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It’s nearly time for the 2020 edition of the European Teaching & Learning Conference. We were going to be in Amsterdam, enjoying all the nice weather we’ve been having, but now we’re doing it at mine. And yours. A fully-virtual conference is new ground for me (and for most of us), so as one of …
This guest post comes courtesy of Johan Adriaensen (Maastricht) & Carola Betzold (Antwerp). Higher education often engenders a dual ambition. Upon graduation, we expect students to be prepared for the professional labour market. At the same time, we aspire them having developed academic qualities such as a critical mind-set, an understanding of scientific research and an …
Last month, I helped run the 4th EuroTLC, which we’d switched from Amsterdam to a sofa near you. Fewer canals, but also none of that rolling-your-R nonsense. Any way, as well as that various posts that have sprung from that, I thought it’d also be useful to share some of the conference feedback that we …
This guest post comes from Giulia Tercovich of Vesalius University. The number of non-tenure-track teachers that are employed because of their significant expertise in their non-academic domain is growing. On the one hand, these practitioners represent an opportunity for higher education institutions. They add exciting insights to the course, they add a human-element to policy-making, …
This guest post comes from Dr Viviane Gravey and Dr Heather Johnson, both of Queen’s University Belfast Research methods are crucial, particularly in Graduate learning, but methods modules are often the most unpopular with students and staff alike. This makes methods modules prime candidates for either offloading onto temporary staff, or confining to designated ‘methods …
Continue reading “Redesigning methods teaching: parallel workshops for interdisciplinary learning”
As well as the technical side of things, EuroTLC was a great opportunity to think more about the pedagogic way forward in what I’m going to call our Leap Online. Like you, recent months have been a mass of institutional briefings and meetings, plus many, many webinars about good online practice. And how what we’re …
Continue reading “Link your chunks: some principles to help this autumn”
Lots and lots to talk about off the back of EuroTLC last week, so I’m going to chunk it up over the coming weeks. But the starting point has to be some reflecting on whether and how you can have a conference online. As a top line, I think our event went well. The feedback …
As someone noted to me recently, we’re finally moving from removing things from our diaries, to adding them in. That’s particularly true for activities to help you rework your teaching practice for the new state of affairs. From this Thursday, the PSA will be running a series of seminars – open to all for free …
Teaching’s done for me now, so it’s heads up for the summer round of getting out of the office conferences. Somehow – probably as a function of signing up to everything I could during the busy spring of Brexit – I’ve got a pile of events to attend, so it’s a good moment to reflect …
Having been all chuffed with how my EU simulation was received in Prague at EuroTLC, I read Patricia’s post about using doughnuts to model a two-level game with a mixture of admiration and jealousy. The admiration comes from the elegance of its design and jealousy from the feeling that I’d not come up with something …