The Equality Challenge Unit (ECU), a body that centres on advancing equality and diversity across universities and colleges, has updated its online resources for academics. As the ECU says, these tools are aimed at “ensuring that higher education institutions are inclusive and accessible, and encourage good relations between the diverse groups that study, work, or otherwise engage with them”.Read more
The Teaching Centre – set to be relaunched on October 3rd as the Centre for Academic Practice – and the Graduate School are in the process of appointing a Research Staff and Student Development Adviser. As the job description says, the successful candidate will be asked: “To contribute to the strategic objectives of the University byRead more
Over the last year we’ve been looking at different ways in which tablets can be used in learning and teaching. Last autumn we held a tablets workshop at which Ola Aiyegbayo from the University of Huddersfield gave a presentation based on his research project in this area. He’s just released an infographic animation setting outRead more
The recently published Higher Education Academy (HEA) report by Mick Healey, Abbi Flint and Kathy Harrington entitled Engagement through partnership: students as partners in learning and teaching in higher education (York: HEA, 2014) makes for very interesting reading. In declaring that engaging “students and staff effectively as partners in learning and teaching is arguably oneRead more
The Teaching Centre is changing….. On 3rd October 2014, the Teaching Centre will become the Centre for Academic Practice. The new Centre will support all academic and academic related staff, research staff, staff with a teaching-related remit and PGRs with their academic practice. Drop in and find out more on: Friday 3rd October 2014 RutlandRead more
Appearing in Enhancing Learning in the Social Sciences (ELiSS), a practice paper entitled “‘A Picture Is Worth 10,000 Words’: A Module to Test the ‘Visualization Hypothesis’ in Quantitative Methods Teaching” has just been published by Paola Signoretta, Marty Chamberlain and John Hillier (School of Social, Political and Geographical Sciences, Loughborough University). The abstract reads: “Inadequate quantitative methods (QM) training provision for undergraduateRead more