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Our annual Teaching & Learning Conference in April 2016 signalled growing partnership between our staff and students.听

With more than 600 participants, the conference attracted a record number of students, and of the 100 presentations 22 were from students.听

They included Tobias B眉schel, an MSc computer science student, who used Slack听鈥� a cloud-based team collaboration tool 鈥� to vastly improve communication about his course among his classmates. In just six months, students on his programme sent at least 116,000 messages and shared more than 2,600 files using the tool. Tobias told the conference: 鈥淚 thought if Slack works for start鈥搖ps, why not for higher education too.鈥�

He is now one of the 乱伦秀 ChangeMakers 鈥� an initiative which involves teams of students and staff working together to investigate an issue at 乱伦秀 and make improvements 鈥� and is working on creating a Slack community for all students in the computer science department.

Professor Anthony Smith, Vice-Provost (Education and Student Affairs) told the conference he was delighted with the way the university had engaged with the vision of 乱伦秀 2034 and that core to this was the ambition of making 乱伦秀 鈥渢he best place in the world for the integration of research and education and giving our students an outstanding experience鈥�.

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^{Professor Anthony Smith, speaking at the conference}

As part of the conference, 14 members of staff were presented with their Provost's Teaching Award, while 10 received a Student Choice Teaching Award, for which students made up the judges. The winners have been profiled on the 乱伦秀 Teaching and Learning Portal.

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