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The TIPS Blog is a collection of short articles written by colleagues, sharing examples of their teaching practice. Each article outlines a teaching intervention, explains the design rationale, evaluates impact and suggests how these could be used and adapted by others.

Anyone involved in teaching at the University can share their examples of practice, click below to learn how to submit an article to the TIPS Blog.

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Developing Critical Thinking Skills Through Semi- Structured Debate

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Critical thinking skills are a central component of teaching and learning in higher education institutions, and utilising the skills and experience debating can be an engaging way to develop these skills in our students.   What did you do? Why did you do it?    Critical thinking skills are a central component of teaching and learning in...

Undergraduate Translation Modules and Student Employability

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NB: This article was first published in 2020 on Casebook@Leeds. Overview This case study presents the findings of an action research project conducted in Autumn 2019 aiming to examine the extent to which employability-enhancing skills are signposted to students in final year translation modules at Leeds. Findings revealed some examples of best practice which can...

Writing Retreats: Encouraging students to develop the skills needed to succeed

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Against the backdrop presented by sector wide concerns around students’ mental health and well-being (Remskar et al, 2022), it is important to recognise how dissertation modules for independent learning could appear daunting for some students. They may not have previously experienced this mode of teaching and learning, and/or may lack the skills, experience, knowledge, motivation,...

Developing self-assessment as inclusive practice in the School of Design

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What did you do, why did you do it? We introduced self-assessment as an element of formative assessment, following Boud's observation that this practice "gives a message to students that such activities are considered an important aspect of learning and that it is worth spending valuable time on them,"(Boud, 1995, p.40). This innovation was made...

Authentic assessments in the Lifelong Learning Centre: enabling students to use assessment to produce resources they can use in their professional lives

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In our work with mature, part time and Foundation Year students at the Lifelong Learning Centre, we aim to make our assessments as authentic as possible.   This:   recognises the valuable life, community and professional knowledges/experiences our students bringing into their academic study  enables students to make connections between their university learning and their current and...

Effective Management of the Minerva Page for Modules

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Minerva is extensively used to facilitate innovative teaching practices but there has been less attention to the quality. Evidenced by numerous positive feedback from students, the blog shows how a module builder could enhance their Minerva page by considering students’ perspectives, the interconnectivity among different learning materials and some pedagogies.   What did you do and...

Embedding Formative Assessment for Skills Development

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Within a wider institutional context where academics are asked to reduce points of summative assessment within modules, embedding formative assessment opportunities tailored to the needs of students gains importance. Students have reported increased levels of anxiety when the whole mark for a module hinges on a single point of assessment. The school is therefore making...

Is the Dissertation Past its Use-By Date?

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The research process of the dissertation – discovering, collating, and critically analysing information – remains a valuable learning experience. However, with progressive introduction of capstones across the University and the emergence of AI tools, the dissertation as a written output is, in my view at least, at its sell-by date, with its use-by date fast...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools as a Starting Point for Inclusive Assessment

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The rapid growth of tools such as ChatGPT has sparked ongoing discussions across the education sector. The Charted Association of Business Schools (CABS) recently published a post that raises the question of whether ChatGPT signals the end of assessments. As a social scientist specialising in technology development and utilisation, I have researched the potential of...