…ide range of different students. But it is not yet clear that MOOCs in their current guise (i.e. exclusively online) can act as the solution alone. Social and economic success, defined as ensuring fair access and full utilisation of human capital, will rely on harnessing the online environment to enrich and support face-to-face teaching, and vice versa. Find out more in our policy briefings The rise of online learning is shaking up the sector MOOC…
…well as key colleagues, and our initial priority has been to establish an online resource addressing the complexities of sexual consent. To achieve this we have partnered with leading UK sexual health charity Brook Young People. From September 2021 students will have access to 5 interactive online modules which consider the meaning of consent; myths and the law; ambiguities of consent including active and passive consent, and verbal and non-verba…
…holarly development. The case studies presented here seek to highlight the many different manifestations of research-informed teaching and to provoke discussion on how RIT can be used to support teaching excellence today. Bibliography Beaumont, C., O’Doherty, M. & Shannon, L. (2011) Reconceptualising Assessment Feedback: A Key to Improving Student Learning? Studies in Higher Education. 36 (6) 671-687 Bossio et al (2014) A Roadmap for Forming Succe…
…ork through lockdown and as campuses reopen, are keeping student residents safe. Thank you for everything you do to keep our university a safe place to be. All of the residency team have worked diligently throughout lockdown, they ensured that the student accommodation buildings remained open and operational throughout this extremely challenging time. We have teams working at all of our university accommodation sites. Their job is to maintain the…
…engaged by the digital experience than traditional face to face delivery. Online learning ‘festivals’ have engaged many more students and staff than previously and have brought together multiple campuses in a way that is not possible in-person. This presents exciting opportunities to expand access to higher education to those who might not have thought it was accessible to them in the past, notably mature and part-time students. However there wil…
…re to assist. Their potential to be overlooked or to send people away from safety, and into harm’s way, makes them inherently unreliable in many of the situations for which they are intended. In response to this problem, the University of Greenwich’s multi-award-winning Fire Safety Engineering Group has developed a new generation of advanced signage. Known as the Intelligent Active Dynamic Signage System (IADSS), it uses flashing, running green li…
…nchester Combined Authority (2014) A Plan for Growth and Reform in Greater Manchester. Online. Hooper, D. (2016) Supporting Thriving Communities: The role of universities in reducing inequality. University Alliance. Online link Royal Academy of Engineering (2015) Investing in Innovation. London: Royal Academy of Engineering. Taylor, F. (2016) Creating Innovative Regions: The role of universities in local growth and productivity. University Allianc…
…and Lavinia Alexoiu, Final Year Salford Business School Student. Innovating Future Business is an enterprise competition encouraging innovative, forward-thinking business ideas, open to students across the University Alliance group. Register online to watch students pitch their business ideas to a panel investors on Wednesday 10 May 2017 at the University of Salford’s MediaCityUK campus. Do you have your own top tips for pitching your business ide…
…l emission targets by utilising industrial waste streams, such as from the manufacture of steel, recycling of aluminium, and burning of coal. Profesor Kanuthia’s work has already achieved recognition, including the Royal Society Brian Mercer Award for Innovation on unfired clay systems, from The Academy of Medical Sciences via the by the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), and through AMTeC securing accreditation from the United Kingdom Accred…
…help them to understand their condition better, realise that exercise is a safe and effective self-management strategy to reduce hip and knee pain and recognise the physical and psychosocial effects of joint pain. ESCAPE-pain, first piloted in centres across South London and North Kent, was launched by Mike Hurley, professor of rehabilitation sciences at Kingston University and St George’s, University of London, to address the care of more than 8….
