(6) Orientation Programme – Academic year 2010-11:
The Senate in its 1st Meeting for 2010 (10 January 2010) approved KE.DI.MA.’s suggestion to organise educational seminars for newly qualified instructors during Orientation Week at the start of the Fall Semester 2010-11.In accordance with the Senate’s decision “the programme will be compulsory for new members of the academic staff who have no teaching experience as recommended by their Department Heads”. The programme will be open to all instructors. Seminars’ Programme

UCY Newsletter – Issue 35 (page 20), Issue 36 (page 16)

The following 3 seminars have been organised:
(i) 3 September 2010 – “Practical information about UCY and its Administrative Services”
All presentations from the Administrative Services are available here (in Greek).

(ii) 8 September 2010 – “Use of Blackboard”, from the IT Services. The seminar will cover the following topics:
    • Provision of educational material for students
    • Creating and marking exercises
    • Learning the marking tool
    • Use of internal forum

(iii) 22 & 23 September 2010-E-Learning by Design, Presented by: Mr. Richard Pinet, Manager, Centre for e-Learning, University of Ottawa, Canada
Presentations:

Handouts:

(5) Short Course in Learning and Teaching in the Classroom – 5 & 6 May 2009, Jeff Sapiro, Janet Holmshaw, Middlesex University, UK
Programme
Presentations-Sessions: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Handouts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. List for Handout 3.
Notes: Honey & Mumford, Resources, Teaching Method.
Photographs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Newsletter: Issue 29 (in Greek, page 7), June 2009

(4) “Harnessing Learning Design to Create More Effective Learning Activities” 7 & 8 April 2008
Gráinne Conole, Professor of e-Learning, Open University, UK.
Presentation Notes Blog
Photographs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Newsletter Announcement (in Greek)