LTC7 2010 also provides teaching and support staff at the University of Leeds with an excellent opportunity to find out more about innovative and exciting ways for teachers and students to learn, and at the same time offers a unique chance to network with colleagues from all around the University.
Keynote speakers
We are delighted to announce two excellent keynote speakers for LTC7:Ray Land is Professor of Higher Education and Head of the Centre for Academic Practice and Learning Enhancement (CAPLE) at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow UK. His research interests include academic development, threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge, research-teaching linkages, and theoretical aspects of digital learning. He is the author of Educational Development: Discourse, Identity and Practice (Open University Press 2004) and co-editor of Education in Cyberspace (RoutledgeFalmer 2005), Overcoming Barriers to Student Learning: Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge (Routledge 2006), Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines (Sense Publishers 2008) and Research-Teaching Linkages: Enhancing Graduate Attributes (QAA 2008). A new volume, Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning will be published in early 2010 (Sense Publishers, Rotterdam)
Visit http://personal.strath.ac.uk/ray.land/home.htm for more information.
Liz Beaty, Director of Strategic Academic Practice and Partnership at the University of Cumbria. Liz spent five years at HEFCE where she was Director for Learning and Teaching. With an excellent reputation as a speaker, Liz currently holds strategic responsibility for teaching and learning, participation and progression, and partnerships with other UK HEIs and FE colleges and has overall strategic responsibility for the University's FE Provision.
For more information about Liz, please visit www.cumbria.ac.uk/AboutUs/TheUniversity/University%20Management%20Team/Liz%20Beaty.aspx
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