Learning & Teaching Conference, 19th June 2014
Aiming High – Valuing Challenge in Teaching and Learning
PLEASE USE THIS FORM TO MAKE YOUR SUBMISSION
Please email this submission form to Adele Evans (a.evans@shu.ac.uk) by the end of Friday 31st
January 2014
The conference uses a double-blind peer review process. Our reviewers will provide feedback on all
submissions.
Further information is available on the Conference website at: https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/ltconference/
Addressing the theme
The conference theme of ‘Aiming High’ creates an opportunity to explore how teaching and learning thrive by
setting high expectations. Your submitted paper for all session types should take the form of a 350 word
abstract. You will create this by completing this form.
Submissions should clearly relate to the design, delivery or evaluation of teaching and learning within a
challenging course experience. Papers should refer to the benefits, risks or barriers that have been
encountered and, where relevant, how practice or experience has overcome these.
Please complete all fields marked*
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Your name*
Email Address*
Twitter name
Faculty/Dept/
or Institution*
List any
co-presenters
here
Type of
presentation*
Research-informed presentation 
Sharing practice presentation 
delete as
appropriate
CoLab workshop 
Poster 
Other 
Title*
please use a clear title
that will encourage
delegates to attend
your session
Short Abstract*
50 words
aims, objectives,
focus of the session.
This will be used on
the conference
website.
Relationship to
the conference
theme and to one
or more of the
conference topic
areas*
[DELETE this text as appropriate - Topics: Academic innovation; Inspiring and supporting students;
Fostering independence and peer support; Technology changing the learning landscape; The
students’ view] See 'Topics' title below for further information.
A maximum of 350 words to be used from this point please
Full Outline*
300 words
For presentations and
posters:
Building on the aims
and objectives above,
specify the details of
your paper/session.
Outline what you have
done, what findings or
observations you will
share, how this relates
to other work by you
or others, and what
conclusions can be
drawn, etc.
Or for CoLabs:
Proposals must clearly
demonstrate how
participants will be
actively engaged in
working together
during the workshop
to create something
useful. For example,
workshop organisers
can offer frameworks
for curriculum design,
data sets, or
technologies as the
basis of activities.
Workshop leaders
should indicate how
the workshop is likely
to lead to
collaboration beyond
the conference, e.g.
Peer Supported
Review activities or
Special Interest
Groups.
Keywords*
Add up to 10 key
words or phrases to
help us match
submission to sessions
and to help delegates
select sessions
Audience &
Impact*
Who specifically will
find your session
useful and why?
Recording
Please indicate if you
agree to your session
being filmed or audio
recorded and made
available via the web.
Delete as appropriate
I agree to my session being recorded
I do not agree to my session being recorded 
Topics
The conference is organised around a broad set of topics within the main conference theme of 'Aiming High –
Valuing Challenge in Teaching and Learning'. In most cases submissions will directly address one or more of the
topics, which will cover, but are not limited to:
Academic innovation: creativity and innovation; currency and scholarship; academic peer support;
excellent teaching in the lecture theatre; evaluating innovation; creative spaces for teaching; inspiring
through assessment and feedback; valuing difference; excellent partnerships.
Inspiring and supporting students: staff-student interaction and collaboration; active learning;
keeping students on task; renegotiating engagement; supporting excellent teaching; skill or literacy;
communities of practice.
Fostering independence and peer support: student belonging; student transition; communities of
practice; embracing diversity and challenge.
Technology changing the learning landscape: technology supported innovation; increasing access;
redefining the classroom; mobile learning; social media; making connections; on the cutting edge.
The students’ view: defining excellence; enhancing the curriculum through staff-student coproduction; student researchers; student conferences; using my technology my way; peer cooperation; students as partners.
Session types (50 minutes)
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Research-informed presentations should aim to give a brief summary of a piece of research or a
project, either completed or still in progress. Papers will discuss evidence relating to their academic
innovation or scholarly study of teaching and learning. Presentations should be designed to engage
the audience and will not be read as fully fledged papers. Research-informed presentations are paired
with another presentation for each 50-minute session. Each presentation should last for 10-15
minutes, with a further 10 minutes for questions/discussion. Each session will be facilitated to
maximise audience engagement and ensure good time keeping. It is expected that presenters will
later write up their paper for an academic journal such as the University's Student Engagement &
Experience Journal.
Sharing practice presentations are short dynamic showcase presentations which last 10 minutes and
use no more than 10 slides. They focus on aspects of practice, in particular explanations of innovative
practice likely to be useful to or inspire other delegates. Sharing practice presentations are grouped
into three for each 50-minute session. 20 minutes for questions to all three presenters is set aside at
the end of the session and is facilitated by the session Chair. Authors should include at least one point
in their abstract which will inform this broader concluding discussion.
CoLab workshops will last 50 minutes. Proposals must clearly demonstrate how participants will be
actively engaged in working together during the workshop to create something useful. For example,
workshop organisers can offer frameworks for curriculum design, data sets, or technologies as the
basis of activities. Workshop leaders should indicate how the workshop is likely to lead to
collaboration beyond the conference, e.g. Peer Supported Review activities or Special Interest
Groups.
Posters will be presented in a session with between 5 and 10 other posters. Proposals for posters will
first be submitted in text. On acceptance, presenters are requested to produce a visually engaging
poster in A1 portrait format. A PDF version of the poster should also be supplied for the conference
website by 19th June. The finished poster should not contain extensive amounts of detailed text, but
may provide further detail through links and/or associated handouts. A good poster design will attract
immediate interest through its title and graphic arrangement. It is likely to include photographs,
diagrams, drawings, charts, screen shots or other visual elements. Presenters will be prepared to talk
to their posters during the allocated conference session by explaining the topic and answering the
questions of those attending.
Other - we welcome suggestions for alternative contributions.
We expect all conference contributions to result in an artefact which will be reproducible in a common digital
media format (e.g. PowerPoint, Slideshare, audio or video recordings and screencasts, PDFs of posters and or
hand outs, etc, as appropriate and useful). This should work well as a stand-alone resource for future
reference by both those who attended the conference and those who didn't.
Please email this submission form to Adele Evans (a.evans@shu.ac.uk) by the end of Friday 31st
January 2014