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The second Future Directions conference takes place next week at Aberystwyth University, on 2 and 3 April.
The conference is one of the most important events in the HEA Wales calendar; bringing together sector agencies, students and institutions in Wales to help shape future collaborative work to ensure the best possible learning experience for all Wales’ students. The conference will feature a series of paper, poster, nano-teach, discussion and workshop sessions as well as student panels and keynote speeches. There will also be an HEA Wales showcase event, at which the new Future Directions theme – Global Graduates: Enabling Flexible Learning will be launched by Professor Clive Mulholland, Chair of Higher Education Wales Pro-Vice-Chancellor Learning & Teaching Advisory Group, and a conference dinner’. More...

A zombified keynote for the HEA’s third annual Arts and Humanities conference is announced today, along with the chance for students to be part of a large-scale audio-visual presentation at the Imperial War Museum North.
Jesse Stommel, Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at University of Wisconsin-Madison will give the day two keynote speech at the conference which takes place in Manchester, 2-4 June. Jesse’s work focuses on lifelong learning and the public digital humanities, and he is Founder, Director, and CEO of Hybrid Pedagogy: a digital journal of learning, teaching, and technology. He co-created the "epic zombiefied experiment in Twitter literacy, gamification, collaboration, and emergent learning" Twitter vs Zombies, and his Heroes and Monsters keynote will be ‘Zombie Pedagogies: Embodied Learning in the Digital Age’. More...

Consultation opens today on the Higher Education Academy’s (HEA) new strategic framework entitled Internationalising higher education: framework for action.
The framework aims to inspire and assist in the process of developing internationalisation policy and practice across the higher education (HE) sector. It ultimately seeks to enhance the quality of the student learning experience for all students studying UK programmes, irrespective of their geographical location. It is therefore designed to be both practical and aspirational. The framework foregrounds learning and teaching in internationalising HE, as it arguably has much to gain from, as well as contribute to the agenda. It is pertinent to, and has implications for organisations, people and curricula in higher education, as internationalising HE has a potential impact upon everyone and everything in HE.
The proposed text for the framework is offered to incite dialogue and discussion. Contributions to this consultation are sought from anyone with an interest or involvement in the process of internationalising higher education, in order to ensure that the framework is as appropriate and helpful to the sector as possible.
The draft text of the framework is available for comment until 9 May, together with background information about how and why the framework has been developed. The framework will be launched at the HEA’s Annual Conference, 2-3 July 2014 at Aston University, Birmingham.
Read the draft framework text and complete the survey at the HEA website.