Good Practice Blog

For those of you who have Facebook accounts, I would highly recommend viewing a video that students have posted on a Facebook group. This video comes out of work they have been doing/engagements they have had with the Inclusive Learning and Teaching Project and discusses not only problems but solutions as well. Very impressive.
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Tomorrow Chris Stokes and I will be presenting a paper at the HEA conference on the Case Studies Project. For the rest of the week, I will attempt to post from the conference, we shall see how this goes.
Chris Stokes is on the Case Studies Project Board and is recently of Guardian fame, having been [...]

Today, Carol Sykes from Hispanic Studies starts off dancing (not literally) and ends with intimacy…what she proposes precisely is that “the cognitive environment is a moment of intimacy”. Intrigued? I know, I was. Read on….
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What does meaning mean? 
This question is part of a dance that I do over and over again with my students.
What does [...]

CILASS hosted the 2008 LTEA conference this year from Wednesday, June 25- Friday, June 27 which I have been attending over the past couple days (this is back-posted on Friday so the conference is now over). This is an annual conference put on by the Learning Through Enquiry Alliance.
The topic of this year’s conference was “Inquiry [...]

The winners of the “I love my Personal Tutor” campaign (an initiative from the Student Union Education Committee) were announced today. Students were asked to nominate Personal Tutors who they felt had gone above and beyond the “call of duty”. And nominate they did. Outgoing Education Officer Emily Savage mentioned that 124 Personal Tutors had [...]