Thursday 24th November saw the second in a year-long series of HE Seminars, hosted by the LLI. The seminar, led by Dr Phil Wood (School of Education), was entitled: ‘Conceptualising the complexity of teaching in Higher Education – developing the case for holiploigy.’ As Phil explained, the latter term – new to those of us attending the seminar! […]
Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching
Equality and diversity: an example of Socratic Questioning
A recent LLI meeting reflecting on how we could apply the University wide Equality and Diversity training to our teaching, revealed a strong connection to criticality. To critically question the assumptions, viewpoints, power dynamics and other issues that we hold to be the accepted norm can cause us to challenge barriers around race, gender, sexual […]
A graduate’s perspective on innovations in learning and teaching
I am a recent Chemistry graduate from the University of Leicester, and I am currently working as an intern at the Leicester Learning Institute. During my first week at the LLI, I was tasked with getting to know everyone at the LLI by having an informal chat around the topic of innovation in learning […]
New teaching resources to support students’ learning
We’ve recently added new resources to our learning development teaching resource page. These resources provide teachers with exercises and materials they can adapt and contextualise for their own disciplinary contexts. Current resources are organised under the three categories below. A fourth, focussing on supporting students’ presentation skills, will be added very shortly. Teaching resources to support […]
Reflections on the ALT conference 2016
In September Alex Moseley, Matt Mobbs, Stephen Walker and myself attended the ALT (Association for Learning Technology) Conference at the University of Warwick. This annual conference provides an opportunity to share learning technology research, practice and policy work from across sectors. The theme this year was Connect, Collaborate, Create – the full programme is on […]
Use Adaptive Release Advanced to restrict access to content in Blackboard
An Adaptive Release rule consists of a set of criteria that defines the visibility of a content item to students. Criteria are the parts that make up the rule. Adaptive Release allows you to restrict access on: Date – display after or display until a certain date. Membership – restrict to groups or individuals. Grade – […]
Using Adaptive Release to restrict access to content in Blackboard
The Blackboard Adaptive Release feature allows you to restrict access to areas of Blackboard such as content folders, and to content items such as assignments, quizzes, Learning Modules and so forth. Adaptive Release allows you to restrict access on: Date – display after or display until a certain date. Membership – restrict to groups or individuals. […]
Moving an item in Blackboard
It’s very easy to move items from one area of Blackboard to another. It just takes few clicks. You can use the same process to move an item to a completely different Blackboard course. Watch the short video below to see how it’s done.
Using the different types of blog in Blackboard
Blogging is a good way to get students to engage with a topic and to collaborate with each other. Students can prepare for seminars or tutorials, allowing the teacher to move to deeper learning more quickly. Writing and critical skills can also improve. Quieter and less confident students can prepare their contributions and have their […]
Assessment as dialogue
The following is a brief summary of a session on assessment as dialogue. The session ran on Wednesday, 14th September, as part of the LLI’s Focus On… activities. The themes covered were: Reflecting on what we mean by dialogue in education and the different ways we might enable it Looking at assessment, feedback and dialogue […]
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