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
Erica Sheward at the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) has been using Adobe Connect in order to improve the quality of feedback given to students. Previous student questionnaires revealed that the students were generally unhappy with how feedback was given within the team. The objective of the project was to understand… Continue reading
Gavin Rand, who teaches History, Politics, and Social Sciences at the University of Greenwich, had a creative and collaborative idea to utilise the experience of his Level 5 History students to create audio assessment guides for his Level 4 History students. The idea was that student volunteers from Level 5… Continue reading
Dr. Edna Solomon teaches an undergraduate Economics course, ECON1083: ‘Global Macroeconomics” at the University of Greenwich. This course is an optional module and has been taught for the past two years. The course has been delivered over two terms, by two different tutors. While the number of hours differed for each… Continue reading
Paul Simpson challenged his students to record and present themselves and their ideas visually. The objective was to “provide students with enhanced opportunities to put ideas into practice on specific practice-based PR challenges, encouraging student led, and user generated content.” Continue reading
In 2013, several University of Greenwich lecturers from the Primary and Secondary Education departments participated in a project called “Development of the use of ICT in PE and Sport: iPad”. The project team consisted of Dr. Jackie Farr, Andrew Flynn, Andy Freeman, Alex Gibson, and Roz Hornsby. They were… Continue reading
Were you ever a Boy Scout, a Brownie or a Girl Guide? Do you remember the thrill and satisfaction of earning a merit badge for some achievement, and the pride of having your accumulated credentials displayed on your uniform for all to see? Well this very concept of earning badges… Continue reading