Active Learning Network UofG Satellite

The University of Glasgow is part of the Active Learning Network (ALN). The ALN is a group of educators from around the world who share an interest in active approaches to learning. It holds monthly meetings, runs regular events, and collates resources. Colleagues from the University of Glasgow have been attending meetings and events for some time now, and a group of us decided to formalise the arrangement by applying to be a satellite site in Glasgow, and set up a steering group to facilitate this.

The steering group is currently led by Dr Vicki Dale, Dr Frances Docherty, Dr Sarah Honeychurch, Dr Gayle Pringle-Barnes and Dr Nathalie Tasler. We have a dedicated Teams set up to support practitioners at UofG interested in Active Learning Practice and Scholarship (ALPS), and a dedicated channel within this for the UofG ALN Satellite. UofG colleagues with an interest in active learning are all invited to join us in Teams, or to contact any of the steering group via the links above.

On January 17th 2022, the University of Glasgow held a meeting to formally launch the ALN Satellite.

Local Events

Date	Event
January 2025	Book Group: For this session, we’d like to invite you to read this paper by Stephanie McDonald et al. (2024) on integrating active learning into the curriculum. Although the study is based in Psychology, the paper is transferable to other subject areas.
April 2024	UofG L&T Conference 2024: A-Z of Active Learning
December 2023	Active Learning in Difficult Spaces ALN Difficult spaces Dec23.pptx
November 2023	Blogging ALN satellite meeting on blogging Nov23.pptx
October 2023	Active Learning Manifesto UofG satellite AL manifesto 11Oct23.pptx
May 2023	Onboarding Students Onboarding students to active learning 22May2023.pdf
April 2023	UofG L&T Conference 2023: Manifesto for Active Learning

Resources

Members of the UofG Satellite collaborated on the ALN book Betts, T. & Oprandi, P. (Eds.). (2022). 100 Ideas for Active Learning. OpenPress @ University of Sussex.

Active Learning Conference

We take an active role in the organisation of the annual conference, sitting on the conference committee and helping to facilitate and chair sessions.

Vicki, Sarah and Frances were co-leads for the 2022 5th International Active Learning Conference – Moving forward with confidence