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Embedding excellence through fusion of education, research and professional practice
Kia ora from NZ / Aotearoa, where we’re experiencing the lowest temperatures in a few years. But most of us know someone who has a radiator – we’ll get through it. Just writing to let you know about our journal, which has just gone ‘live’ on our website at: http://journal.atlaanz.org/index.php/ATLAANZ There are five articles… Read more » about L&T journal from New Zealand – open access, interesting article on student transitions
Colleagues, some amazing resources from the UK Data Service – please do take a look if you use data sets with your students. ============================================= Do you want to show your students how to answer real-life questions using data available to them at the touch of a button? Then look no further… We invite you to… Read more » about UK data service – some amazing L&T ideas and resources
Did you know that Brightspace has 11 page templates that can help you to make your content look fantastic? Here is one example. There is a template that staff working on the unit can use to introduce themselves to their students. When you open the template, the page looks like this: All you have to… Read more » about Brightspace: Using the new page templates to make your content stand out
In the last week, we have run the first three drop-in sessions for staff. The idea is that staff can come along and work on their Brightspace unit and gain help, if needed, from the on-hand staff from IT Skills, LLS and CEL. We had 7 people at yesterday’s session and one person commented that… Read more » about Brightspace drop-in schedule for August
===thank you to University of Bedford colleagues ==== Dear Colleague, The Summer 2017 issue of the Journal of Pedagogic Development is now published. Please visit: https://journals.beds.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/jpd/issue/view/30 We hope you enjoy this issue. Vol 7, Issue 2 July 2017 Table of Contents Papers A Critical Approach to Global Citizenship in Initial Teacher Training in the UK… Read more » about The Summer 2017 issue of the Journal of Pedagogic Development – now published
An Introduction to Team-based Learning, Jonny Branney Jonny Branney’s Team-based Learning (TBL) workshop gave delegates the opportunity to experience TBL first-hand and find out how they might implement this strategy to boost student engagement in their own classes. Student-centred active learning approaches are considered to be effective ways for promoting students’ engagement with their learning, but… Read more » about CELebrate 2017: An Introduction to Team-based Learning
