This blog is part of a series on ‘New Proposals for Digital Pedagogies’ that launches the Sussex Digital Pedagogies Toolkit. This toolkit conceptualises new ways to think through digital teaching and learning, gathering data from members of the University of…
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Insights from the Sussex Education Festival, 2024
In July this year, 90 colleagues from across the University came together to share their experiences and insights into teaching, learning and assessment at Sussex. Over two days, both online and in person, the Education Festival covered a whole range…
Making group work inclusive
Sussex hosts a large group of international students and group work is an excellent way of sharing ideas and experiences from different parts of the world. Successful group work enhances the already rich academic material and facilitates a more holistic…
Tagged with: Assessment and Feedback, Inclusive and student-centred, inclusivity, Teaching and student engagement
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Integrating the “human touch” to research papers for students using podcasts
Adnan Fakir is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Sussex and is currently the Course Director for BSc Economics. Adnan received his PhD in Economics from the University of Western Australia and MSc in Economics from the…
Tagged with: Business, Inclusive and student-centred, oracy in the curriculum, Teaching and student engagement
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Creating community and collaboration in the classroom
Dave Smalley, Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology and winner of a 2023 ‘Inclusive Sussex’ Education Award, explains his approach to encouraging reflection and building a sense of community and supported collaboration in the classroom. What I do My…
Tagged with: Assessment and Feedback, belonging, curriculum design, Inclusive and student-centred, Sciences, Teaching and student engagement
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Enhancing student engagement in large group teaching: A collaborative approach to improving learning outcomes
Alex Stuart-Kelly is an Education and Scholarship (E&S) lecturer in the department of Neuroscience at Sussex (since 2022). Prior to this, his PhD and short post-doctoral research focussed on understanding the role of the major Alzheimer’s risk gene variant APOE4…
Tagged with: curriculum design, Inclusive and student-centred, Sciences, Teaching and student engagement
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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…
Tagged with: Arts and humanities, Assessment and Feedback, belonging, Inclusive and student-centred, Media, Teaching and student engagement
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Student engagement is key for inclusive curriculum (re)design
Katerina Psarikidou and Alejandro Luna Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex Business School Katerina Psarikidou is Lecturer in Sustainable Development at the Science Policy Research Unit. She is the University of Sussex Business School PRME Champion, a UN initiative…
Tagged with: curriculum design, Inclusive and student-centred, inclusivity, student voice, Teaching and student engagement
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Using Vevox in the classroom
In this case study, Seun Osituyo, Deputy Director of Student Experience and Director of MSc Accounting and Finance at USBS, explains how she uses Vevox to increase student engagement. What I did One of the tools I have used to…
Tagged with: Assessment and Feedback, Inclusive and student-centred, Teaching and student engagement
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“It equals the playing field” : Student reflections on introducing optionality as an accessible and inclusive assessment practice
Dr Jo Wilson Introduction Optionality in assessment has recently come under the spotlight, with the QAA highlighting the need for Higher Education to develop more inclusive, accessible, and flexible assessment choices. In response to this, the University of Manchester recently…
Tagged with: Assessment and Feedback, Employability, Flexible assessment, Inclusive and student-centred, inclusivity, Teaching and student engagement
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