Category: Teaching and Learning
The latest teaching and learning articles
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Online Teaching – A Magazine Journalism and Publishing Perspective
A few quick suggestions to get you thinking how you might approach online teaching. These are some points I learned from the OU distance learning and teaching course from a few years back. 1 Think about the unit in terms of teaching weeks. Students do not have to do all the…
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From platforms to postcards, what’s the pedagogy?
Some suggestions from Mark Ingham to help you think about, plan and deliver your online courses and resources. Post you own suggestions below! Reading …and the Russians used a pencil (short read) https://bit.ly/2WrQM4xUseful blog by James Clay about not using too much bandwidth and not trying to copy what we…
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Talking Teaching: Compassionate Pedagogy
January’s Talking Teaching event, How can compassionate pedagogy mitigate the causes of racial harassment?, provided an opportunity for participants to reflect on last year’s ERHC report Tackling racial harassment: universities challenged. The session was facilitated by Carole Morrison, an Academic Enhancement Model (AEM) Senior Lecturer at LCF and Siobhan Clay,…
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Supporting Student Progress
At LCC a significant number of undergraduate students leave their courses prematurely, many by the end of their first year. This can be due to a range of factors and complex challenges students face on entering higher education. Some of these challenges are beyond our control, but many of them…
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Learning Analytics
The growth of mobile and digital technology has changed the way we access, deliver, participate, and support learning in Higher Education. More students are going online to access resources, share their work, collaborate with others, submit their assignments, and access their schedules. Likewise, more tutors are incorporating technology into their…
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Teach Design – Revisited
I came across this article from a box of design magazines I collected when I was at Leeds Poly in the late 80’s. I feel there are so many parallels with the discourse that is currently happening around design education in the UK today. Much effort has been invested in…
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Pedagogic Approaches and Theories
I have put together some Pedagogic Approaches (PA) and Pedagogical Theories (PT) which may be useful for further discussions. It is just a taster; please add to if you wish. The document is a shared Word Online doc and is open for editing, so please add to it or comment!…
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Principles of Instruction
I’d like to recommend this article by Barak Rosenshine to colleagues: Principles of Instruction: Research-Based Strategies That All Teachers Should Know (PDF). The article presents 10 research-based principles of instruction, along with suggestions for classroom practice. These principles come from three sources: (a) research in cognitive science, (b) research on…
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Teaching with Wikipedia
Wikipedia has great potential to help develop our students’ digital and information literacies. In July, Lucy Crompton-Reid, Chief Exec of WikimediaUK spoke at the LCC Academic Leaders’ Day explaining how our students might work with Wikimedia to contribute to the creation of a more equitable, unbiased and diverse knowledge ecosystem…
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Voice-first Feedback
A case study on the use of audio feedback on MA Advertising. In 2018-19 Paul Caplan, Course Leader MA Advertising piloted recorded audio feedback on assignments for the Autumn term assessment submissions. The aims of the pilot were: To provide non-native speakers with accessible and usable feedback To enable all…
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