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  • ReThinking Spaces
  • Assessment
    • Feedback
      • LEAPFORWARD Resources
    • Inclusive assessment
    • Programme-level assessment
    • Technology-enhanced assessment
    • Assessment literacy
  • Learning Analytics
  • Student Engagement
  • Research-based teaching
  • Team-based Learning
  • Student Satisfaction
  • Engaged Learning
  • Well-being
  • FoLaT 2018
  • Resources from BILT Events
  • Further Resources

ReThinking Spaces

University of Bristol Learning Space Principles

Learning Spaces (edited by Diana G. Oblinger, eBook)

Semiotic Social Spaces and Affinity Spaces From The Age of Mythology to Today’s Schools (James Gee: PDF resource, link to webpage)

Digital sanctuary and anonymity on campus (Sian Bayne,WonkHE: blog post)

Visitors and residents, White, D. S. and Le Cornu, A. (First Monday Journal: article)

Institutional to Individual: realising the postdigital VLE? (Lawrie Phipps: blog post)

One teacher, one camera, one voice  (Dr Eylem Atakav, TEDXUniversityofEastAnglia: video)

ReThinking Spaces: Symposium (AM) (Sally Barnes, Judith Squires and learning technologists from LSE, RePlay video)

Introduction to ReThinking Spaces (Sally Barnes, PowerPoint)

An iterative and collaborative approach to developing innovative teaching and learning spaces (Kris Roger and Sarah Ney, PowerPoint)

Eight Ways to use Space to Enhance Your Teaching (BILT, infogram)

Transforming teaching with desk layouts (BILT, diagrams)

Assessment

Feedback

Active engagement with assessment and feedback can improve group-work outcomes and boost  student confidence (Graham Scott, screencast video)

Developing Feedback Toolkit (HEA: website)

Why even the best feedback can bring out the worst in us (Naomi Winstone and Robert Nash, BBC: webpage)

Is your feedback barely used, or carefully perused? (Naomi Winstone and Robert Nash , Learning Scientists Journal: blog post)

Feedback is a two-way street, so why does the NSS only look one way? (Naomi Winstone and Elisabeth Pitt, Times Higher Education: opinion piece)

Feedforward to support classroom to workplace transitions: an interdisciplinary approach (Sheena Warman, PowerPoint)

Enhancing assessment feedback practice in higher education: The EAT framework (Carol Evans, PDF)

Making Sense of Assessment Feedback in Higher Education (Carol Evans, linked to webpage)

Opening up feedback: Teaching learners to see (Sadler, D.R., PDF)

Exploring value co-creation (CCV) in the Law Feedback Project at ESLTIS 2016 (Imogen Moore and Laura Bennett, University of Bristol School of Law, Blog post)

Thanks, but no-thanks for the feedback (Alex Forsythe and Sophie Johnson, linked to webpage)

What lies beneath: exploring the deeper purposes of feedback on student writing through considering disciplinary knowledge and knowers (Martina van Heerden, Sherran Clarence and Sharite Bharuthram, linked to webpage)

Making feedback work involves more than giving feedback (Part One) (Graham Gibbs, PDF)

Making feedback work involves more than giving feedback (Part Two) (Graham Gibbs, PDF)

LEAPFORWARD Resources

LEAPFORWARD Resource Toolkit 2018.ppt (University of Bristol, PowerPoint)

LEAPFORWARD 1 Understanding Feedback (University of Bristol, PowerPoint)

LEAPFORWARD 2 Practicalities of Workplace Feedback (University of Bristol, PowerPoint)

LEAPFORWARD 3 Emotional Relational Aspects of FB (University of Bristol, PowerPoint)

Inclusive assessment

HEA DIY Tool Kit for Inclusive Assessment (HEA: PDF resource)

Inclusive Assessment GPG (University of Plymouth: PDF resource)

Ethical Issues in Technology Enhanced Assessment (University of Bristol: PDF resource)

