If you have trouble remembering what goes where, or have never had to fill in the academic fields of Newcastle University’s Module Outline Forms (MOFs) then this video may be a useful reminder.
Available from both NUVision and YouTube, it should be easy to embed in school webpages, on Blackboard, and to share with colleagues.
Made in a collaboration between FMS and LTDS, we hope it is useful across all schools. We welcome your feedback or ideas of how you might use it locally.
Are you looking to share knowledge and ideas with higher education professionals nationally and globally?
The Higher Education Academy (HEA) Communities of Practice offer an exciting opportunity for members to take part in discussions, webinars, blogs, thought platforms and more . Communities focus on a number of keys areas including employability, and assessment and feedback.
Interested? Read on to find out more. Continue reading “Higher Education Academy: Communities of Practice”
A number of key themes have emerged from the free text comments provided in the VLE Review staff survey which will be explored in a series of staff focus groups in January 2018.
These will help us to determine what you want to be able to do on a course /module and the functionality that you require in the VLE to meet these aims.
All staff are welcome. An additional Professional Services staff focus group will also be held.
The dates and themes are: Continue reading “Have your say – Virtual Learning Environment staff focus groups”
The arrival of the Teaching Excellence Framework with a core criteria of ‘Student Outcomes and Learning Gain’ has fuelled the ongoing debate about what learning gain actually means, and how it can be measured.
Given the prominence of the topic we are delighted that Dr Camille Kandiko Howson will be presenting a Keynote at our Learning Teaching Conference on Wed 21 March 2018. Continue reading “Learning and Teaching Conference 2018: Dr Camille Kandiko Howson”
The Learning and Teaching Development Service has moved offices.
From January 2018 we can be found in a new dedicated space on the first floor of the Marjorie Robinson Library Rooms. Continue reading “LTDS has a new home!”
Learning and Teaching Conference 2018 – Education for Life: celebrating partnership, encouraging innovation
Wednesday 21 March 2018
We are pleased to announce that registrations are now open. Book your place here
The event will include a diverse mix of sessions including Workshops, Presentations, Lightning Talks and Poster presentations. Further information about the conference can be found on our website. Continue reading “Registration Open: Learning and Teaching Conference 2018 Education for Life: celebrating partnership, encouraging innovation”
Last year we decided to open the great big can of worms that was our School’s Undergraduate Blackboard site.
Dental Sciences was one of the first schools to adopt Blackboard some 15 years ago and was perhaps a lesson in how not to structure it. We just had one very large community with all the learning material from our 5-year non-modular course crammed inside. Continue reading “Guest Blog: School of Dental Sciences Blackboard update”
From quizzing in the classroom to embedding quizzes in your recap recordings, our latest Pizza, Pop and Practice event covered them all (with a bit of a Christmas theme).
Our experts for this session were Marc Bennett (NUIT), Rebecca Gill (LTDS), Chris Graham (Mathematics, Statistics and Physics) and Carol Summerside (LTDS). They all provided a great overview of the different tools and the session ended with Laura Delgaty’s International Christmas Quiz with prizes for everyone.
Find out about each of the quizzing tools below: Continue reading “NUTELA 3Ps: Quizzing”
If you are an undergraduate or a recent graduate with a piece of independent research that you’re proud of—or you’re a lecturer with students like that—please read on! Newcastle University is looking for people to represent us at the British Conference of Undergraduate Research 2018.
Continue reading “Undergraduate research: present at BCUR, get Newcastle to pay for it, CV points”
The Learning and Teaching Conference 2018 theme has been announced: Education for Life: celebrating partnership, encouraging innovation.
This one-day event will take place Wednesday 21 March 2018, 9am-5.30pm. Read more about the conference theme, find full details of the event and register on the conference webpage.
Proposals are welcomed from academic staff, students and Professional Services staff, for individual or collaborative submissions. Further information about the conference theme Education for Life: celebrating partnership, encouraging innovation is available on the conference webpage.
All sessions will have a member of LTDS staff allocated to help in advance of the event, who will also be in the session on the day.
A hands on session to solve a problem, practice something new, showcase a method. Learning by doing. Choose a flat teaching space arranged cabaret style, or a PC cluster.
These sessions will be chaired by a member of academic staff, and wherever possible grouped into themed sessions to enable a short panel discussion and Q&A at the end.
A speedy way to introduce a new idea, share an approach, or ask a question. Grouped in themed sessions wherever possible. A chance to meet people doing similar things to you. Several lightning talks will be followed by a Q&A session. You can choose whether or not to use audio visual aids, or you could submit a 3 minute video!
Posters will be on display all day in the Boiler House. Poster presenters should be available by their poster to answer questions during the lunch break. Delegates will vote on their favourite and a prize will be awarded.
Complete the call for submissions form to submit your ideas by Friday 19 January 2018.
All submissions will be reviewed by the Learning and Teaching Conference Programme Committee, and session allocations will be confirmed by Wednesday 31 January 2018. We will wherever possible try to accommodate your preferred session, however you may be allocated a different session format, at the discretion of the committee.
If you have a query email LTDS@ncl.ac.uk
If you have somewhere to put it up you can print out this poster, or use this version to send out to colleagues.
