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Dr Christopher Wiley leads session on student evaluation of teaching at University of Surrey Teaching Symposium

14 April 2021

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Dr Christopher Wiley led a session on ‘Playful methods of student evaluation of teaching’ at the University of Surrey’s annual Surrey ExciTeS (Excellence in Teaching Symposium) on Wednesday 14 April 2021, on the theme of playful learning.

Dr Wiley outlined several different case studies of student evaluation of teaching using playful methods, which led to a fruitful discussion with the 30 academics from across the University who were in attendance.

The session was undertaken in advance of the appearance of Dr Wiley’s co-edited SEDA Special on student evaluation of teaching (pictured), and follows his other published research in the field.

This year, the Surrey ExciTeS symposium was split across two mornings (14–15 April) and was held online. Dr Wiley has also delivered sessions (in person) at all the previous Surrey ExciTeS events, in 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, and 2014, including one on student evaluation of teaching in 2015.

Dr Christopher Wiley guest-hosts Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (#LTHEchat) Twitter chat on student evaluation of teaching

13 January 2021

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Dr Christopher Wiley was invited to guest-host the first Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Twitter chat (#LTHEchat) of 2021, which took place on 13 January. #LTHEchat runs weekly on Wednesdays on Twitter from 8-9pm GMT and involves HE and FE practitioners from the UK and internationally at all stages of their career.

#LTHEchat No. 193, on the subject of ‘Evaluating Student Evaluation of Teaching’, anticipates the publication of the forthcoming SEDA Special, Student Evaluation of Teaching: From Performance Management to Quality Enhancement, which Dr Wiley has co-edited, and was also mindful of his pedagogic research on student evaluation of teaching (SET).

A graph representing the network of 186 Twitter users whose recent tweets included the hashtag #LTHEchat, or who were replied to or mentioned in those tweets, is available here: https://nodexlgraphgallery.org/Pages/Graph.aspx?graphID=245733

The Wakelet, which provides a digest of tweets received, is here: https://wakelet.com/wake/JTRN860aVYrfProCKj4r-

Dr Wiley previously guest-hosted #LTHEchat in February 2016, on ‘Using music creatively to enhance non-music teaching’.

Case study by Dr Christopher Wiley features in book publication on teaching in higher education

22 March 2019

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Developing Your Teaching

Dr Christopher Wiley has featured as a case study in a new book publication on teaching in higher education.

The second edition of Developing Your Teaching: Towards Excellence by Peter Kahn and Lorraine Anderson, in Routledge’s Key Guides for Effective Teaching in Higher Education series, includes vignettes and case studies on a wide range of topics.

Dr Wiley’s case study, ‘Going the extra mile with a postgraduate teaching qualification’, draws upon his experiences in reading for the degree of MA in Academic Practice at City University London, from which he graduated in 2015, in order to consider the benefits of higher education teaching qualifications.

It is a streamlined and reworked version of an essay that Dr Wiley previously published in Educational Developments, The Magazine of the Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA), in December last year.

Details of the book may be found here: https://www.routledge.com/Developing-Your-Teaching-Towards-Excellence-2nd-Edition/Kahn-Anderson/p/book/9781138591196

Dr Christopher Wiley publishes article on higher education teaching qualifications in SEDA’s Educational Developments magazine

21 January 2019

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seda logoDr Christopher Wiley has published an article in the December 2018 issue (Issue 19.4) of Educational Developments, The Magazine of the Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA).

Dr Wiley’s article provides a ten-year retrospective reflection on his study for the degree of MA in Academic Practice at City University London, from which he graduated in 2015, as well as discussing the benefits of higher education teaching qualifications more widely.

The essay, ‘In defence of higher education teaching qualifications: Reflections on studying for the degree of MA in Academic Practice, ten years on’, is a longer version of a case study that Dr Wiley has developed for the forthcoming second edition of Kahn and Walsh’s (now Kahn and Anderson’s) Developing Your Teaching, part of Routledge’s Key Guides for Effective Teaching in Higher Education series.

The full contents page of this issue of Educational Developments may be viewed here: https://www.seda.ac.uk/past-issues/19.4

Bibliographic citation

‘In defence of higher education teaching qualifications: Reflections on studying for the degree of MA in Academic Practice, ten years on’, Educational Developments, Issue 19.4 (December 2018), pp.16–17. ISSN 1469-3267