"employability" blog posts
Treasure Island Pedagogies: Episode 36, the one with the Marimba
In Episode 36, in addition to lightbulb moments, treasure island pedagogies/props and luxury items, our discussion covered synchronous online learning via low latency technology for musicians and ensuring our students have the experience of developing skills to put them at advantages for employment, and the value of accredited micro credentials, trading simulations and game-based learning, and incorporating education for sustainability in education.
Posted on: 11 November 2024
Treasure Island Pedagogies: Episode 23 - the one with the magic box
In Episode 23, our lightbulb moments, treasure island pedagogies/props and luxury items, included team roles and skills, allowable weaknesses, facilitating students to ask their own questions, using creativity and playfulness, online collaboration tools as well as using cameras for reflection, and bringing a magic box full of surprises to inspire new connections for learning.
Posted on: 16 January 2023
Buddycheck Feature Update June 2022
Buddycheck is a peer evaluation tool used to help students to feedback and reflect upon the contribution of themselves and their peers towards groupwork tasks. This can be used to make assessment of groupwork fairer through increased accountability and peer-moderation of grades. It can also be used formatively as a prompt for reflection and source of feedback leading to development of teamwork skills. Buddycheck is intergrated into Canvas, and available for all staff at the University of Liverpool to use.
Posted on: 20 June 2022
UCISA Digital Capabilities - York 4th - 5th June 2019
Tunde Varga-Atkins attended UCISA’s Digital Capabilities Group’s annual spotlight event on 4-5th June 2019 in York, exploring student, staff and institutional perspectives of developing digital capability. She provided this report.
Posted on: 21 June 2019
SEDA Conference 2019
Ceridwen Coulby attended the Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA) Spring Conference which took place from May 9th-10th 2019 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Posted on: 31 May 2019