Organisational Development are offering an interactive session for academic colleagues to explore their next steps in their career pathway. The session will use some of the Academic Career Development: A Portfolio of Resources developed by Dr Joan Reid to either explore your next steps in achieving you career goals or maybe to help you to… Read more » about Academic Career Development session
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Short courses – MA Education Practice provision
The new year is full of options! Here are four of them – Come and join us! These 20-credit bearing units are linked to the MA Education Practice Successful completion of three assessments contributes credits to the second year of the Masters if you already have a PGCert (which is year 1 of the MA). You can… Read more » about Short courses – MA Education Practice provision
Autumn of 6C: Essentials Workshops
6C Essentials: This interactive session will identify what you currently know about 6C, what you need to know and what the next steps are. It will incorporate good practice, the principles and processes of high quality student-centred assessment, learning, and feedback specifically focusing on the move from assessment of learning to assessment for learning (Sambell… Read more » about Autumn of 6C: Essentials Workshops
Autumn of 6C: Essentials Workshops
6C Essentials: This interactive session will identify what you currently know about 6C, what you need to know and what the next steps are. It will incorporate good practice, the principles and processes of high quality student-centred assessment, learning, and feedback specifically focusing on the move from assessment of learning to assessment for learning (Sambell… Read more » about Autumn of 6C: Essentials Workshops
Summer of 6C: Assignment Survival Kit
Here’s a rather wonderful resource from the LearnHigher JISC Mailing list – it is free to use for educational purposes. Students put in start and end dates, set to essay/ report/ etc and the assignment steps and schedule is calculated for them – fabulous! url: https://www.kent.ac.uk/ai/ask/
Summer of 6C: Brightspace Enhancements are HERE!!!
BU have been collaborating with Brightspace and other European Universities to improve the experience of using Turnitin with Brightspace. The big changes for the forthcoming academic year are: ✔ Fewer clicks for markers Just add feedback and a mark to the student’s work in Turnitin Feedback Studio, and move on to the next student. No manual syncing,… Read more » about Summer of 6C: Brightspace Enhancements are HERE!!!
Brightspace: Using page templates to make your content stand out
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 page templates to make your content stand out
Summer of 6C: A renewed focus on academic integrity to combat contract cheating
The QAA published a report last year on contract cheating in higher education, which encourages, among other things, a focus on academic integrity to help address contract cheating. The 37-page report was researched and written in response to higher education sector concerns about the use of ‘essay mills’ by students to engage in contract cheating… Read more » about Summer of 6C: A renewed focus on academic integrity to combat contract cheating
Summer of 6C: The value of formative feedback in simulations: the learning gains for students
This is a review of CELebrate 2017, when colleagues discussed formative feedback in depth. We thought it was worth another look. We hope it might help YOU when deciding how to integrate formative feedback into YOUR teaching come the implementation of 6C, the new assessment and feedback policy. Dawn Morley, from the University of Surrey,… Read more » about Summer of 6C: The value of formative feedback in simulations: the learning gains for students
Summer of 6C: “Am I ready to receive feedback?”
This blog was posted in 2017, but still raises some interesting questions for how we engage with students around feedback… Have YOU thought about how you will prepare YOUR students for feedback in 2018-2019? Receiving feedback is an emotive process for students. Guiding them to consider their emotional readiness to assimilate comments may improve the… Read more » about Summer of 6C: “Am I ready to receive feedback?”
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