With the move towards blended learning, it can sometimes feel like we’ve been living in a virtual world over the past two years, our heads jammed with thoughts about online and digital spaces. Many of us have been asking the … Continue reading...
Tag: rethinking spaces
The Office: Episode 9
Emerging Engineers
So before we go any further, a serious health warning, if you are the sort of person who feels the need to reach for the sick bucket whenever you hear self-congratulation then you may prefer to skip this … Continue reading...
A BILT Project: Evaluating a clinical skills lab as an active learning space: sharing best practice and identifying areas for improvement
A 2018/19 Teaching Innovation Grant was awarded to Alison Catterall, Rachel Christopher, Sam Brown, Sarah Baillie, the Clinical Skills Lab Team from Bristol Vet School.
The Clinical Skills Lab (CSL) at Bristol Vet School provides a student-centred learning space that … Continue reading...
The Office: Episode 5
Authentic Learning
So, this week I want to talk about Authentic Learning. Hopefully you had a chance to look at the paper I mentioned by Marilyn M. Lombardi on ‘Authentic Learning for the 21st Century: An Overview’ (Educase 2007) which … Continue reading...
The Office: Episode 4
‘Space… ‘
At some point in Spring 2018 I went for an interview to be a BILT Fellow in Assessment and Feedback. All went well and I was offered a two-year Fellowship. But on reflection, I wasn’t sure if I … Continue reading...
Urban Spaces. Civic University.
The University of Bristol has pledged to make the city a better place1. Our research institutes are leading the charge to action this2, but how can we connect our research to our teaching? How can we … Continue reading...
An American Indian Holocaust?
Sam Hitchmough, Director of Teaching and Senior Lecturer in American Indian History
Historians of any field constantly grapple with a thorny mass of official histories and unofficial/vernacular histories, histories that are constructed, invented, exaggerated or politicized, narratives and counter-narratives, memories, … Continue reading...
An interview with… Lisa Howarth
Lisa Howarth is a BILT Student Fellow, working on the theme ‘Making the Most of our Teaching Spaces’ at the University of Bristol. As she comes to the end of her fellowship, she reflects on her time at BILT.
How … Continue reading...
Teaching Space as a Teaching Lab
The following post was written by James Norman, a BILT Fellow and programme director for Civil Engineering.
Today I continue my physical journey into the research of space as I embark on my third road trip of the year. I … Continue reading...
Insights from attending UWE’s Festival of Learning for an afternoon
The following post was written by Emilie Poletto-Lawson, a BILT Fellow and Educational Developer in Academic Staff Development.
The Academic Practice Directorate at the University of the West of England (UWE) is the equivalent of Academic Staff Development[ … Continue reading...