Clare Wright (Senior Administrative Assistant, Mathematics Education Centre) has kindly made the University Calendar 2014/2015 available for use by all staff – this resource is accessible in pdf format via University Calendar (for staff) 2014-15. Further details regarding next academic year – including information from Student Enquiries with regard to Semester and term dates and from Human Resources in relation to holidays (pleaseRead more
Loughborough Students’ Union (LSU) is advertising a number of posts ahead of academic year 2014-15, one of which is for a Student Voice Consultant – Peer Support. This Peer Support Coordinator will work in partnership with staff and students across Loughborough University to promote and support Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) and Peer Mentoring schemes, as well as taking responsibilityRead more
Loughborough University’s newest National Teaching Fellow has highlighted teaching awards as a key driver in developing academics’ teaching careers. Speaking at the 2014 Teaching Innovation Awards, Dr Peter Willmot from the Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering talked of his delight when teaching received international recognition for developing researchers and engineers. Pro Vice ChancellorRead more
The annual Research-Informed Teaching Awards have now been made for 2014. There was considerable interest from across the University and the panel, chaired by the PVC (Teaching), including three ADTs and representatives from the Teaching Centre has made three awards. The award winners are: Jo Bullard, Professor of Physical Geography, Department of Geography, who isRead more
Congratulations to Dr Peter Willmot on being awarded a Higher Education Academy National Teaching Fellowship. The Higher Education Academy has announced today, 12th June, the 2014 National Teaching Fellows. The National Teaching Fellowships are the most prestigious awards for excellence in higher education teaching and support for learning. There were 180 nominations with 55 fellowshipsRead 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
Unsurprisingly they do. Research conducted in Belgium has identified a positive correlation between study time and performance in assessment. The research was conducted by Masui, Broeckmans, Doumen, Groenen and Molenberghs (2014) in the Faculty of Business Economics at Hasselt University, Belgium. It involved 168 participants (104 men and 64 women) across 14 courses. The results demonstrated that for theRead more
Delivered by the University of Saskatchewan (UofS), the Introduction to Learning Technologies course referred to in previous related posts this spring – i.e. Truly taking the MOOC and Truly taking the MOOC (Part 2) – has now concluded. Indeed, those of us participating in this, as well as a number of comparable courses over the past year, tabled a paper at Quality EnhancementRead more
Subject to parliamentary approval, on 1 June 2014, the UK will see copyright law amendments improving the situation for colleges, universities and other learning providers. In order to make best use of these provisions, Jisc Legal is offering two different events and an online training package. Find out more on their guidance page. Read more
The latest Times Higher Education contribution by Graham Gibbs is concerned with ‘student engagement’, a term which he sees as ubiquitous, before asking us to consider what it actually means, and whether it might help to improve learning. There is never a shortage of food for thought, reflection, and action when it comes to this author. ForRead more