Victoria Jack and Paul Roberts Education/CELT Abstract | Presentation | Recording A recent (2015) British Council Report suggests that "A common challenge shared by employers around the world is finding employees with adequate intercultural skills". For today's graduates, it is becoming ever more compelling not just to be able to communicate across cultures, but to develop communication … Continue reading L&T Session B5: Skilling up for international communication
Pedagogy
Rethinking feedback in light of the York pedagogy
Monday 2 November 2015, room HG21, Heslington Hall, 12.30-2.00pm The next Forum workshop will be run by Cathy Dantec and Bill Soden and will explore the theme of 'Rethinking feedback in light of the York pedagogy'. Cathy and Bill would like participants to consider the following questions before the workshop: What do you include under … Continue reading Rethinking feedback in light of the York pedagogy
Value added graduates
In the first of our monthly posts from Learning and Teaching Forum committee members, Phil Lightfoot asks, 'How do we build a York graduate?' How do we build a York graduate? Do we always have a clear idea what kind of graduate our degree programmes will produce, and are we confident in the effectiveness of … Continue reading Value added graduates
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
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