Followers of the Teaching and Learning Blog will have seen a number of previous references to the work of Graham Gibbs, but you now have the opportunity to receive weekly postings across the next year regarding his views on teaching, learning and assessment. Entitled ’53 Powerful Ideas All Teachers Should Know About’ and hosted by thesedablog, the firstRead more
The University’s Job Vacancies site is currently advertising for a Quality Enhancement/Learning and Teaching Project Officer. With a closing date of 6 May 2014, the job description points out that the “successful applicant will work to enhance the quality of learning and teaching and the student learning experience across the University. They will undertake this by leading orRead more
The tandem takes centre stage in illustrating a key question in the partnership of learning: which seat do each of us give our learners and which do we take for ourselves? The analogy formed part of Marcia Baxter Magolda’s talk at a recent Lifewide Learning event in London, where the conference artist illustrated her thoughts.Read more
A recent HEFCE report follows 130,000 home A-level students who entered university education in 2007-8. The report compares a number of factors which affect success at university, including: ethnicity, household income, state versus independent schooling, GCSE performance and overall school performance. This current report builds on previous work and affirms the previous findings that, although students from independentRead more
The Research-informed Teaching Award is designed to “recognise and celebrate academic staff who have made a sustained and outstanding contribution to the promotion of research-informed teaching at Loughborough University”. There have been a number of changes to the RiTA for this new call, including making this a more competitive process with no limits on theRead more
This is probably the least well done aspect of my PPT material. This said, it’s better than it used to be. There are ways to make numbers or statistics more appealing visually, but it gets harder the more numbers you have to include. At some point, you have to head for Infographics or stay withRead more
I have long known students aren’t always listening to us or looking at our slides, despite the feeling that if they are paying for something, they’d want to know what it was they were paying for. This logic doesn’t follow: there are dozens of digital distractions in a lecture theatre. A quiet walk around one,Read more
Supporting dissertation students and improving the ways we use technology to develop learning are at the heart of this year’s 2014 Teaching Innovation Awards winning bids. The Teaching Centre has invested a total of £18,443.26 in the winning projects to proactively enhance student learning not only in the six departments who won, but across the University.Read more
Screencastify, a new screencasting extension for Google Chrome.Read more
Text I’ve made images the heart of my slides and the L&T experience. Now I turn to the use of text. I have two things going on. One is text applied over images, the other is a different use of text on its own. For both I apply animation. I’ll deal with the technical aspectRead more