HEFi Newsletter - March 2023

HEFi Teaching and Learning Awards

The HEFi Teaching and Learning Awards are back! Nominations are now open for the 2023 Awards and we are looking forward to celebrating teaching and supporting learning excellence at the University of Birmingham. The HEFi Teaching and Learning Awards are peer nominated across a range of categories that recognise both individual and team contributions. For the second year we are also delighted to have a student-nominated award: The Award for Personal Academic Tutor of the Year.

Nominations are open until 21st April 2023. Everything you need to know, including the nomination form, is available on the HEFi website. Shortlisted nominees will be invited to the Awards Dinner on 21st June at the Edgbaston Park Hotel.

HEFi Welcomes Linnaeus University 

On Thursday 23 and Friday 24 March, HEFi were delighted to welcome three colleagues from the e-learning team at Linnaeus University. Brian Kottonya, Pia Palm, and Birgitta Gillsjo and their e-learning teams across the faculties support over 200 degree programmes and 44,000 students, and it was a great opportunity for us to share our experiences.

This visit, supported by eUniWell, allowed us to discuss best practice in digital education, consider the challenges in our sector and how our institutions are responding, and gain valuable insight into non-UK higher education.

They were also treated to tours of the BIM Cave in Engineering, and the Collaborative Teaching Laboratory, which fed into exciting conversations around innovation in digital teaching and the future trends of e-learning.

HEFi welcomes the opportunity to meet colleagues from around the world, and we are looking forward to returning the visit to Linnaeus University sometime in the future!