Alternative perspectives: Assessment, learning and teaching conference

2 day event - 07 September 2010 until 08 September 2010

Colleagues are warmly invited to attend the Leeds Met annual assessment, learning and teaching conference. The themes for the conference will be: Tuesday 7th Day One:? Finding Creative Solutions to Difficult Dilemmas? Highlights: * Keynote - Professor Margaret Price of Oxford Brookes University, ?Feedback: all that effort but what is the effect?? * Inaugural Lecture - Professor Ruth Pickford, Leeds Metropolitan University, ?Back to basics: an academic perspective on making higher education work:? * Conference Dinner Wednesday 8th Day Two: ?Challenging Accepted Wisdom: Seeking Alternative Solutions? Highlights: * Keynote - Professor Royce Sadler of Griffith Institute of Higher Education, Australia, ?The front end of formative assessment: task, design and specification? The programme of each day will include selected workshops and presentations and will start at 9.30am each day. Workshops The workshops will cover the following areas: * Creative technology-enhanced solutions * Inclusive learning opportunities * Assessment to solve problems * Post Graduate level teaching and assessment * Creative approaches to complex learning issues * First year learning experience If you would like to submit a workshop proposal please email Georgi Sinclair, G.Sinclair@leedsmet.ac.uk

| Headingley Carnegie Stadium, Leeds

Papers call closes: 28 May 2010