In this post, Dr. Sweta Ladwa provides an update on her 2016 Teaching Innovation Award and explains how peer based learning can be used within a laboratory based teaching environment. What is the problem, which you are trying address? In a laboratory-teaching environment, students are very much focused on getting to the end product of an experiment (whetherRead more
Six final year students from the School of Business and Economics (SBE) have shared their experiences of placements to help those now hunting for a place for next year. The students worked for a range of different companies, from KPMG to Nottingham Panthers. Their experiences had been very different with one exception – all saidRead more
An HEA STEM workshop entitled Practices in Peer Support – exploring alternative approaches to enhance the student experience was held just under a month ago on January 22nd in the Design Studio of the Centre for Design and Engineering Education. Various resources associated with this workshop (including each of the PowerPoint presentations given on the day) haveRead more
There can be some real pleasure in declaring a professional interest, and this is one of those occasions. Appearing less than a month ago in the International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, three colleagues – namely Francis Duah, Tony Croft and Matthew Inglis – from the Mathematics Education Centre here at Loughborough University have just published an articleRead more
With the support of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), the Teaching Centre is hosting an HEA Workshop and Seminar Series 2013-14 event on Wednesday, 22 January 2014. It will run that day from 10am to 4pm and it is being held here at Loughborough University in the Design Studio, Centre for Engineering and Design Education, KeithRead more