Academic Practice Reading

  Innovating Pedagogy | Open University Innovation Reports This ninth report, produced by researchers in the Open University’s Institute of Educational Technology in collaboration with colleagues from the  Artificial Intelligence and Human Languages Lab/The Institute of Online Education at Beijing Foreign Studies University , proposes ten promising innovations that have not yet had a significant influence on education but deserve attention.

From an email discussion forum in reply to  One of the participants on our PGCert has asked about any resources about teaching for those with disabilities/ health issues as she has disabilities and long-term health issues.   On our course we talk a lot about students with disabilities but we don't really address it so much from the staff side of things. We also have all the usual stuff from HR but nothing specifically about teaching.   Does anyone know of anything useful I could point her towards? There is a book she can download for free on ableism in academia    https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/lived-experiences-of-ableism-in-academia  and another coming out soon from Policy Press edited by Nicole Brown  details here  https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/lived-experiences-of-ableism-in-academia One link was erroneous. Ableism in Academia. Theorising Experiences of Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses in Higher Education is free to down from here:  https://www.uclp...

More details at   https://bit.ly/3no9vsb This book responds to, and builds on, the needs identified in a wide-ranging 2020 survey of International and Transnational Teachers working in UK HE both in the UK and overseas. Christopher Longman at Lancaster University says about the text: "I really like the way it is written in an accessible style, with practical suggestions which  make connections  with readers' own teaching contexts and approaches. " Nuala  is an Associa te Professor and PGCHE Director in the School of Education,   University of Nottingham and works across their UK, China and Malaysia campuses.   Chris led the credit-bearing and accredited pathways of educational development programmes for staff at the University of Leeds for 22 years, and now works as an HE consultant supporting a number of universities.  He also set up and ran the successful   International Staff Website from 2007 ...

  Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice | Vol 18 | Iss 2 (uow.edu.au) Volume 18, Issue 2 (2021) Innovations and challenges in the teaching of statistics to non-specialists Articles PDF Editorial: Innovations and challenges in the teaching of statistics to non-specialists Margaret MacDougall PDF What statistics instructors need to know about concept acquisition to make statistics stick Jochen Kruppa, Jessica Rohmann, Carolin Herrmann, Miriam Sieg, Kerstin Rubarth, and Sophie Piper PDF Revelations from story writing in business statistics: An exercise in decoding Collette Lemieux and Brad Quiring PDF When one size does fit all: Simultaneous delivery of statistics teaching to multiple audiences Rachel Hilliam and Karen Vines PDF A case study in the e-assessment of statistics for non-specialists Iain Weir, Rhys Gwynllyw, and Karen Henderson PDF Online seminars in statistics for doctoral students: A case study Christine Davies PDF Teaching research methods to undergradu...