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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 – […]
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. […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
Padlet is a free online noticeboard, which enables you to post thoughts and ideas on ‘sticky notes’. You can add text, images, video, links or documents to the board from any device, and it can be shared publically or with a closed group. There are several ways Padlet can be used in the classroom to aid […]
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