Blended Learning Guidance

At the end of May 2021 the Faculty of Science and Engineering ran it’s second Blended Learning Conference.

An explanation of why online learning is different to classroom-based learning.

In December 2020 Teaching Academy ran it’s first Blended Learning Conference

As well as delivering the material and assessments, it is important that we ensure our teaching provides opportunities for all students to be successful on their programme, whatever their background and individual needs.

A knowledge of the way students learn can help us design effective courses and help us to advise and guide our students. While the literature on this topic is vast, there are a few key pieces of experimental work that everyone who designs or changes courses should know

The characteristics of effective feedback.

Advice and resources to support the design of course units.

Resources to support effective course delivery.

In this video James Brooks (Faculty Lead for Pedagogy) talks us through an example course structure.

In this video, Associate Vice Dean Steve Pettifer discusses how to create slides that work nicely with blended learning videos.