The university has a new policy on New Arrivals and Transition – this can be found at: http://www2.gre.ac.uk/about/policy. The policy grew out of the earlier Policy Framework : The student experience of arrival, induction and orientation: a policy framework (which can also be found at the above link) – and… Continue reading
In the last of the 2010/2011 open lectures in teaching and learning, Professor David Nicol presented his experiences and thinking on feedback and peer review. Continue reading
Students come to a Moodle course to carry out a task, not browse. Almost always they’ll already know the task before they log in Continue reading
Alan Masson visited us last month and gave a lecture explaining the Viewpoints assessment design process. Viewpoints is a highly successful JISC-funded project based at University of Ulster that helps lecturers reflect on and improve the assessment regimes of their courses. The beauty of it is that it’s low tech – merely sets of… Continue reading
From time to time, variations of the same question, “What is this for?”, have arisen in the Moodle workshops; I think this is a fundamentally good and a fundamentally important question for everyone building a course to ask, particularly if they are working with a campus-based cohort Continue reading
Sometimes the most eye-opening insights seem the most obvious once you’ve heard them. That was certainly the case for me when I listened to Barry Spencer, from Bromley College, talk about VLEs at a recent Partner College meeting Continue reading
In July three one-day conferences on learning and teaching were held at Greenwich Maritime. The conference archives contain recordings of the distinguished keynote speakers, and slides from the presenters can be found on each of the websites: Monday 4 July: Promoting Inclusive Change: addressing equity and success for BME students… Continue reading
The content of this post was originally published as a PDF document by Simon Walker and Mark Kerrigan. In October 2010, the university’s Learning and Quality Committee endorsed a proposal to adopt a critical friend model to support new Quality Assurance regulations governing programme approval and review. What is a… Continue reading
I’ve been spending a fair proportion of my time lately trying to work out how to give useful advice to staff about pedagogical approaches to help them in the design of their Moodle course areas Continue reading