Monthly Archives: April 2012

JISC Assessment and Feedback Programme

I’m just back from my second attendance at a JISC Learning and Teaching Practice Experts Group meeting. It was excellent – it is inspiring to be surrounded by people who know such a lot about learning and teaching and, more importantly, actually … Continue reading

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Self-assessment seminar

We have funding from the HEA for a seminar on self-assessment that we (Tony Gardner-Medwin and me) are running at the OU in Milton Keynes  on 11th June 2012. It’s a really interesting topic and we have some excellent speakers lined up. … Continue reading

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Learning from failure

I’m indebted to Phil Langton to pointing me towards an article by Steven Schwartz in Times Higher Education. The article, Get back in the saddle, explores the way in which failure and life’s knocks can lead to success in the … Continue reading

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