Image by Harish Sharma from Pixabay Dr Rob Bray from Argyll College UHI gives his personal reflections on the Advance HE Teaching and Learning Conference On 07 July I (virtually) attended the second day of AdvanceHE’s annual Teaching and Learning conference (thanks to the LTA for enabling this). The conference theme was Teaching in the … Continue reading Teaching in the spotlight
Image by 5598375 from Pixabay The National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS) and the Collaborative Awards for Teaching Excellence (CATE) are organised and run by Advance HE since 2000 (NTF) and 2016 (CATE) respectively. Advance HE "is a member-led, sector-owned charity that works with institutions and higher education across the world to improve higher education for staff, students and … Continue reading The National Teaching Fellowship Scheme and Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence: Celebrating teaching excellence at UHI!
Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay Alex Walker Synchronous technology, which allows real-time participation from multiple locations, is well established and becoming increasingly widely used in tertiary education to support student and staff needs: in contemporary learning and teaching and professional development, in widening access to education and continued professional learning opportunities, and in increasing … Continue reading Mentoring spotlight month post #3: Using synchronous technologies in a distributed university to support mentoring
Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay Heather Fotheringham from the LTA considers what makes a successful mentoring partnership The University Mentoring Scheme pairs up individuals who wish to progress their practice in learning and teaching, research and scholarship or by achieving a professional recognition (such as HEA Fellowship, or CMALT). Colleagues signing up to the … Continue reading Mentoring spotlight month post #2: Mentoring across disciplines
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Alex Walker, Ann Tilbury and Heather Fotheringham from the LTA reflect on a new type of mentoring support As the sudden impact of COVID-19 was upon us in March 2020, and teaching moved fully online, there was a great deal of guidance and support offered to students and staff on a wide range of matters from different sources. … Continue reading Mentoring spotlight month post #1: Mentoring circles to support staff through COVID
In common with most academic institutions, the University finds itself under increasing pressure from various quarters. The globalisation and marketisation of education continues to generate competition between institutions, not just locally but worldwide. Academic institutions, are increasingly managed like businesses, with the associated bureaucracy, resource-focused and commercial mindsets. Covid-19 has exacerbated these pressures, in two … Continue reading Building educational leadership capacity: urgency and agency
Scott Connor (Digital and Online Education Lead, Learning and Teaching Academy), Kathleen Connor (Library Team Leader, Perth College UHI) The cost? The cost of textbooks for those in education is always a topic for debate. In 2016 the cost of a single textbook was estimated at an average of £50 and the annual cost for … Continue reading Open textbooks…why?
Mandy Haggith, Mandy.Haggith.ic@uhi.ac.uk Over the past year students at the Scottish School of Forestry (SSF) have been writing poetry, immersing in Gaelic tree tradition and perhaps even trying out the odd magic spell. Meanwhile, UHI literature and creative writing students have been getting to grips with the distinguishing features of blackthorn and hawthorn, the spread … Continue reading Growing Tree Culture at UHI
It always intrigues me when somebody writes or talks about a piece of work they did a few years ago taking on a new lease of life, it has never happened to me and to be honest I never thought it would…until now. A simplified costing model for curriculum development Back in 2014, while I … Continue reading How much does it cost to create online learning material?
Dr Rob Bray from Argyll College UHI talks about his use of reflective logs, and how we could all benefit from a little bit of introspection at this time Do we reflect? Of course we do. The ability to reflect is one of the great wonders of human consciousness, although perhaps Socrates was a little … Continue reading Time to reflect
