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Personal Tutoring through StREAM

You will have seen the recent communication around StREAM, our new system which creates personalised engagement dashboards for students, and enables them to track their learning patterns and reach their full potential. Using data we already have, such as attendance, log-in activity and card swipes, StREAM will generate an overall engagement score providing students with a better understanding of how they are engaging with their studies, and where they can improve

Future Facing Learning iPad Deployment – XMA Case Study

XMA (our commercial partners) have released a new case study on the FFL iPad deployment. Watch the video….

Digital Certifications

We’re now facilitating opportunities every Wednesday afternoon for staff and students to undertake not just the MCE certification, but also any Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) qualifications. Again, we are able to offer this thanks to our partners – Prodigy Learning. This is a great opportunity for everyone to gain formal certification of their digital skills..Read More

Student experience accolade for Teesside University

Professor Mark Simpson and Academic Registrar Jonathan Eaton (Centre), with event host and former BBC Political Editor Jim Hancock (left) and Mark Lee, CEO of category sponsors Communicorp, (right).

Teesside University has scooped a prestigious award for its ambitious initiative to digitally empower students and staff. The University won the Student Experience category at the annual Educate North Awards. It was in recognition of the Future Facing Learning initiative,

Postgraduate Research Experience Survey 2019

We will shortly be launching this year’s Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES). The survey will open on Friday 26 April and run until Friday 17 May. PRES is the only national survey of postgraduate research students’ experience. The results will allow you to compare students’ experience of postgraduate programmes both internally and against the national average and mission groups in order to be able to make changes that better meet their needs in future…

Launching the 2018/19 HEA Student Surveys at Teesside University

For the first time, Teesside University will this week launch three national student surveys coordinated by the Higher Education Academy (HEA). These surveys will broaden our understanding of the experiences of our students, allowing us to drive enhancements based on a robust evidence base. As national surveys, the results will allow Teesside University to benchmark the experiences of our students against the sector…

Teaching Excellence Alliance – Free CPD Opportunities!

The Teaching Excellence Alliance is a collaborative venture which brings together Alliance universities to promote excellent teaching and learning, and to better understand and define – as well as champion and showcase – excellent teaching at Alliance institutions. Read more

Student Learning Lunch – Teesside University Advance

Attention all first year students! Share your views to be entered into a free prize draw (click here for terms and conditions) to win up to £100 in Amazon vouchers. The Learning and Teaching Enhancement team want your views on

Digital Week – free Microsoft exams

You may have seen the recent article on the University website about the success of the Microsoft Certified Educator (MCE) exams that were held during the Learning & Teaching Conference earlier this month when 27 staff successfully achieved MCE certification.

Learning and Teaching Journal Club – managing work stressors, focusing on balancing teaching and research

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…