{"id":5797,"date":"2016-07-15T12:30:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T11:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=5797"},"modified":"2016-07-15T13:22:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T12:22:49","slug":"manchester-metropolitan-university-festival-of-learning-and-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/2016\/07\/manchester-metropolitan-university-festival-of-learning-and-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester Metropolitan University Festival of Learning and Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Festival<\/strong><\/p>\n

Each year, the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching<\/a> at Manchester Metropolitan University runs a one day learning and teaching conference to celebrate good practice and bring colleagues from across the university together to share ideas and network. This year, we decided to try something different. Instead of a one day event in one place, we organised a month long \u2018Festival of Learning and Teaching\u2019 with events run across our two university campuses.<\/p>\n

In the true spirit of a festival, we threw open the format; welcoming events of all kinds, lengths, and style. Colleagues from around the university were encouraged to submit their proposals to organise one or more of the events around any aspect of learning and teaching. We were impressed by the response and received over 70 proposals, leading to 50 separate themed events over the month of June.<\/p>\n

The festival format was new to us. It offered new exciting opportunities to explore learning and teaching from a wide range of perspectives using a variety of approaches such as off campus trips, exhibitions, drop-in sessions, digital skills workshops, and a game show-style event.<\/p>\n