This is a draft preview version of a resource currently in production. This is a playful exercise that can run alongside more conventional activities and can be useful if lecturing on a topic heavy with specialist terminology. I came across it thanks to Learning Development (LD) colleagues at De Montfort University, with whom I […]
Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching
Fostering dialogue and interaction in seminars and group tutorials
This is a draft preview version of a resource currently in production. The purpose and function of smaller group teaching sessions will vary depending on the context. Below are just a few ideas for activities designed to establish that these sessions work best when they are interactive and dialogical. It’s probably a good idea […]
Supporting assessment tasks in seminars and group tutorials
This is a draft preview version of a resource currently in production. Seminars and smaller group tutorials can also be useful spaces in which to engage students in dialogue around assessment tasks and so help build students ‘assessment literacy’. The activities detailed below are all taken from the LLI’s Transitions Toolkit (www.le.ac.uk/transitions-toolkit). Anonymous […]
Helping to scaffold students’ reading practices
This is a draft preview version of a resource currently in production. The activities here are designed to help students understand how to read more effectively for academic purposes and to develop their own academic reading practices. More detailed advice and guidance on supporting students’ reading practices is available in the LLI’s Transitions Toolkit […]
Supporting student transition: mid-term personal tutor meeting
This is a draft preview version of a resource currently in production. Below are some questions and prompts designed to help study-related discussions with students during their first semester. More extensive, thematic question sets and activities are available in the Transitions Toolkit (www.le.ac.uk/transitions-toolkit) How has studying at university compared with what you were […]
Valuing Diversity and Teaching inclusively: acknowledging ‘additional work’
Starting University is a major step in life for all students. It involves a change in social networks, ways of working, and, often, the place that students call ‘home’. All students face a range of challenges with different magnitudes. For some, the change is not so large, and they have effective mechanisms to cope. […]
Journaling into the unknown by Isoken Igbinovia
Posted on behalf of Isoken Igbinovia, Psychology Graduate and Accelerate Your Career Intern. “Using reason without applying it to experience only leads to theoretical illusions. Ideas derived from real world experiences lead to acquisition of knowledge, and the accumulation of time-tested principles leads to wisdom.” ― […]
Using Top Hat to increase student engagement and satisfaction
Dr Curro Martinez-Mora in the School of Business has been using Top Hat extensively in the delivery of his Intermediate Microeconomics (EC2002/EC2012) course, working closely with one of his students, Nathaniel Patel, on a Digital Innovation Partnership (DIP) project. The objectives of the project were to make use of technological tools, in particular Top Hat, […]
Experiential learning: what does sleeping on cardboard tell me about homelessness?
Trigger warning: this blog may be TMI for some people, so don’t read on if you are easily offended. Much like role-play, the educationalists favourite tool, is superficial and a poor replica of the complexity of any real life scenario, sleeping on cardboard teaches me NOTHING about really being homeless. However, it does […]
Are we powerless to develop student staff partnerships?
It’s a pretence. The idea that students and staff can work together in a partnership. The argument, put forward by Dr Lucy Mercer Mapstone at the RAISE Special Interest Group on Power Dynamics in Student Staff Partnerships, was convincing. I was left with the concern that ‘Student-staff partnerships’ or ‘Students as consultants’ are just […]
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