Supporting Student Success workshop
This annual workshop offers professional development for colleagues in the field of distance and online learning with a focus on a particular theme each year.
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This is the first time I have attended this conference and it was one of the best student success conferences I have been to.Supporting Student Success workshop attendee![Groups working together]()
Better than some paid for events.
Thought provoking and a high standard of intellectual rigour, the resources provided were very useful too.
Events
The fifth Centre for Online and Distance Education workshop 'Supporting Student Success' will take place on Thursday 12 January 2023, 9.30-14.00 in Chancellor's Hall, Senate House, University of London.
This annual event offers professional development for colleagues in the field of distance and online learning. With a focus on supporting practice and understanding in the field, the interactive sessions will draw on Centre for Online and Distance Education project outcomes and work in progress, with presentations on a range of topics in the field of student distance and technology enhanced learning.
This year's theme focuses on ‘Inclusive Design’.
Programme
09.00 Registration and refreshments
09.30 Workshop: Inclusive by Design - opportunities and challenges of designing (more) equitable learning experiences, led by Virna Rossi,(Opens in new window) Ravensbourne University London
12.00 World Café Event: Innovation and Development in Online and Distance Education
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Close
The fourth Supporting Student Success event took place online on the morning of Friday 28 January 2022, 10.00-13.15 GMT. The event offers professional development for colleagues in the field of distance and online learning. With a focus on supporting practice and understanding in the field, the interactive sessions drew on Centre for Distance Education project outcomes and work in progress, with presentations on a range of topics in the field of student distance and technology enhanced learning.
Presentations
- Keeping the dream alive: The case for Critical Digital Pedagogy, Samantha Ahern, UCL
- Move to online assessment 2021: the student experience, CDE Student fellows
- Test Drive: how automated questions can upgrade your module, Leonard Houx, Bayes Business School
- Designing plagiarism out of assessment, Stylianos Hatzipanagos and Alan Tait, CDE
- An interactive study guide on postgraduate dissertation research and writing, Matt Philpott, Clare Sansom and Tiffany Tupper, CDE.
- Exploring the student experience of asynchronous individual and collaborative online learning in International Politics undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, Jane Secker and Thomas Hanley, City, University of London
- Career Stage Framework: Supporting students where they are in their employability journey, Liz Wilkinson and Laura Brammar, University of London Careers Service
- From students to professionals: the opportunities and challenges of delivering ODeL in medicine and healthcare education, Luke Woodham, St George’s, University of London
Download the event programme with zoom links [PDF]
Download the presentation summaries [Word Doc]
Watch the Webinar recordings:
- Supporting Student Success 2022: Welcome and introduction(Opens in new window)
- Career Stage Framework: Supporting students where they are in their employability journey(Opens in new window)
- From students to professionals: the opportunities and challenges of delivering ODeL in medicine and healthcare education(Opens in new window)
- Designing plagiarism out of assessment(Opens in new window)
- Test Drive: how automated questions can upgrade your module(Opens in new window)
- Keeping the dream alive: The case for Critical Digital Pedagogy(Opens in new window)
- An interactive study guide on postgraduate dissertation research and writing(Opens in new window)
- Exploring the student experience of asynchronous individual and collaborative online learning in International Politics undergraduate and postgraduate programmes (Opens in new window)
- Move to online assessment 2021: the distance learner experience (Opens in new window)
- Supporting Student Success 2022: Closing Plenary(Opens in new window)
Read the event blogs:
Session 1. Supporting Student Success: From Students to Professionals(Opens in new window)
Session 2. Supporting Student Success: Designing Assessment(Opens in new window)
Session 3. Supporting Student Success: Responding to Learners’ Needs(Opens in new window)
Session 4. Supporting Student Success: The Student Experience
The Autumn 2020 Supporting Student Success event was held on Wednesday 21 October, 10.00 – 13.15(Opens in new window). It took the form of an online workshop with presentations on a range of topics in the field of student experience of and innovations in Digital Assessment Practice.
Download the programme [PDF]
Watch the Webinar recordings:
- Supporting Student Success: Session A: Transitioning to Online Assessment 1(Opens in new window)
- Supporting Student Success: Session B: Designing Assessment 1(Opens in new window)
- Supporting Student Success: Session C: Transitioning to Online Assessment 2(Opens in new window)
- Supporting Student Success: Session D: Designing Assessment 2(Opens in new window)
Tell us (Opens in new window)what you thought of this event.
The autumn 2019 Supporting Student Success workshop covered:
- Innovations in programme design
- Teacher educator development
- Preparing digital educators for the future
- Improving student progression in distance learning
- Pedagogical effectiveness of simulations and games
- Using chatbots to support assessment outcomes
The full programme(Opens in new window) [PDF] is available on the Centre for Online and Distance Education website.
The first Supporting Student Success workshop was held on Thursday 11 October 2018 at Senate House, University of London.