The Silent Seminars Change

Heidi Yeandle has a number of teaching roles at Swansea University. She is convening an MA module in the English Literature department and supervising BA and MA Dissertations, while also working for the Academic Success Programme and Reaching Wider. Below she discusses her use of a “silent seminar” when teaching…

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What motivates students?

So, what motivates people at work is challenge, mastery and making a contribution. Is that the same for students? Is it a better incentive than grade inflation? Will we get better students if we challenge them more, help them to be excellent according to their abilities and enable them to…

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Student Centred Lecturing ?

During a Lunch and Learn session I was doing on Planning and Integrating E-Learning, I mentioned demonstrating and if you were going to do a demonstration you could consider videoing it and uploading the resulting movie for students to access either at their leisure or in future years so you…

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