On Wednesday December 17th the Centre for Academic Practice is holding its second lecture capture mini-conference, open to both Loughborough staff and external delegates. Entitled Lecture Capture: Building the Evidence Base, the workshop will provide participants with an opportunity to engage in conversation around the evidence base for the value of lecture capture, stimulated by informalRead more
Congratulations to all those that were nominated and won awards at the Loughborough Academic Awards (LAAs) for their brilliant teaching! Teaching award winners were: Extra Mile – Scott Varney (Social Sciences) E-Learning – Dr Julie Holland (Business and Economics) Agent of Change – Dr Zulfikar Adamu (Civil and Building Engineering) Inspiration – Dr Sarah Mills (Geography)/ Dr Nick Freeman (English and Drama) Personal TutorRead 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
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
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
USE OF IMAGES The heart of my challenge to Death by PowerPoint (DBP) is images. Many others use pictures; most frequently it is an image that accompanies text and is descriptive. It normally is a subset to the slide and the text. My use of images inverts this. I use images as the illustrator andRead more
Loughborough is launching a new ‘mini MOOC’ on the Futurelearn platform. Getting to grips with mathematical symbolism is aimed at those who are considering studying science or engineering foundation courses at university level but who currently lack skills in maths. For further information see the in-depth post over on the E-learning Blog.Read more
Please note that the closing date for submission of documentation relating to Teaching Innovation Awards is Friday 7th March 2014, directly to the Teaching Centre. For applications relating to Research-informed Teaching Awards, the closing date is Monday 28th April 2014. Further details on Teaching Innovation Awards can be found on the Teaching Centre website. FurtherRead more
It is well recognised that there are limitations and issues in the use of the UK honours degree classification system (e.g. current grade classifications do not provide sufficient information to distinguish between graduates). The adoption of a single GPA system, as commonly used in many countries, could provide key benefits including a finer granularity ofRead more