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How to focus on pre-recorded lectures

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Image credit: unsplash, Romain Vignes, CC0 In this video post, Dr Sarah Ivory, talks about how to stay focused when using pre-recorded lectures, and at other times, like when reading articles or books. Her research explores sustainability, social enterprise, and more recently, the pedagogy of critical thinking.

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Spotlight on Remote Teaching: Top ten tips for teaching online

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Our experience and research into online teaching leads us to conclude that it can be an enormously enjoyable and effective strategy for learning and teaching. Experiences of staff new to teaching postgraduate students online: implications for academic staff development. References Aitken, G., and Loads, D. and Jones, D.

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Characterising teaching practices using lecture recordings

Teaching Matters Online Learning

They can also be a useful resource for researchers looking to better understand the relationship between teaching practices and learning. These were questions we helped to answer over the summer, as Research Assistants on the Classroom Practices and Lecture Recording project , which was funded by the Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme.

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Learning together in a global pandemic: Practices and principles for teaching and assessing online in uncertain times

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Image credit: HaticeEROL, pixabay, CC0 In this extra post, Dr Catherine Bovill and Celeste McLaughlin present the timely and insightful findings from an international, collaborative research project that sought to understand the changes to teaching practices that took place during the initial period of the Covid-19 pandemic. Jan 17, 2022

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Welcome to the July & August L&T Enhancement theme: Learning & Teaching Conference 2023

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Over two days in June, the Institute for Academic Development hosted the sixth annual Learning and Teaching Conference , ‘Investigate, inquire, innovate: exploring research-informed teaching practice’ The first day was in-person and live-streamed, and the second was fully online.

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Top ten most read Teaching Matters blog posts of 2018

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Next year, Teaching Matters colleagues will be undertaking a research project investigating how a multi-authored blog (Teaching Matters!) This can also be downloaded as an Open Access e-book from Sense Publishers. Lecture Recording: What does research say about its effect on attendance?

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Mini-series: Great examples of using blogs in teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Nina herself (along with Hazel Christie, from IAD) has researched the use of blogs in teaching and learning as part of a PTAS grant and has recorded a podcast episode for our mini-series (released today). Nina and Hazel are also working on re-usable assessment marking criteria to help staff assess blogs. Look out for it!