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It’s been an honour and privilege to present the awards at this year’s celebration. It’s been lovely to hear about the care, generosity and kindness that goes into teaching. Winners of the University of Leeds Teaching Awards 2023 were recognised during a special celebration held on campus to honour excellence in student education at Leeds. The...
Against the backdrop presented by sector wide concerns around students’ mental health and well-being (Remskar et al, 2022), it is important to recognise how dissertation modules for independent learning could appear daunting for some students. They may not have previously experienced this mode of teaching and learning, and/or may lack the skills, experience, knowledge, motivation,...
At the start of this new academic year we thought it would be a good time to update you with a round-up of the support we have available to help you develop your student education practice. It includes programmes, events and resources to develop your practice, support for professional recognition, leadership development in student education...
What did you do, why did you do it? We introduced self-assessment as an element of formative assessment, following Boud's observation that this practice "gives a message to students that such activities are considered an important aspect of learning and that it is worth spending valuable time on them,"(Boud, 1995, p.40). This innovation was made...
In our work with mature, part time and Foundation Year students at the Lifelong Learning Centre, we aim to make our assessments as authentic as possible. This: recognises the valuable life, community and professional knowledges/experiences our students bringing into their academic study enables students to make connections between their university learning and their current and...
A Leeds academic has been recognised for his outstanding contribution to higher education with a National Teaching Fellowship (NTF). Dan Trowsdale, Deputy Head of the School of Mechanical Engineering, has worked at Leeds for seventeen years, having joined the University with more than 20 years’ industry experience in his field of product design. The National...
Minerva is extensively used to facilitate innovative teaching practices but there has been less attention to the quality. Evidenced by numerous positive feedback from students, the blog shows how a module builder could enhance their Minerva page by considering students’ perspectives, the interconnectivity among different learning materials and some pedagogies. What did you do and...
The winners of the 2023 University of Leeds Teaching Awards have been announced. In their third year, these prestigious accolades are a celebration of excellent practice in student education, as well as the work and innovation of colleagues to deliver high-quality teaching and learning at Leeds. The panel of judges was incredibly impressed by the...
Within a wider institutional context where academics are asked to reduce points of summative assessment within modules, embedding formative assessment opportunities tailored to the needs of students gains importance. Students have reported increased levels of anxiety when the whole mark for a module hinges on a single point of assessment. The school is therefore making...
The research process of the dissertation – discovering, collating, and critically analysing information – remains a valuable learning experience. However, with progressive introduction of capstones across the University and the emergence of AI tools, the dissertation as a written output is, in my view at least, at its sell-by date, with its use-by date fast...