Did you know you can create knowledge check quizzes using Microsoft Forms? Knowledge check quizzes can be a great way to keep track of how well your students are retaining the information you are teaching them. This is important when teaching online, as you are then able to offer extra support to the students that need it…
Did you know there are some great practical tips to help you get started with the transition to learning and teaching online? Making the transition can be a daunting prospect, and not knowing where to start can make the transition even more difficult. Below are some quick-start tips to help you get started, and more in-depth help and can be found by visiting the Digital Delivery: Learning and Support site…
Did you know you can use Microsoft Teams to help you bring conversations, content and apps together in one place to help facilitate online distance learning? With Teams, you can create collaborative classrooms, personalise learning with assignments, connect with colleagues, and communicate with students…
Do you have an idea for researching an aspect of your teaching practice but you are unsure how to develop it into an actionable project? Are you new to pedagogic research and want to gain a better understanding of the available frameworks and methodologies? Perhaps you are interested in developing a new pedagogic research programme and are looking for ways of developing a wider, inter-disciplinary, focus? Whatever your focus, as educators we need to understand what approaches and strategies enhance student learning and engagement, and to be able to effectively assess the impact of our teaching and learning strategies….
A reminder that booking for the Learning and Teaching Conference: Enhancing Student Success for Education 4.0, closes on Tuesday 3rd March 2020 at 5pm.
The Conference will take place on Thursday 5th March 2020
At the Learning and Teaching conference on Thursday 5th March 2020, Dr Sam Elkington (Principal Lecturer – Learning & Teaching, Academic Registry) will be presenting a session on Partnership Success Stories: Students as Researchers. The Students as Researchers Scheme (SARS) provides opportunities for undergraduate and postgraduate students to work as paid research assistants on a variety of discipline and pedagogic research projects across Schools and Departments. In this student-led session, we hear, first-hand, about the personal experiences of past and current Student Researchers
There has been much focus on Personal Tutoring over the last two years. The University’s Personal Tutoring Code of Practice, providing a consistent approach across the University, was implemented in September 2018 and this academic year has seen the launch of StREAM – the learner analytics platform pulling together individual student data reflecting their level of engagement. We have been fortunate to secure two speakers at the forthcoming LTE Conference (taking place on Thursday 5th March) who will be presenting around these areas.
At the Learning and Teaching conference on Thursday 5th March 2020, Dr Anne Llewellyn will be presenting a session on Enhancing Student Health and Wellbeing in the curriculum.This session will discuss the value of embedding resources in the curriculum to help to prevent some of the significant impact of social and academic transitions into higher education. Resources such as the AMOSSHE Resilience toolkit will be explored within a holistic model of student wellbeing which integrates personal identity into a constructivist paradigm of knowledge gain and skills development. Thursday 5th March is also University Mental Health Day and running alongside this year’s conference are two workshops.
Module Evaluations are designed to inform the enhancement of learning and teaching across the University, and therefore contribute to the delivery of an outstanding student and learning experience.
Through engaging staff and students in the evaluation and reporting process, module evaluations stimulate meaningful dialogue concerning pedagogic practice and the student experience.
The module survey window for Semester 2 will open on Monday 9th March and close on Sunday 22nd March 2020.
Booking is now open for the next LTE Conference, taking place on Thursday 5th March. The keynote speaker will be Johnny Rich, Chief Executive of the Engineering Professors’ Council and renowned HE policy commentator, who will be talking about ‘What is success?’
