CEBE - Innovation in Built Environment Education (iBEE 2009)

Background

This interactive conference seeks to engage with academics across the built environment disciplines, allowing educators to:

Enthuse about their teaching

Experience excellent and innovative practice

Challenge the learning experience of their students and the learning cultures of their departments and schools

Actively engage with and share new ideas through a series of speed-dating sessions

Participate in hands-on workshops from six inspirational teachers

This is a ‘can’t miss’ annual event for networking, CPD, benchmarking and acquiring fresh ideas about how to teach. It is especially targeted at early stage career academics.

iBEE is a showcase for novel and creative approaches to teaching and learning and provides a unique opportunity for academics to experience effective and exciting ways of energising learning.

The event will:

Champion teaching and learning leaders and innovators

Explore synergies in the pedgagogic styles and strategies of different subjects

Foster the exchange of wisdom, experience and innovation between established T&L leaders and new
academics

Workshops

Workshop 1: The "highs and the lows" of Managing a Real Time Consultancy Project with undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Nick Nunnington, Sheffield Hallam University and Gill Knight, Managing Partner, Atteys Solicitors

This workshop will explore through the eyes of the client and the student the opportunities and hazards of working with students on a "real time, real problem" based consultancy project.

Nick Nunnington

Workshop 2: Encouraging creative thinking in both teachers and students: two sides of the same coin
Marilyn Higgins, Heriot-Watt University

We need to be developing built environment practitioners who can develop creative solutions to current challenges. This session employs techniques to help us acknowledge and promote creativity inherent in us all, as learners and teachers.

Marilyn Higgins

Workshop 3: Camtasia - developing e-learning video resources
Philip Griffiths, University of Ulster

Bring your own laptop and learn how to develop e-tutorials to aid student interaction with electronic learning resources or professional software packages that are increasingly essential in delivering learning outcomes
* Please note that this session requires the use of Camtasia. A 30 day trial download is available from www.techsmith.com/download/camtasiatrial.asp

Philip Griffiths

Workshop 4: Sustainability: Making it Personal
Paul Murray, University of Plymouth

This session offers the opportunity to experience sustainability training techniques that have been extensively tested on built environment students, academics and industry-based professionals. Participants will deepen their understanding of the role of values in supporting pro-sustainability behaviour by selecting from a suite of activities designed to provoke deep thought and self-reflection.

Paul Murray

Workshop 5: You want me to do what? Teach a master planning studio to 70 students?
Joanne Tippett, University of Manchester

Participants will experience the use of interactive tools to stimulate discussion and discuss the group process developed to encourage personalised learning and teach design skills in a large class.

Joanne Tippett

Workshop 6: The Contract Game
Gordon Gibb, Mackintosh School of Architecture

An interactive internet based learning tool for students and construction professionals giving virtual hands-on experience of running a building contract.

Gordon Gibb

Background

Workshops

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Who Should Attend

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