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This year's seminars

Seminars for the academic year 2011-2012 are in the process of being planned, and full details will be publicised as they become available.

As you will note from the menu to the left, our first seminar of the year will be "APL for the Nursing Profession", and this will provide a forum to discuss the use of APL in pre-registration nursing curricula following changes to NMC guidance for APL.

This will be followed on October 28th 2011 by a seminar on  the topic of Work Based Learning aimed at that those new to this field and will offer an introduction to various forms of learning through work and how these can be integrated into various types of higher education programme.  Later in the year a further "Recognising Learning Through Work" event will be offered for the more experienced practitioner who is interested in benchmarking their practice.

"Apel in Higher Education" will take place on November 28th 2011. This seminar will provide an opportunity to share practice in the assessment of prior experiential learning (APEL) and to open up discussion about what kinds of evidence can count for credit. 

Other titles under development are:

  • Two-year degrees - a growing area where private providers might be considering offering provision, and where universities will need to respond to stay competitive (either for their own provision or through partnership arrangements).  Themes include the implications for credit, QA issues, national acceptability, the recognition of awards, regulations, and assessment loading etc.
  • Assessment and credit - exploring a range of issues around assessment and credit, such as assessment loading vs volume of credit; assessment design and level; assessing practice vs knowledge and understanding; assessment workload (for staff and students), holistic vs atomistic assessment etc.
  • Outcomes driven curricula - outcomes-based approaches as conventional wisdom are increasingly being challenged.
  • Developing and implementing the HEAR - issues and challenges
  • Key Information Sets

Colleagues are invited to contact the Chair if these are themes where work is being done by institutions or individuals and which might be included in the SEEC seminar programme for this or next year.