The video can be seen alongside others from the LTA Open Lecture series and annual conferences on the EDU Vimeo channel. The last open lecture for this academic year is on 21 March 2012, when Dr James Atherton (Retired Academic, National Teaching Fellow) will present on reflective practice. Continue reading
I’ve just heard that the Support Centre for Open Resources in Education (SCORE) is holding a one-week residential course at the Open University in March, which is free to HEFCE-funded institutions. From their website: “The SCORE OER Residential Course is an intensive, one week course providing education specialists with the… Continue reading
The Society for Research into Higher Education conference 2011 took place in Newport, Wales in December. The conference entitled Positive Futures for higher education; connections, communities and criticality sought to debate and discuss the challenges that face higher education. My paper on flying faculty teaching experiences and their impact on… Continue reading
The video can be seen alongside others from the LTA Open Lecture series and annual conferences on the EDU Vimeo channel. We hope to have a video recording from Phil Race’s lecture on assessment and feedback available soon… and don’t forget the remaining two lectures for 2011-12: 22 February 2012… Continue reading
This evening I chanced on a twitter post by Javiera Atenas (@jatenas) noting that Oxford University now have over 1,000 podcasts available for use in teaching via http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/open. I’ve known for some time that Oxford were building up a bank of recordings licensed for individual use, but had missed this… Continue reading
The recordings of Professor Beard’s recent open lecture are now available: The next lecture in the series, in which Malcolm Ryan reflects on 40 years of technology-enhanced learning , is being held this Wednesday evening (9th November) in QA080 on the Greenwich campus. We hope to have a recording available… Continue reading
The idea of being a critically reflective practitioner is fundamental to many professions. In some traditional taught programmes, the different theoretical and practical approaches to reflection, whether that is Kolb’s experiential learning cycle or Schon’s reflection in action is well explored. However, social networking provides us with some interesting curveballs… Continue reading
Changes to the Quality Assurance handbook (QAH) now require programme teams to describe how their programmes will align with the Greenwich Graduate initiative. These changes take place from 26th September 2011. The briefing paper can been downloaded below. Greenwich Graduate Briefing Paper (May 2011) Continue reading
University staff will hopefully have seen our call for people to participate in a project exploring the use of iPads to support team working. This is one of a number of iPad projects starting up at the university and sits alongside work others are already doing to incorporate them into… Continue reading
I’ve just come across the project blog for DELILA (Developing Educators Learning and Information Literacies for Accreditation), a project funded by JISC and the HEA. This aims to pool information literacy support materials created at the LSE and University of Birmingham, adapting these to become open educational resources (OER). These… Continue reading