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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 tasks at the same time […]
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 do in the studio and […]
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, Educational Developer, AEM for CCW […]
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 can be anticipated and countered […]
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 practice and adopting a flipped […]
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 improvements to the basic design […]