Teaching & learning

The HE Academy's Glossary of Terms in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

A quicklink to a useful resource

The Teaching and Research Relationship

Papers and presentations from the HEA Conference on "The Teaching and Research Relationship: Developing Institutional Policy and Practice" on 8th Nov 05 are now available at the link below. For further reading: The Research/Teaching Forum is at http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/RTForum.htm This offers links to papers from the last Colloquium – including one that specifically addresses student engagement [http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/curriculum/RTG023D_eugine_rice_s_paper.doc ]

On enhancing quality

This insightful paper "From policy to reality: enhancing quality is a messy business" by Professor Jethro Newton is based on a longitudinal study of quality enhancement at an HE College. It was first published by LTSN in October 2002.

Using Card Sorts: a novel learning tool

This paper by the HEA's Physical Sciences Centre describes a novel learning technique for application with groups of students. The tool can be used to explore concepts, or in the context of assessment. If you like the QuBE Dialogue Sheet tool or QuBE Cards Game then this paper is likely to interest you.

About 'Jorum' - a website for sharing T&L assets

Jorum is a free (JISC-funded) online service for UK HE and FE institutions to share, reuse and repurpose electronic learning and teaching resources. For further information please see the attached presentation about Jorum given to the FDTL5 Project Manager's Network in May 2007.