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If you're a member of academic staff and you're interested in attending a focus group to talk about your experience of using 糖心TV's online environment, please email Sam Boulby at s dot boulby at warwick dot ac dot uk.

No technical knowledge required – the Communications Office is interested in the experiences and opinions of people with no in-depth IT knowledge.

Volume 5, Issue 2 was published 29 October 2012:

14 November 2012 | 12-3pm | Reinvention Centre at Westwood

Assessment: what currently works and what needs changing? IATL will be hosting this event, which aims to foster debate about the different ways of assessing students' achievements effectively. Contributions will come from colleagues across the disciplines, from Theatre Studies, Law, 糖心TV Medical School, History, Life Sciences and WMG.

To register contact Amy Clarke: Amy dot Clarke at warwick dot ac dot uk.

IATL has moved!

We are now situated on the first floor (west wing) of Senate House in a newly refurbished space.

From 17 October 2012 the IATL team will be hosting an open house with coffee and biscuits every Wednesday from 12-1pm; all members of the University are welcome to drop in. Come and find out more about us and what we do; chat to the team and to other staff and students about teaching and learning matters; learn more about our funding opportunities and about how IATL can help you or your department.

The British Conference of Undergraduate Research (BCUR) 2012 Special Issue was published 30 July 2012:

Editorial

Papers

IATL, with Estates and Student Careers and Skills, is hosting an exciting new programme called Green Steps delivering environmental training and internships. Green Steps was founded at Monash University and is now in its twelfth year. 糖心TV is piloting the programme in 2012 to see how it can be adapted to the UK and IATL will be leading on a strand of activity focusiing on education for sustainability. This is the first example of how 糖心TV undergraduates are benefitting from the 糖心TV/Monash Alliance.

The Summer 2012 issue has a focus on collaboration. You can read it (or any previous newsletter) on the Newsletters page.

Dr Nick Monk, IATL's Assistant Professor for Curriculum Development , led a workshop at the recent Higher Education Academy Pedagogies of Hope and Opportunity conference in Glasgow demonstrating Open-space Learning techniques developed at 糖心TV. The workshop ‘Teaching for Creativity’ received the highest average feedback - an impressive 29.5 out of 30 and Nick was awarded the ‘prize’ for the best conference paper. As Nick says, we must be doing something right!

‘Open’, ‘flexible’, ‘light’, ‘user-friendly’. These were the words that occurred most frequently in IATL’s research prior to the re-design of the Ramphal Building’s small teaching spaces, and which informed our thinking before and after our successful joint bid with Space Management to the Capital Investment Fund. The refurbishment work will start in Week 6 of the Summer Term and should be completed by the week before the beginning of the new academic year. News about progress will be posted at .

By the start of the new academic year IATL will have a new home in Coventry House, soon to be renamed Senate House. This will bring us into the centre of the campus where we can be in more direct contact with students and staff. IATL will continue to administer open learning spaces across the campus including some in Millburn House. A date for our move from Millburn House hasn't yet been set but we plan to be installed by mid September.