A ‘Common Ground’ post. What is it? Icebreakers and re-energisers are short activities designed to ‘break the ice’ between participants by building connections or breaking down barriers. Why do it? Research indicates that improving rapport […]
What is it? As outlined in ‘Creating safe spaces and brave spaces‘, university learning often involves encounters between students with different social viewpoints. If these discussions are overwhelmed with emotion, students will find it hard […]
What are they? Safe spaces came into existence to give people from a marginalised or persecuted group a way to meet, sometimes with political purposes, without having to defend themselves against prejudice or abuse. The […]
What is cognitive control? Cognitive control is crucial to deep, purposeful learning and is achieved through the following functions (Gazzaley and Rosen, 2016, p80; Parry, 2019): attention – a mental spotlight which needs to be […]
Overview When the Covid-19 pandemic put us fully online, colleagues in King’s Academy needed to expand our repertoire with a range of evolving technologies. Since we lead educational development programmes and sessions, we strive to […]
What is it? After studying independently, students are ask to generate questions about the material. This can also happen after live teaching, when it is sometimes called a ‘Minute paper’ or ‘Exit ticket’. Why do […]
The May 2020 ‘Lightning Lunch’ event was online (you know why) with a panel of four King’s educators responding to questions about teaching online. This panel had shared their practice in advance as five-minute recorded […]
What is it? Forums allow students and staff to have a group conversation, with each participant posting their contributions at times convenient for them. Most posts are text-based, but often support images, links and even […]
This is an evaluation guide. What is it? An interview is a discussion, individually or in a group, prompted by a series of questions. Interview questions tend to be open-ended (if you need to ask […]
This is an evaluation guide. Pat Hutchings’ (2000) taxonomy of educational inquiry questions can be helpful in specifying the main purpose of your evaluation. “What works” questions are evaluative; they set out to prove effectiveness. […]
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