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Assessing a live performance or demonstration of practical skills can be challenging and can eat into valuable timetabled hours. Lecturers and students in the College of Nursing, Midwifery and Healthcare have found that using video to capture a performance can…
Lecturers from across the disciplines at UWL are exploring the use of recorded spoken feedback (audio feedback) to supplement written feedback, or to replace written feedback entirely, in an attempt to increase student engagement with the feedback on their work…
First year students in the College of Nursing, Midwifery and Healthcare were challenged to manage a simulated disease outbreak, giving them an authentic taste of professional practice. Lecturers on the BSc (Hons) Health Promotion and Public Health designed an opportunity for students…
The recent Social Mobility Action Group report on social mobility and Higher Education highlighted the importance of mature learners to social mobility. Mature learners are an important part of the UWL student body and, at the Institute for Teaching,…
UWL Replay (Panopto) is used for lecture capture and for individual recordings, both by staff and students. Nathan Vasanthan from London Geller College of Hospitality and Tourism has found it very effective for reflective assessment in one of his modules.…