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Service Excellence Programme: Programme and Course Information Management (PCIM)

Teaching Matters Academic Support

The project had several outcomes, including fantastic examples of student and staff engagement, enhanced course descriptors, and revised policies, which laid important ground work for the current PCIM project. It will enhance the information available by improving and streamlining how we propose, maintain, and close courses and programmes.

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Course and Programme Design: Cycling through the ELDeR process

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Learning design is the process of designing learning experiences (planning, structuring, sequencing) through facilitated activities that are pedagogically informed, explicit, and make better use of technologies in teaching. There is also an informal Board of Studies network you can join here , which meets face-to-face twice a year.

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Spotlight on Remote Teaching and Alternative Assessment Methods

Teaching Matters Online Learning

In addition to the excellent guidance on teaching online provided by Information Services , we have a huge amount of relevant experience and expertise across the University. We will be using two new Teaching Matters Spotlight Series to share some of these insights. We’d be delighted to hear from you.

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The Directors of Teaching Network: sharing good practice and discussing challenges in teaching across the university

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

As is often the case with networks, the chatting over coffee can be as informative as the planned sessions. From our perspective as education researchers, this network certainly feels like an effective way of disseminating information on university projects and resources that can help schools develop their learning and teaching strategies.

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Reflections on the use of personae in learning design activities

Teaching Matters Online Learning

This post is part of the Hot Topic ‘ Revisiting the Hybrid Teaching Exchange ‘ The Learning Design Service is part of Educational Design and Engagement in Information Services. Jon Jack Jon is a Learning Technology Team Manager in the Educational Design and Engagement team (Learning, Teaching & Web, Information Services).

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Ways of thinking about teaching and learning

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Reading and re-reading and going to different sources of information, patterns become familiar, helping you make sense of new things that you haven’t met before, getting to see why this question is important while another one is not, or that this theory is more likely than another.

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Using Learn to Support Students for Success

Teaching Matters Academic Support

To support them through their degrees, that hub would need to contain key School information, study skills training, details of the Personal Tutor system, careers information, peer support and so on. Yes, this information is out there. Moreover, that information is not always presented in a particularly engaging way.