What do we mean by Community of Practice (CoP)? Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger (1991) introduced the notion of communities of practice in their book Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation. They highlight however, that the COP notion has been around since human beings chose to group together and form societies. Therefore,… Continue reading
Andrew Ferrier from the Faculty of Business used equipment provided by the 2013/14 Seed Fund round as part of an investigation into alternative methods of assessment. The primary goal of assessment is to allow students to demonstrate the depth of subject knowledge that they have acquired. Andrew set out to… Continue reading
Introduction Pinterest is “is a tool for collecting and organizing things you love” (Pinterest, 2013) but can also be used to share and find online content. The main difference between social bookmarking sites like delicious and Pinterest, is that Pinterest concentrates far more on visual content than text based links.… Continue reading
Andrew Ferrier in the Business School uses podcasting to develop and assess students’ presentation skills. Throughout the duration of the course students are expected to submit 4 pieces of coursework, one of them in a form of a podcast. Podcasting is embedded within the course programme and assessment with a… Continue reading
What is “flipped classroom”? Flipped classroom refers to an approach in teaching which reverses traditional session structure and moves lecture content to an online environment that is to be accessed ahead of the class. By doing so the time spent in class is devoted to more interactive forms of learning.… Continue reading
What is Prezi? Approaching a tool like Prezi demands different thinking about your presentation and the story you are trying to tell. The two videos below give you hints on how to plan your sessions with Prezi and how to avoid basic Prezi mistakes: Video Tutorials The videos below deal with… 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
Helen Keegan, National Teaching Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the University of Salford gave our first open lecture for the Educational Development Unit and Greenwich Connect on Transformations in Practice and Pedagogy through Networked Creativity. Helen’s presentation slides can be downloaded as a PDF file Continue reading
We are currently curating resources to explain and support the use of Creative Commons in educational practice. However, we have put some helpful resources here so you can start to explore creative commons resources and enhance your teaching and learning materials and engage students in the processes of remixing and… Continue reading