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Processes of Learning

This resource consists of PPT slides and a reflective worksheet. Use of a collaborative platform such as Padlet is also recommended for collecting students’ images of learning. If delivered in...

Career Catalyst: Implementing Employability Streams in Undergraduate Curricula

In this resource, we introduce the Graduate Stream. Please note, although it is implemented for undergraduate Psychology students, it can be implemented in any programme. Students are encouraged to pursue...

Checklist for deaf or hard of hearing students at the start of studying a new course.

This checklist is to help deaf or hard of hearing students, when embarking on a new course of study. The checklist helps students get the most out of their study...

Generative AI: a problematic illustration of the intersections of racialized gender, race and ethnicity

This workshop aims to develop practical awareness and understanding of the problematic nature of using generative AI. Specifically, this workshop aims to develop critical and analytic thinking around the underpinnings...

The I.D.E.As framework: a resource to help structure thinking about the use of (Gen)AI in learning & teaching

A set of slides with ideas and suggestions of activities to: 'Introduce' students to generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT, raising issues of concern and encouraging critical engagement; 'Develop...

Inclusive Teaching: A Quick Guide for Module Leads and Lecturers

This Quick Guide, produced by the School of Health and Social Care at the University of Essex, offers a quick introduction to some practical and straightforward inclusive teaching practices. The...

Collaborative Matching Card Game for Critical Thinking and Visual Learning

This resource provides a template and lesson plan for learning developers and educators who would like to tap into students' creativity and aid their development of critical thinking through conceptual...

Evaluating academic sources using S.P.E.A.R.

S.P.E.A.R. is a reference tool for students to use when critically evaluating an academic source. It works as a prompt for students to identify aspects of the source that they...

(Re)Building Higher Education

We are in times of certain uncertainty, consequently; Higher Education (HE) is in need of constant reflexive adaptation as never before. The lack of an evidence-based response to teaching, learning...

Top Tips for Effective Presentations

A helpsheet/ handout with top tips for effective presentation skills.

Text-scrolling with David Middlebrook

A live demonstration of the text-scrolling technique, which supports student comprehension of and engagement with reading and writing, through a multisensory, interactive approach that builds student confidence in academic reading...

Critical Thinking: Introduction and Activity

These Powerpoint slides contain a brief but useful exercise in engaging students in critical thinking - and then unpacking the process and finding the parallels with academic work (and professional...

Groupwork role play

This workshop activity facilitates participants to practice their groupwork skills whilst negotiating a response to a given scenario. It provides the opportunity to plan and film responses to create more...

Designing for Diverse Learners

Simple guidelines to support best practice learning material design. Includes: Simple guidelines to support best practice learning material design. Identify key practices to improve digital accessibility.

Argumentation

This is a PPT with accompanying worksheet that gives students practice in forming a position on a topic (in this case eugenics) based on prompts and some preliminary reading. Students...

Reading in print and in digital: Strategies and choices

This material introduces students to basic strategies for reading in digital and print formats. It encourages them to consider the advantages and challenges of each one, and the different learning...

Notetaking for better learning and assessments

This workshop will introduce students to the under-estimated skill of note-creation. It will cover taking notes in a variety of situations: in lectures, seminars and support meetings and when reading...

'Cards Against' Feedback

This activity was designed for an academic and study skills workshop, 'Making the Most of Feedback'. This is a game based on the infamous card game 'Cards Against Humanity' (but...

Referencing exercises

A set of four referencing exercises, complete with answers. Exercises cover: Is a Reference Needed? Where Should the Citations Go? “ I Didn’t Reference the Source Because…” Referencing Errors.

Creative Learning Activity Cards

Creative Learning Activity Cards are an interactive teaching and learning resource for students of creative subjects at Foundation, BA or MA level to help scaffold student academic skills. This evidence-based...

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