Assessment designs that consider future professional landscapes for HE graduates, need to recognise that as our world changes, so too our learning, teaching and assessment practices must find new forms to help support learners not just react to current trends or to repeat dominant patterns of thinking, but be capable of constructively reappraising their approaches…
There is much literature around student engagement that focusses around partnerships with students and pedagogic practices that help to ‘engage’ students. These provide valuable contributions to the field of student engagement and subsequent successes that students enjoy. Teesside University’s commitment to student engagement, retention and success is…
Online learners can become stressed for a range of different reasons. This could be due to an unmanageable working environment, time constraints or their mental wellbeing. The following tips should provide you with some helpful advice to give your students whilst they are studying online…
Blended learning approaches use multiple methods to deliver learning. This type of learning offers students a chance at self-directed learning, as well as digital literacy. It is also a more flexible approach to online learning. There may be times in the near future when you will have to switch between online learning to face-to-face learning…
At Teesside we seek to empower our students to deliver impact on a global scale through Future Facing Learning experiences that provide our learners with the knowledge, skills, and tools to achieve sustainable success in the workplaces of the future. The recent pivot to online learning and teaching has called upon our capacity to reimagine frameworks for practice and…
Providing online meetings and webinars in a way that most people can access and engage with can be challenging. The following provides some simple tips everyone can adopt to ensure the technology is best used to enhance the experience for all participants…
Personal Tutoring is a key component of the student journey and has the potential to significantly influence the student learning experience, promote effective student engagement and thereby improving retention and achievement…
It can be hard work and very tiring taking part in live online sessions for hours at a time, day after day, without a break. We need our webinars, classes and meetings to be as effective, engaging and enjoyable as possible…
Blackboard comes with a few different approaches to downloading your student submissions. This article looks at two different methods, and will take you through the steps needed…
When a module has more than one assignment, we often create weighted totals. For example, one assignment might count towards 70% of the final mark. The other assignment might count towards the remaining 30%. Blackboard can calculate this for you, saving you time and effort…
