It was with great pleasure that I recently accepted the offer to become the new Director of Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence on an interim basis. I believe that from LITE’s successful beginnings, it is now timely to review and re-energise the work and impact of the Institute. I bring...
In this second blog diary of a five-part series, LITE Teaching Enhancement Project Leader, Antonio Martínez-Arboleda, casts his net wider to look at how others are, and could be, using desktop capture as a way of giving feedback. Over the last few weeks I’ve been talking to colleagues about my...
In the first of a five-part series of blog diaries, LITE Teaching Enhancement Project Leader, Antonio Martínez-Arboleda, explores the trials, tribulations and triumphs of using screen-capture feedback with his students. Blog diary One: Screen-capture Feedback We all agree that it is the needs and aspirations of students and educators that should be...
What does it mean to be an international student and how can those who work with them in higher education ensure they are given equal access to all available opportunities? LITE Fellow Bee Bond writes here about some of the findings from her project, and provides simple pieces of advice...
ARE YOUNG people really ‘switched off’ from politics and being active in their local communities or are we just looking in the wrong places to see their efforts? LITE Teaching Enhancement Project Leader Bronwin Patrickson explores here how the next generation are making their voices heard across innovative new platforms. In...
University assessment is under the microscope and the sector is working hard to address issues surrounding it. LITE Excellence and Innovation Fellow Samantha Pugh examines what can be learnt from the secondary sector and how it may benefit students and staff in higher education. Assessment in education serves a number...
Higher education is under more pressure then ever to prove its value and measure the learning gain of its students. LITE Teaching Enhancement Project Leaders, Karen Llewellyn and Caroline Campbell, write here about how their project explores the benefits students get from their time at university. The Leeds Curriculum is...
A project designed to strengthen links between postgraduate taught students and the region’s buoyant cultural industries is being jointly run by the Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence (LITE) and the University’s Cultural Institute. LITE intern and MA student, Francesca Taylor, has been supporting the project and writes here about her experiences. When I...
THE UNIVERSITY of Leeds has recently unveiled three redesigned tiered traditional lecture theatres making them into collaborative learning spaces. LITE Teaching Enhancement Project leader, Alice Shepherd, feeds back here on what it’s like to teach in them. My colleagues call me ‘the tech geek’. I can understand why. I have a...
DOES CHILDHOOD learning hold the key to helping students grasp difficult concepts? LITE Teaching Enhancement Project leader, Nimesh Mistry, investigates here. From the day we are born we learn about the world around us by interacting with our environment, trying to make sense of it all so that we can...