The first LCC Talking Teaching event for 2019-20, Innovations in Formative Assessment Practices, is on Wednesday 23rd October, 12.30-14.00. Blueprint is a UAL wide project that seeks to engage all staff involved in the assessment of students in updating their formative assessment practices.The rationale for the project emerges out of institutional research (Sabri 2014-2017) which […]
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 master teachers, and (c) research […]
Funding for teaching and and learning projects and research is available under two schemes. Applications are now open for both the UAL & LCC Funds. The first deadline is Monday 28th October. LCC Teaching & Learning Innovation Fund Applications are now open to LCC’s Teaching & Learning Innovation Fund. The Fund exists to support pedagogic […]
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 through the introduction of course-based […]
The university commissioned a major change project to evaluate the existing eight assessment criteria and to create new criteria that actively support student learning and attainment in an arts context. The working group developed five new criteria that communicate to staff and students the successful student learning behaviours, knowledge and skill acquisition that we seek […]
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 students to have mobile-friendly, engaging […]