Formative assessment has been shown to considerably aid learning by providing students with feedback on how their learning is progressing before they engage with ‘high-stakes’ summative assessment. However, a common concern amongst staff (and students) is that it will be an additional burden in an already busy teaching schedule. A recent paper (López-Pastor, Pintor, MurosRead more
This year will see a major upgrade for BoB National (Box of Broadcasts), including new features and an improved user experience. These developments are a result of feedback received from users. The new BoB National will be launched in October 2013. The new features will include: – access to more than 500,000 new BBC TV andRead more
Equality and diversity are increasingly central considerations in all of the decisions we make and the actions we take as Loughborough University staff. The Equality Challenge Unit (which promotes equality and diversity across Higher Education) has created a specific set of resources for use by academic staff; this includes a briefing document regarding the legal context andRead more
Every so often, my colleague Martin Hamilton (Head of Internet Services) and I are asked by a University group to look again at the University’s policy on the use of Web 2.0 services to support Teaching and Learning. “Web 2.0” is an unsatisfactory term that covers a wide variety of tools out there on theRead more
Today researchers at UK universities will carry out 3D demonstrations on a ‘virtual patient’, showing how groundbreaking ultra high definition (UHD) technology is making a real difference to medical training and diagnosis. Already used by trainee radiographers at Cardiff University, UHD technology, using the UK’s research and education high-speed data network Janet, has the potentialRead more
The Peer Support at Lboro: Enhancing the Student Experience event, which is being jointly hosted by the Mathematics Education Centre and the Teaching Centre, will be held in James France (Room CC.1.11) from 1:30pm to 4:30pm on Wednesday, 24 April 2013. Further to the details posted previously regarding this Peer Support at Lboro event, we can nowRead more
If you’ve been contemplating giving lecture capture a go, you might be interested to know that we run regular ‘Introduction to ReVIEW’ staff development workshops. The next workshop takes place on Wednesday 24th April and places are still available. To book a place, go to http://pdwww.lboro.ac.uk/eventdetails.php?run=11618 .Read more
The field of higher education research has developed as an eclectic mix of theories and concepts brought in from the home disciplines of its researchers, typically psychology, sociology and philosophy. Consequently, those new to the literature can find it difficult to determine what is central and what is peripheral to the field. A recentRead more
Well, according to Google Analytics (click screenshot to the left), yes, there is! In fact between 5th April 2012 and 4th April 2013, there were 8801 visits to this blog, with 5723 unique visitors. So, the traffic is not quite at a level that would worry my IT Services colleagues, but it’s always reassuring toRead more
This is a question I often hear from academic colleagues. It’s very easy to set up a forum on your module page on Learn, and to post a question to your students, but these actions in themselves will not usually be enough to promote discussion. There has been plenty of academic research into this area,Read more