In June, the School of Arts and Social Sciences held its first Learning and Teaching Awards. Our own Connie Tse and Dina Fainberg, lecturer in Modern History, presented the Digital Vault project, a student-produced database…
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Learning and Teaching Awards – SASS (School of Arts and Social Sciences)
The School of Arts and Social Sciences’ (SASS) inaugural Learning and Teaching Awards took place on 13th June. School staff were encouraged to submit examples of their good practice in relation to teaching and learning,…
Innovation in Assessment: Pitching a Service Improvement Initiative
Following on from Health’s Got Talent in June (see our previous blog posts), we are sharing some of the excellent learning and teaching and practice presented at the event. In this post we will explore the…
‘The Reflective Practitioner’: a one-of-a-kind elective
This is a guest post from Aurelie Zhu, a 1st year Business Studies student at Cass Business School, that looks back on her participation in the ‘Reflective Practitioner’ module. What is the module about? The…
Moodle3.2: Rubrics as a method of providing feedback using Moodle Assignment
There are several ways to mark and provide feedback on Moodle. In this blog post I will focus on rubrics as a method in which this is possible. A rubric for assessment, usually in the…
Marking electronic submissions with a touchscreen
At the beginning of October 2016, LEaD loaned a touchscreen tablet and stylus to Professor Keith Pullen to enable him to provide hand-written notations and feedback on online assignment submissions. Keith is a Professor of…
Innovations in STEM teaching
Earlier this year, I attended the HEA STEM 2016 conference. This post details some of the highlights from the event. With a conference theme centred around inspiring, supporting and sharing excellent practice in STEM teaching…
Plagiarism and essay mills
Plagiarism, and in particular the recent burgeoning of so-called essay mills, was the theme of the ALDinHE (London & south-east region) event hosted by the University of Reading on July 22nd 2016. I had the…
Lions, CAMLS and neuro-diverse linguists
Sometimes screening students for specific learning differences can be a bit like staggering through a teaching and learning jungle; a place where languages are plenty and, for a dyslexia support tutor, the tools are not…
Two meanings of “critically analyse”
As an academic skills tutor, I’m often faced with a student clutching a set of assessment criteria containing the phrase “critically analyse”, or a synonym of that instruction. In my experience, many students understand the…
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