In a bid to ensure its graduates are job ready, Keele University has recently introduced a ‘development strand’ to complement the academic curriculum. Facilitatated by a review of degree structures at the institution, the ‘development strand’ encourages students to reflect on their personal learning and evidence their development throughout their studies. Rather than a set of aspirational graduate attributesRead more
Applications for Loughborough University’s Teaching Innovation Awards 2013 are now being invited from both academic staff and learning support staff. These awards support practice-based pedagogical projects that will make an innovative contribution to enhancing learning and teaching practice, and are linked to the University’s strategic priorities. The closing date for applications is Thursday, 7th March 2013. PleaseRead more
The E-learning Showcase 2013 will take place in Brockington Extension on Friday 1st February from 10am – 5pm. This year, for the first time, we’re running it together with the Teaching Innovation Award (TIA) presentations. The outline schedule is as follows: 10:00am – 12:00pm E-learning presentations 12:00pm – 1:30pm Exhibition and buffetRead more
The E-learning Showcase 2013 will take place in Brockington Extension on Friday 1st February from 10am – 5pm. This year, for the first time, we’re running it together with the Teaching Innovation Award (TIA) presentations. The outline schedule is as follows: 10:00am – 12:00pm E-learning presentations 12:00pm – 1:30pm Exhibition and buffet lunch 1:30pm – 5.00pm Teaching Innovation AwardRead more
Expanding on the hints and tips to help the creation of a screen casting project post, we can recommend a short clip to help with your screen casting preparation. This clip is produced by Techsmith, the creators of Camtasia. 01: Prepare, Script, Audio.Read more
What do we mean by the term ‘Student Engagement’? How do we measure it? How should be enable it? These are issues reflected on in a recent paper from Australia (Baron and Corbin, 2012). The authors report that student engagement is high on the priorities of some institutions because of a perception, particularly amongst academicRead more
Under the headline “Teaching intelligence: it is possible to avoid the negative mass effects”, and despite the ascerbic comments from some of its readers, Graham Gibbs provides an interesting and timely perspective in this week’s Times Higher Education on teaching large groups. The first in a series of articles regarding teaching and learning, these pieces should at least provide us allRead more
Under the headline “Teaching intelligence: it is possible to avoid the negative mass effects”, and despite the ascerbic comments from some of its readers, Graham Gibbs provides an interesting and timely perspective in this week’s Times Higher Education on teaching large groups. The first in a series of articles regarding teaching and learning, these pieces should at least provide us allRead more
If so, the 2013 HEA Social Sciences Annual Conference (23 May 2013 – 24 May 2013) may be of interest. The conference will be themed around the following areas: • Embedding research methods into the curriculum • Communicating quantitative methods • Teaching mixed methods • Assessment for learning in research methods • The useRead more
If so, the 2013 HEA Social Sciences Annual Conference (23 May 2013 – 24 May 2013) may be of interest. The conference will be themed around the following areas: • Embedding research methods into the curriculum • Communicating quantitative methods • Teaching mixed methods • Assessment for learning in research methods • The useRead more