Thursday, 17 April 2014

Teaching resource I have found for HE teaching

Fry, H., Ketteridge, S. and Marshall, S. 2009. A handbook for teaching and learning in higher education. Third ed. Abingdon: Routledge.

You can download it here:

http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&q=Fry%2C+H.%2C+Ketteridge%2C+S.+and+Marshall%2C+S.+2009.+A+handbook+for+teaching+and+learning+in+higher+education.+Third+ed.+Abingdon%3A+Routledge.&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C5&as_sdtp=

Just click the first pdf link.
It looks good for both HE and Access to HE teaching.
And it's free!


Tuesday, 8 April 2014

A good website link

Just found what I think is a good website http://www.excellencegateway.org.uk/node/20280
It has loads of info and apparently a starter kit, which I haven't looked at properly yet.

Trying out a Dragon's Den activity

I am doing a session on marketing for a Heritage Management lecture in a couple of weeks. I have decided to do a activity to develop their own group poster and marketing pitch, I think to promote Lincoln to overseas travellers. They then have to pitch it to me. Imbedding core skills I hope through poster development, costings, pitch etc and encouraging students to learn from each other to develop key core skills and work out strengths.
Have any of you tried out such Dagon's Den type activities before? Can you see any pitfalls I haven't thought of? I only have a very small group so I am hoping to get the students supporting and learning off each other effectively.
I am just concerned that I might not have enough time to do the activity, any time saving ideas? :-)