Farai is Associate Dean (Education & Students) in the University of Sussex Business School and Professor in the Department of Economics. She has several years’ higher education teaching experience in statistics, development economics and other applied economics topics. She has…
Yearly Archives: 2024
A student led session on reviving curiosity and student engagement
First year student reps, Ismah Irsalina Binti Irwandy and Liv Camacho Wejbrandt, co-developed and delivered a workshop for lecturers at the Engineering and Informatics Teaching and Learning Away Day. Here they explain the part they played in developing the session,…
Behold the Seminars: Reflections on Student Feedback
Maria Hadjimarkou is a Lecturer in Biological Psychology at the University of Sussex School of Psychology. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the SEDA Community of Practice for Transitions. She has several years of…
Assessment in a world of Generative AI: What might we lose?
Introduction For the most part, assessment in higher education is viewed in the negative as opposed to the positive. It is something to be endured, worked through, marked and managed. Assessment causes significant anxiety and stress for students and staff…
Tagged with: AI, approaches to teaching, assessment, assessment for learning, authentic assessment
Posted in Articles
Posted in Articles
The Evidence-Informed-Teaching Infographics Project: a novel and engaging way to communicate scholarship
Sue Robbins is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Director of Continuing Professional Development in the School of Media, Arts and Humanities. Evidence-informed Teaching Whereas research-informed teaching refers to the different ways in which students are exposed to research content…
Encouraging attendance and engagement through portfolio assessment
Lynne Murphy is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sussex. Her research and teaching concerns lexicology, lexical semantics, and pragmatics, and transatlantic Englishes. Twice a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar, she is currently writing a book about small…
Developing a feedback policy for Life Science
Dr Joanna Richardson, Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry, explains how the School of Life Sciences developed and implemented its feedback policy. What we did: Over the summer of 2021 I led a working group in the Life Sciences tasked with developing…
Tagged with: Assessment and Feedback, assessment criteria, assessment policy, feedback literacy, Learning and teaching
Posted in Case Studies, Uncategorised
Posted in Case Studies, Uncategorised
Sussex Education Festival, 10-11th July 2024, – Call for Participation
Following the success of last year’s inaugural Education Festival, we’re excited to announce a Call for Participation for the Sussex Education Festival 2024. Hosted over two days (10th July in person and 11th July online), the festival will provide a…
Posted in Blog, Uncategorised
Strategies for making quantitative assessments more AI resilient
In this case study, Dr Myrna Hennequin, Lecturer in Economics, shares her strategies for making online quantitative assessments more AI resilient. What I did I redesigned the online assessments for the module Quantitative Methods for Business and Economics: Maths (QMBE…