The fact that you are reading this blog entry at all means that you are already engaging with Web 2.0, which has been defined on Wikipedia as “a perceived second-generation of Web-based services such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users”. In the third talk at the [...]
Learning and Teaching in the Sciences (conference report, part 2)
Professor Melanie Cooper from Clemson University, South Carolina came to Leicester’s Learning and Teaching in the Sciences conference as part of a UK tour sponsored by the Physical Sciences Centre of the Higher Education Academy. In her talk, Using technology to investigate and improve student problem-solving strategies, Prof Cooper began by drawing an important distinction between problems and exercises. Often when [...]
What advice would you give to students starting your course?
Each academic year since 2005, the Higher Education Academy in the UK has run an essay competition for current students to express their views on an aspect of teaching and learning. In 2007, the theme was “What advice would you give to students starting your course?“ The top entries submitted by Bioscience students have recently [...]
