L&T Chat Show
By Roger Saunders
L&T Chat ShowApr 19, 2023
S4E23 - Karl McCormack and John Parkin on Playmobil Pro
Karl and John talk to me about the work they have been doing in Accounting and Education using Playmobil Pro to explore ideas, contexts and experiences in an insightful and joyful way.
If you'd like to learn more you can contact Karl on K.Mccormack@staffs.ac.uk
There is more about the methodology developed by Pro.Play here https://www.proplaymethod.com/ and Karl is able to run the training if anyone want to be a certified facilitator.
The Playmobil.pro website is https://pro.playmobil.com/ and gives details of the different kits available as well as case examples.
Information on John's research can be found here:
https://journals.gre.ac.uk/index.php/compass/article/view/1436
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S4E22 - David Gordon on Authentic Assessment, Business Projects and Employability
In today's episode David talks about how his Business Projects (alternative to the dissertation) form a proxy for students unable to take a placement and increase employability through industry relevant experience.
If you'd like to learn more contact dgordon@dmu.ac.uk
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S4E21 - Gemma Mansi on Assessment Literacy
Do students really understand what we mean when we produce our extensive and helpful assessment briefs? What about those lovely rubric or grading criteria? Do they know how their work will be judged and how to judge their own? All this and more is covered in today's episode.
For more details:
Jones, H. Mansi, G. H. Orpin, H. Monsey, H. Molesworth, C. (2023) Transitions into Higher Education, Critical Publishing
Mansi, G. (2021) Bridging the gap between the marker’s tacit knowledge and student understanding of assessment and feedback, Compass: journal of learning and teaching, vol 14 (2), pp 1-8.
QAA, 2022: Making the language of assessment inclusive’, Making the language of assessment inclusive: New QAA Membership podcast
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Chartered Association of Business Schools - Create Your Own Card Game
This is the narration for a digital presentation I am doing for the Chartered Association of Business Schools Learning & Teaching Conference. If you'd like a copy of the slides, please contact me on roger.saunders@dmu.ac.uk (I am also happy to present this session live)
S4E20 - Internationalisation at Home Handbook
Today I talk to Anthony Manning and Silvia Colaiacomo about their new Introductory Handbook on Internationalisation at Home. They discuss a variety of ways in which international students can help create a more diverse experience for all students across a University cohort.
Along with their colleague Emma Marku they have produced the following resources, which is free to download and has already been accessed by Universities from over 60 countries and which will be explore further in an up-coming conference:
Manning, A. and Marku, E. et al (2024) Internationalisation at Home: An Introductory Handbook, UUKi
https://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/sites/default/files/uploads/UUKi/IaH%20handbook/IAH%20UUKi%20150124%20v2.pdf
Manning, A., Pilsbury, D., Adrey, J-B, and Illieva, J. (2023) Is The UK developing Global Mindsets?. International Higher Education Commission
https://ihecommission.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IHEC-Report_Is-the-UK-developing-global-mindsets-Report_24_10_2023.pdf
Manning, A., Colaiacomo, S. and Linehan, A. (2022) Harnessing the benefits of sanctuary scholarship: opportunities for community enhancement, widening participation and Internationalisation at Home. Intercultural Education
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14675986.2022.2144623
Manning, A. and Colaiacomo, S. (2021) Innovations in Internationalisation at Home: - Cambridge Scholars.
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-6656-9
https://thepienews.com/analysis/internationalising-at-home/
https://thepienews.com/news/uuki-releases-intlisation-home-handbook/
S4E19 - Dan Cole on Teaching Teachers
Dan and I discuss his work on the PGCert in Empowering Education covering memory exercises, team work, jigsaw learning, peer learning and teaching, the 4 Ps of questioning and professional conversations.
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S4E18 - Neil Currant, Vikki Hill & Liz Bunting on Compassionate Assessment
Neil, Vikki and Liz talk me though the research they've been doing on compassion in teaching and introduce the idea of compassionate assessment.
If you'd like to find out more or to join the Compassionate Assessment Network https://www.qaa.ac.uk//en/membership/collaborative-enhancement-projects/assessment/compassionate-assessment-in-higher-education
For more information about the research
Bunting, L, Hill, V., Ingham, M. & Vicente Richards, A. (2023, forthcoming) Sent with love: Love letters as a way of thinking about relational pedagogies of assessment. In Critical Posthumanism and Education: Key Debates, Theoretical Perspectives and Pedagogies, Routledge.
