This 33-minute presentation is from a session delivered to an internal audience of colleagues on my final day at BPP University as part of Digital Literacy Day (16 Feb 2018). Set-up as a demonstration, sharing QRs, Padlet, Twitter. After six years
Resources: International Student Lifecycle
The Higher Education Academy issues extensive guidance on supporting the International Student Lifecycle. This is the result of The Teaching International Students project which was a joint initiative between the HEA and the United Kingdom Council for International Student Affairs
POISE Project: an institutional response to epistemological beliefs
(Extracted from a Draft Working Paper) In the belief that student success in learning requires an awareness of one’s own epistemological belief structures one recent project, the POISE project, sought to acknowledge and reinforce the diverse cultural contexts in which
Starting with Epistemological Foundations
(Extracted for a Draft Working paper) Distributed institutions face an increasing challenge to be able to afford, or deliver efficiently, the central services to meet diverse student needs. Changing contexts, notably the move towards the notion of the lifelong learner,
The research basis on which institutions respond to the case for learning support
(extracts from a draft Working Paper) Following a review of institutional websites in October 2014 it is clear that the vast majority of UK higher education institutions have explicit policy statements relating to the provision of personal tutoring (80%) with
Changing Student Demand for Tutorial Support
(Extracted from a draft working paper) One might expect this diversity in provision in Higher Education to be reflected in the personal tutoring support provided however there is remarkably little difference in the way in which support for students is
Resources: Pre-arrival and pre-sessional support
The Higher Education Academy is currently running a Teaching International Students project which aims to support teaching staff in the classroom (either at ‘home’, online or overseas) rather than issues of pre-arrival support. However, the project team advocates a coordinated
Sharing POISE with University of Gloucestershire
It was a great please to share the new POISE resource with colleagues at The University of Gloucestershire on Friday 13th September. A busy workshop attended by staff on the PGCert, and colleagues from the Royal Agricultural University, as well
Sharing Perspectives on Internationalisation
We really need to know what we each believe about learning, our personal epistemologies, before we start learning and teaching. Do we really change the way we see, feel, and hear international voices, or do we just make structural adjustments