Getting the Most out of Assessment and Feedback – Monday 16th November 2020 @ 14:00hrs.
Academic colleagues will be supported to reflect on and craft a principled, evidence-informed approach to devising flexible assessment and feedback strategies, gaining valuable insights and practical guidance into ways they might optimise their own assessment practices for themselves and their students…
Effective feedback is more important than ever in instances where there is need to accommodate flexible study patterns and maintain productive student engagement in our hybrid learning environments. Folding in regular feedback opportunities is crucial for checking for individual understanding; giving students an indication of where they are in relation to achieving learning outcomes or standards…
The wide-ranging impacts of Covid-19 have increased the risk of student non-continuation. Students’ accounts of their experience during lockdown and of their isolation on return to university and college remind us of the extraordinary challenges they face, and of how little we know of the consequences for students’ successful transition to and through higher education…
We’ve created a series of videos that set out some key considerations for teaching through a hybrid model. The Principles of Course Design for Hybrid Learning Toolkit, available on Unity forms a benchmark to develop and maintain an academic offer
Do you want to be involved in an exciting opportunity to work on a Research Project? You will work in partnership with an academic project lead on a discipline or pedagogic piece of research. This will help you develop your research skills and useful general skills. You will be employed by Teesside University as part of your role and receive payment for your work. The 2020/2021 scheme is now open. The deadline for applications to be submitted is 00:00 hrs on 8th November 2020…
Earlier this year, educators needed to rapidly adapt to remote learning as lockdown forced institutions online and required tutors to replace their normal face-to-face teaching model. Effective online learning and teaching require advance planning, flexibility, accessibility, and engagement from all
Earlier this year, educators got an insight into remote and online learning as lockdown forced institutions online and required tutors to replace their normal face-to-face teaching model. Effective online teaching and learning requires advance planning, flexibility, accessibility, and engagement from
In June, the University introduced the Hybrid Model Academic Enhancement Framework matrix, which is available on the Academic Registry Unity site. This Academic Enhancement Framework (AEF) matrix is designed to support staff and students in understanding the expectations and key
Learning online can be a lonely experience. Students can miss the social aspects of studying and the in-person experience, so the role of the teacher becomes important to help students overcome barriers to learning, facilitate effective learning, increase retention and
Recently, as you’d expect at the start of the academic year, we’ve seen an increase in support requests with colleagues enquiring how best to provide lecture recordings to their students. Today’s blog post will therefore focus on the advantages of
