Recently, a couple of Students' Union Student Trainers ran a fantastic session to a group of students on how to improve your presentation skills. This successful event is a repeat of one which ran in Semester 1, and can be...

Staff involved Asun Solano Torres, Academic Skills & Foreign Language Centre What problem did you hope to solve? I hoped to improve feedback to students by providing very detailed feedback which would not have been possible in a written format....

  The Students' Union based Skills Training provides a wide range of free workshops delivered by industry professionals, academic staff and specially trained student trainers to provide courses throughout the semester, including: Various training session in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and...

This event has now taken place, a write up is available including benefits and drawbacks of using the iPad to teach in lectures Dr Kit Yates is a relatively new lecturer who has been fortunate enough to have some of...

Date: Wednesday 27 January 2016 Time: 12.15pm - 2.05pm Venue: CB 3.6 Please send an email RSVP to Dan White, LTEO to confirm attendance. During this lunchtime workshop and showcase session, run by LTEO, you will hear from colleagues across...

This event has now happened, please read the write up to find out more about each technology This event will consist of 4 presentations from staff around campus who each have an interesting or unique use of technology. Each presenter...

Dr Aydin Nassehi began his LITEbox session, available to watch online, by explaining a typical problem with the “standard” classroom approach: students claim to be too busy meaning they often miss lectures, tutorials and out-of-class study time, leading to a...

Facilitating virtual group work, online student presentations and remote delivery of lectures using web-conferencing On Thursday 12 November, LTEO ran a seminar as part of their Inspiring Innovation series, focusing on academic teaching practices which use web-conferencing to provide innovative...

Employability skills training: Introduction to development with ASP.NET MVC Date: Friday 20 November 2015 Time: 13:15 - 14:05 Sign up to the event   This session run by David Ringsell covers the basics of web development in Microsoft’s MVC which is...

This year's Academic Reps conference, run by the Students' Union on 31 October 2015, saw Dr Jessica Francombe-Webb and Sarah Turpin, Project Co-leaders for the Alumni funded LITEbox initiative, leading their first session on digital technologies. Joined by a group...