In October 2014 the University of Greenwich hosted a London branch meeting of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. Pier Saunders (http://www.ioe.ac.uk/staff/CPAT/78636.html), a ‘Teach First’ Mathematics subject tutor was the invited speaker and spoke to IMA members, staff and Mathematics students about the ‘Teach First’ programme and its relationship… Continue reading
This year’s APT (Academic Practice and Technology) conference is entitled “Flipping the Institution: Higher Education in the Post Digital Age” and will take place on the Tuesday 7th July 2015 on the world heritage campus at the University of Greenwich. From the conference website: Main image: CC-BY-NC-SA Peter Ulrich, via Flickr Continue reading
This video can be seen alongside others from the Learning, Teaching and Assessment Open Lecture series and annual conferences on the EDU Vimeo channel. Ipsative assessment is a powerful and under-used approach that provokes a radical rethink of the purposes and methods of assessment. Ipsative assessment means making comparisons with a… Continue reading
This video can be seen alongside others from the Learning, Teaching and Assessment Open Lecture series and annual conferences on the EDU Vimeo channel. There is a great deal of interest in learning analytics at present within the sector. The process of learning analytics is one that draws lessons from the… Continue reading
This is the video from the first of our Open Lectures in Teaching and Learning for the 2014-15 academic year, in October 2014 Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have been much advocated and debated over the last three years. But now as the phenomenon slips down the other side of… Continue reading
This video can be seen alongside others from the Learning, Teaching and Assessment Open Lecture series and annual conferences on the EDU Vimeo channel. Engaging students in meaningful ways with their learning is arguably one of the most important issues facing higher education (HE) in the 21st Century. In recent years,… Continue reading
Stephen Downes gave a series of three inter-connected (but, he insisted, standalone) talks in London this summer, starting here at Greenwich on the 8th July. This post brings together the recordings from these talks, which tackle different aspects of what education is and could be in our massively networked global culture. Continue reading
Within the sphere of openness, topics covered at this years’ conference included open badges, e-portfolios, digital identity and open data. This blogpost is a round-up of two of the sessions that I attended during the conference. Continue reading
This video can be seen alongside others from the Learning, Teaching and Assessment Open Lecture series and annual conferences on the EDU Vimeo channel. Education for Sustainability is gaining increasing importance in the higher education sector although historically there has been a greater focus on the sustainability of University campuses rather… Continue reading
This video can be seen alongside others from the Learning, Teaching and Assessment Open Lecture series and annual conferences on the EDU Vimeo channel. The HERE (Higher Education: Retention and Engagement) Project explored how to support students with their transition into the first year, looking primarily at why students stay rather… Continue reading