Hill, V. (2023) Enacting compassion during the pandemic: academic staff experiences of a No Detriment Policy on pass/fail assessment in Carrigan, M., Moscovitz, H., Martini, M. & Robertson, S. (eds) Building the Post-Pandemic University: Imaging, Contesting and Materializing Higher Education Futures. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
Hill, V., Bunting, L., Currant, N., Salines, E., Broadhead, S., da Costa, L. & Mantho, R. (2023) Belonging through Assessment Pipelines of Compassion. University of the Arts London, Online. ISBN 978-1-90690882-9
QAA Collaborative Enhancement Project Page: Belonging through Assessment: Pipelines of Compassion. https://www.qaa.ac.uk/membership/collenhancement - projects/assessment/belonging-through-assessment-pipelines-of-compassion
Bunting, L. & Hill, V. (2021) Relational Reflections: How do we nurture belonging in creative Higher Education? Innovative Practice in Higher Education. pp.139-165 ISSN 2044-3315
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S4E17 - Dr Kate Strudwick on embedding student engagement
Kate and I talk about the work she has done over many years working with students as so-creators and co-researchers.
If you'd like to read more check out her articles:
Strudwick, K. (2017) Debating Student as Producer – Relationships; Contexts and Challenges for Higher Education PRISM Casting New Light on Learning, Theory and Practice, May 1 (1) pp. 73-96 ISSN 2514-5347http://prism-journal.blackburn.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Strudwick_2017_Student-as-Producer.pdf
Strudwick, K., Jameson, J., Gordon, J., Brookfield, K., McKane, C., and Pengelly, G. (2017) Understanding the gap’ to participate or not? - Evaluating student engagement and active participation Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal RAISE, Vol 1, (2) pp.81-87 ISSN: 2399-1836 https://sehej.raise-network.com/raise/article/view/strudwick
Jameson, J., Jones, M., and Strudwick, K. (2012) Browne, employability and the rhetoric of choice: student as producer and the sustainability of HE. Enhancing Learning in the Social Sciences, 4 (3). pp. 1-15. ISSN: 1756-848X
Jameson, J., Strudwick, K., Bond-Taylor, S., and Jones, M. (2012) Academic principles versus employability pressures: a modern power struggle or a creative opportunity? . Teaching in Higher Education, 17 (1). pp. 25-37. ISSN: 1356-2517
Strudwick, K., and Jameson, J. (2010) Employability skills in social sciences: parent and students’ expectations.Project Report. Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics C-SAP, Birmingham.
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S4E16 - Alex Gunz on Schema based learning
Alex and I discuss his approach to teaching that involves helping students to understand how schemas can be applied to learning based on the work of Sandra Marshall.
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S4E15 - Kathleen Nthakomwa-Cassidy on authentic learning and assessment
Kathleen talks me through work she is doing for a Post Graduate course with Parallel Lives in creating briefs based on local and international organisations dealing with health and social issues.
The work of Parallel Lives can be found here https://www.theparallellives.net/
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S4E14 - Hannah Breslin on teaching with autism
As a precursor to World Autism Acceptance Week (2-8th April) Hannah shares with me her personal experience of what it is like to be autistic gives some ideas for how to use that awareness in teaching.
Hannah referenced the work of Nick Walker https://neuroqueer.com/neurodiversity-terms-and-definitions/ whose writing is a key starting point for anyone wanting to know more.
Hannah Breslin is an Autistic academic who speaks and writes about the pedagogy of employability, leadership, Autistic experiences and the intersections across all three. She currently leads a team of academics and careers professionals that sits within Careers & Employability at UAL.
Hannah's happy to discuss all things neurodiversity-related, you can find her on linkedin.com/in/hannah-breslin/ and medium.com/@hannah.breslin
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S4E13 - Sarah Johnson, Alissa Nehrlich and Angela Kilpatrick on Neurodivergence
As part of Neurodiversity Celebration Week https://www.neurodiversityweek.com/ I'm joined again by Sarah and two colleagues, Alissa and Angela, who have set up a group for neurodivergent staff at UCLAN. We discuss terminology, manifestations, coping and support mechanisms.