7 Steps to Inclusive Assessment (University of Plymouth, PDF resource)

5 Principles for Inclusive Design (BILT, Infographic)

Programme-level assessment

One-hour TESTA (BILT, website)

The case for Programme Focused Assessment: PASS Position Paper (University of Bradford/ PASS, PDF resource)

Brunel University Case Study (Chris Rust and Derek Milligan, PASS: PDF Resource)

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts: a large-scale study of students’ learning in response to different programme assessment patterns  (Tansy Jessop, Yassein El Hakin and Graham Gibbs, PDF resource: linked to webpage)

The implications of programme assessment patterns for student learning (Tansy Jessop and Carmen Tomas, PDF resource: linked to webpage)

Integrated Programme Level (IPA) Assessment (Amanda Harvey, Mariann Rand-Weaver and David Tree, Brunel University: PDF resource)

Chris Rust Workshop Summary (University of Bristol event) (University of Bristol, BILT: webpage)

Integrated Programme Assessment: A Practical Guide (Amanda Harvey, Mariann Rand-Weaver and David Tree, Brunel University: PDF resource) The Appendix of this guide is particularly useful

Technology-enhanced assessment

Using Podcasts as a Form of Assessment (BILT case study, PDF).

Benefits of EMA (University of Bristol, BILT and Digital Education Office: webpage)

Transforming assessment and feedback with technology(JISC: webpage)

Effective Assessment in a Digital Age, JISC (Sarah Davies, PDF resource)

Electronic Management of Assessment (EMA): a landscape review (PDF resource)

Where’s the transformation? Unlocking the potential of Technology-Enhanced Assessment (PDF resource, linked to webpage)

Video Assessment for Maths Students (University of Bristol, Digital Education Office: webpage with video)

Developing a guide to support the use of video in undergraduate assessment (Andy Wakefield and Emily Bell, PowerPoint)

Assessment literacy

Learning the Language of Assessment: assessment literacy and assessment guidance for students, Edinburgh teaching matters blog

Learning Analytics

Code of practice for learning analytics (JISC, webpage)

Effective learning analytics (JISC, webpage)

Journal of Learning Analytics (peer-reviewed, open-access journal, online)

The current landscape of learning analytics in higher education (Viberg, O., Hatakka, M., Balter, O., Mavroudi, A., 2018,  open-access journal article)

Supporting Higher Education to Integrate Learning Analytics (SHEILA) project (various, webpage)

Penetrating the Fog: Analytics in Learning and Education (Siemens, G., Long, P. : 2011, journal article)

Student Engagement

Summative co-assessment: a deep learning approach to enhancing employability skills and attributes (Susan J Deeley: PDF resource, linked to webpage)

Staff student partnership in assessment: enhancing assessment literacy through democratic practices (S. J. Deeley and Bovill, C.: PDF resource, linked to webpage)

Co-creation of assessments: principles and practice, workshop presented at SEDA Spring Teaching Learning and Assessment Conference 2012 (Webpage)

Improving assessment through student involvement: Practical solutions for aiding learning in higher and further education (Nancy Falchikov: PDF resource, linked to webpage)

Students as ambassadors and researchers of assessment renewal: puzzling over the practices of university and academic life (edited by Tai Peseta: PDF resource, linked to webpage)

Engaging students ion their learning: voice; partnership and co-creation (Camille Kandiko Howson, RePlay presentation/ PowerPoint)

Research-based teaching

A Connected Curriculum for Higher Education (Dilly Fung: eBook, PDF)

Developing the Higher Education Curriculum: Research-based practice in Education (Dilly Fung and Brent Carnell: eBook, PDF)

Shaping Higher Education with Students: Ways to Connect Research and Teaching (edited by Vincent Tong, Alex Standen and Mina Sotiriou :eBook, PDF)

Evaluation and benchmarking of the new Biochemistry MSci Research Training unit (Alice Robson, PowerPoint)

Monitoring Atmospheric Pollution in Bristol (Chris Adams, Powerpoint)

Building confident and engaged researchers through active partnership and problem-based learning (Chris Kent, PowerPoint)

