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The festival will showcase a variety of live, online CPD for academic and professional service colleagues at University of Birmingham.

There will also be a strong focus on some of the key themes initially outlined in our HEFi20 conference, which has sadly been postponed until 2021. Themes such as online learning, inclusive practice for international students, unconscious bias and personal tutoring are examples of these.

In addition, we are also pleased to include sessions from academics within our Colleges on important topics such as embedding employability, practical techniques such as voice and presence and using role-play in the classroom.

Festival Resources

HEFi Festival 2020 - Programme
- Please register via the hyperlinks provided in the titles of the sessions.
HEFi Festival 2020 - Session Abstracts

Session Resources

Monday 6th July 2020

This table contains the titles, presenters' names, links to recordings of their session and any resources used for Monday 6th July of the HEFi Festival 2020.
Title	Delivered by	Recording	Resources
Making Your Bimodal Provision of Education Inclusive and Accessible	Sammy Li, Susan Onens and Peter Collins, Student Services	Panopto Recording	Slides (Microsoft PowerPoint)
Enhance your online delivery skills: introduction to the remote delivery canvas resource	Karol Kosinski, HEFi Digital	Panopto Recording	Slides (Microsoft PowerPoint)
Getting started with the learning and teaching literature for Beacon	Marios Hadjianastasis, HEFi	Panopto Recording	Slides (Microsoft PowerPoint)
Embedding employability in (social) Psychology: Strategies and reflections	Hannah Heath, School of Psychology	Panopto Recording	Slides (Microsoft PowerPoint)

Tuesday 7th July 2020

This table contains the titles, presenters' names, links to recordings of their session and any resources used for Tuesday 7th July of the HEFi Festival 2020.
Title	Delivered by	Recording	Resources
ABCs of effective online course content: or how we learned to stop worrying and love virtual delivery methods	Melanie Roxby-Mackey and Gabi Witthaus, HEFi Digital, CAL	Panopto Recording	Slides (Microsoft PowerPoint) Additional Resources Converting face-to-face sessions to online delivery - Kelly Smith, Birmingham Business School (Microsoft PowerPoint)
The Alexander Technique: Voice, presence and wellbeing	Rose Whyman, University of Birmingham and Victoria Door, Keele University	N/A	N/A
The Role of Role-play	Ann-Christine Frandsen, Birmingham Business School, Department of Accounting	N/A	Slides (Microsoft PowerPoint)
Compassion: Understood, cultivated and assessed on the modern degree programme at last	Theo Gilbert, University of Hertfordshire	Panopto Recording	Slides (Microsoft PowerPoint) Handouts Checklist - Anti Group Behaviour (Microsoft Word) Assessment of student-recorded online discussion (Microsoft Word)

Wednesday 8th July 2020

This table contains the titles, presenters' names, links to recordings of their session and any resources used for Wednesday 8th July of the HEFi Festival 2020.
Title	Delivered by	Recording	Resources
Decolonising Classroom Communication	Rina Fokel de Vries, Birmingham International Academy	Coming soon	Slides (Microsoft PowerPoint) Handouts BRUM Erin Meyer
Unconscious Bias in Teaching: how to run your own session	Els Van Geyte, Higher Education Futures Institute	Panopto Recording	Slides (Microsoft PowerPoint) Handouts Scenario strategies worksheet (Microsoft Word) Focus on your context - Unconscious Bias (Microsoft Word) Reading List - Unconscious Bias (Microsoft Word)
How to write effective single best answer multiple choice questions (MCQs)	Beverley Merricks, Institute of Clinical Sciences	Panopto Recording	Slides (PDF) Handouts MCQ Writing Template

Thursday 9th July 2020

This table contains the titles, presenters' names, links to recordings of their session and any resources used for Thursday 9th July of the HEFi Festival 2020.
Title	Delivered by	Recording	Resources
Developing yourself and others as an Inclusive Educator	Els Van Geyte, Higher Education Futures Institute	Panopto Recording	Slides (Microsoft PowerPoint) Handouts 10 Qualities of Inclusive Educators (Microsoft Word) Breakout Group Task (Microsoft Word)
Synchronous or asynchronous teaching? Deciding when to use which	Gabi Witthaus and Melanie Roxby-Mackey, HEFi Digital, CAL	Panopto Recording	Slides (Microsoft PowerPoint)
Decolonising the curriculum through resource lists	Polly Harper, Michael Hart and Cai Lyons, Library Services	Panopto Recording	Slides (Microsoft PowerPoint) Handouts Decolonising and Diversifying Resource Lists (Microsoft Word)
How to write a good case study for D3 – Senior Fellow	Danielle Hinton, Higher Education Futures Institute	Panopto Recording	Slides (Microsoft PowerPoint)
Making Digital Content Accessible	Kelly Snape and Ian Wells, Higher Education Futures Institute	Panopto Recording	For slides and more information, visit the Making Digital Content Accessible Canvas course

Friday 10th July 2020

This table contains the titles, presenters' names, links to recordings of their session and any resources used for Friday 10th July of the HEFi Festival 2020.
Title	Delivered by	Recording	Resources
Good Practice in Personal Academic Tutoring – Let’s talk about online tutoring	Dionne Barton, Higher Education Futures Institute	Panopto Recording	Slides (Microsoft PowerPoint)
Techniques to engage students in online modules	Helen Greetham and Karol Kosinski, HEFi Digital	Panopto Recording	Slides (Microsoft PowerPoint)