This academic year the ARU ALN are running a series of exciting online workshops on a variety of topics relating to Active Learning and it is a pleasure to invite you to these. These will include guest speakers, activities, inspiration, and opportunities to share ideas and practice. These workshops are open to all colleagues at ARU, and other members of the ARU ALN, and will be held on Microsoft Teams. For any questions about this workshop, please contact [email protected]. Further information about the ARU ALN can also be found on the Academic Development & Recognition Hub.
The next two seminars invite the academic community to imagine the near future of active learning at ARU. Together we will respond to a series of provocations that will help us to create this new vision for Active Learning at ARU by drawing upon our best practices and collective imagination to develop a curriculum experience that, attracts and deeply engages all students allows our students to personalise their learning experience firmly positions assessment as a formative opportunity.
As a network we use design thinking to establish a problem, ideate around the problem, and use co-creation techniques to capture our thinking for the benefit of our colleagues via the Active Learning Toolkit (login required).
The provocations for the next two sessions are:
“Stop telling and start doing” - getting the balance right (Thursday 8 May 2025, 1-2pm, online) (co-produce multimodal Padlet)
Learning is an experience and we need space to learn from experience (Thursday 5 June 2025, 1-2pm, online) (choose co-creation platform)
Sessions last 50 minutes and will begin with a simple restatement of the provocation (5 minutes), followed by a facilitated chat and conversation-based exploration (20 minutes), and concluding with a co-creation activity (20 minutes) including creation of an audio ‘highlights’ summary (5 minutes). These highlights will be shared via the Active Learning Toolkit.