Loughborough staff: we now have a confirmed date and venue for the annual E-learning Showcase – Friday 1st February 2013 in the newly refurbished Brockington Extension. The event should have even more to offer than previously as for the first time it incorporates the annual Teaching Innovation Award presentations. I’ll post more details about the format andRead more
In the Sunday Times University Guide 2013, History at Loughborough has been ranked 5th, ahead of many other top competitors. Many congratulations to Prof Chris Szejnmann and his colleagues within the department of Politics, History and International Relations. This is a fantastic achievement for a small team that is committed to teaching excellence, as isRead more
Over the summer, the Brockington Extension was refurbished resulting in some of the most imaginative teaching and informal learning spaces on campus. I took a look yesterday for the first time with a couple of Teaching Centre colleagues, with a view to using it for the forthcoming E-learning Showcase (about which more soon). It wasRead more
If you find the E-learning Blog useful, you might also like to visit (and bookmark) the Teaching and Learning Blog, which is where we’re now posting items that relate to teaching, learning and assessment more generally. You’ll find it at: https://blog.lboro.ac.uk/teachingandlearning/Read more
Prof Chris Szejnmann, who features regularly in case studies on this blog, has been trialling a combination of learning technologies in the last few weeks on one of his History modules. BoB (Box of Broadcasts) has been particularly useful for him as it has so much valuable source material for use in the teaching room.Read more
If you’re a first-time teacher, perhaps a PhD student who has been asked to do a few hours, you may well find the prospect pretty daunting. The Teaching at Kent blog, run by Kate Bradley, has a series of posts aimed at first-time teachers in which experienced lecturers answer some of the questions you’re likelyRead more
Colleagues may not be aware that the Higher Education Academy offers travel grants to attend teaching and learning events. A number of staff and students across campus have made successful applications for these small travel grants in the past, so this posting is to draw you attention to some changes to the criteria for 2012-13. There are three streams: students attending teaching and learningRead more
It’s the annual JISC online conference this week and I’ve just been watching today (via Blackboard Collaborate) a striking presentation by Mark Stubbs who’s the Head of Learning and Research Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University. In this talk he described how MMU have been going through a complete UG curriculum re-write process in just 3Read more
The Higher Education Academy has just published a report entitled Making it count: Reflecting on the National Student Survey in the process of enhancement. As the HEA says, this report “provides suggestions and reflections on the role that the NSS can play in the enhancement of learning and teaching”, and argues that it is often overlooked as an enhancementRead more
The 1994 Group recently published a report entitled A multi-dimensional student experience. It summarises discussions which took place earlier this year within the 1994 Group’s Policy Forum 2012, and outlines issues and ideas that it says “need to be explored by institutions and policy makers alike to ensure truly immersive student experiences that begin well before applications are made and extendRead more