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Digital Skills Festival Monday 30th May to 3rd June

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The Digital Skills Festival is run annually and with over 60 events scheduled covers a broad range of topics across all core areas of activity in the University.
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Please circulate the information about the festival to colleagues and staff.
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The Digital Skills and Training team in Information Services are pleased to announce that the Digital Skills Festival is returning for its second year. The Festival is running between Monday 30th May and Friday 3rd June 2022, and it is free to attend to all University of Edinburgh students and staff.
Last year’s Festival was a great success with 54 events running throughout the week, attracting over 1000 attendees. The Festival won the Staff Development Forum Developing Excellent Practice Award for its collaborative approach, relevance and inclusivity.
This year, the Digital Skills Festival is larger and running in a hybrid format. Over 60 events are taking place throughout the week, some online and some in-person in our training rooms in Argyle House and the Main Library. Presenters from within and outside of the University will cover topics ranging from social media engagement to learning technology. The programme is sure to include something for everyone.
Take a look at the Digital Skills Festival website to browse the programme and book your place.

Informatics Teaching Festival 2022: Design of Teaching and Learning

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The Informatics Teaching Festival is back for a third consecutive year and will run Monday May 9th to Wednesday May 11th 2022.

The 2022 Informatics Teaching Festival will focus on the design of teaching and learning and consist of the following sub-themes:  

  • overview of course design (Day 1, May 9th 2022)  
  • design to develop student skills, including for the industry (Day 2, May 10th 2022)
  • design of assessment (Day 3, May 11th 2022).  

Each day will include both presentations on school and university processes, tools and support, as well as the sharing of experience and good practice around different approaches to the design of teaching and learning, and internal (Informatics or university-based) as well as invited external speakers.

If you’d like to attend any of the following sessions, and are not a member of the School of Informatics, please register your interest here, and a Collaborate link will be emailed to you in advance of the session(s).

Schedule* –

Day 1: Overview of Course Design. Monday, May 9th 2022

Topic (and links to recordings after event) Date/Time Speaker, with linked Resources
Opening / Welcome Session 9-9.10am Björn Franke
Morning Session –
Designing a new course:		 Morning Session: 9.10-12.30pm
Process and experience of designing new courses:
Designing a new Informatics Course – Sharon Goldwater;
Design Decisions and Dilemnas in a new data science course – David Sterratt;
Designing INF2-IADS – John Longley		 9.10-10.40am Sharon Goldwater
David Sterratt
John Longley
Coffee break 10.40-11am Meet in Gathertown
Support for course design (ELDeRs) 11-11.30am Fiona Hale
Cristina Alexandru
Sharing positive experiences on improved courses 11.30am-12.15pm Heather Yorston on DMP
Pavlos Andreadis
Discussion 12.15-12.30pm
Lunch break 12.30pm-2pm
Afternoon Session –
Improving an existing course:		 Afternoon Session: 2-5pm
Course proposal / improvement
(involving Board of Studies approval)		 2-3.20pm Aurora Constantin
Felipe Costa Sperb
Heather Yorston RS for CAM
Coffee break 3.20-3.40pm Meet in Gathertown
Course improvement
(not involving Board of Studies approval)		 3.40-4.30pm Cristina Alexandru on SEPP
Pavlos Andreadis
Discussion 4.30-5pm
Day end 5pm

Day 2: Design to develop student skills. Tuesday, May 10th 2022

 

Topic (and links to recordings after event) Date/Time Speaker / Resources
Morning Session –
Developing core Informatics skills:		 Morning Session: 9-12.30pm
Cristina Alexandru, Heather Yorston, and Brian Mitchell:
Teaching students with varied profiles in UG1

Judy Robertston:
Teaching First year students with varied backgrounds

9-10am Cristina Alexandru on Varied Profiles UG1
Heather Yorston on FAC and MC
Brian Mitchell – Prize and Prejudice
Judy Robertson – prerecorded video
Teaching programming 10-11am Pawel Orzechowski
Charlotte Desvages – Day 2
Judy Robertson – prerecorded video
Michael Glienecke
Discussion 11-11.15am
Coffee break 11.15-11.30am Meet in Gathertown
Teaching Modelling:
Reflection on including the industry perspective in our teaching		 11.30am-12.30pm Pavlos Andreadis
Sanjay Rakshit
Lunch break 12.30pm-2pm
Afternoon Session –
Developing transferrable skills:
 Afternoon Session: 2-5pm
Guest Presentation:
Back to the future: shaping software engineering education with lessons from the past (abstract)		 2-2.45pm Joseph McGuire
Coffee break 2.45-3pm Meet in Gathertown
Developing research skills 3-4pm Felipe Costa Sperb
Stefano Albrecht – pre-recorded video
Skills for the industry:
Rebecca Clacy-Jones on “Employment for Informatics Students” and Pavlos Andreadis on “View of Informatics Students”		 4-4.35pm Rebecca Clacy-Jones
Pavlos Andreadis
Skills for the industry:
Large companies and what they require		 4.35-4.55pm Michael Glienecke
Day end 5pm

