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Dr Beth Lawry

Employability ambassadors

Posted on 7th August 201811th July 2025 by Claire Burnham

Employability Ambassadors can help students with interviews, CVs and placements. Find out from Dr Beth Lawry how this scheme works in the School of Biomedical Sciences.

Posted in All, Biomedical Sciences, Medical Sciences, Student Support, Employability and WellbeingTagged Fit for the Future, UndergraduateLeave a comment
Dr Tyrrell smiling and receiving Law Teacher of the Year Award

Increasing student engagement with complex material during lectures

Posted on 7th August 201811th July 2025 by Claire Burnham

Dr Helene Tyrrell, Northern Law Awards Law Teacher of the Year, focused on engaging students with working cases during lectures. This has resulted in lots of positive feedback and student marks have also increased.

Posted in All, Humanities and Social Sciences, Large Group Teaching, Law SchoolTagged Student Engagement, UndergraduateLeave a comment
Dr Fernando Russo Abegao, Dr Sue Haile and Sharon Joyce

Supporting summative sustainability analysis using formative tests

Posted on 7th August 201816th July 2024 by Claire Burnham

This case study describes how formative tests are used in the School of Engineering to scaffold students learning prior to summative assessment.

Posted in All, Assessment and feedback, Engineering, Newcastle University in Singapore, Science, Agriculture and EngineeringLeave a comment
Students working together

Encouraging collaborative learning on challenging topics

Posted on 7th August 201811th July 2025 by Claire Burnham

Fiona Holdsworth from the FMS Graduate School explains how discussion boards are used to shape learning around a difficult subject.

Posted in All, Medical Education, Medical SciencesLeave a comment
Tom Astley

Improvising Assessment: Continuous Feedback in Creative Practice

Posted on 7th August 201811th July 2025 by Claire Burnham

Tom Astley, winner of the Outstanding Contribution to Feedback Teaching Excellence Award shares his approach to providing continuous feedback to students.

Posted in All, Arts and Cultures, Assessment and feedback, Humanities and Social SciencesTagged Authentic Assessment, Creative Thinking, Encounters with the Leading Edge, Fit for the FutureLeave a comment
A group of students at Grey's Monument

Peer mentoring: Business, Accounting and Finance

Posted on 7th August 201811th July 2025 by Claire Burnham

Find out more about how Peer Mentors support Business, Accounting and Finance students with placements.

Posted in All, Business School, Humanities and Social Sciences, Student Support, Employability and WellbeingTagged Peer LearningLeave a comment
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Class generated content

Posted on 7th August 201811th July 2025 by Claire Burnham

Dr Helen Stringer describes how she introduced group seminar debates and a class book which includes essays from all students on the module. You can also read some feedback from one of the students on the module.

Posted in All, Education, Communication and Language Sciences, Humanities and Social SciencesTagged Collaboration, Encounters with the Leading Edge, Fit for the Future, Student Co-creationLeave a comment

Inter-university competition – Greggs marketing challenge for postgraduate taught students

Posted on 7th August 201811th July 2025 by Claire Burnham

Find out about how Newcastle University Students took part in a competition to prepare a marketing and product development plan for local firm Greggs.

Posted in Active Learning, All, Assessment and feedback, Business School, Humanities and Social Sciences, Student Support, Employability and WellbeingTagged Authentic Assessment, Creative Thinking, Encounters with the Leading Edge, Leading and influencing, Postgraduate Taught, Problem solvingLeave a comment
Skeleton

Escape rooms, quizzes and bite size videos

Posted on 7th August 201811th July 2025 by Claire Burnham

When teaching ophthalmology to MBBS students Dr Jeffry Hogg introduced a range of games and quizzes to help engage students with their learning.

Image by Eleri Tunstall

Posted in All, Assessment and feedback, FMS Research Institutes, Medical Education, Medical Sciences, Playful LearningTagged Collaboration, Problem solvingLeave a comment
Andrea Wilczynski

Providing audio feedback

Posted on 7th August 201811th July 2025 by Claire Burnham

Andrea Wilczynski from the School of Modern Languages records individual audio feedback for Stage 2 students studying German. Read more about the results here.

Posted in All, Assessment and feedback, Humanities and Social Sciences, Modern Languages, Video and Audio ApproachesTagged UndergraduateLeave a comment

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