Good Practice Blog

Back to following up on an earlier blog on Thanksgiving and Facebook.
I ended with the idea of “us” and “we”. Who am I referring to when I talk about the “us” and the “we” of the teachingcommons?
This has a particular timeline really as things always do, at least in retrospect. The teachingcommons started off heading [...]

And now we finish the series on the 2008/2009 Senate winners with Cristina Cerulli and Stephen Beck. Both are known for their positive influence and impact on students, through their interaction and social enterprise activities.
Dr Cristina Cerulli
(School of Architecture, Faculty of Social Sciences)
A winner of the Rising Stars, Cristina Cerulli is noted favourably for her [...]

We now move on with our next three 2008/2009 Senate winners. Winners of the Excellence in Collaboration category, Eugenia Cheng and Simon Willerton have been recognised for their imaginative teaching methods. Similarly, Anthony Rossiter has been recognised for his enthusiasm and for his innovations in teaching.
Dr Eugenia Cheng & Dr Simon Willerton
(School of Mathematics [...]

Today Stephen Beck (who prefers - he has made it clear to me - that he prefers to be introduced as the man  who once beat a Nobel Prize winner at Trivial Pursuit rather than the teachingcommons Board Chair) writes about an idea perhaps brought up at the Launch…a space close to his heart…? Well, certainly [...]

Over the past couple of days I have been attending the HEA (Higher Education Academy) conference in Harrogate.
A fascinating pair of presentations I saw yesterday were on the topic of stategic approaches to learning from the institutional level (well this is what rocks my boat, if you are more interested in ideas about assessment or [...]