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S4E12 - Sumeya Loonat on International Student Lecturers
Sumeya talks to me about her role as a Senior International Student Lecturer, helping not only to celebrate the successes and contribute to the development of international students, but her work helping staff to interact more positively in the classroom.
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S4E11 - Rebecca Wakelin on Sheepdog Teaching
Rebecca and I discuss classroom management covering values, moments of meaningful connection, pro-active strategies and reactive strategies.
Rebecca's book, Sheepdog Teaching: The professors guide to being an excellent teacher, should be available in about 12 months.
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S4E10 - Thanos Athanasopoulos on Productive Failure
Thanos explains his use of a productive failure approach to teaching economics, including a tennis match between Djokovic and Nadal to teach strategy.
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If you have something you'd like to share please contact roger.saunders@dmu.ac.uk, currently booking dates in April and looking forward to episode 100
S4E9 - Anna LLewellyn-Smith on Barriers for International Students in Understanding In-Person Lectures
Today Anna tells me about the research she's been undertaking to identify barriers for international students in live lectures and small adjustments that can be made to help.
If you'd like to participate in the research Anna can be reached at allewellyn-smith@harper-adams.ac.uk
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S4E8 - Nicola Grayson: Pedagogy on the Rocks
Nicola explains how she uses rocks on her PGCAP course to help illustrate the difference between deep and surface learning. We look at telling stories, being iterative and end with a reference to The Infinite Monkey Cage.
Dr Nicola Grayson is an Academic Developer with a research interest in third-space or ‘hybrid’ practitioners (see Grayson and Syska, 2023 and Whitchurch, 2013). Nicola reflects on how her experiences teaching in the third-space inform her approach to teaching within her discipline, and her role supporting HE educators to enhance their teaching practice. She advocates a playful and an engaging approach to supporting teaching and learning that is integrally iterative (see also Grayson and Napthine-Hodgkinson, 2020)
References:
Grayson, N.J. and Napthine-Hodgkinson, J. (2020). Enhancing Public Speaking Skills Using Improvisation Techniques. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, Plymouth, UK, (19).
Grayson, N.J. and Syska, A. (2023) Hybrid Learning Developers: between the discipline and the Third Space. In Syska, A. and Buckley, C. (eds) How to be a Learning Developer in Higher Education, Taylor and Francis, pp43-50.
Whitchurch, C. (2013). Reconstructing identities in higher education : the rise of ‘third space’ professionals. New York, Ny: Routledge.
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S4E7 - Ian Farrin on Adding the most value to the career and professional development journey of students
Ian and I discuss all things career development and he takes me through the DOTS model. We also discuss the importance and value of addressing these things early int he student journey.
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S4E6 - Dale Mineshema-Lowe on Engagement and Digital Technologies
Dale and I discuss digital platforms, which ones work best, how she uses them and how they improve engagement.
Parami have made the site 'faculty-only' now and the Elkana Centre @ CEU have not made public all of the projects as they had previously planned.
However, you can access information about the project and other ideas via Dale's blog https://techinteachingsite.wordpress.com
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S4E5 - Dr Alison Torn on jigsaw classrooms
Alison explains how jigsaw and why jigsaw classrooms were developed and how they can be used to increase engagement and group work. Helping students work with new classmates in expert groupings that then increase the effectiveness of groups in class discussion. We also discuss creating safe spaces for exploring ideas.
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S4E4 - David Hodgkinson on the secrets of an award-winning teacher
Hodgie reflects on an award-winning career and identifies areas that he feels have had positive impacts on students.
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S4E3 - Ella Houston on Critical Reflection in Disability Studies
Ella and I discuss disability in general, working with disabled students and creating reflective communities of practice to help students explore experiences.
Ella is a Senior Lecturer in Disability Studies and core member of the Centre for Culture & Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and co-leads Liverpool Hope University's Academic Literacies Community of Practice. As well as her work surrounding academic literacies, her research examines representations of disability in advertising. Her new book, Advertising Disability, will be released in June: https://www.routledge.com/Advertising-Disability/Houston/p/book/9781032560229
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S4E1 - Anthony Basiel on 360 learning.
Today Anthony and I discuss a system for creating hybrid classrooms using Socratic circles and 360 technology.
