As a current Link Tutor at Teesside University you are invited to attend this CPD session to support you in this activity.  Please note this session will take place online.

The Online Learning Designers contribute towards positioning Teesside University as a sector-leading catalyst for innovation and change, preparing the institutional terrain for the high impact adoption of Online Learning. For all online learning courses, the Academic Transformation Programme is an integral part of preparing for the course approvals process and the journey from course approvals to course launch.

A comprehensive training around the OL roadmap, process for module content design and creation, process for course development and impact on resources across schools, offering an in-depth understanding of managing an OL project from a school’s perspective.

As a current Link Tutor at Teesside University you are invited to attend this CPD session to support you in this activity.  

The University has conducted a review of Continuous Monitoring and Enhancement. This briefing will provide an update on the processes for all staff engaged with the delivery of learning and teaching activities at the University and with partners.

This session will focus on the University’s Personal Tutoring Code of Practice; we will discuss its aims and rationale and the key principles that form the basic underpinning of the Code. This session is relevant to all new academic colleagues who are Personal Tutors within their Schools and may also be relevant to other academic and support staff who wish to find out more about Personal Tutoring at Teesside University.

This workshop provides an interactive, open, and supportive environment for colleagues to engage with and reflect on different models for effective formative assessment processes whilst critically considering innovative sector best practice. Staff will be guided to consider the key considerations for designing in low-stakes formative assessment strategies as an integral feature of effective teaching practices, supporting and enhancing student motivation, engagement, and higher levels of achievement.

The online Research Pedagogic Practice series aims to shine a light on key aspects of pedagogy and the scholarship of teaching and learning, breaking down what the key aspects of pedagogy are and how these can be realised in current practice, whether that be online delivery, face to face delivery, or a mixture of both.

Teesside University aims to be a global institution that provides an excellent international experience through partnerships and networks across the world, for example through diversifying and enriching the University by recruiting students and staff from across the world and encouraging students to become global citizens by creating international opportunities throughout their University experience.

Blackboard Ultra is the University’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a modern, responsive platform, designed to function on all devices (including mobile), and is used for all our campus taught courses. A series of monthly institution-wide sessions aimed at colleagues in Schools understand the basics of Blackboard Ultra and get to grips with the features they will be expected to use when setting up and delivering modules and assessing learning.