Dr Aydin Nassehi on Student research conference on manufacturing processes (Aydin Nassehi, PowerPoint)

Team-based Learning

Ideas for inducting students  (PDF, author unknown)

Peer Evaluation Examples (PDF, author unknown)

Twelve tips for facilitating team based learning (Charles Gullo, Tam Cam Ha & Sandy Cook, linked to webpage) 

Student Satisfaction

10 year case study on the changing determinants of university student satisfaction in the UK (Adrian Burgess, Carl Senior and Elisabeth Moores: PDF)

Engaged Learning

Intellectual Property Agreements: A University of Bristol guide for Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange (University of Bristol/ Brigstow Institute; PDF)

Past Engaged Learning Projects at University of Bristol (University of Bristol, webpage)

Effective Professional Learning Communities project bibliography (University of Bristol, School of Education, webpage)

Well-being

Developing a measure of communicative and critical health literacy: a pilot study of Japanese office workers (Iskikawa, H., Nomura, K., Sato, M., and Yano, E., linked to webpage)

Implementing a Mental Wellbeing Toolbox: Reflections on integration into the veterinary curriculum and identification of opportunities for wider application (Dr Louisa Slingsby and Lucy Bates, PowerPoint)

Flourishing versus languishing students in HE’ – an in-depth analysis of the various strategies used by students as they transition from secondary school to HE (Fabienne Vailes, PowerPoint)

Not by Degrees: Improving Student Mental Health in the UK’s Universities (Institute for Public Policy Research, PDF)

Enhancing Student Mental Wellbeing: A Handbook for Academic Educators (Chi Baik, Wendy Larcombe, Abi Brooker, Johanna Wyn, Lee Allen, Matthew Brett, Rachael Field, Richard James, PDF)

Subjective Change and Mental Health: A Self-Concept Theory (Corey Lee M. Keyes and Carol D. Ryff, PDF)

Perfectionism Is Increasing Over Time: A Meta-Analysis of Birth Cohort Differences From 1989 to 2016 (Thomas Curran and Andrew P. Hill, PDF)

FoLaT 2018

Some presentations can be found in the topic-specific sections

FoLaT Full Summary (BILT, Webpage)

Finding My Teaching Voice – Experiences of postgraduate students with teaching responsibility (Louise Howson, Powerpoint)

Using learning communities to support the development of doctorate supervisory skills (Dr Kate Whittington, PowerPoint)

Resources from BILT Events

Active engagement with assessment and feedback can improve group-work outcomes and boost  student confidence (Graham Scott, screencast video)

The Student as a Global Citizen: Feasible Utopia or Dangerous Mirage?(Ron Barnett, Webpage and RePlay presentation)

Out of the long shadow of the NSS: TESTA’s transformative potential for assessment and feedback(Tansy Jessop, Webpage)

Maximising the impact of feedback: From passive reception to proactive recipience(Naomi Winstone, RePlay presentation)

The Flourishing Student (Fabienne Vailes, Webpage)

Active engagement with assessment and feedback can improve group-work outcomes and boost student confidence (Graham Scott, RePlay presentation)

Built and Learning Pedagogy (Antony Beckett, RePlay presentation)

Instrumental Learning and the Determinants of Student Satisfaction: A Comparative Analysis of Field Differences using the UK National Student Survey (Dylan Sutherland and Philip Warwick, RePlay presentation)

Easing the transition of undergraduates through an immersive induction module (Debby Cotton and Rebecca Turner, PDF)

How Just is the Global Response to Climate Change? (Alix Dietzel, PDF)

Further Resources

Advance HE Knowledge Hub (website)

LearnHigher (website)

2018 Horizon Scanning Report (Part One) (PDF)

2018 Horizon Scanning Report (Part Two) (PDF)

Ten Ways to Use Video in Your Teaching (BILT, Infogram)

Thinking Science (University of Bristol, webpage)

Academic Integrity and Misconduct (Humphrey Bourne, University of Bristol, PDF)

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