Professor Sally Brown, Assessment

Enhancing the student experience: Working to improve student satisfaction

This keynote will consider the kinds of activities students engage with that maximise learning, how we can best make use of technologies to support learning and the importance of assessment for learning.

Biography

Sally Brown is Emeritus Professor at Leeds Metropolitan University and was until July 2010 Pro Vice Chancellor (Academic). She is also Adjunct Professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, visiting professor at the University of Plymouth and is currently enjoying being an Independent Consultant.

Sally has worked in education in various contexts for more than 40 years, including schools, prisons, Further Education and universities. She was for five years Director of Membership Services for the Institute for Learning and Teaching in higher Education (later part of the Higher Education Academy), prior to which she worked at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle for almost 20 years as a lecturer, educational developer and Head of Quality Enhancement.

She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA) Fellow and a UK National Teaching Fellow: in 2009 she was awarded a £200,000 NTFS grant for three years to research Innovative Assessment at Masters level. She is widely published in the field of teaching, learning and particularly assessment and a frequent workshop facilitator and keynote speaker at conferences and events in the UK and internationally.

Video Resources:

Emeritus Prof. Sally Brown - Assessment
Emeritus Prof. Sally Brown - Importance of Students first weeks of University
Emeritus Prof Phil Race and Emeritus Prof. Sally Brown - Learning Models