The blog is dead – long live the blog!

[Reposted] After over 4 years of regular posting, we’ve now taken the decision to merge the Loughborough E-learning Blog into the Teaching and Learning Blog. This reflects the fact that e-learning is no longer seen as a standalone activity but is increasingly embedded into mainstream teaching and learning. There is a wealth of historical postsRead more

Learning from our students

Sometimes we overlook the obvious, so eager are we to begin our taught sessions where time is at a premium, and it takes our students to pull us up short.

We know who we are, we know a university as prestigious as Loughborough would not ask us to teach without checking our credentials for such a key role, and yet sometimes we forget the most basic of essentials.

Students from PHIR and Social Sciences collaboratively exploring with staff ways of engaging students when teaching large groups said respect was essential, and produced one simple tip. “To earn our respect, tell us who you are. Please introduce yourself.”

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BUFVC training course “Think Visual: video storytelling in education” – a short report

Photo of Millais' 1871 painting of a seafarer telling tales to a youthful Walter Raleigh

Millais ‘Boyhood of Raleigh’ – storytelling visually…

I was not expecting our 2013 LSU Exec video to feature as part of my training day last week at the British Universities Film and Video Council.

As part of a session discussing ‘how to use video to market your university’, a link from a frothing-at-the-mouth article in the Daily Mail took us to this infamous video. How we laughed. Whilst this video received the group’s strongest reaction of the day, and was so bad technically as to make the pro videographers (and anyone with a love of music) beg the presenter to stop it, it did highlight one of the main points of the day: authenticity.

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Assessment and feedback – developing new solutions to an old problem

transforming

Jisc’s Assessment and Feedback Programme has been exploring ways in which technology can be used to address student dissatisfaction with feedback and assessment. Ros Smith, drawing upon this work, identifies four common problem areas, providing examples of interventions being developed to address each (Smith’s original blog post can be accessed here).

Problem 1

 “assessment and feedback is by and large devolved to individual curriculum areas, making it hard for institutions to provide a consistent assessment experience and harder still to implement on any scale the enhancements technology can bring.”

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Lecture Capture event at Loughborough 17th December

On Wednesday December 17th the Centre for Academic Practice is holding its second lecture capture mini-conference, open to both Loughborough staff and external delegates. Entitled Lecture Capture: Building the Evidence Base,  the workshop will provide participants with an opportunity to engage in conversation around the evidence base for the value of lecture capture, stimulated by informalRead more