Upcoming EdLab Events
Upcoming EdLab Events
Below is a list of upcoming EdLab events. Scroll down the page and click on the event for more information and the link to register.
- Helping students to think creatively – 17th June 2024
- Thinking:STEM – 26th June and 4th September 2024
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Retreat – 10-11 July 2024
- Getting better thinking and communication in student group work – Developing Thinking Environments in HE – 16th July 2024
Helping students to think creatively
Are you curious to learn more about ways to enhance students’ creative thinking in your teaching or in developing researchers?
In this interactive workshop, members of the Creative Pedagogies Research Group at Durham University will showcase a variety of approaches to promote students’ creative thinking in different contexts. This session is relevant to colleagues who teach at undergraduate or postgraduate level or are involved in developing researchers.
17th June 2024
12 – 1.30pm
Interactive online workshop
Open to all
Thinking:STEM
A series of two interactive workshops developing participants’ knowledge and confidence around using active learning techniques for teaching mathematical content in STEM subjects in HE. Day two of the workshop provides participants with the opportunity to experiment in a supportive, risk-free environment using active learning techniques to deliver a trial teaching session they have designed themselves.
Session 1: Wednesday 26th June 2024, In person in Durham, 10am to 3.30pm
Session 2: Wednesday 4th September 2024, In person in Durham, 10am to 3.30pm
Attendees are requested to attend both sessions as they are a linked programme.
Open to all
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning retreat
Do you struggle to find time to focus on your Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)?
Would you like some dedicated headspace to be able to think in depth about innovating your teaching practice and to have support to get your ideas moving?
Would you like to spend time with like-minded others who are keen to be innovative in their teaching in Higher Education?
If you answered “yes” to any of the questions above, then the SoTL retreat is for you.
10-11 July 2024
Please note this event is only open to Durham University staff.
Getting better thinking and communication in student group work – Developing Thinking Environments in HE
This workshop will introduce participants to the Thinking Environment and how this can be used to support students to think more deeply, especially within group work.
We will model and practice using the Thinking Environment approach within the workshop so that participants can experience using the approach themselves. There will also be time for participants to consider practicalities for how to embed the approach within their teaching and how to empower their students to utilise the Thinking Environment approach within group work.
16 July 2024
1pm – 3.30pm
In person in Durham
Open to all