Inspiring a large cohort with varying levels of understanding can be challenging. Mario Pezzino (SoSS) explains how co-creating and co-delivering alongside students boosted student engagement and trust in the syllabus.
Category: Learning Socially
Body Art, Apps and Parties: Creative Knowledge Translation
Stephanie Sodero (SALC) challenges students to distil a key point from their research essays into a creative project designed for a target audience.
Why is their work better than mine? Using a showcase event to harness the power of conversation, comparative judgement, and self-generated feedback
Creating meaningful summative feedback can be time consuming, with little guarantee of student engagement. However, allowing students to display their finished work to their peers, in an event aimed to encourage dialogue and comparative judgement, can become the catalyst for the creation of, and engagement with, high-quality self-generated feedback. Case study by Alison Zimmer (AMBS)
Better seminar participation through annotation exercises
Noelle Dückmann Gallagher (SALC) describes how she uses annotation exercises to increase student participation in seminars.
Developing Student assessment literacy though Peer assessment
Anonymous peer to peer review, even without students commenting on each other’s work is an effective way of developing skills such as writing style and structure in essay writing. Jenni Rose (AMBS) shares how students can also gain confidence in themselves from this process and become connected independent learners.
Capturing and reflecting on individual learning journeys through a photographic competition
SEED academics Loretta Anthony-Okeke, Heather Cockayne, Susan Dawson and Zhuo Min Huang describe a student experience event in which MA students in MIE were asked to reflect on their learning journey throughout the year and choose a photo they had taken to represent those reflections accompanied by a written commentary.
Using Padlet to provide a clear course structure and guide students through an online module
Heather Cockayne (SEED) describes using Padlet for online collaborative tasks and building a repository of student work.
Group activities in breakout rooms and interactive online teaching
Following great student feedback, Razieh Zandieh shares the synchronous and asynchronous activities which helped to enhance social interaction amongst students, and shape groups for group assignments.
Groupwork to produce a collaborative radio programme/podcast
Melanie Giles (SALC) discusses how she set up small online groups to deliver assessed ‘podcast’ style pieces of cutting-edge research while developing student collaborative and employability experiences.
Co-designing the curriculum with students and employers
Ali Owrak (AMBS) presents his journey and experience of delivering a co-designed curriculum with both employers and students’ active engagement, reviewing role of student and employer collaboration in teaching.
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