Originally published in Forum Magazine, Issue 41, Autumn 2016. The design of student work, both within and outside of contact hours, is central to the York Pedagogy. This focus is inspired by research which has shown that educational gain is maximised when learning activities are carefully-designed to increase student engagement in their learning. Here Dr … Continue reading Promoting student engagement in learning activities
National Teaching Fellowship for York Lecturer
Congratulations to Anne Phillips, Senior Lecturer in Diabetes Care in the Department of Health Sciences, who has been awarded National Teaching Fellow status by the Higher Education Academy. This prestigious award recognises excellence and outstanding achievement in learning and teaching in higher education. Anne will receive the award at a gala event in London in the … Continue reading National Teaching Fellowship for York Lecturer
360° Employability Skills: Understanding, Cultivating and Applying Professional and Continual Development Skills
Workshop presented by Carmen Álvarez-Mayo, Associate Lecturer and Spanish & Portuguese Coordinator, Languages for All, Department of Language and Linguistic Science. 31 October 2016. Slides from the 360° employability skills workshop [PDF] Supporting resources [Padlet] The term employability as we know it has been around since the 1980s, when international corporations, global competition/trade and technology cemented the … Continue reading 360° Employability Skills: Understanding, Cultivating and Applying Professional and Continual Development Skills
How do you solve a problem like literature searching?
How do you solve a problem like literature searching? Adding professional value to academic skills development David Brown, Acting Academic Liaison Team Manager at Information Services, delivered on 14 November the third 2016/17 Forum workshop. Slides: How do you solve a problem like literature searching? As the title suggests, there is a link between ‘literature searching’ … Continue reading How do you solve a problem like literature searching?
Articulate – A toolkit to help us support students in the game of understanding and articulating their competencies
Dr Lorna Warnock (Biology) and Dr Amanda Barnes (Biology) delivered the first Forum workshop of the academic year. Their workshop focused on an HEA funded toolkit they have developed in collaboration with Dr Hillary Jones (University of Sheffield) to help students articulate the professional competencies they will develop through their programme of study. Slides: Student Competencies Toolkit Forum … Continue reading Articulate – A toolkit to help us support students in the game of understanding and articulating their competencies
Supervising students
Our latest monthly post from the Forum committee, Jill Webb from the York Management School reflects on academic supervision; the post was written by Jill in May but we felt this was a good one to post as we look forward to a new intake of students and a whole new set of personal tutees. I can’t believe it’s already … Continue reading Supervising students
An Interdisciplinary Summer for Interdisciplinary Students
Our latest monthly post from the Forum committee, Dr Glenn Hurst from the Department of Chemistry reflects on working collaboratively to facilitate active learning. Following their FORUM workshop on active learning, Glenn Hurst and Jill Webb, from the York Management School worked together once again to facilitate a component of the new summer activity for students studying … Continue reading An Interdisciplinary Summer for Interdisciplinary Students
L&T Session C3: Greater than a sum of it parts? Adding value to combined honours programme design
Maeve Pearson (Academic Support Office), Scott Slorach (York Law School), Roddy Vann (Natural Sciences Programme Director), and Lisa O’Malley (Department of Social Policy and Social Work) Abstract | Presentation | Recording Do combined programmes have the capacity to "add value" to students' learning? This was the question posed by the panel in this insightful workshop at … Continue reading L&T Session C3: Greater than a sum of it parts? Adding value to combined honours programme design
L&T Session A3: The design and assessment of skills based learning points at York Law School
Chris Wilkinson and Patrick Gallimore, York Law School Abstract | Presentation | Recording What do our undergraduates do with degrees? In this workshop Chris Wilkinson and Patrick Gallimore explored the relevance of a law degree to wider education and employment. The majority of students who embark on a law degree do so with the ambition of … Continue reading L&T Session A3: The design and assessment of skills based learning points at York Law School
L&T Session B2: Is there evidence for the filpped classroom in STEM teaching
Mike Dodds, Department of Computer Science Abstract | Presentation | Recording The flipped classroom (or flipping) is a new educational technique which seeks to invert the traditional model of in-classroom lectures and out-of-class homework. Instead, it advocates in-class interactive group learning, and out-of-class instruction via videos or podcasts. Intuitively, this moves classroom time away from mere dissemination … Continue reading L&T Session B2: Is there evidence for the filpped classroom in STEM teaching
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