In our planning for the delivery of all Change Makers teaching online for the next academic year, we’ve been having some great discussions about how to create our virtual classroom.
Category: News
Student Artwork Featured at National Event
We are delighted that our student artwork was displayed at a national event recently.
How do you make assessment criteria more student-centred? Co-create it with the students…
The last time I set an assignment for students in my class, I did something different. Continue Reading
The writing’s on the … table?
We’ve been lucky enough to use a flexible new learning space on campus. How has it been working out?
Innovating to stem flooding: Sembula
Guest authors, Annie Cheung (2nd year undergraduate Medicine) and Shreya Basu (2nd year undergraduate Mechanical Engineering), write about their experience designing a flood barrier for Tamil Nadu in India, for the Engineers Without Borders UK design challenge. Continue Reading
To tableau or not to tableau
Guest authors Camilla Audia and James Porter share their reflections on a learning experiment inspired by our Active Learning Design case study. Continue Reading
Designing for authentic co-production
I recently had the pleasure of co-presenting a paper at the Change Agents Network annual conference ‘The Evolving Landscape of Staff-Student Partnership’ at the Open University with four undergraduate Change Makers students. Continue Reading
Empowering students to become efficient, effective and resilient learners
I recently gave a Talking Teaching presentation on how we embed ‘Learning Fitness’ skills and values into the Change Makers curricula and learning design. Continue Reading
Experts, knowledge and criticality in the age of ‘alternative facts’
As part of this SRHE event on 3rd April 2019, I gave a talk about my paper ‘Understanding The World Today‘ – broadly covering what interpretive dance, ribbon and getting thrown out of a club have to do with navigating a world of fake news. Continue Reading
Teach Someone to Fish…
This post was featured on the Society for Research in Higher Education blog in March 2019. Continue Reading