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Developing Student assessment literacy though Peer assessment

Developing Student assessment literacy though Peer assessment

by HUM eLearning | May 26, 2022 | Assessment and Feedback, Good Practice, Learning Socially, Peer Learning

Humanities Teaching and Learning Blog NEW Humanities Teaching Academy Good Practice in Teaching Podcast An essential part of higher education is the transformation from compulsory teacher-led education into life-long learning. To be able to do this we need to both...
Developing and Sharing Innovative and Responsive Assessment

Developing and Sharing Innovative and Responsive Assessment

by HUM eLearning | Apr 11, 2022 | Assessment and Feedback, Good Practice

Humanities Teaching and Learning Blog NEW Humanities Teaching Academy Good Practice in Teaching Podcast In 2013, I took on the role of module convenor and lecturer for the core Masters-level module in Social Anthropology, ‘Contemporary Debates in Anthropology’....
Using peer assessment to improve essay writing skills & understanding of assessment criteria

Using peer assessment to improve essay writing skills & understanding of assessment criteria

by Dan Rigby | May 20, 2021 | Assessment and Feedback, Good Practice

Humanities Teaching and Learning Blog NEW Humanities Teaching Academy Good Practice in Teaching Podcast Dan Rigby (Economics, SoSS) describes how he sought to improve students’ essay writing skills and understanding of the assessment criteria. Dan had 1,200 First Year...
Delivering Peer Review Online

Delivering Peer Review Online

by HUM eLearning | Mar 12, 2021 | Assessment and Feedback, Employability, Good Practice, Peer Learning

Humanities Teaching and Learning Blog NEW Humanities Teaching Academy Good Practice in Teaching Podcast In student peer review, students review other students’ work and provide feedback on it. The learning benefits of such processes for students are well...
Student Marking exercises

Student Marking exercises

by HUM eLearning | Feb 27, 2021 | Assessment and Feedback, Good Practice

Humanities Teaching and Learning Blog NEW Humanities Teaching Academy Good Practice in Teaching Podcast In her courses, Becki regularly uses formative marking exercises to help students improve their understanding and recognition of academically good essays, what is...

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  • Making Feedback Collection More Representative: SCL’s Human-Centred Design Tool for Collecting Feedback 20th August 2025
  • Walking in students’ shoes: weaving stories where human-centred design meets student voice 20th March 2025
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  • Think Outside the Box: Co-Creating Student-Centered Support Services and User Experience for Canvas 21st October 2024
  • Reflections on the ESLTIS 2024 Conference: A Journey in Educational Innovation  17th October 2024
  • ‘Real enough’: Testing and refining ideas about how we support staff in the move to using Canvas. 17th October 2024
  • Sparking meaningful conversations for student engagement: Visualising the journey of learning design 2nd October 2024
  • Reflecting on the ESLTIS24 Conference: Developing Educator Identities and Building Academic Communities 17th September 2024
  • Exploring New Developments in Student Surveys and Campus Design in Vienna 17th September 2024
  • Thinking, Collaborating and Growing: A reflection on attending the International Society for Music Education conferences and its impact on my own teaching practices 11th September 2024
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  • Advance HE: Teaching and Learning Conference 2024, Nottingham Trent University, 2 July 10th September 2024
  • Plots and storyboards: What visualising learning journeys revealed as I designed a new programme. 27th August 2024
  • Instagram: Transforming Higher Education Engagement Beyond the Classroom 2nd July 2024
  • Learning Design Case Studies 3rd January 2024
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