Day 3: Assessment. Wednesday, May 11th 2022

Topic (and links to recordings after event) Date/Time Speaker / Resources
Morning Session –
Philosophy of Assessment		 Morning Session: 9-12.30pm
Assessment in Informatics 9-9.45am Björn Franke
Guest Speaker:
Vertically integrated assessment in Physics (abstract)		 9.45-10.30am Ross Galloway,
School of Physics and Astronomy
Coffee break 10.30-110am Meet in Gathertown
Asssessment Approaches:
“Let’s talk about Groupwork”: David Sterratt
“A brief introduction to WebPA”: Meredith Corey
“Why and how to assess and give feedback on code
(using standard tools)”: Charlotte Desvages		 11am-12.15pm David Sterratt
Meredith Corey
Charlotte Desvages – Day 3
Update on Asssessment Plans (from ILTS and ITO) 12.15-12.30pm Toni Noble
Meredith Corey
David Sterratt
Lunch break 12.30pm-2pm
Afternoon Session –
Marking Approaches
 Afternoon Session: 2-4pm
Rubrics Cube:
Puzzles in designing rubric-based marking schemes		 Aurora Constantin
How do we set challenging assignments without encouraging
students to throw arbitrary amounts of time at them?		 Iain Murray
Marking to the Common Marking Scheme
with Criteria & Decision Rules		 Paul Anderson
Closing Ceremony 3.30-4pm Jane Hillston
Day end 5pm
* The schedule is still subject to change. As best we can we will not make big adjustments to speakers and timings.

 

Informatics Teaching Festival 2021: Sharing experience and planning for online and hybrid teaching

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The Informatics Teaching Festival is back for a second consecutive year. 

 Join us for the opportunity to:

  • hear interesting presentations around lessons learned in the past year and good practice in online/hybrid teaching from colleagues and inspiring speakers from other schools
  • listen to the feedback provided by student representatives regarding their experience with studying in an online/hybrid context
  • listen to the feedback provided by teaching support and administrative staff as to their experience with teaching and administration this past year
  • learn about new approaches to teaching and educational software
  • share your own experience with teaching delivery, student support and course administration during workshops and informal GatherTown meetings
  • reflect and come up with ideas together for improving our delivery of online and hybrid teaching, both as a school and in our different courses.

If you’d like to attend any of the following sessions, and are not a member of the School of Informatics, please register your interest here, and a Collaborate link will be emailed to you in advance of the session(s).

 

Schedule
Topic and links to recordings Date/Time Resources
Opening/Welcome Monday 7 June, 10-10.30am Björn Franke
Keynote: Experience with online/hybrid teaching in 2 other schools Monday 7 June, 10.30-11.30am Charlotte Desvages

Brian Rabern
Coffee break & GatherTown meet and greet Monday 7 June, 11.30am-12pm n/a
Student experience with online/hybrid teaching in 2020-21; Suggestions for the future Monday 7 June, 12-1pm n/a
Personal Tutoring and Student Support: Sharing best practice and providing views on upcoming changes Monday 7 June, 2-3pm n/a
Lectures in an online/hybrid context Tuesday 8 June, 10-11.15am Iain Murray

Mary Cryan

Fiona McNeill
Coffee break & GatherTown meet and greet Tuesday 8 June, 11.15-11.45am n/a
Teaching support staff experience with online/hybrid teaching in 2020-21; Suggestions for the future Tuesday 8 June, 11.45am-12.45pm n/a
Practical sessions (tutorials, labs, workshops, etc.) in an online/hybrid context Wednesday 9 June, 10-11.15am Fiona McNeill

Pawel Orzechowski

Tim Drysdale

Sharon Goldwater
Coffee break & GatherTown meet and greet Wednesday 9 June, 11.15-11.45am n/a
Case study: practical sessions in IRR and IPP Wednesday 9 June, 11.45am-12.45pm IRR/IPP
Case study: Teaching Ethics in Computing Wednesday 9 June, 3-4pm David Sterratt

email James for Shannon’s paper
Assignments in an online/hybrid context Thursday 10 June, 10-11.15am Padlet
Coffee break & GatherTown meet and greet Thursday 10 June, 11.15-11.45am n/a
Exams in an online/hybrid teaching context Thursday 10 June, 11.45am-12.45pm Padlet
Learn Foundations: UX (Emma Horrell) Thursday 10 June, 2-3pm Emma Horrell
Equality and Inclusion (Decolonizing the curriculum and Congressive Teaching methods)
 Friday 11 June, 10-11.15am Decolonizing the curriculum
Coffee break & GatherTown meet and greet Friday 11 June, 11.15-11.45am n/a
Final reflection, Informatics Awards Ceremony Friday 11 June, 12-1pm will be uploaded after the session

Informatics Teaching Festival 2020

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The Informatics Teaching Festival is a series of events aimed at addressing some of the issues raised by moving much of our learning and teaching online in September 2020.

The sessions will run in Collaborate and the link is the same – no matter which event(s) you wish to attend. An email will be sent to all Informatics staff nearer the time with the Guest link.

Sessions will be recorded and links to the recordings will be posted here.

Schedule

 

 

Topic and links to recordings Speaker Moderator Date/Time Slides
Opening/Welcome Stuart Anderson Judy Robertson Monday 1 June. 10am. Slides
Perspectives on online teaching from the Open University Derek Jones Judy Robertson Tuesday 2 June. 10am. Slides
Learning Design – The ABC toolkit Fiona Hale Paul Patras Tuesday 2 June. 4pm. Slides
Teaching for inclusion – what can we all do to support women students? Judy Robertson and Fiona McNeill Judy Robertson Wednesday 3 June. 10am. Slides
Tools showcase – colleagues demonstrate their favourite teaching tools

Part II

 Aurora Constantin Alex Burford Wednesday 3 June. 4pm.
 “Teaching Hour: How do I encourage community / peer interaction online?” Judy Robertson and Michael Gallagher Judy Robertson Thursday 4 June. 11am. Graphic
Ethics and social responsibility in Informatics teaching Shannon Valor, James Garforth Stuart Anderson Friday 5 June. 10am. Slides
Creating Accessible Materials

 

Top Five Tips

 Elizabeth McCann on visual impairments.

Audrey Cameron on hearing impairments.

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Setting up library resources online Academic Librarian Pre-recorded Pre-recorded