Sylvie Lomer (Centre for Achievement and Performance) Active and blended learning

In this video Sylvie talks about how she has been changing the delivery of academic skills to develop the the level of integration between generic academic skills and subject specific skills. In addition, she explains the process of integrating blended approaches into CfAP’s (Centre for Achievement and Performance) delivery.

Education E-tivity Development: Tanya Richardson & Claire Dugan-Clements

In this video Tanya and Claire talk about their work developing e-tivities for their education students in order to provide a pre-sessional activity and inter-sessional activity and a post-sessional activity for students. They share the strengths of the approach including flexibility and accessibility for the students, sharing of staff expertise and the things they have learnt about best practice.

 

 

Essay planning technique

In this video, recorded as part of the S.H.E.D – Sharing Higher Education Designs, James Underwood (Principal Lecturer in Teachers’ CPD) demonstrates an essay planning technique useful at different levels and in different contexts.

Image of James Underwood

This technique is discussed, as mentioned at the end of the video, in the following paper:

Searching for commonalities in the teaching of critical thinking skills, from Masters’ to sixth form to primary (NECTAR: http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/7634/)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279514352_Searching_for_commonalities_in_the_teaching_of_critical_thinking_skills_from_Masters’_to_sixth_form_to_primary