COLLab-Conference: Connecting Teachers for innovative teaching

Opening:

The COLLab-project seeks to support HE-teachers and developers to overcome challenges in learning and teaching in digital and international working environments. The conference as well as the platform that is launched today will enhance exchange and collaborative teaching experience across Europe. 

Paulo Jorge Ferreir, Rector at the University of Aveiro welcomes you to the COLLab Conference.

Prof. Lisa Looney, Vice President for Academic Affairs at Dublin City University, will lay the ground for this day of interexchange between HE-teachers by sharing her innovative and visionary ideas. She will give insights into her vision of the purpose and functions of higher education around the world as it might be thirty years from now.

Opening:

The COLLab-project seeks to support HE-teachers and developers to overcome challenges in learning and teaching in digital and international working environments. The conference as well as the platform that is launched today will enhance exchange and collaborative teaching experience across Europe. 

Paulo Jorge Ferreir, President at the University of Aveiro welcomes you to the COLLab Conference.

Prof. Lisa Looney, Vice President for Academic Affairs at Dublin City University, will lay the ground for this day of interexchange between HE-teachers by sharing her innovative and visionary ideas. She will give insights into her vision of the purpose and functions of higher education around the world as it might be thirty years from now.

The stage is open for the COLLab platform! This digital hub was developed to allow continuous opportunities for cooperation among teachers around Europe and beyond. We are convinced that ColLab provides a powerful tool that will empower the international movement already underway that is transforming learning and teaching in higher education. The COLLab platform will consolidate and coordinate communities of pedagogical practice in unison with higher education providers around the world towards building networks of HE- professionals committed to ensuring excellence and relevance in international education.

In this slot the platform is launched and we would like to connect you with the platform! We will guide you through the registration process, explain features and functionalities.

You are welcome to start building your network right now in this slot.

COLLab-platform: Join a HUB or initiate your own!

5 channels to chose from:

1. “Success and Challenges in Joint Project for Architects and Civil Engineers” –

   speakers: Jurga Vitkuvienė & Laura Stasiulienė

2. “Innovation in education? Yes, of course! But first …….” 
   speaker: Svante Gunnarsson
   
   
3. “Gamification in Higher Education: Motivation as a learning booster”
   speaker: Sergi Robles
   
   
4. “I can’t believe it. I failed the course but now I really like it.” – How a multifactorial approach can help students change their attitude from “self-perceived looser” to “manager of their (stundent) lives”.
   speaker: Johanna Peters
   
   
5. The COIL experience to develop global competence – The case of the University of Aveiro
   speaker: Ana Balula & Margarida Fardilha

5 talks to choose from:

1. “Entrepreneurial studies: HUBS – future-proofing our students.”
   speaker: Raúl Berlanga
   
   
2. “Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn: Computer Science Education and FabLab”
   speaker: Alberto Montresor
   
   
3. “Peer-Assessment to encourage students’ feeling of ‘ownership’ in the learning process.”
   speaker: Anne Leferink
   
   
4. “Challenge Based Learning: Experiences from Dublin City University”
   speakers: Fiona O’Riordan, Deiric Ó Broin & Monica Ward
   
   
5. “Can nursing students learn to give an intramuscular injection by utilizing an app”
   speaker: Kristin Hjorthaug Urstad  

In the joint keynote you will be able to listen but also actively be part of a conversation between experts who have experience with Communities of Practice, with collaborating in teaching, learning and researching together about teaching and learning outside their own institutional boundaries.

The work of Silke Masson from the Centre for Quality Assurance and Development at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz (GER) could be described best with the phrase “Let’s start thinking of teaching as a cooperative task”. She will share her experiences and research results on learning communities of teachers with us as well as a framework to facilitate or even encourage teachers to work together.

Anita Sekyra (Center for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Saxony GER) started in April 2020 a very pragmatic and collaborative way to collect and discuss research results about learning and teaching during pandemic. In the joint keynote we would like to discuss with Anita how she coordinated such a collaborative project with person she never meets before, about struggles and learnings collecting data in such a manner and her finding about collaborative research.

In addition, Manuel João Costa, from the University of Minho (POR), who has been working a long while in building communities of practice in teaching and learning will join the discussion. His focus in the joint keynote will be the perspective of collaborative learning.

COLlab platform is structure in thematic hubs. Hubs are the space were discussions, events and sharing experiences take place. Join the hub administrators to a guided tour to one out of three hubs:

• Challenge-Based Learning
• Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)
• Innovate Teaching and Learning.

Let us explore the hub features and start with first activities and discussions.