Category: Education

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Using video to assess practical skills

Students recorded their own presentations

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…

Supporting Mature Learners

  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,…

UCISA Spotlight on Digital Capabilities

The UCISA Spotlight on Digital Capabilities conference in Birmingham, 25-26 May 2016, was a thought-provoking event with excellent speakers and delegates. This year’s conference focussed on the digital capabilities of staff in HE and FE. One recurrent theme was introducing…

Technological tails and pedagogical dogs

An important part of the Institute for Teaching, Innovation and Learning’s activity is promoting and advising on the effective use of learning technologies and to encourage best practice within the University of West London. My interest in educational technologies has grown rapidly during my…

On the Twelfth App of Christmas…

12 apps, 12 days, 12 minutes per day With the aim of exploring opportunities for learning with mobile technologies INSTIL, along with collaborators from across the University, has gathered together 12 free apps that are useful for learning and teaching…