Tag: rethinking spaces
With the move towards blended learning, it can sometimes feel like we’ve been living in a virtual world over the past two years, our heads jammed with thoughts about online ...
January 31, 2022 -
Emerging Engineers So before we go any further, a serious health warning, if you are the sort of person who feels the need to reach for the sick bucket whenever ...
November 22, 2019 -
Brief outline of the use of a clinical skills lab as an active learning space. ...
November 21, 2019 -
Authentic Learning So, this week I want to talk about Authentic Learning. Hopefully you had a chance to look at the paper I mentioned by Marilyn M. Lombardi on ‘Authentic ...
October 24, 2019 -
'Space... ' At some point in Spring 2018 I went for an interview to be a BILT Fellow in Assessment and Feedback. All went well and I was offered a ...
October 18, 2019 -
The University of Bristol has pledged to make the city a better place1. Our research institutes are leading the charge to action this2, but how can we connect our research ...
October 16, 2019 -
Sam Hitchmough, Director of Teaching and Senior Lecturer in American Indian History Historians of any field constantly grapple with a thorny mass of official histories and unofficial/vernacular histories, histories that ...
September 16, 2019 -
Lisa Howarth is a BILT Student Fellow, working on the theme ‘Making the Most of our Teaching Spaces’ at the University of Bristol. As she comes to the end of ...
July 1, 2019 -
The following post was written by James Norman, a BILT Fellow and programme director for Civil Engineering. Today I continue my physical journey into the research of space as I ...
May 8, 2019 -
The following post was written by Emilie Poletto-Lawson, a BILT Fellow and Educational Developer in Academic Staff Development. The Academic Practice Directorate at the University of the West of England ...
March 15, 2019 -
The following post was written by James Norman, a senior lecturer in Civil Engineering and a BILT Fellow. Over the last three weeks we have visited three different universities who ...
February 14, 2019 -
Professor Daniels presented an account of AHRC sponsored research that sought to address the need for learning environments to better respond to changing needs of curriculum and pedagogy. I am ...
January 21, 2019 -
We asked our Student Fellows to write us a short blog about their background and what they are doing as part of their BILT role. The following blog is from ...
December 7, 2018 -
The following blog was written by James Norman, a Senior Lecturer in Engineering and a BILT Fellow. I am sure we have all been there, it’s the Monday before the ...
December 7, 2018 -
The following blog was written by James Norman, a Senior Teaching Fellow and a BILT Fellow since September 2018. For centuries universities have taught in lecture theatres. But the lecture ...
November 22, 2018 -
Interview with Michaela Borg (Nottingham Trent University) discussing an enquiry based active learning approach called SCALE-UP to support student engagement, attendance and attainment. ...
November 7, 2018 -
Introduction The principles below are intended to provide a pedagogical framework for the design of teaching and learning spaces. Each of the five principles is oriented towards facilitating active interaction ...
October 25, 2018 -
BILT Fellow Jenny Lloyd updates us on the latest from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law. For those in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law who have an ...
October 16, 2018 -
A project that utilised problem based activity to develop student engagement and understanding of statistics for planning psychological experiments. ...
October 12, 2018 -
The ‘Exploring Microsoft Office 365 for Teaching and Learning’ event took place on Monday 10th September in Great George Street, and aimed to answer four questions: How would tools for ...
September 14, 2018 -
We asked our Fellows to write us a short blog about their background and what they are doing as part of their BILT Fellowship. The following blog is from James ...
September 14, 2018 -
Today I had the opportunity to interview with Kris Roger, who, with his colleague, presented an interesting and informative lecture on the transformation of learning spaces at LSE at the second ...
July 5, 2018 -
The principles below are intended to provide a pedagogical framework for the design of teaching and learning spaces. Each of the five principles is oriented towards facilitating active interaction and ...
July 5, 2018 -
The fifth blog in this series has been written by Jenny Lloyd, a BILT Fellow and Senior Teaching Fellow in the School of Economics, Finance and Management. Today’s’ students - ...
June 12, 2018 -