“I think a long time ago, I thought it was going to be time saving. But I haven’t found it to be time saving. I wonder whether the powers that be, think that it might be time saving …” (Dr Catherine Suttle – Lecturer, School of Optometry and Vision Services,…
Missed Craig Mahoney at the SALT conference? Were you there and would actually like to see what he looks like? More on http://pearsonblueskies.com/how-to-drive-quality-teaching/
Teaching and research can sometimes be slightly uncomfortable bedfellows, especially at institutions who pride themselves on their research. Learning and teaching can be viewed rather as the poor relation – albeit one that lives in the same house, has its name on the deeds and pays most of the mortgage.…
Just seen this from from Chris Jobling @cpjobling Looks quite like PC Room 1 in the Library. I agree with Chris that it would be great for small classes but how could we make it work with larger ones. Perhaps the need is for much more flexible learning spaces and…
This interesting post from the Prof Hacker blog in the Chronicle of Higher Education discusses how you might use Twitter in your teaching. The assumption is that students will be expected to contribute to an ongoing class discussion, which might not be how you’d want to do things, but for…
A couple of years old now but this video from Daniel Willingham, Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, explains why Learning Styles Don’t Exist.
This is quite US centric and based more on schools than HE but still has some interesting ideas. However, the teacher as enabler not at the centre is nothing new. As I’ve said many times before, it’s just the method used in TEFL. Perhaps everyone should spend some time in…
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