New EE Guidance webpages: 

The ‘Assessment Modes’ section of the EE Support and Guidance webpages now features pages on: 

Oral Assessment: guidance and advice on best practice when designing and implementing inclusive oral assessments. 

Reflection: guidance on how to embed reflection in your teaching and assessment. 

Recent Learning Matters posts:

Two new blogs summarising the outcomes of an Education Innovation Fund co-creation project led by Sarah Watson exploring  

Making group work inclusive  

Clarifying assessment expectations for inclusivity 

and Charlie Crouch reflects on July’s Education Festival  

Sussex Scholarship Series Autumn 2024: 

We would like to share with you the University of Sussex’s programme for the Sussex Scholarship Series Autumn 2024 

In the field of scholarship, no singular research method is universally preferred. There are many methods we can use to gather and analyse data. This autumn, the Scholarship Series at Sussex provides workshops that cover a number of research methods that can be undertaken for scholarship. We hope to see you there! Sessions are open to academics across the HE sector with an interest in educational scholarship. 

Spotlight on AI in education: 

Review the new and improved AI in education update, now to be published monthly(ish) on the Educational Enhancement blog.  

Join the 3rd Teaching with AI Community of Practice event will be held in the Open Learning Space in the Library on Monday 9th December, 1pm-3pm.   There will be teas and coffee available (bring a cup if you have one) and you are welcome to bring your lunch.  If you have not yet signed up or accepted a meeting invitation, please complete the form to register your interest.  

We want to hear about your inclusive educational practice: 

Educational Enhancement would like to collate good practices around inclusive education. The aim of this is to showcase some of the excellent inclusivity work happening at Sussex and align it with the University’s recently articulated principle that curricula at Sussex will be inclusive and student-centred. We welcome examples from any area of inclusive educational practice. For example: 

1. Providing a learning experience that reflects a diversity of knowledge, ideas, and backgrounds, helping students to connect with, and see themselves reflected in, their field of study. 

2. Ensuring material that supports learning and assessment is offered in accessible formats. 

3. Providing (where practicable) supported flexibility and optionality in assessment modes and formats to enable students to take ownership of their learning. 

4. Facilitating a smooth and supportive journey for students as they transition into, progress through, and graduate from university. 

5. Providing clear and accessible feedback mechanisms on curricula, fostering a culture of critical reflection for staff and students regarding the ways in which we teach and learn. 

6. Aligning our inclusive and student-centred curricula with the University’s Access and Participation Plan (APP). 

7. Ensuring students are supported to engage with curriculum development and evaluation, e.g., via our Connector Programme. 

Do you have ideas, research, or resources to share with colleagues at Sussex? If so, get in touch with sarah.watson@sussex.ac.uk  

SFHEA event and further information: 

For staff who are interested in completing their SFHEA join the next Senior Fellowship writing day will be Friday 8 November 9:30 until 15:00:  
Senior Fellowship writing day (online).   

The SFHEA Canvas provides resources and information to support your application. site: https://canvas.sussex.ac.uk/courses/15023.   

Perceptions of scholarship within the Education & Scholarship track:

Thank you to everyone who has already completed the questionnaire that aims to investigate perceptions of scholarship within the Education & Scholarship track role at the University of Sussex (Ethical Review no.: ER/ZP64/3). 

We have received 165 responses so far. However, to ensure we gather as much input as possible for this important development, we’d like to extend the response period by one more week. 

If you haven’t had a chance yet, please take a few moments to share your insights by following the link: questionnaire. 

The data collected will be used to formulate academic papers and reports, which will include recommendations on this subject. We estimate that completing the questionnaire will take approximately 10 to 12 minutes of your time. 

Please see our Participant Information Sheet. Your consent is granted upon submission of the questionnaire, and you can withdraw from the study at any point by not clicking submit. 

The survey is open until 7 November 2024. Participants must be on Education & Research, Education & Scholarship and Research track to complete this questionnaire. 

Upcoming Conferences (outside Sussex):

Interdisciplinary learning and teaching UK conference is taking place at LSE on 10^th April 2025. See the call for papers for details.  

International Assessment in Higher Education (AHE) Conference 2025 (Thursday 19 & Friday 20 June, Manchester) call for papers.   

Reminder to sign up for the NTF Information session on 1 November:

There’s still time for potential NTF applicants to sign up for the NTF information session tomorrow