Keynotes
I provide keynotes at conferences and plenary sessions on away-days on a range of things connected with teaching, learning, feedback and assessment. These are invariably interactive, involving the audience in at least some activities, and I usually like 90 minutes or so to make room for this. But I’m good at keeping to time, and take pride trying to finish exactly on schedule, much appreciated by audiences going on to a coffee break or lunch! There is of course no limit to the number of folk in my audiences at such sessions – as long as they can all see the screen, and hear me through the sound system.
For keynotes, I usually try to be at the location overnight before the event – I don’t like to risk transport failures stopping me getting there (though it hasn’t happened yet).
Typical keynote titles include:
- ‘Smarter feedback: giving better feedback to more students in less time’.
- ‘Towards assessment as learning’.
- ‘Making learning happen: addressing how students really learn’
- ‘Teaching in the recession: ten things we can do to improve the student experience, which don’t cost money, and take less of our time’.
- ‘Smarter assessment: making assessment more manageable, as well as more valid, reliable, authentic, transparent and inclusive’.
- ‘Making learning happen in large groups: smarter lecturing’.
However, there’s nothing I like better than to be given a topic or theme, and to put together a keynote to address it.
