Click here to register
Facilitated by Digital Learning Team
Further Curriculum and Education Development (CED) Workshops
The following are standalone Curriculum and Education Development workshops for 2024/25.
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The Introduction to Teaching for Lancaster (ITL) workshop can either be taken as a stand-alone workshop or as the first mandatory workshop for the Associate Teacher Programme (ATP). This induction course is designed to help postgraduates, researchers and others involved in modest amounts of demonstrating or seminar teaching to address some of the basic skills and understanding they will need for their work. It assumes that participants have little or no previous teaching experience and that you will be engaged in some teaching in the academic year 2024/25.
Please read our information on access statement and cancellation chargesfor these workshops.
The Professional Development Course for External Examiners is for teaching staff and External Examiners on Lancaster University programmes who are interested in developing their practice as an external examiner.
The course has been developed as part of the national Degree Standards project, which is led by Advance HE and managed by the Office for Students on behalf of England and the devolved administrations in Northern Ireland and Wales.
You will take part in a short course, involving individual online preparatory work (typically about 3 hours) and participation in a full day workshop. The online preparatory work is made available in advance and needs to be completed during the two weeks prior to the workshop(s). The design of the course reflects an active learning approach, with an emphasis on valuing participants' experiences and prior knowledge. As such, it is equally relevant for aspiring, new or experienced examiners. Course participants will:
- gain an understanding of the role of the external examiner as articulated in the UK Quality Code for Higher Education
- consolidate their understanding of the nature of academic standards and professional judgement, and explore the implications for external examining
- develop their ability in using evidence-informed approaches to contribute to impartial, transparent judgements on academic standards and enhancing student learning.
Full completion of the course leads to a formal Certificate of Completion (awarded by Advance HE), and provides evidence of an ongoing commitment to professional development against the Professional Standards Framework for Teaching and Supporting Learning in Higher Education (PSF 2023).
Learning outcomes
- Explain and discuss the nature and purpose of the external examiner role, its function for quality assessment in higher education, including the importance within it of their contribution to safeguarding academic standards
- Explain the nature of standards in the higher education context
- Draw on practical and scholarly knowledge of assessment as appropriate to the role, including: professional judgement; assessment reliability; assessment validity; purposes of assessment; principles of assessment; programme coherence in assessment.
- Recognise the varied provenance and uniqueness of individuals’ standards and the challenge this brings to examiners representing the standards of their subject, discipline and/or professional community.
- Explain the importance and use of key reference points for academic standards in the relevant subject, discipline and/or professional area.
- Explain the purpose and value of ongoing calibration activities in supporting the use of common ‘discipline community’ standards.
- Recognise the importance of their continuing professional development in assessment and external examining.
The Professional Standards Framework
The Professional Standards Framework (PSF) is a comprehensive set of professional standards and guidelines for everyone involved in teaching and supporting learning in higher education. Participants for this course are likely to be involved in external examining or maybe leading external examining policies across a faculty, programme or team. If you are considering preparing an application for the Advance HE fellowship, you should look at how your external examining experience relates to the dimensions of the PSF. There are follow-up activities in the Participant Handbook for the course, as well as guidance on aligning your external examining experience to the PSF 2023.
The course will be offered on Monday 7th and Tuesday 8th April 2025, details will be made available nearer the time, however, until then please register your interest by emailing the CEDA team.
Please read our information on access statement and cancellation chargesfor these workshops.
The associated Moodle site with resources, is aimed principally at academic staff who have not had previous experience of teaching in UK Higher Education before coming to Lancaster University. So, for example, this could apply to new international staff or those coming from a non-HE background such as industry or another profession. The objective is to help you understand the expectations regarding teaching and learning in the UK (especially useful for international colleagues) and in particular here at Lancaster.
The workshop will cover such topics as:
- Expectations of teachers/teaching, students/learning, and of institutions;
- Different cultures of teaching and learning;
- Lancaster’s approach to teaching and learning;
- A quiz about how much you know about Lancaster University;
- Lancaster’s strategic international partners;
- The academic year;
- Programme and module credit system;
- Assessment, the grading system, and assessment moderation;
- Other sources of support, and the Moodle site associated with this session.
This informal online briefing session an opportunity to learn more about the requirements and expectations for Principal Fellowship, and the steps you might take to plan for working towards PF in the future. It is suitable for experienced colleagues who are considering seeking professional recognition for their strategic educational leadership against Descriptor 4 of the PSF2023.
The workshop is repeated on the following dates, please book one date only:
Please read the information on access statement and cancellation charges which applies to all our workshops.
Calendar of CED Workshops
Curriculum and Education Development Academy - Events - Lancaster University (libcal.com)