By Amanda White What do you do when you detect 16% of your cohort engaged in academic misconduct? Besides a lot of paperwork and administration (250 hours worth), I was surprised by students’ reasons for cheating – and it was…
Yearly Archives: 2018
‘Knowing your place’: How space impacts on learning
By Dr Liz Sage (FHEA) Teaching Fellow in Teaching, Learning and Assessment in Higher Education Department of Education University of Sussex During the ten years I’ve been teaching at Sussex, I’ve taught in some pretty varied contexts. Freshly-built lecture theatres…
Posted in Teaching
Is the ‘time of the assessed essay’ over?
By Phil Race Let me say at the outset that in many disciplines, there are few problems caused by assessed essays – they may not even be used at all. Before 1791 when it is said that the University of…
Posted in Teaching
Digital Discovery Week
By Pete Sparkes, Learning Technologist liaison for the Business School Each year, the Library and Technology Enhanced Learning coordinate ‘Digital Discovery Week’, a programme of events themed around innovation and technology. The week provides opportunity to discuss, learn and explore…
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The Active Learning Network: embracing interactive learning
By Wendy Garnham How can we prepare students for careers which may not exist yet and a world which is changing so rapidly that no one can predict what it will look like? What tools and strategies can help to…
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Advance HE Teaching and Learning Conference 2019 Teaching in the Spotlight: Innovation for Teaching Excellence
Submission deadline: Monday 7 January 2019 Conference dates 2-4 July 2019 The call for papers for the 2019 conference is now open.
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Journeys to Narnia: Uncovering the hidden in students’ academic reading practices
By Alice Shepherd “One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.” (C.S. Lewis dedication of, ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’). Given that many texts we ask our students to read are very distant from the vivid world…
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Introducing… Professor Kelly Coate, Pro Vice Chancellor, Education and Students
We are excited to launch the Teaching Perspectives blog with an entry from Professor Kelly Coate, Pro Vice Chancellor, Education and Students. I am very excited to be joining the University of Sussex at the same time as the Strategic…
Welcome to the teaching perspectives from the Business School blog
It’s a new academic year – and time to introduce our new blog: teaching perspectives from the Business School. Over the weeks and months ahead, we’ll be publishing a series of items from contributors inside and outside the Business School,…
