NEWS
Students as Partners conference at Wilfrid Laurier University
Shivangi Shah I started working as a Student Partner Ambassador at my university with my amazing colleagues, Fatima, Kyra, Mellisa, Lauren, Rifa, Matheesha
Students as Partners conference at Wilfrid Laurier University
Lauren Nader As part of my Student Partnership Ambassador position at the University of Westminster, I recently had the amazing opportunity to attend
RAISE conference at University of Lincoln
Author: Kyra Araneta. Towards the end of the summer, myself and Huanyu got to attend the 2022 RAISE conference held at the University of Lincoln. The two-day conference was an opportunity for students, lecturers and academic staff to come together to reflect on the origins and impact of Student as Producer practice and hear about the project and programs going on in the field.
EVENTS
Co-liberation, anyone?
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively
Learning and Teaching Symposium 2018
Learning and Teaching Symposium 2018 Westminster Pedagogy: Making a Difference
Learning and Teaching Symposium 2017
The Learning and Teaching Symposium is an annual event which gives all staff at
LEARNING COMMUNITIES
Enhancing student group work
Students have a love-hate relationship with group work in the classroom. Many recognise that they can learn from their fellow students and that the quality of the work they create together is higher than the work they can produce individually.
Even better than the real thing? What’s the point of authentic learning?
“Authentic learning is a sham,” an experienced academic colleague tells me. “How can we pretend that what happens in my class, and what happens within a university generally, isn’t real life in some way?
Reimagining the curriculum as social enterprise
Author: Andy Pitchford. Two men with big bushy beards have had a disproportionate impact on my academic career. While I am grateful for their influence, for reasons that I will now explore, I am occasionally troubled by the beards themselves.
Reimagining the curriculum as a circular economy
Author: Andy Pitchford. One of the more depressing moments of my academic career was on a July Friday, in the midst of a long, hot summer sometime in the late 1990s. I had just taken the wrong door out of my department office, having had a very nice chat with the people there which had distracted me somewhat from my morning’s journey.
The modular curriculum – what to do with all the bricks in the wall?
Author: Andy Pitchford. One of the great challenges that face those who work in education is imagining alternatives to the way we currently work. We are all so acculturated to the norms of the education that are promoted by the societies that we inhabit that it can be very difficult to see which aspects of learning are inescapable.