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This week’s theme: Active Learning
Implementing active learning activities can transform your teaching, with many studies showing students develop better critical thinking skills and improved outcomes when active learning techniques are used. This week, we’ve published a few new resources exploring at active learning and how it can benefit your students. Take a look at our latest pieces on this topic, or browse through some of our older pieces on the topic.
- Active and Inclusive Learning – what is it and how does it work?
Our Student Fellow Kat Rooney has written this piece on active and inclusive learning, discussing student perspectives, its benefits and the challenges that come with it. - Relieving student boredom by activating lecture theatres
Dr Simon Brownhill from the School of Education has shared this reflective piece on how activating lectures can encourage student learning. - Have you tried flipping to promote more active learning?
BILT’s Fiona Harley has shared a piece about flipped learning, looking at ways to make a lecture more ‘active’ if students engage with content before they arrive, and the benefits this could bring to your students.
From the archive
Active learning isn’t a topic that is new to us! We’re highlighting all the brilliant resources we’ve created in the past to showcase some of our oldies-but-goodies.
- The Active, Collaborative Cookbook – created by our 2019/20 Student Fellow Toby Roberts, this resource is a lovely practical guides to implementing active learning into your work.
- Case study: approaches to active learning in large group contexts – video case study looking at the approach taken in CAME.
- Case study: pipe cleaners, pick ‘n’ mix and colouring in – active learning goes back to basics – one of the first case studies we every published, this blog looks at the introduction of novel objects using in teaching neuroscience.
Want to find more? Search for ‘active learning’ on the BILT blog.
National Teaching Fellowship (NTF) candidates
We’re really excited to share that this year’s National Teaching Fellowship candidates are Rabeya Keaton, Andy Wakefield and Bruce Hood! We wish them all the best in their applications and are hoping for brilliant outcomes for them all. You can read a little more about each of them, and their work, below:
BILT X SU Research: Academic Feedback Focus Groups
Have your say on assessment feedback!
In collaboration with Mia Stevens (Undergraduate Education Officer) and Bristol Institute for Learning and Teaching (BILT), Bristol SU is running focus groups to hear your experiences of receiving assessment feedback at University.
Students can sign up below for the chance to take part in a focus group and earn a £20 voucher.
Please circulate this link with your students.
Co-creation of a nutrition, well-being and misinformation course
Academic staff from the Nutrition and Behaviour Unit and the Science of Happiness team want to conduct a series of student-led workshops to inform the content and delivery of an optional short course. The course will focus on nutrition, subjective well-being, and online misinformation. The key objectives are to equip students at the University of Bristol with critical thinking skills, to promote student well-being, and to enhance students’ understanding of nutritional science. Importantly, the course intends to empower students to better identify and counteract online misinformation.
The team are currently gathering expressions of interest from students to participate in the co-creation workshops and/or the short-course. To express interest, students can scan the QR code or click on the hyperlink on this poster.
View the poster and access the EOI Form.
Blogs we’ve published this fortnight
- H is for Hackathons
Our A – Z of BILT blog series continues with this week’s instalment by Senior Education Developer, Amy Palmer – looking at BILT’s use of hackathons and how they’re used to learn more about student experience.
- Back to Basics: The theory behind screencast feedback
Dr. Lloyd Fletcher shares the third instalment in this series, exploring screencast feedback. An absolute must-read if you’re not currently utilising this tool! Read the whole series here.
- An Almunus’ Experience of Academia`
Bristol Alumnus Patrick Shortall and his supervisor Chanelle Lee share their story on taking Patrick’s undergraduate dissertation to an international conference and publish in a journal.
- A consolidation prize?
Joe Gould has shared this timely blog on consolidation week – looking at two models of reflective methods.
Upcoming events
Show, Tell and Talk: Co-created curricula in practice: ideas, opportunities and practice, 6th November, 1.15pm – 2.30pm
The second event in our ‘Show, Tell and Talk’ series will be a panel discussion critically reflecting on student co-creation and looking at challenges and opportunities it brings.
Full details and booking link are available on this page.
Show, Tell and Talk: Teaching and learning in the international classroom, 14th November, 10.30am – 2pm
The next event in our ‘Show, Tell and Talk’ series will look at the international student experience, hearing first hand from a former BILT student fellow alongside a workshop presented by our CALD colleagues.
Full details and booking link are available on this page.
PGR Supervisor Symposium: Celebrating and Developing PGR Supervision at Bristol, 27th November, 1pm – 5pm
After a brief hiatus, last year, the PGR Supervisor Symposium is back for 2024. The symposium offers a safe and inclusive space for University of Bristol PGR supervisors to share best practices and pedagogies, and to explore their experiences of supervising PGR students.
Full details and booking link are available on this page.
To see all our events, including more Show, Tell and Talk sessions, visit our events page.
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