How do you incorporate critical thinking into your teaching? What techniques do you use to promote critical thinking? Are you willing to share your ideas with colleagues? Teaching Centre staff have recently begun work on the ‘Skills in the Curriculum’ project. Focussing on the acquistion, development and assessment of critical thinking, the project aims toRead more
TurnItIn have released two new tools to support the evaluation of web-based resources; a review of the sources actually used and an interactive tool for the evaluation of resources. These should be useful as tutorial-level discussion pieces and lend some objectivity to assessing the worth of the Web. “Open access to this new interactive rubricRead more
There are two free workshops coming up soon in this popular series aimed specifically at home students: Coherent Writing (6th March) and Grammar and Punctuation (13th March). Coherent Writing: this workshop is for home students who would like to improve their communication in writing. By the end of the session, participants will be better able to logicallyRead more
It is readily apparent that colleagues across campus are seeking various means to communicate with each other, and indeed beyond this institution. These include blogs, but what are they exactly? In essence, a blog is “an online diary”, “a Web site containing the writer’s or group of writers’ own experiences, observations, opinions, etc., and often having images and links toRead more