Following funding from the University’s Enterprise Awards and from our own Teaching Innovation Awards, Lecturer in Publishing Studies, Melanie Ramdarshan launched Lamplight Press Publishing company in late September this year. ‘Lamplight Press is a not-for-profit general trade and academic publishing company dedicated to promoting new fiction, non-fiction and academic writing by students, academics and authorsRead more
A recent study, which reviewed surveys of the entire student experience in a large Australian metropolitan multi-campus university during 2005–2011, has highlighted the impact of two key areas on student satisfaction. The study found that: it is the total experience of the university that shapes students’ judgements, not just what happens in the classroomRead more
The Higher Education Academy announced on 8th October that it is publishing the results of its research into teaching excellence. The statement by the Chief Executive of the HEA, Prof Stephanie Marshall that “…an agreed definition of what constitutes teaching excellence would be very useful in the sector” seems innocuous enough but raises important questions aboutRead more
Venue: Rutland Building room 0:02 Date / time: 1 Nov 2013 14:00 – 15:00 Presenter: Ian Solomonides, Macquarie University, Sydney ‘She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but tooRead more
Defining the problem that you’re trying to solve is an important start for any project. September saw the hard work start on our project. It is very important to understand the problem which is to be solved and what the system needs to be able to do to address the problem. The majority of theRead more
The School of Business and Economics (SBE) is organising a pedagogic seminar on Wednesday, 9 October 2013, from 3:30pm to 5pm entitled “Measuring Student Engagement: Current trends and perspectives from research in Education and Psychology” to which colleagues are invited to attend. Led by Claire Kinsella (Department of Psychology, Edge Hill University), this seminar will focus on practicalRead more
As I tweeted earlier this morning, the French Ministry of Education has launched a new national MOOC platform for France, based on the open-source system from EdX. ‘France Universite Numerique’, if you don’t speak French (and can’t guess!), means ‘France Digital University’. This is in contrast with the UK where for the moment we haveRead more