Earlier this week, Phil Race (Emeritus Professor, Leeds Metropolitan University) posted a reminder on his blog that his booklet for new lecturers working in Higher Education is readily available online. Entitled In at the deep end – starting to teach in higher education, he presents a number of easily adaptable ideas and useful suggestions regarding preparatory work,Read more
The Loughborough University Development Trust (LUDT) have recently put out their annual call for funding applications. Fuller details are available on the Lboro Noticeboard but, as that posting says, the “Loughborough Fund exists to provide support for projects that enhance the student experience. You can submit a bid for up to £5,000 at any time, andRead more
Paul Hernandez-Martinez (Mathematics Education Centre, Loughborough University) and Julian Williams (University of Manchester) recently published an article entitled “Against the odds: resilience in mathematics students in transition” in the British Educational Research Journal. The abstract reads: “This paper examines ‘resilience’ of mathematics students in transition from a sociocultural perspective, in which resilience is viewed asRead more
We’re holding a one-day lecture capture conference in the Keith Green Building on July 3rd, with the theme: Pedagogy, policy and support: taking lecture capture to the next level The event is intended for academics, learning technologists, IT staff, and A/V managers with an interest in the use of lecture capture and screencasting technologies. The packedRead more
There is some work going on across the University to establish a Code of Practice on Plagiarism Detection. Therefore, it’s probably timely to refresh our memories on issues surrounding plagiarism through these series of webinars from http://www.plagiarismadvice.org which deal with a range of subjects from identifying plagiarism in student work to case processing. For moreRead more
Provisionally entitled “Partnership between staff and students in Higher Education”, Grace Barker (University Mentoring Co-ordinator, Newcastle University) is giving a talk at 5pm on Monday, May 20th, in Room A.2.04 (Schofield). Organised by Dr Marcus Collins (Department of Politics, History and International Relations (PHIR)), this talk will centre on aspects of student engagement; if you are interestedRead more
Three years after it was first piloted, our ReVIEW campus lecture capture service has reached the milestone of 2000 captured lectures on the system, equating to over 4000 hours of content. My thanks go to colleagues in Teaching Support and IT Services for the great effort they have put into implementing and supporting this technically complexRead more
We will shortly be upgrading to the latest version of TurningPoint, version 5, in all teaching rooms equipped with a podium PC. If you have content created in earlier versions, you will still be able to use it, but when you open it in v5 you will need to confirm that you are happy toRead more
The Teaching Centre has now advertised for an intern, with further information regarding the post available at https://vacancies.lboro.ac.uk/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID%3d1720181H3O%1B&WVID=5913100PrZ&LANG=USA The post is fixed-term for one year and this vacancy is only open to current Loughborough University students who are graduating this academic year. The successful candidate will have a particular role to play in supporting e-learning initiatives,Read more
The Teaching Centre has now advertised for an intern, with further information regarding the post available here. The post is fixed-term for one year and this vacancy is only open to current Loughborough University students who are graduating this academic year. The successful candidate will provide support to the Teaching Centre team by working on variousRead more