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www.escalate.ac.uk

ESCalate – the HEA Education Subject Centre

e-Learning 2009: a hands-on workshop

What do we do?Advancing and supporting good practice in

Teaching and Learning in EducationESCalate produces and disseminates

resources for staff and students in: HE and HE in FE, for example:• Education Studies, • Continuing Education,• Lifelong Learning, • Initial Teacher Education/ PGCE.

ESCalate structure• HE Academy Network in

York: 24 Subject Centres • ESCalate based at GSoE,

University of Bristol • Network of academic

consultants and associates across the UK

• Departmental links and contacts plus ESCalate members and / or registered colleagues - open to all!

Today’s ESCalate team

Anne Anderson Julie Hughes

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ESCalate website – key source of information:• Resources – including teaching

support, reports, research findings, academic papers and evaluations

• Online membership / registration

• E-submission of funding bids

• External Examiner online register

• Online event registration

• Automated book reviews, electronic bulletins and e-newsletters

Recent ESCalate statisticsRegistered colleagues/ members: 3271

338 active contacts within institutions, with 348 further people offering to be contacts

224 registered External Examiners - with an additional 423 potential External Examiners

HoDs: 406

49 registered on the Expertise Exchange

Website: receiving 10,000 hits a day

ESCalate - across the world

Australia,Cambodia,Canada, Dubai,

Ethiopia, Finland, France,Holland, Hong Kong

India, Jordan,Kuala Lumpur, Nigeria, Pakistan,

Portugal, South Africa, Sultanate of Oman, Sweden,

Taiwan, Turkey,United States,

West Indies etc.

Resources

Changes to grant funding 2009-10

• ESCalate offers awards for development of teaching and learning, pedagogic research, and resources;

• Awards offered to those in Education departments in universities and FE Colleges providing HE level programmes;

• Awards range from £50 to £15k;

• Thematic, lasts one year, based on national and discipline priorities in all four administrations of the UK. These are large awards requiring collaboration across institutions and across countries of UK

• Open, several types, with applicants proposing their own focus.

Thematic and open awards

Thematic• Student wellbeing (2 x £10k max)• 21st Century teacher educator (2 x £15k max)Open• Hot Topics – (£50) individual award to promote discussion of

an important current issue• Sharing Ideas – (£500) for dissemination of good ideas and

interesting practice• Student award – (from £200-£1000) for supporting individual

or group learning • Pedagogy and practice – (up to £5k) for development activity

by individual or group

• Everything is on line, including: guidance, FAQs, (EoI) form (Expression of Interest) where required, full proposal form;

• Applicants must first register online with ESCalate;• Where bids go to external evaluators, we receive an independent

recommendation on whether to make an award;• Themed awards application has two stages, first the EoI, and for successful

applicants, a second stage full proposal;• For bids over £1k, milestones, targets and expenditure details are required; • For bids over £1k successful applicants receive a formal offer which needs

to be signed by an institutional finance officer;• Payments of larger awards are phased through the life of the project,

against completion of agreed outputs with payments made on receipt of an invoice;

• For Hot Topics, Sharing Ideas, and Student Awards, the application and payment processes are simplified and kept to a minimum.

Additional ESCalate activity includes:• Leading HEA funded

Internationalisation project across all centres with Languages SC

• Employability module – online for students and staff

• Increasing Subject Centre Collaboration especially re: the Every Child Matters agenda e.g. the ICS-HE project

• Work with CETLs and others

So, please do consider getting involved by:

Attending further ESCalate linked or run events; Write a book review;Write articles for the Bulletin/ Newsletter; Apply for project funding for yourself or with a studentSet up a SIG (special interest group) for online

discussion …etc.

Contact details

Any feedback or queries re ESCalate itself and how it could support your work,

Email:Heacademy-escalate@bristol.ac.uk

Thank you.