Dr Anthony Basiel is a Computing Science Lecturer and Researcher at Bournemouth University, UK.
You are invited to go to his website at https://abasiel.uk/augmentedreality/
There you will find some images of his 360* immersive webinar design using a Socratic discussion circle. Following the podcast he invites you to scroll down the web page to post your definition of knowledge.
If you'd like to know more about defining 'telepistemology' or to discuss webinar design or collaborate on any blended learning research projects he is happy to be contacted by email projects.
abasiel@gmail.com
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S4E2 - Alistair Jones on why everything is politics
Alistair and I discuss his love for teaching politics and how all subjects are affected by or have an influence on politics and why this is important. Would really love to hear your feedback as this is something a bit different.
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S3E24 - Suzanne Young on embedding reflective active learning in the curriculum
Today I'm joined by Professor Suzanne Young, Professor of Criminal Justice who tells me about her module in which reflection is embedded. She talks about how it's done and the importance of feedback, questioning and scaffolding leading to a reflective summative assessment.
This is the final episode of season 3, we'll be back on January 3rd with season 4. In the meantime, have a great Christmas.
If you have something you'd like to share please contact me at roger.saunders@dmu.ac.uk
S3E23 - Rachel Davies on embedding wellbeing
Rachel and I discuss practical ways to address individual students learning needs and she provides some great insights into helping students to develop resilience.
You can find more information here: Embedding Mental Wellbeing - Methods and Benefits (qaa.ac.uk) and here: https://www.ahead.ie/journal/Dont-do-this-for-Law-students-embedding-disability-and-wellbeing-support-within-curriculum-programmes or if you'd like to contact Rachel rachel.davies@dmu.ac.uk or via LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-davies-889a6140
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S3E22 - Gabriela Pleschová and Rachel Forsyth on Trust in HE
Gabriela and Rachel talk to me about their research into various issues and aspect of trust and its importance in building relationships between staff and students. This is also part of a call for papers for the special edition of the International Journal of Academic Development, details here:
International Journal for Academic Development: Trust in and through Academic Development (taylorandfrancis.com) If you have something you'd like to share please contact me at roger.saunders@dmu.ac.uk
S3E21 - Marina Harvey & Agnes Bosanquet on Reflection
Marina and Agnes talk about their approach to reflection for learning, which is also available as a guide, Youtube videos and research papers. We cover a range of ideas, including reflection for mindfulness and both give practical examples of exercises you can do to help focus and centre students (and perhaps colleagues).
You can read about their work here:
Harvey, M., Coulson, D. & McMaugh, A. (2016). Towards a theory of the ecology of reflection: reflective practice for experiential learning in higher education. Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 13(2). http://ro.uow.edu.au/jutlp/vol13/iss2/2
Harvey, M., Baker, M., Lloyd, K., McLachlan, K., Semple, A. & Walkerden, G. (2016). A song and a dance: Being inclusive and creative in practising and documenting reflection for learning. Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 13(2). http://ro.uow.edu.au/jutlp/vol13/iss2/3
Reflection for online learning:
(6) Reflection for Learning - YouTube Reflection for learning:
Reflection for learning: a scholarly practice guide for educators | Advance HE (advance-he.ac.uk) If you've enjoyed this or any of the other episodes, please like, review and share.
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S3E20 - Claire Stocks on pracademics or dual professionals
Claire and I talk about her time working with dual professionals, the barriers they can face in academia and the benefits they bring to the work place.
