InFormal Reflections by Amanda Fava-Verde, Mark Peace, Aaron Woodcock and...
Introduction In July this year, four members of teaching staff from the International Study and Language Institute (ISLI) headed up north to this year’s InForm Conference. InForm is a journal...
View ArticleActively using the Student Charter with your tutees By Helen Bilton and...
Student Charter ActivitiesStudent Charter ActivitiesHave you heard of the University of Reading Student Charter? Have you used the Student Charter with your students? Although many colleagues can...
View ArticleCollaborating across the country (and beyond) with Collaborate by Dr Mark...
10 Days before the US election, almost 40 students and four academics from across England came together to debate the Trump v Clinton fight for the White House, using Blackboard’s Collaborate platform,...
View ArticleUniversity Teaching Fellows aim to raise internal profile of T&L with PVC...
On the 10th November the University Teaching Fellows (UTFs) came together for their termly Community of Practice meeting. As chair of the Community for 2016/17, I welcomed all UTFs and outlined my...
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Reading Academy at NUIST: busy colleagues undertake staff development By...
On a chilly week mid-November, Clare McCullagh and Angela Buckingham headed out of Heathrow to fly fifteen hours east to reach the ancient city of Nanjing in China. Colleagues at Nanjing University of...
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Engaging Everyone – reflections on Wednesday’s D&I-themed T&L Conference – By...
I was blown away by Wednesday’s teaching & learning conference “Engaging everyone: addressing the diversity and inclusion expectations of the Curriculum Framework“. This was lead-organised by my...
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How would you describe our students? By Ellie Highwood
At the Curriculum framework conference on 25th January 2017, it was a delight to present with Sed Joshi, Diversity and Inclusion Sabbatical officer from RUSU on the topic of “How well do we know our...
View ArticleWorking collaboratively with students to design lectures the way they want...
Have you ever had to deliver lecture materials so cognitively challenging and dull at the same time, that your students either become utterly befuddled or fall asleep before you finish delivering them?...
View ArticleRESILIENCE: THE ROUTE TO SUCCESS By Dr Madeleine Davies
A Collaborative Initiative between Dr Madeleine Davies (Department of English Literature), Dr Ute Wolfel (Department of Modern European Languages), Dr Tony Capstick (Department of English Language and...
View ArticleDeveloping practical and employability skills through an inclusive and...
Background The UK pharmacy regulator, General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), sets Standards for all UK Pharmacy Schools. The Standards stipulate that the undergraduate programme (MPharm) must provide...
View ArticleSuccess Breeds Success: In Praise of FLAIR By Dr Madeleine Davies, Department...
Reluctance My application to the HEA through the FLAIR Scheme was a task I deferred for as long as possible. I did not have time; it looked too difficult; I had so many other things to do, including...
View ArticleIntegrating Research-Led Teaching into Law: From Visit Days to Finals – Dr...
The benefits of research-led teaching for both staff and students are well known. From the perspective of students, it encourages and facilitates deeper learning and engagement with complex...
View ArticleFive ideas on how to use Chromebooks in the Classroom By Daniela Standen FHEA
As part of my quest to encourage students to learn broadly as well as encouraging them to engage with Italian deeply (J. Biggs, 2003), I have experimented with using the Chromebooks, which have been...
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The ‘Gender, Sexuality and Identities’ Student Forum: Including UofR students...
The inaugural ‘Gender, Sexuality and Identities Student Forum’ met on the first day of the summer term, launching a new initiative aiming to create extra-curricular platforms for student debate. I...
View Articlelaunch of new research network on politics in the Americas at Reading By Dr...
On May 2, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Reading, Sir David Bell, will formally launch ‘The Monroe Group’ a new interdisciplinary research group at the university focused around the politics...
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Our new undergraduates will be Studying Smarter! By Dr Paddy Woodman & Dr...
Anticipation and nervousness, with a hint of bewilderment and panic – we’ve all seen these looks on our new Part 1 undergraduates. As established members of Reading’s academic community, we often...
View ArticleThe Commercial Law LLM Programmes – Engaging PGT Law students as equal...
Introduction: Students as Partners In recent years, there has been an increased appetite in higher education to explore and enhance the ways in which students can become more involved in the design and...
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Supporting Inclusivity and Diversity in Language Teaching and Learning at the...
Language learning and disability: how to avoid the ‘avoidance’? When the university disability office was approached in 2003 by a new member of staff for guidance on the assessment of a dyslexic...
View ArticleApplying Flipped Learning to an IWLP Italian Stage 3 module: creating a deep...
For the past four year I have incorporated Flipped Learning into my teaching. Flipped Learning started in the United States in secondary education (Bergmann & Sams, 2012) and it has been expanding...
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Leaner, Cleaner, Greener: How Reading’s assessment data is changing for the...
Leaner, Cleaner, Greener: How Reading’s assessment data is changing for the better. Dr Emma Mayhew (EMA Academic Director), Dr Madeleine Davies (EMA Academic Partner), Kat Lee (Project Manager,...
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