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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...

Freewriting

This resource encourages students to write on a given topic for a set amount of time. It is is designed to test information recall ability as well as help students...

Reading Camp Resources

This reading camp provides a space where students work on enhancing their academic reading skills. It enables students to develop strategies for approaching academic reading through the use of structured...

Fake submission to practice resource submission

A group session where students discuss and interpret typical feedback statements from Turnitin. In small groups they then go on to read feedback given to students and offer advice as...

Checklist: Editing & proofreading your assignment

The document is a checklist, which could complement a teaching session on editing and proofreading skills. It could be used as a study guide for independent learning, or it could...

Excelling at critical analysis: a 3-stage method with an image

The 3-stage method breaks down academic writing into three elements: description, analysis, and critical evaluation, and asks the students to work with an image. In the first stage, students describe...

Videos to develop dissertation writing

Five screencast videos tackle different chapters and aspects of the dissertation writing process. Discuss the requirements of each dissertation chapter. Apply the advice to your own dissertation The videos include...

Active note-making skills

This resource includes three interactive activities for helping students develop their note-making skills and for understanding when, how, and why they should be recording information.

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