Dr C. Rashaad Shabab In this case study, Senior Lecturer and award-winning teacher of Economics, Dr C. Rashaad Shabab, talks about how he is using podcasts as an innovative new assessment mode at Sussex. What I did I offered podcasts…
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Engaging students through podcasting
Tagged with: Assessment and Feedback, Employability, Inclusive and student-centred, Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
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Embedding narratives in lectures
Dr Andy Field, who is a Professor of Quantitative Methods and the recipient of numerous teaching awards at Sussex, talks in this case study about how he uses narratives to make his lectures engaging. Dr. Andy Field in fancy dress…
Tagged with: curriculum design, Inclusive and student-centred, Teaching and student engagement
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Interdisciplinary learning in the Liberal Arts
A Liberal Arts student meeting at the Shard In this case study, Dr Doug Haynes, Reader in American Literature and Visual Culture, discusses the creation of the interdisciplinary Liberal Arts BA at Sussex. What we did In collaboration with an…
Tagged with: curriculum design, decolonising the curriculum, Inclusive and student-centred, student voice
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Centering the student voice in module content and design
Dr Carli Rowell at the Sussex Teaching Festival In this case study, Dr Carli Rowell, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Sussex, shares her experience of co-creating a Sociology module with first-generation, working-class students. What I did I worked with first-generation,…
Tagged with: belonging, curriculum design, Inclusive and student-centred, student voice
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Embedding writing into seminars as a deliberate and supportive practice
Dr Verona Ni Drisceoil explains how and why you should build in opportunities for deliberate writing practice in seminars, or even in the lecture theatre.
Tagged with: Cohesive and connected, curriculum design, Inclusive and student-centred
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Developing academic literacies in the era of artificial intelligence – part 2
This post follows on from an earlier post: developing academic literacies – part 1 If ‘write an essay’ is an instruction to students that follows a period of input on a particular topic, then students using artificial intelligence to…
Tagged with: Artificial intelligence (AI), Assessment and Feedback, curriculum design, Inclusive and student-centred
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Developing academic literacies – part one
Embedding study skills, it is argued, helps students make the important link between the conventions of academic writing, the contested nature of knowledge, and the way writers use theory and evidence to argue. What to do about study skills? What…
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Sylvia Crowe: unearthing the woman who landscaped our learning
By Sarah Watson Most people at the University of Sussex haven’t heard of Sylvia Crowe. Her legacy at the University is strong, but generally silent, existing in the spine of trees that cut across the centre of campus, the cloisters,…
Now is the time to end awarding gaps in UK universities
Mark Clark (Senior Lecturer in Management) Since 2015, Mark has been based at the University of Sussex as a Senior lecturer in the Business School within the Management department. During this time, he has achieved Senior Fellowship of the Higher…
Re-imagining approaches to supporting students’ learning from feedback – the hidden curriculum, care-based pedagogies and learning communities
The culmination of the assessment cycle at the end of what has been a particularly challenging year offers an opportunity (once we have caught our breaths!) to revisit our understanding of how we can best support our students to learn…