With the opportunity for students to complete NSS 2013 closing on 30 April, there are a number of strategies which colleagues across campus will be utilising over the remaining few weeks, including: lecture shouts delivered by student representatives – for more details, please contact Lazar Zindovic, LSU VP (Education), at vpeducation@lufbra.net the use of an LSU video promoting the NSS – available hereRead more
The Loughborough Student Charter, now in its second year, is increasingly establishing itself in the consciousness of staff and students across campus. Signed by both Prof Bob Allison (Vice Chancellor) and Ellie Read (LSU President), this document exemplifies the nature of the academic community that exists here at Loughborough University. In addition to being made available to new students in leaflet formRead more
If you’ve been using the SAP Twitter tools for Powerpoint, about which I blogged back in the autumn, you’ll be disappointed to here that because of a change to the Twitter service itself, they will soon stop working correctly, according to a newsflash on Timo Elliott’s website. There are some alternatives you might like toRead more
787,205 higher education qualifications were awarded by UK higher education institutions (HEIs) in 2011/12. Approximately half of these qualifications were first degrees, one third were postgraduate qualifications and one sixth were other undergraduate qualifications (such as foundation degrees, credits and diplomas of higher education). 39% of all qualifications were awarded in science subjects, althoughRead more
In the second article in this series surveying research evidence regarding teaching and learning, and this time under the headline “Teaching intelligence: contact hours and student engagement”, Graham Gibbs provides us with another thoughtful and insightful piece in this week’s Times Higher Education. Again, plenty of food for thought, cause for reflection, etc., and an invitation for us to consider ourRead more
Some ten years after they first appeared, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) articles by Peter Cantillon regarding the teaching of large groups and David Jaques on teaching small groups continue to be relevant today. This is not, as the BMJ might say, just about helping doctors to make better decisions, because the advice contained inRead more
The NSS questionnaire is relatively easy to understand for a final year undergraduate and hopefully self-explanatory. However, there will inevitably be some students with queries about the survey. A range of guidance is supplied to students by Ipsos MORI via the NSS website. These are included in the ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ (FAQs), information about theRead more
Further to the previous National Student Survey Discipline Reports posting (i.e. which pointed towards the STEM, Health Sciences, and Arts and Humanities discipline specific reports that the HEA has been publishing during the course of this year based upon NSS 2011 data), we now have a complete set with the publication of the Social Sciences reports: NSS Report for Business and Management NSS Report for EconomicsRead more
Hilary McDermott and Terry Dovey (both School of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences, Loughborough University) have just published an article entitled “A Strategy to Promote Active Learning of an Advanced Research Method” in the journal of Psychology Learning and Teaching. The abstract reads: “Research methods courses aim to equip students with the knowledge and skillsRead more
How do you incorporate critical thinking into your teaching? What techniques do you use to promote critical thinking? Are you willing to share your ideas with colleagues? Teaching Centre staff have recently begun work on the ‘Skills in the Curriculum’ project. Focussing on the acquistion, development and assessment of critical thinking, the project aims toRead more