The TIPS Blog is a collection of short articles written by colleagues, sharing examples of their teaching practice. Each article outlines a teaching intervention, explains the design rationale, evaluates impact and suggests how these could be used and adapted by others.
Anyone involved in teaching at the University can share their examples of practice, click below to learn how to submit an article to the TIPS Blog.
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We are sharing this to discuss the development of a new virtual reality teaching resource. We developed an innovative resource for medical students to learn about the impact of social determinants of health on how patients manage their long-term health conditions. What did you do? Why did you do it? The Continuing Care and Cancer module for...
Taught postgraduate students often struggle to understand assessment criteria and expectations, especially when transitioning from diverse academic and professional backgrounds. This exploratory case study consulted students from two diverse cohorts to help redesign assessment processes to make them more transparent, inclusive, and effective in a 5190M - Managing and Developing Environmental Projects module in the School of Earth, Environment and Sustainability. Students in both cohorts came from diverse backgrounds, such as a wide range of undergraduate disciplines, including home and international students; some...
We are sharing this to provide inspiration for embedding sustainability into education practice using packs of cards that staff and students can borrow from Helix. Each of the cards in a pack explains a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) with examples of how this goal has been advanced. What did you do? Why did you do...
Since the start back in June 2020, TIPS has been a place for collecting and sharing of examples of practice in student education from across the University of Leeds. As it says in the 'welcome to TIPS' email that goes to everyone who joins the community, TIPS (short for Teaching, Innovation and Practice Sharing) offers...
Practical skills are relevant in chemical engineering education to gain employability skills. This is conventionally achieved through on campus laboratory work rather than industrial visit activities. Second year chemical engineering students carried out on-site visit activities at an industrial process plant in the spring of 2023. What did you do? Why did you do it?...
Decolonising the curriculum is an important and increasingly prevalent aspect in our role as educators. It is our duty to ensure we present a diverse and global account of academic content, teaching methods, and assessment. This blog post introduces an approach to how we might authentically and genuinely diversify our teaching delivery and methods of assessments by working alongside students on a project that designed an essay question and accompanying workshop.
Our University commonly describes itself as ‘international’. While internationalisation can be reflected in research endeavours and staffing demographics, recognition of diversity should move beyond surface-level considerations toward how students’ diverse backgrounds interact with and emerge in learning spaces. We therefore launched the project ‘Embracing Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in Teaching’. What did you do? Why...
Critical thinking skills are a central component of teaching and learning in higher education institutions, and utilising the skills and experience debating can be an engaging way to develop these skills in our students. What did you do? Why did you do it? Critical thinking skills are a central component of teaching and learning in...
NB: This article was first published in 2020 on Casebook@Leeds. Overview This case study presents the findings of an action research project conducted in Autumn 2019 aiming to examine the extent to which employability-enhancing skills are signposted to students in final year translation modules at Leeds. Findings revealed some examples of best practice which can...
A TIPS blog article looking at an alternative presentation approach to decrease anxiety and increase inclusivity.