Architecture Learning Communities
Find out more about how listening and acting to student feedback, contact time with tutors and good quality staff support have helped develop a sense of learning community within Architecture.
Tag: assessment and feedback
Use of student-generated videos to prime practical workshop learning
This interdisciplinary approach to a flipped classroom gets students creating, engaged and sharing knowledge using short videos.
Find your own primary sources writing portfolio
Students studying HIS3212 : Reconstruction and the New South, 1865-1914 are asked to find their own primary resources resulting in a variety of resources and a number of new insights.
Over the Threshold: formative work in the first days at university
Archaeology students submit a formative piece, “What will I get from my degree?” near the start of Semester 1. Find out more from Dr James Gerrard in this Case Study.
Online postgraduate formative assessment
Dr James Gerrard used formative tests with postgraduate students which helps to encourage engagement with resources and contributes to better summative assessment grades.
Assessment and feedback
Tom Astley, winner of the Outstanding Contribution to Feedback Teaching Excellence Award shares his approach to providing continuous feedback to students.
Providing aural feedback
Dr Sue Thorpe records feedback using Blackboard for MSc Psychology Students. Students have responded well to this with lots of positive comments. Read more in the case study.
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Inter-university competition – Greggs marketing challenge for postgraduate taught students
Find out about how Newcastle University Students took part in a competition to prepare a marketing and product development plan for local firm Greggs.
Escape rooms, quizzes and bite size videos
When teaching ophthalmology to MBBS students Dr Jeffry Hogg introduced a range of games and quizzes to help engage students with their learning.
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Providing audio feedback
Andrea Wilczynski from the School of Modern Languages records individual audio feedback for Stage 2 students studying German. Read more about the results here.