(This post follows on from the Free tools for Teaching – name randomiser post.) Here Radmehr Monfared talks about how he uses the free Doodle scheduling tool to organise lab sessions: Have you ever set up lab sessions for students when there are many sessions but each student has to attend only one? You usuallyRead more
Dr Radmehr Monfared is a Lecturer in Intelligent Automation within the Wolfson School. In conversation with a Teaching Centre colleague Radmehr mentioned a couple of free online tools he has been using to support his teaching. Here is Radmehr describing the first scenario: It is always a dilemma how to choose a student to answerRead more
The first free, open, online platform for courses from multiple UK universities and other leading higher education institutions has announced a further five partners today (3 May), including Loughborough University and the British Museum. Loughborough and the British Museum join Strathclyde and Glasgow universities, alongside 17 other universities, the British Council and British Library, asRead more
The Higher Education Academy (HEA) has just launched a new online New to Teaching Toolkit for staff who are starting out on, or returning to, a Higher Education (HE) career which will involve teaching. It includes guidance, literature and exercises in a number of areas including assessment and feedback, as well as large and small group teaching. In doing so, itRead more