East Midlands CETLs Day

Preparing for Evaluation & Learning Spaces workshops: 20th February 2007

The East Midlands CETL network day of evaluation workshops at Loughborough University

The following is a brief outline of the day.

10.00	Coffee and Welcome
10.30 - 12.30	Evaluation brainstorming workshop at SIGMA
12.30 - 1.30	Lunch
1.30 - 2.00	Walk to engCETL (alternate parking available)
2.00 - 4.30	Learning Spaces workshop at engCETL
4.30	Close

Two delegates from each East Midlands CETL are welcome to attend each event, which is of course free, and will include a lunch.

Please contact Kirsty Carter at engCETL to confirm the names of those wishing to attend the event, click here to send her an email.

Morning evaluation information

In the morning SIGMA-CETL will be hosting a brainstorming session on how CETLs might approach the upcoming HEFCE evaluation, with an opportunity to share approaches to evaluation, and learn from each other. Coffee will be at 10am, with a start scheduled for 10.30am.

Who should attend?

People responsible for evaluation
People carrying out evluation

Bring along:

Evaluation plans and strategies, progress reports (if you have them)

In advance:

Make sure that you've read the HEFCE evaluation document available here.

How to find us:

SIGMA is located in the Schofield Building, which is buildig 59 on the campus map (click here).
There's usually plenty of parking in Car Park 5. If you need to park near the building let Sarah Carpenter know and she'll try to arrange it.

For more information do conact Sarah Carpenter by email here.

Afternoon learning spaces information

In the afternoon engCETL will be hosting a Learning Spaces evaluation event, to be facilitated by Ivan Moore (CEEBL, University of Manchester). engCETL is starting to undertake an evaluation of its new learning space, which was equipped with funding from the CETL Capital Budget, and are keen to share knowledge and practice with others in the East Midlands region. The workshop is intended to encourage participants to consider how they might evaluate their own learning space (and the use of capital expenditure for HEFCE evaluation), identifying the questions that may be common between CETLs, and factors such as the needs analysis for the space, the design process, current and potential future usage, how the space supports traditional pedagogy and how it opens up new approaches to teaching and learning.

Who should attend?

Those involved in designing the learning spaces
Those involved in the decision making process about what the spaces were required to 'do'.

Bring along:

Any documentation detailing the 'story' of the learning spaces, e.g. questionnaire results, paper designs, learning space information from stage 1 and 2 bids etc. (Don't worry if you haven't got anything.)

Things to think about in advance:

Important questions you would like to ask about approaching evaluating your learning spaces
Overarching learning space evaluation questions that are relevant to all CETLs, that we should all be thinking about.

How to find us:

engCETL is located in the upper floor of the Keith Green Building, building 10 on the West Park of campus. Details of the location are avalaible here on our website or through the University's campus map.
Parking is available in Car Park 1, which is shown on the left hand side of the map. The gatehouse security guards at the West entrance will be happy to give you directions.

For more information do contact Sarah Bamforth by email here.