Monday 30 January 2017, 12.30 - 2.00pm Speaker: Dr Jude Brereton, Department of Electronics Workshop Summary Dr Jude Brereton will report on recent 'real-world' assessment tasks incorporated into a new masters level programme in Audio and Music Technology. Four different types of 'real-world' tasks will be presented: a research blog a data-gathering exercise made available … Continue reading Making learning authentic: ‘real-world’ assessments for Masters level study
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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
Happy New Year and welcome back
Happy New Year! We hope you had a relaxing and recuperative Christmas break... We are already in the thick of term, but whether you are emerging from piles of marking, working with final year students on their dissertations and projects, planning lectures, or all of these and more all at once, we hope you might … Continue reading Happy New Year and welcome back
Strategies for successful learning: Request for contributions to the next Forum magazine
The next edition of Forum, the University of York in-house Learning and Teaching magazine, is due to be published at the start of the Autumn term. The magazine is published by the Learning and Teaching Forum to disseminate good practice and discuss issues relating to learning and teaching. Previous editions can be found on the website, https://yorkforum.org/forum-magazine/ Making it stick in different disciplines … Continue reading Strategies for successful learning: Request for contributions to the next Forum magazine
L&T conference 2015: One size does not fit all: ensuring all students reach their potential
One size does not fit all: ensuring all students reach their potential The 2015 Learning and Teaching conference was held on 10 June 2015 with 150 delegates from across the university and externally present. This is the University’s annual event to celebrate, showcase and disseminate the wealth of good practice in learning and teaching across the University.This … Continue reading L&T conference 2015: One size does not fit all: ensuring all students reach their potential
Annual Learning and Teaching Conference: One size does not fit all: ensuring all students reach their potential
The 2015 Learning and Teaching conference was held on 10 June 2015, with almost 150 delegates, from across the university and externally present. This is the University’s annual event to celebrate, showcase and disseminate the wealth of good practice in learning and teaching across the University. This year, the main conference theme was based around addressing inclusivity, … Continue reading Annual Learning and Teaching Conference: One size does not fit all: ensuring all students reach their potential
L&T Session H – Personalising feedback: Can we bridge the formative-summative gap?
Cathy Dantec and Bill Soden - Language and Linguistic Science and Education Abstract | Presentation: Session H Report The workshop provided us with two perspectives on how the practice of providing formative feedback has developed and its links and implications for summative assessment. Both Bill and Cathy described how they had used screencasts to provide formative feedback to students. … Continue reading L&T Session H – Personalising feedback: Can we bridge the formative-summative gap?
A distinctive York Pedagogy: Implementing the new Learning and Teaching Strategy
THIS ARTICLE WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN FORUM 38: 8-9 A new University Strategy was launched last year to define our direction through to 2020. Key objective 2 outlines a commitment to offering outstanding teaching and learning and to implementing a distinctive pedagogy, informed by research evidence on the best approaches to promote effective learning. Defining … Continue reading A distinctive York Pedagogy: Implementing the new Learning and Teaching Strategy
Innovating Pedagogy 2014: OU Report
Its getting to that time of year when we start to see the "hot or not" lists... The annual "Innovating Pedagogy" report has been published by the Open University. The 3rd such report of its kind, explores "new forms of teaching, learning and assessment, to guide educators and policy makers". Some of these new forms may … Continue reading Innovating Pedagogy 2014: OU Report
‘Bums on Seats’ versus ‘Hearts and Minds’; questions of student attendance and engagement
Michael Rogers, Teaching Fellow, Department of Chemistry gives his summary of the Forum workshop ‘Bums on Seats’ versus ‘Hearts and Minds'. To engage or not to engage? That is not just a question that students are faced with but also a problem that departments may need to deal with. The above-titled Learning and Teaching forum workshop, which ran … Continue reading ‘Bums on Seats’ versus ‘Hearts and Minds’; questions of student attendance and engagement
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