Bring on the learning revolution!

The learning revolution was the focus of a seminal 2010 TED Talk by Sir Ken Robinson. Watched over five million times, creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we’re educating. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence. Although the focus here is on compulsory education, the lessons are transferrable across education sectors.

Lecturing for learning: cognitive load

Cognitive load is the amount a human brain can process at any one time effectively.

In this video, Tom Angelo of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill explores the factors that affect cognitive load in students and how to prepare your lectures with this in mind.

Threshold concepts

Threshold concepts are the concepts that, once mastered, have a transformative effect on students.

In this video Joan Middendorf from the Indiana University Centre for Innovative Teaching and Learning explains what threshold concepts are, and describes a practical model through which the troublesome areas of knowledge in disciplines can be decoded, leading to gains in student learning.

UCL’s Mick Flanagan has also collected and organised a range of resources on threshold concepts.

Learning Theories in BSL: Bloom’s taxonomy

This video was created in partnership between the educational development team at Westminster University and City Literary Institute as an outcome of a successful bid to create blended teaching and learning resources for Initial Teacher Education in 2013.