As many of you will know, in July 2019 we ran the first annual Teesside University Digital Learning Conference; a national event with attendance from across the education and business sectors. The conference was a great success and, naturally, we were very much looking forward to our second event in July 2020…
Academic staff will now have received a copy of the Resilience Review Tool and Academic Enhancement Framework (Hybrid Model), as well as a variety of Practice Guide resources focused around four core themes (Personal Tutoring, Student Engagement, Flexible Assessment, and Creative Learning)…
From September 2020, the University will adopt a hybrid delivery model consisting of on-campus and online delivery, aligned with Government social distancing restrictions. This model is distinctive from existing forms of online or blended delivery…
It is for us as educators to decide the role creativity plays within our courses and modules in preparing our students for increasingly uncertain future professional lives. The following prompts are designed to support reflection and inform action and can provide a useful source of data from which to evidence or benchmark current practice, progress, and impact, or to inform planning and/or decision making for future curriculum developments…
UKAT recognise that personal tutoring/academic advising personalises learning, promotes student persistence, enhances success, and helps address differential attainment, supporting a student’s academic progress and personal development throughout their University career…
“Active learning focuses on how students learn, not just on what they learn.”. It is a process where students are encouraged to actively participate in gaining deep understanding of a topic, rather than receiving information from the tutor only. this construction of knowledge and consequently understanding of that knowledge requires learning to be active where their learning is challenged…
Review is Teesside University’s lecture capture solution and a great tool to utilise through the transition to hybrid learning. It gives a straightforward approach to recording lectures and other video content that your students can access in their own time. This greatly enhances the student experience, and the rich video content will most certainly be of benefit to all students…
Academic staff will have by now received a copy of the Resilience Review Tool and Academic Enhancement Framework (hybrid model). LTE is here to support you with a range of services. The LTE Team is fully committed to doing everything we can to support colleagues with transitioning their teaching and learning…
Connect More is an event ran by Jisc every year and is an opportunity to explore new ways to elevate the student experience, which is especially important during this challenging time. It will return this summer as a free online nationwide event, running on 16th, 17th and 18th June…
When we refer to flexibility in learning, we usually focus on flexible instruction: we strive to implement instruction that supports more flexibility in time, space, pedagogy, and technology (Jones-Devitt, 2020). However, being flexible allows us to change more than our instruction…
