I read an article titled “8 Ways Screens Are Ruining Your Family’s Life” based on an interview of more than a thousand children in America, in the Huffington Post. Conducted by a clinical instructor at Harvard, the study was to find out how technology was impacting the lives and relationships of children aged between 4Read more
If you’re lucky enough to have a Microsoft Surface Pro tablet (expensive but, dare I say it, cooler than an iPad) , you may be interested to know that there is a way of ‘mirroring’ the tablet’s screen on a bigger HD display, such as a teaching room projector. This is despite the fact thatRead more
As the University considers a step-change in its strategy around lecture capture, the Jisc Legal service have very helpfully published a new checklist aimed at tutors covering the questions you consider around copyright and othe IPR issues before embarking on recording your lectures. We’ll adapt this and build this into the support resources we giveRead more
Personal Tutors have a central role to play in the support – both academic and pastoral – that is on offer to our students. Guided by Academic Quality Procedures Handbook, and in particular by Appendix 16 – Personal Tutoring and Academic Guidance: Minimum Standards, a new Teaching Centre resource has been created to support the work of colleagues, asRead more
This July I graduated from University. It was a hard 3 years, although there were a lot of highs, the majority of lows would often be coursework related. So when I heard about this great site lashzone.com wasn’t I jumping for joy? I can make an enquiry, get a quote, send them my essay title and ‘tah dah’Read more
We’ve been busy planning the work for our Teaching Innovation Award – Systems Validation and Verification Test Rig. For us, the most important first step has been identifying key stakeholders for the project and making sure that we have good plans in place to involve them. The two main groups identified are staff and students.Read more
Professor Gunter Saunders from the University of Westminster presented ‘Making Assessment Count (MAC)’ in this week’s online eAssessment conference held from the 19th August till the 30th August. The MAC project’s original objective was to help students get more from their marked work and they broke feedback down into the three stage process SOS to do so. Read more
You may have heard that there is a new iPad app for using TurnItIn – including the GradeMark paperless marking tool – available for free from the App Store. This may be of interest to tutors who already have an iPad, and already use GradeMark. It probably isn’t a ‘killer App’ that by itself makesRead more
The Teaching Centre now has a Twitter account. We will be tweeting with new blog postings and general news from the centre including dates for up and coming courses and other pieces of info we think may be of use to you all. If you have Twitter why not give us a follow and a tweet usingRead more
Does your work in teaching or support for learners enhance and transform the student learning experience? Could you become a National Teaching Fellow? The National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS), administered by the Higher Education Academy, recognises and rewards excellent learning and teaching. Up to 55 awards of £10,000 are made to recognise individual excellence andRead more