If you'd like to contact Claire:
Twitter (X): @DrClaireStocks
If people haven't heard of BPP, our website is here: https://bpp.com/
Earlier this year Claire set up a network for colleagues who are supporting dual professionals to move into or develop their practice within HE. If anyone would like to join them, they can request to be added to their Jisc Mailing list
JISCMail - SUPPORTINGPROFESSIONALS List at WWW.JISCMAIL.AC.UK The group contains lots of academic/educational developers, but also a number of dual professionals, and they're always interested to hear about their experiences. The Network is called Supporting Professionals in(to) HE (SPiHE) The intention of the group is to share practice, look for opportunities for collaboration and scholarship, and generally raise the profile of practice-informed learning and teaching. If people are interested in exploring the issue of nomenclature (as we did a little bit in our discussion), Dr. Mary Kitchener's work (starting with her blog post What’s in a name? The rise of the practitioner academic and time to reconsider standardised induction support | BERA) would be a good starting point. She has also contributed to a recent book (2023), edited by Jill Dickinson and Teri-Lisa Griffiths called Professional Development for Practitioners in Academia, so that would also be a good resource for people to explore. Finally, there is a good paper by Dr. Emma Gillaspy and colleagues that discusses both imposter phenomenon and also intersectionality of dual professionals called 'Hard Graft: Collaborative exploration of working-class stories in shaping female educator identities' - that can be accessed Hard Graft: Collaborative exploration of working class stories in shaping female educator identities | PRISM: Casting New Light on Learning, Theory and Practice (ljmu.ac.uk) If you have enjoyed this or any of the other episodes please like, review, share and follow.
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S3E19 - Rich Hind on Games (RPG Card games, simulations and dynamic case studies)
Rich and I talk about card games he's developed for use in social work, nursing and geography. He gives lots of practical examples as to how to create card games that have a dynamic quality that allows them to create case studies and simulations with enormous variations and provides an RPG (role-playing game) experience that can also be undertaken individually. Some great insights and ideas.
Here are the references from the episode
https://www.nandeck.com/ - NANDeck – the scripting software for card creation
https://themeborne.com/products/escape-the-dark-castle - Escape from the Dark Castle (good example for a mechanic of directed generated scenarios in learning)
https://www.lordsofvegas.com/ - How a game can take an old school game (monopoly) and revamp for the future.
and if you'd like to contact Rich then here's where to find him:
Richard Hind – Senior Learning Technologist – University of Chester – r.hind@chester.ac.uk
Twitter / X @titchard
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-hind-972b91195/
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If you've used any of the ideas from the show and in particular if you have feedback on the impact this has had on your students please get in touch, I'd love to know more.
L&T Bite Size 31 - Where next?
Having recorded 30 episodes of something that I had envisaged might involve half a dozen episodes before others started to contribute I'm going to take a short break. But I'd like to ask three things of the lovely audiences who have listened to me prattle on.
Firstly, if you have found any of this (or the main podcast) useful and can provide some feedback on how you've used it in your teaching and what impact, if any, it's had on your students then please let me know. I'm trying to apply for National teaching fellow and impact is proving a difficult thing to evidence.
Secondly, if you'd like to contribute to the Bite Size podcast, please get in touch, or just send me an mp3 of 1 to 15 minutes.
Lastly, if you have any questions or if there are subjects you'd like me to cover please put them in the question option here, or send me an email.
For any of the above my address is roger.saunders@dmu.ac.uk
Thank you for listening
Roger
S3E18 - Edward and Anna Cartwright on Experiments (gamification, simulation and role play) in economics teaching
Edward and Anna explore the use of various activities in teaching economics. They provide some practical examples and and provide useful advice on how to implement games and help the students get the most out of them as a learning experience.
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Two free sources for online games are:
Veconlab https://veconlab.econ.virginia.edu/games.php
ClassEx https://classex.de/
Two free sources for pen and paper based games are:
https://www.core-econ.org/project/experiencing-economics/
Edward and Anna's paper on assessment is at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00220485.2012.636710
The Economics Network page on classroom experiments is https://economicsnetwork.ac.uk/handbook/experiments/
L&T Bite Size 30 - Moderation
A couple of ideas to help with the moderation process, in particular helping with timing and consistency.
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L&T Bite Size 29 - Consistency
A couple of examples of ways of being consistent, the second of which illustrates that you can be consistent without forcing everyone to be the same.
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L&T Bite Size 28 - Card games 2
A brief idea of some card game ideas that have been generated and, in the case of two of them, created in the last couple of weeks.
If you have an idea for a card game and would like some help or advice please feel free to contact me at roger.saunders@dmu.ac.uk
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Thanks
S3E17 - Araida Hildago-Bastida on mentoring BAME students
Araida tells me about a system they use at Manchester Met using work-based mentors to support BAME students to help address the award gap.
If you'd like to know more please contact Araida on A.Hidalgo@mmu.ac.uk
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L&T Bite Size 27 - Taking responsibility for your own learning
Ever since students have started to pay fees they have changed how they see the relationship with staff and institutions. Here I talk about one way of highlighting the personal responsibility of learners.
