Padlet is often associated with a simple digital noticeboard: students respond to a question, add a comment or share a resource. However, attending the Padlet UK Higher Education User Group Symposium 2026 highlighted a much broader range of possibilities for using the platform to support active, collaborative and inclusive learning. The symposium brought together colleagues […]
Introduction Live coding—where instructors write and execute code in real time while verbalising their thinking—has become an increasingly prominent teaching strategy in STEM disciplines, particularly computer science. It is typically framed as an active learning method that exposes students to authentic problem-solving, debugging, and iterative development practices. This paper reviews the effectiveness of live coding […]
Co-teaching, defined as the collaborative planning and delivery of teaching by two or more educators within the same learning space, is a people centric pedagogic approach than can promote student understanding, a sense of community and inclusion across cohorts as well as increae staff enjoyment of teaching.In this series of Case Studies we talk to […]
Co-teaching, defined as the collaborative planning and delivery of teaching by two or more educators within the same learning space, is a people centric pedagogic approach than can promote student understanding, a sense of community and inclusion across cohorts as well as increae staff enjoyment of teaching.In this series of Case Studies we talk to […]
Below you will find information on: What does Buddycheck do? The software allows group members who have completed and submitted a piece of group work to review and score each member (including themselves) by answering a number of questions based on 5 categories. Once students complete their peer scoring task, the results can be used […]
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Hypothes.is in a pedagogical tool which supports ‘social annotation’.
Research shows that meaningfully integrated interactions (student–content, student–student, and student–teacher) increase learning outcomes.
Guidance to help you prepare and design your peer assessment activity
