Most staff will be familiar with the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) and its remit to advise the Office for Students (OfS) and enhance standards for the higher education sector. Did you know that their resources are accessible to everyone at … Continue reading...
Tag: teaching and learning
What’s past (and present) is prologue: considering changes to secondary assessment
In secondary schools in England at the moment, students are preparing for public examinations which may represent the final assessment adaptations to Covid-19.
Undergraduates who have studied in the UK and are now in their first and second years may … Continue reading...
Supporting PGRs who teach
The University relies on many different forms of teaching contributions, from guest lecturers to external industrial partners, community organisations, and of course our academic teams. There is also a dependency on postgraduate research (PGR) students to serve as teaching support … Continue reading...
Transformational Learning Hackathon December 2021
Hackathons are events in which participants are asked a question, or given a problem, and have a limited amount of time to find a solution. Most commonly used in engineering disciplines, participants are put into groups and work together to … Continue reading...
Rethinking blended spaces
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...
From fuzzy to compassionate
Many moons ago, I started working on Education for Sustainable Development. At the beginning, it was seen as a ‘fuzzy’ topic, not scientific enough, and too touchy-feely-tree-huggy. Oh! How the winds have changed as sustainability is mainstream in pretty much everything we do now. Staff … Continue reading...
In the Wild
Enhancing employability through Engaged Learning
Stories abound that “Universities are failing to make students employable.”[1] Yet digging further into the evidence, perhaps inevitably, suggested that the picture was rather more nuanced. Students learn a huge range of skills that … Continue reading...
Practical methods of decoloniality in mathematics pedagogy
The perspectives in the blog have been gathered from recent research into the topic of decoloniality and mathematics education. The focus of these articles is not exclusively on higher education, so not everything mentioned in them will be directly relevant … Continue reading...
Recognising Privilege in Teaching
“Hi
My Name is James
And for 12 years I designed buildings.”
This is how I normally start my lectures, almost regardless of topic.
However when I started one of my lectures this year I instead … Continue reading...
The benefits of Student Partnerships
This summer, the University of Winchester held the inspiring Generation Z in Higher Education Conference. After attending a presentation on Students as Partners in Enhancing Digital Teaching and Learning (EDTL) by Maynooth University, I’ve been reflecting on the benefits … Continue reading...