Steve Rooney
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‘On the research side, evidence-based education seems to favour a technocratic model in which it is assumed that the only relevant research questions are questions about the effectiveness of educational means and techniques, forgetting, among other things, that what counts as ‘‘effective’’ crucially depends on judgements about what is educationally desirable. On the practice side, […]
Internationalisation and Teaching International Students
On Wednesday 1st February, I had the pleasure of co-running, with Dan Jones from the English Language Teaching Unit (ELTU), an LLI-hosted session on Teaching International Students. The session focussed on the following themes: Considering some common experiences and challenges for all HE students Focussing, in particular, on teaching students who are non-native speakers […]
‘Holiploigy’ – capturing the complex and emergent nature of teaching, learning and curriculum
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! […]
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 […]
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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