This March’s Learning and Teaching Journal Club will look at teaching methods in the classroom for a particularly thorny topic – pharmacology. Should we flip and lecture, or should interactive problem solving be the way forward?Matthew Van Loo is presenting the paper. If you have ever wondered why the students find pharmacology challenging to learn (or any other core topic to your subject area), then this could be the session for you…
Planning for diversity with Universal Design for Learning
Here at Teesside University we now have a set of inclusivity principles to assist Schools, Departments and the University to plan for diversity across all aspects of the student experience. The adoption of a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) approach will support the creation of flexible ways of learning that also empower learners to develop both inside and outside the classroom…
Future Facing Learning Spaces Seminar
A significant amount of estates development is currently underway in UK colleges and universities at a time of major change for educational technology and modes of learning and teaching. This is evidenced by Teesside University’s own commitment to an extended programme of estates, infrastructure and pedagogic innovation. Changing educational requirements of increasingly diverse student populations have prompted…
Semester 2 Module Evaluations
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…
Practice-based Exemplars of Microsoft Teams
At the LTE conference held at Teesside University on March 7th 2019, the Digital Learning Team shared some Practice-based Exemplars of Effective use of Microsoft Teams in Learning and Teaching. The exemplars were well received and sparked some discussion among participants on how Teams could be meaningfully used and embedded within modules…
Discussions, events, fora and more – Join the TEA Party
The Teaching Excellence Alliance (TEA) invites you to join the TEA Network, hosted by the OneHE Platform. Once you have joined, discussions, events, fora and resources hosted on the platform will be available. Members of staff at TEA Universities can
TEA Webinar – Addressing the attainment gap for black and minority ethnic students
Addressing the attainment gap for black and minority ethnic students is the topic of the latest of the Teaching Excellence Alliance’s (TEA) webinar. There is a significant, persistent, and unfair attainment gap of approximately 15% between students from black, Asian
One Fifteen Talks – What Will Learning Look Like in the Future
MIMA is hosting the fourth in its series of One Fifteen talks, all of which are aligned with the University’s Research Grand Challenges. The talk, with Dr Ewan Ingleby and Dr Clive Hedges, will look at our current understandings of learning,
Learning and Teaching Journal Club – Teaching Methods in the Classroom
This March’s Learning and Teaching Journal Club will look at teaching methods in the classroom for a particularly thorny topic – pharmacology. Should we flip and lecture, or should interactive problem solving be the way forward?Matthew Van Loo is presenting the paper. If you have ever wondered why the students find pharmacology challenging to learn (or any other core topic to your subject area), then this could be the session for you…
Future Learning Spaces in Higher Education: Space, technology and pedagogy
To mark the publication of Advance HE’s Future Learning Spaces in Higher Education: Space, technology and pedagogy case study series, Dr. Sam Elkington (Teesside University, formerly of Advance HE), outlines in his latest blog post for Advance HE, the significance of working to better understand the interplay between space, technology and learning as an important, but overlooked dimension of teaching…