After seven weeks' filming on both sides of the Atlantic, Epigeum's video team has finished shooting footage for two of our forthcoming projects: Research Integrity and University Leadership and Management.

In total, 68 academics and students have shared their expertise and experiences for these two projects: their collective stories and suggestions will form a wonderful resource to enrich and enliven the courses. We have also been collaborating with a film production company to create video dramas for the University Leadership and Management programme, and have just taken receipt of the final edited files.

We are delighted with the results from both aspects of the filming, and are excited about working this new material into the courses as we prepare them for release next year.

Epigeum releases new University and College Teaching online training program

Courses designed for new faculty, graduate teaching assistants, and adjunct instructors and lecturers.

LONDON, UK - November 21, 2011 - Epigeum today released their latest training program, University and College Teaching, the result of a collaborative effort between 17 universities worldwide and Epigeum, the leading publisher of online training courses for higher education faculty, researchers, and students.

The University and College Teaching program is designed to provide training in conjunction with face-to-face workshops or online instructor training programs offered by college campuses, and contains 9 courses of two hours each, plus 180 additional hours of associated activities. The courses are a unique blend of rigorous course content alongside interactive activities, all firmly rooted in the latest online pedagogic theory. According to David Babington-Smith, CEO of Epigeum, "the overarching goal of the University and College Teaching program is to enable instructors to deliver compelling courses that will ensure student success."

Contributors include well-known faculty practitioners such as: Graham Gibbs of Oxford University; Marilla Svinicki of the University of Texas at Austin; Nancy Chism from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Mike Theall of Youngstown State University and Barbara Gross Davis from the University of California, Berkeley, among others. Course topics include effective lecturing, resources to enhance student learning, making the most of discussion, supervising projects and dissertations, giving feedback, designing a course, and teaching with patients.

About Epigeum

Epigeum was founded in 2005 as a spin-out company from Imperial College London. Epigeum's aim is to help faculty staff, and students in academic institutions fulfill their potential by providing top-quality online courses in key skill areas such as teaching, studying, research, and leadership and management. Epigeum's course catalog currently extends to 39 courses, with a further 15 in production. All Epigeum courses are built in collaboration with leading experts and top universities and colleges around the world.

CONTACT:

North America:

Eric Shotwell, Sales Manager, Epigeum

Phone: +1 248 660-9449

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UK and Europe:

Wendy Harbottle, Sales and Marketing Manager, Epigeum

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With the imminent end of the financial and academic year, places are going fast in all Epigeum's new collaborations and 'early-bird' offers.

"We are experiencing a real step change in behaviour, as universities invest in online training to drive up the quality of their teaching and research. They want to show their students, who are paying ever-increasing fees, that they are passionate about the quality of education they deliver," says David Babington-Smith, CEO. "It's an exciting sign that Higher Education is now getting to grips with how online training can transform the quality of what they do."

"They also want to meet the increasing training requirements of the research funders, and demonstrate that training (in topics such as integrity and enhanced employability) is being delivered right across campus."

"Over the last 12 months, we have seen a real increase in universities implementing plans for campus-wide, online training, in the US, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. It's across the board. The types of training include teaching skills, online instruction, leadership, research skills and research integrity. We have also observed a small but increasing number of universities placing training within the context of internally-accredited programmes. This increased provision of professional training, already well established in many corporate and governmental institutions, could transform the competitive space within Higher Education."

Evidence of this trend is demonstrated by the record number of universities signing up to Epigeum's new content creation collaborations. "Our Research Integrity collaboration, which starts next month, will be our largest ever collaboration", adds David Babington-Smith. "22 universities have joined the group, many of them leading research institutions in their own countries. I believe the question of others following will not be if, but when."

Epigeum has also experienced a rush of universities licensing its new University and College Teaching online programme. Whilst estimates vary, in many institutions the number of teaching faculty who receive no concerted, formal training in teaching skills is massive. "The days of providing untrained faculty and charging high student fees are clearly numbered", says David. "Online training, at last, provides senior university administrators and faculty developers with the tools needed to transform training across campus. For institutions that exist to meet the world's passion for education, it's great to see them getting passionate about training themselves!"

For more information on joining Epigeum collaborations, or the University and College Teaching programme, please contact:

Wendy Harbottle
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Find out how to develop flexible CPD Schemes that allow your staff to achieve accreditation by professional bodies such as the HEA.

Dr Mark Weyers from the UCL Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching at University College London will be holding a webinar to demonstrate a case study on the development of a non-credit bearing CPD Scheme (which has been accredited by the HEA). The scheme is developed around a work-based learning model and provides flexible pathways (e.g. Leadership of Learning route; e-Learning route; Teaching & Learning route) that allow staff to achieve HEA accreditation at Standard I, II or III. Furthermore, bespoke and discipline-specific courses within these pathways can be developed from the scheme using the same 'online content' (i.e. 'Learning Units') simply by adapting the learning process, the ways that participants engage with the content and how they apply it to their own context.

Mark will also talk about how the flexibility of online course material and basic course frameworks can be streamlined to each university's specific requirements. Online content can be re-developed, re-purposed and adapted for various mediums of training, and built into a very effective blended learning programme. Mark will demonstrate his ongoing work in this area at UCL.

Find out what possibilities are open to help your university deliver ambitious and exciting training, which is professionally recognised world-wide.

The webinar will take place on these dates:

Friday 8th July
3.00 - 3.30pm UK time (British Summer Time BST) - London
10.00 - 10.30am US East Coast (Eastern Daylight Time - EDT) - New York

Friday 22nd July
2.30 - 3.00pm UK time (British Summer Time BST) - London
9.30 - 10.00am US East Coast (Eastern Daylight Time - EDT) - New York

Friday 29th July
2.30 - 3.00pm UK time (British Summer Time BST) - London
9.30 - 10.00am US East Coast (Eastern Daylight Time - EDT) - New York

Please click on the following link to register:

http://www.epigeum.com/epigeum-webinars