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L&T Bite Size 26 - Inclusivity
Acknowledging that all our students are different and that many are struggling with or anxious about their sense of self and doing our best to show support.
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S3E16 - Sudesh Sangray on encouraging students to engage with academic literature
Sudesh explain the process he use to help students search for, find, analyse and use academic literature to enhance their knowledge, understanding and assessments.
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L&T Bite Size 25 - Video
I often use video as a way of providing explanations and illustrations of ideas using different voices and interesting approaches. It's easy to embed in Powerpoint and well worth it.
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L&T Bite Size 24 - Compassion
What have I learned from making the L&T Chat Show podcast? That how we interact with students has a significant impact on engagement and learning.
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S3E15 - Jenni Rose on playful learning for accounting students
Jenni and I cover a range of subjects, including sustainability, Freire's dialogic pedagogy and monopoly. Plenty of food for thought and some practical advice for anyone who wants to make their teaching more playful.
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L&T Bite Size 23 - Flipped lectures
How and why to pre-record lectures, even if you're not teaching remotely or have lectures on your timetable.
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L&T Bite Size 22 - Reflection
Good starting points for a discussion on reflection are Kolb's and Gibb's models. I add my own comments about how I reflect and why I think reflection is important for both staff and students for learning and development.
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S3E14 - Sarah Johnson on Neurodivergence
In this week's episode I talk to Sarah about her own experiences as a lecturer with neurodivergence. She shares her personal story and gives some great advice for interacting with others and providing support for students. If you'd like to continue the conversation, Sarah can be reached on twitter (X) @SarahJ_MW
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L&T Bite Size 21 - Exemplars
Giving students an idea of how they might go about answering an assessment by taking them through an example can be very useful and can help augment showing them examples of previous student work by helping them to understand the process of research and analysis, rather than just outputs.
If you'd like to contribute to the Bite Size series please reach out or send your mp3 to roger.saunders@dmu.ac.uk
If you have a topic you'd like covered either send me an email or comment on the question at the end.
S3E13 - Emmanuel Arakpogun on AI and assessment
For the third and final episode of AI week I'm joined by Emmanuel discussing AI and assessment. How can it be used, how should it be used, whether assessments should or can be AI proof and how we can incorporate best practice for both ourselves and the students.
Apologies for the poor sound quality in places, there seems to have been some gremlins on the line.
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S3E12 - Live AI Panel
As part of a special AI week, this episode is a live recording of a special AI panel held at De Montfort University, Leicester, featuring Dr Martin Beckinsale, Associate Professor, Jack Brown, Lecturer in Strategic Management, Nichola Phillips, University Teacher Fellow and Chris Goldsmith, Associate Dean Academic.
In the episode we cover the use of AI for assessments, the ethical use of AI, potential benefits and some warnings for the future. Apologies for the sound quality, we were definitely in a room, not a corridor.
If you have something you'd like to share about any aspect of learning, teaching, assessment or student experience please contact me roger.saunders@dmu.ac.uk
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S3E11 - Lynn Gribble on AI and assessment
Welcome to AI Week on the L&T Chat Show. In this episode Lynn and I talk about AI, assessment and exactly what it means in terms of learning. We talk about a number of issues in relation to how students might use AI, how perhaps they should use AI and some of the pitfalls.
If there's something you'd like to share about any aspect of teaching, learning, assessment or student experience please contact me on roger.saunders@dmu.ac.uk
L&T Bite Size 20 - Prepping lectures
This week I'm talking about what I've spent much of the last few weeks doing, prepping lectures, making sure they're up to date, videos work, that they allow interactivity, reflect the assessment and link with both the seminars and the VLE.
Next week Bite Size is on holiday as I release 3 main pod episodes about AI, but they'll be back the week after.
Still hoping someone else might have something they want to share (and I'm happy to discuss this if it helps) by sending an MP3 to roger.saunders@dmu.ac.uk
Lastly, and I'm not a fan of doing this because I don't really like showing off (says the man who runs his own podcast) but the pod has passed 100 Spotify followers, so thank you to all those who have chosen to do so. If there are particular subjects you like me to cover please feel free to suggest them, via the episode feedback or direct to me.