The Higher Education Academy Subject Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism HLST Network SPRIG Conference Glasgow 12th

1. The Higher Education Academy SubjectHospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism(HLST) NetworkSPRIG ConferenceGlasgow12th September 2008John BuswellUniversity of GloucestershireHE Academy Liaison Officer for Leisure

2. Resources to Support Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism hlst@brookes.ac.uk

3. HLST Network: What is it? Established in 2000 Focus on HE (including HE in FE) 1 of 24 subject networks that previously made up the Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN) Aim to: “encourage and broker the sharing of good learning and teaching practice across our subject areas of UK higher education”

4. Network Core Team Liaison Officers Institutional Partners Departmental Contacts

5. HLST Network: What does it do? Resources - mixture of print and electronic but almost everything accessible from the website Projects – bidding for funds to run our own (e.g. employer engagement) and offer funds for academic departments to run small-scale projects and now Subject Specific Guides Events – workshops, conferences, meetings etc Brokerage/liaison e.g new 14-19 Diplomas

6. Resources > Publications LINK Newsletter published 3 times per year Themed Link 22 Employability Link 23 Supporting students Link 24 Methods and approches to Assessment Practice-based; approaches; reports; discussions; Print; available on website as PDF or HTML http://www.hlst.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/publications.html

7. Resources > Publications JoHLSTE Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Education Peer-reviewed, international e-journal Papers: academic, practice, research note, comments, perspectives Freely available Electronic only Aimed at staff; may be of interest to students researching the curriculum, teaching etc http://www.hlst.heacademy.ac.uk/johlste

8. Resources > Resource Guides Concise guide to the relevant resources within a particular topic Subject based, e.g. Events Mgt; Sports History; Leisure and Society, or learning and teaching based, eg. Employability or PDP Aimed at staff, also used by students Pay £500 for each guide published http://www.hlst.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/resource_guides.html

9. Resources > Case Studies Short and sweet! Case studies of learning and teaching practice Grouped by keyword, eg. ‘Assessment’; ‘Groupwork’; ‘Vocational Relevance’ Really useful in providing ideas and prompts for different ways of doing things Pay £30 book tokens for each case study http://www.hlst.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/cases/case_studies.html

10. Book Series (HLST and BMAF) Enhancing Graduate Employability (2006) Pending Enhancing Internationalisation Enhancing Student-Centred Learning

11. Other Resources > In Resources Section: Catalogue of new publications - online listing of new and forthcoming HLST texts and links to publishers In Current Activities Section: Archive Resources -Events archive: reports/presentations from previous events http://www.hlst.heacademy.ac.uk/events/archive.html -What’s New archive: past items of news and current interest http://www.hlst.heacademy.ac.uk/current/archive.html

12. Services External Examiner Register He in Fe resource exchange Website and monthly update - news, events, funding Departmental visits Links with subject associations

13. HLST Network Funded Projects > Over 40 projects funded to date Reports and resources linked to most of them Example: Introducing Problem Based Learning, and using viva assessments Now replaced by Subject Specific Guides http://www.hlst.heacademy.ac.uk/projects/networkfunded.html

14. Events > Annual Conference (September) Think Tank for e-learning (October) Course for New Staff (February) Student Conference (February/March) Workshop (April)

15. Websites The Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Network www.hlst.heacademy.ac.uk The Higher Education Academy www.heacademy.ac.uk