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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

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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

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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

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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  

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