The Student Voice Blog

Agile Manifesto for Teaching and Learning

Agile, self-directed team projects, collaboration

Enhancing Feedback in Higher Education

Investigating the type and efficacy of feedback in Higher Education

Supporting the Less Adaptive Student

The role of assessment in allowing students to adapt to new pedagogic approaches.

Best Practices For The Use of Blended Learning From The Perspective of Students

Instructional best practice recommendations for the use of blended learning from the perspective of students to improve their learning experiences.

Modified Blended Learning in Engineering

Different approaches to blended learning and how they can be both adapted and implemented.

Exploring student experience based on different methods of formative assessment

Using various formative assessment types to help students to cope with workload of their course and their degree

Staff-student partnerships in assessment to enhance assessment literacy

Exploring the weakest links in learning and teaching and most significant contributors to student dissatisfaction

The disconnect between students, educators, and academics on what makes good feedback

Do educators see the same value in modern feedback methods as academics?

Rethinking models of feedback for learning - the challenge of design

Feedback is critical to education, yet the most heavily criticised aspect of courses in higher education.

Impacts of peer tutoring on academic performance

Researchers at a US university have demonstrated significant improvements in student grades through the introduction of student-led tutoring.

The Academic Benefits of Adding Exercise to University Lectures

Preventing mind-wandering in students during long lectures can be challenging. Getting them up and moving may be the key, say researchers at McMaster University, Canada.

Viewing Introductory Videos Prior to Lectures Aids Student Learning

Subjects like Anatomy and Physiology place high demand on students’ visuospatial ability. A Malaysian university has found that introductory pre-lecture videos can lessen this demand while increasing comprehension.

Quality of teaching in higher education - reviewing teaching behaviour through classroom observations

Teachers on their best behaviour - the power of advanced teaching behaviours.

The Benefits for Students of Problem-Based Learning

Implementations of the problem-based learning approach can have a positive impact on students' learning - boosting motivation as well as results.

Feedback and Feedforward in UK Higher Education

The future of undergraduate assessment – The realities of audio feedback and novelties of feedforward for engagement undergraduate students

Achieving transparency in dissertation supervision

Elements of doctoral supervision need to be implemented to undergraduate dissertation supervision in the UK

Ensuring Academic Integrity during COVID-19 pandemic

Innovative assessment practices in the University of Glasgow and the University of Greenwich for assessing students’ skills instead of exams

The Academic Reader as a Pedagogical Device

A recent study has shown that invoking the academic reader can help international students understand the needs of their audience

Disruption and Transformation via Lecture Recordings

Can teaching staff weather the disrupting effects of technology and incorporate lecture recordings into their existing pedagogies?

Digital Clinical Assessment – The New Normal?

Will assessing postgraduate medical and surgical students online lead to more problems than solutions?

Oral Examination as an Online Assessment Tool

Although face-to-face examination is unfeasible in online learning, conducting an online oral assessment can make interactions and discussions possible.

Flipping the Classroom for Small Group Settings

How can the flipped approach to teaching be adapted to suit small class sizes and tutorial style teaching?

Improving student experience and learning through peer review feedback

As a more effective way to improve feedback in Higher Education, Nicol et al. (2014) propose to include peer review, both receiving and providing feedback.

Feeding-Forward

The aggregation of self-reflection sheets from assignment feedback can form part of a personal development plan.

Student Remediation Programmes in Higher Education

The teacher-student relationship is a critical factor in the remediation of struggling undergraduate students.

Trust and Active Learning

It can be challenging for lecturers to encourage trust from their students. A US study has explored the impact it may have on student performance.

Gamification in Statistics Teaching

A recent study has shown that adding challenge-based games to the teaching of statistics increases student test scores by almost 35%.

Active Learning Strategies

Active in-class learning can help foster community and student engagement in STEM classrooms, particularly with underrepresented groups.

Research Project Assessments and Supervisor Marking

Is general assessment more important than subject knowledge and scientific argument for marking student dissertations?

Testing Before Teaching - How Pretesting Students Helps Retain Their Attention During Lectures

At any given lecture, between a third and a half of students may experience mind-wandering, with this increasing with time spent in the lecture.

Group work assessment best practice

Here we will look at advantages, disadvantages and recommendations for assessment in collaborative learning.

Challenges of Collaborative Learning and its Assessment

By having students learn and work together, they can develop a variety of soft skills, but how do we assess collaborative learning activities?

Project-Based Learning in Engineering

A case study in the application of project based learning and the skills it aims to teach along with implementation strategies.

Inverted Learning: Turning Traditional Teaching Methods Upside-Down

Inverted learning techniques can offer numerous benefits and improvements in student satisfaction over traditional teaching methods.

Audio and Video Feedback in Online Learning Environments

With increasing student numbers, video feedback is an opportunity to improve relationships with students and their perception of feedback

2-Stage Examinations

Students have found 2-stage examinations to be more useful for their learning, utilising a pool of knowledge to distribute exam pressures

Face-to-Face Feedback

With rising student numbers in further education, face-to-face feedback offers an opportunity to personalise feedback

Quectures - Flipped Classrooms and Polling

Pre-lecture material and engagement allows students to overcome their own misconceptions about topics

Increasing Student Engagement in Online Modules

This study highlights the importance of tutor engagement with students and other key aspects for the successful delivery of online courses.

Key Elements of Team Teaching

Important elements to be considered for a successful team-teaching experience (in Higher Education).

Student Feedback on Flipped Teaching

Flipping the classroom gets better results but how does it effect student feedback on, and performance in, their classes?