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University Teaching: Core Skills
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56 Minutes
Reflecting on how you fit into the current higher education context.
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22 MinutesThis module was designed to help you reflect on your role and teaching practices and the opportunities you have to continue to develop and grow.
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17 MinutesThis module examines the wider higher education context that you are working in, looking closely at emerging developments and current key drivers.
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17 MinutesThis module contains a diagnostic tool made up of three exploratory tests, each depicting different scenarios you might face, depending on the context you might be working in.
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133 Minutes
How to constructively align your teaching, promote active learning and provide engaging, high quality learning resources.
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25 MinutesThis module introduces key concepts in designing a learning sequence and explores why design is important for creating effective learning experiences.
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33 MinutesThis module prompts you to consider your context and how it affects the way you facilitate learning.
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27 MinutesThis module explores active and student-led learning, demonstrating what both approaches look like in practice and how they relate to your context.
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22 MinutesThis module prompts you to consider what your role is in online, blended and flipped learning and how you can use each in your own teaching practices.
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26 MinutesThis module explores how to identify and make the most of the learning resources available to you and how they can help promote student engagement.
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100 Minutes
How to select and implement diverse teaching approaches and create inclusive learning environments.
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26 MinutesThis module examines key factors that influence student motivation and strategies that you can use to help support and maintain student engagement.
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20 MinutesThis module discusses the benefits of group work for you and your students and how to address common challenges that may arise when facilitating it.
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27 MinutesThis module explores how to support and promote your students' learning in practical settings and how you might assess their work.
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27 MinutesThis module explores the benefits of facilitating learning outside of the university and how to best support learning in these environments.
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94 Minutes
How to design appropriate and aligned assessments, deliver meaningful feedback on individual and group assignments and minimise bias in marking.
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44 MinutesThis module explores what assessment is used for and the various roles that you will play in the assessment cycle as a facilitator.
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27 MinutesThis module explores how you can use feedback to prompt learning by creating a dialogue with students and techniques that you can use in your context.
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23 MinutesThis module considers the different factors involved in marking and how you can develop a professional judgement that is fair to your students.
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75 Minutes
How to support students academically and non-academically, encourage student wellbeing, navigate challenges and deal with personal pressures and stress.
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28 MinutesThis module contains techniques and advice on how to create and sustain an inclusive and supportive learning environment for all of your students.
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26 MinutesThis module provides guidance and advice on how to approach and support a student in need, while maintaining the professional boundaries of your role.
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21 MinutesThis module contains techniques and advice on how to maintain your wellbeing and how to support colleagues with maintaining their wellbeing.
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68 Minutes
How to adapt your practices in light of peer, student and external feedback and build on your experiences as a reflective, inquisitive and pro-active teacher.
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29 MinutesThis module discusses how to work with feedback and student evaluations by providing tips and methods that you can apply in your own context.
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16 MinutesThis module was designed to help you develop an approach to enhance your teaching practices by giving you the necessary tools to evaluate your impact.
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23 MinutesThis module will help you identify strategies that you can use to develop your career and to become more proactive in your professional development.
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