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Building participation and active learning on MSc core course
Our second guest post comes from Dr Claire Gordon in LSE’s Teaching and Learning Centre. As part of her educational development work with the Department of Sociology, she has played an advisory and...
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Resource of the week
This week’s resource comes from the key contributor to educational research into course and curriculum design in UK higher education, Professor John Biggs. Since the late 1980s, Biggs has developed a...
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Resource of the week
This week’s resource opens the theme of week 2 in our mini-series inspired by LSE departments’ Assessment and Feedback Statements – assessment diversity. The new Assessment Toolkit, prepared by Claire...
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Using real life examples in teaching: an illustration from LSE’s Department...
Formulating and articulating clear arguments is an important academic and professional skill that students of economics, amongst others, will need in class, in exams and during the course of their...
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Resource of the week
This week’s resource comes from the key contributor to educational research into course and curriculum design in UK higher education, Professor John Biggs. Since the late 1980s, Biggs has developed a...
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Innovative assessment practices at LSE
With the continued strong focus on assessment in higher education, this week’s post features two members of LSE faculty who gave presentations at the recent Teaching Symposium on their departments’...
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Ideas for LSE’s new academic year structure
As LSE moves towards the implementation of its new academic year structure from 2015/16, and departments are considering how they might best use the additional weeks available in Michaelmas and Lent...
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Integrating digital and information literacies in course curricula
In advance of an Academic Development Programme workshop on this subject next Wednesday (see the booking link at the end of the post), during which participants will explore the concepts of information...
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Resource of the week
This week’s resource opens the theme of week 2 in our mini-series inspired by LSE departments’ Assessment and Feedback Statements – assessment diversity. The new Assessment Toolkit, prepared by Claire...
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Embedding skills development in departments
LSE academic developer Dr Esther Saxey reports on the ways in which LSE departments are encouraging the development of students’ academic skills, with a particular focus on International History’s new...
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Meet the Excellence in Education Awards Winners, 2016: Dr Jo Braithwaite
Dr Jo Braithwaite is an Associate Professor of international commercial finance law. Her teaching combines a commitment to exploring legal principles with topical case studies, and a personal...
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Course design and the LSE Teaching and Learning Centre
In today’s post Dr Claire Gordon, Head of the Teaching and Learning Centre, discusses how course design can impact student learning. Working with academic colleagues across the School on the design of...
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Meet the Excellence in Education Award Winners, 2016: Dr Jennifer Jackson-Preece
Dr Jackson-Preece is an Associate Professor of Nationalism, with a joint appointment in both the European Institute and the Department of International Relations. Her teaching is underpinned by a...
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Game-based teaching and learning
Following on from his earlier post on gamification and student engagement, the Teaching and Learning Centre’s Mark Baltovic talks briefly about some of the interesting results emerging about video...
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Structuring learning differently
In this post, the Teaching and Learning Centre’s Dr Ellis Saxey considers how the structure of a course can impact on student learning. When I taught undergraduate students, at the end of my seminars,...
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