Before the holidays, I attended part of a lecture by Clare Hutton from the English and Drama department who showcased The Waste Land app to her students. Clare is one of the recipients of a loan iPad and has been trialling it in a Teaching and Learning environment. For students studying TS Elliott’s notable poem,Read more
Introduction to Instructional Design for e-Learning ————————————————————— Date: 19th February & 27th March 2014 Location: Online This practical workshop explains methodologies behind effective instructional design – often referred to as the “holy grail of e-learning”. We will demonstrate how to use specific and appropriate development tools as well as provide strategies and techniques to supportRead more
A first edition of The Learning and Teaching ebook has become available on the International Staff website to which Loughborough University subscribes. Clearly written and offering a number of learning and teaching resources of use not just to academic staff new to Higher Education here in the UK, this text is available in a numberRead more
Moments after registering for the University of Saskatchewan’s new MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) – or, as they term it, a TOOC (Truly Open Online Course) – I have that sense of forboding that only a New Year’s resolution can bring. But, by now blogging about it, I may not be able to get out of it that easily, henceRead more
Yvonne Hamblin (Employability Development Manager, Careers and Employability Centre), who inter alia manages the Loughborough Employability Award, has drawn our attention to a recent Higher Education Academy (HEA) publication entitled Defining and developing your approach to employability: a framework for higher education institutions by Doug Cole and Maureen Tibby. As the Association of Graduate Careers and Advisory Services (AGCAS) reports: “ThisRead more
Further details regarding the HEA STEM workshop on Practices in peer support – exploring alternative approaches to enhance the student experience, which we are running in CEDE’s Design Studio here at Loughborough University on 22 January 2014, are now available online. Peer support sees students supporting other students in a number of different ways during the courseRead more
Entitled A national survey of UK HE STEM practitioners 2013, three Loughborough University colleagues – namely Melanie King, Claire Creaser and Janette Matthews – from the Centre for Engineering and Design Education (CEDE) have just published a report for the Higher Education Academy (HEA). As the online summary regarding this report states: “This survey ofRead more
It is not always easy to determine where R (Research), T (Teaching) and E (Enterprise) might begin and end, indeed whether this post should be on the e@lboro blog! Working in the School of Sports, Exercise and Health Sciences here at Loughborough, Dr. Maria Inês Varela-Silva is Director of The Maya Project within the Centre for Global Health andRead more
Many Universities across the world are strengthening their class attendance policies. In the UK it is a legal requirement to monitor the ‘engagement’ of some types of international students, but many institutions have also extended this monitoring to all types of students. Drawing on university policy statements, a paper by Macfarlane (2013) identifies implicitRead more
Friday saw the Teaching Innovation Awards Dissemination Event 2013. The event was held to celebrate the completion of the projects originally awarded in 2012 and completed by July 2013. The lunchtime event began with an introduction from the Pro- Vice- Chancellor (Teaching) Professor Morag Bell. The seven winners then gave short summaries of their projectsRead more