Discover & Share your Learning and Teaching Experiences
The UNE Learning and Teaching Symposium is an institution-wide celebration of the outstanding learning and teaching that takes place here at UNE. This year’s symposium was yet another fantastic exposition of the breadth of activity around the scholarship of learning and teaching at UNE. Videos of each of the presentations are available here for viewing and sharing with others.
The symposium has established itself as a key event in the UNE calendar and please look out for follow-up events and the call for next year’s papers.
Keynote Speaker
Stephen Dobson
Stephen Dobson was born in Zambia (1963), grew up in England and has previously lived for many years in Norway. Prior to entering higher education, he worked for thirteen years with refugees as a community worker. He has published poetry in Norwegian and one of his most recent books is Assessing the Viva in Higher Education. Chasing Moments of Truth (Springer publishers, 2017). Dobson’s writing, teaching and research focus upon assessment, ethnicity and the practice of education.
He has published extensively in Norwegian and English, holds two PhDs, one in Cultural Studies and Refugees (Nottingham Trent University, 2000) and another in Assessment and Education (Institute of Education, UCL, 2008). A Magistergrad in Sociology (University of Oslo, 1990) complements his later studies. He is at the forefront of emerging educational trends and technologies through EU (2014-2016) and Erasmus+ (2016-2017; 2017-2019, 2019-2021) projects and his advocacy of big data, learning analytics and social inclusion.
Watch the keynote presentation
