🎓 What are higher education institutions in the EHEA doing to enhance teaching through staff development?
💡 The first results of the #ErasmusPlus-funded #STAFFDEV_EU project are now available at https://www.eua.eu/publications/reports/staff-development-in-learning-and-teaching-at-european-universities.html
Are you one of the following?
✔️ vice-rector for academic affairs,
✔️ head of L&T centre
✔️ programme director,
✔️ #learning & #teaching academic staff/researcher
Then join the 2025 #EUALearnTeach Forum. This year's theme is "2030 and beyond: towards responsive and adaptable higher education"
📅 27-28 February 2025
📍 University College Cork
@UCC , Ireland
🎧 Now online: Episode 3 of our #EUALearnTeach #podcast series "HigherEd in Practice"!
In this episode, Deborah Kelleher from the Royal Irish Academy of Music - RIAM in Dublin discusses the pedagogies used at conservatoires and how these pedagogies both depend on and impact class sizes.
Listen/ subscribe on Spotify at
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6HpMEACF6gqTdQjsNN4cH0
Or ApplePodcasts at
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/highered-in-practice/id1710377096
Listen to this episode from HigherEd in Practice on Spotify. An interview with Deborah Kelleher from the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin on the pedagogies used at conservatoires and how these pedagogies both depend on and impact class sizes. More information about the Royal Irish Academic of Music and the European Association of Conservatoires is available on the institutional websites. Speakers Appointed Director of the Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM) in October 2010, Deborah Kelleher has played an integral role in the strategic development of the institution’s international profile, outreach, estate, and academic courses. Milestone achievements include the revision of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees with industry-focused specialisms; RIAM Podium, the Centre for Performing Ensembles, which trains musicians for orchestras and large ensembles; the founding of Ireland’s first Historical Performance Department with foundation partners The Irish Baroque Orchestra; and the creation of the Open Youth Orchestra of Ireland (OYOI) a flagship ensemble for inclusive creativity. In 2022 Deborah was elected President of the European Association of Conservatoires, an umbrella group for over 300 conservatoires and the leading voice for Higher Music Education in Europe. Helene Peterbauer is a Policy Analyst at EUA’s Institutional Development Unit, with a particular focus on learning and teaching. She has been coordinating EUA’s learning and teaching activities, including the EUA Learning & Teaching Thematic Peer Groups and the work of the Learning & Teaching Steering Committee, since joining the association in 2018. She is also responsible for the implementation of the European Learning Teaching Forum, an annual event that brings together educational leadership, teachers and students to jointly discuss developments and good practice in higher education learning and teaching. Prior to joining EUA, Helene worked as doctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of Scandinavian Studies of the University of Vienna. Helene holds master’s degrees in German Studies and Scandinavian Studies as well as a doctoral degree in Scandinavian Studies, all from the University of Vienna.
🎧 Episode 2️⃣ of our podcast series 𝙃𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙀𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙋𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚 is now available:
https://open.spotify.com/show/5rqJmkNUL2uxnVttqxanSd?si=ec905729f4e94865
University of Jyväskylä's Pieta Sikström talks about the university’s policies supporting the physical & mental #wellbeing of staff and students.
Listen to HigherEd in Practice on Spotify. Welcome to HigherEd in Practice, a podcast series from the European University Association. In this series, we introduce you to selected practices in European higher education, covering teacher training and teaching enhancement, wellbeing, pedagogies and co-creative processes. I am your host, Helene Peterbauer, and together with some of my colleagues I sit down with higher education experts to give you insights into practices you might find inspiring, thought-provoking, or just interesting.
🎧 The first episode of our #podcast series 𝙃𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙀𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙋𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚 is now available!
This series explores higher institutions’ practices in areas such as teacher training, student and staff well-being policies, class sizes and stakeholder collaboration.
Listen/subscribe to Episode 1 with Nora Jansone-Ratinika, Director of the Centre for Educational Growth at Rīga Stradiņš University, through your preferred channel: https://bit.ly/m/EUApodcast
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