Alfirmo, Youth Participation and the Magic Booklet: An insight into a tool to enhance participatory and active learning

Louise Sheridan, Senior Lecturer, School of Education The Front Cover (or being upfront) In the past couple of years, I finally found the time to properly focus on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). No more excuses that I’m too busy because of leading an Undergraduate, then Postgraduate programme – it’s been quite liberating.… Read More Alfirmo, Youth Participation and the Magic Booklet: An insight into a tool to enhance participatory and active learning

Active learning in the lecture: A collaborative approach to training early career lecturers

By Dr David A. Alexander, School of Social & Political Sciences, University of Glasgow The lecture need not be a passive experience for students – listening to the lecturer deliver a monologue, letting the information wash over them and retaining little. Active learning can be applied as readily in the lecture as in the seminar.… Read More Active learning in the lecture: A collaborative approach to training early career lecturers

Decolonising using a Disney case study discussion in a marketing management course

Areti Chavale, University of Glasgow, Adam Smith Business School  The Little Mermaid flickr photo by auntie rain shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license Introduction  The importance of decolonising the curriculum is being increasingly recognised by universities across the UK and elsewhere. What this means for universities is that the teaching content across different disciplines… Read More Decolonising using a Disney case study discussion in a marketing management course

Active Learning Case Studies Internships

By Abigail Watson and Kristina Kurincova Our two interns reflect on their experiences during their internships. You can see the Active Learning Resource Hub that they helped to build. Embarking on this internship was an incredible opportunity for us to contribute to an innovative project aimed at enhancing learning and teaching resources. Working alongside Sarah… Read More Active Learning Case Studies Internships

Technology will not save us: Learning from disability history

Katharine Terrell, Academic and Digital Development Introduction Not a day that goes by without another article, guideline or policy in relation to the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in Higher Education (HE). Some of these seem to be doom-and-gloom predictions of ever-increasing plagiarism; others are rosier in their optimism of how to embed these… Read More Technology will not save us: Learning from disability history

Reflections on Use of Debate as a Summative Group Assessment Method

Caroline Loveridge, Lesley Graham and Susan Lindsay College of MVLS, University of Glasgow We designed and implemented a debate groupwork assessment in the first taught course of the MSc Precision Medicine programme. We had never used this type of assessment before but chose it as an alternative to more traditional assessments such as an essay,… Read More Reflections on Use of Debate as a Summative Group Assessment Method

World Trade Game – demonstrating how inequalities play out on the world stage  

Prepared by Sue Campbell and Dr Clare McFeely, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing This session has been carried out with a number of different student groups – student nurses as part of a leadership and management module; Advanced Nursing Science and Health Services Management Masters students as part of a global health module; undergraduate… Read More World Trade Game – demonstrating how inequalities play out on the world stage  

Active learning and dyslexia: Some considerations for creating a more inclusive classroom

“Bienvenidos (always)” flickr photo by MAMM Miguel Angel shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license Dr David A. Alexander, Politics & International Relations, School of Social & Political Sciences, University of Glasgow The student with dyslexia, a specific learning difficulty, is a growing cohort within higher education (HE) (Higher Education Student Statistics, 2023). The challenges… Read More Active learning and dyslexia: Some considerations for creating a more inclusive classroom

Applying ‘Assessment for learning in action’ in my practice

By Vicki Dale, Principal Academic and Digital Development Adviser, 5 Nov 24 There was so much to commend in the Autumn 2024 ALN CPD series, but what I’ll be applying to my practice is Rachel Fossey’s ‘Assessment for learning in action: Co-creating session content using Mentimeter’. In the session, Rachel conveyed how she has used… Read More Applying ‘Assessment for learning in action’ in my practice

Demonstrating the important role of followers – creating origami frogs in a competitive environment

Sue Campbell, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing Image by author This session was carried out in April 2024 at QEUH TLC with year 3 student nurses and previously with 4th year student nurses as part of a leadership and management module. Brief summary of the case study This blog post will focus on a… Read More Demonstrating the important role of followers – creating origami frogs in a competitive environment