Enhancing Feedback on Continuous Assessment
Mauro Luberti is Lecturer and UG Programme Director in the Department of Chemical Engineering since 2022. Over the last two years he has aimed to enhance students’ feedback focussing on continuous assessment, which is deemed more valuable and more promptly...
The Changing Landscape of Online Teaching: Exploring the Impact on Teacher Identity and Professional Development
Stephen Wheeler is an eLearning Technologist at The University of Manchester, specializing in online and distance education. With a keen interest in how digital teaching environments affect teacher identity and professional growth, Stephen is dedicated to supporting...
Ivory Tower Inequality: Exploring Class Disparities in Higher Education
Alicia Smith, an upcoming third-year law student, is passionate about initiating discussions on topics often considered taboo. She believes that addressing these subjects is crucial for societal progress and is dedicated to fostering environments where such...
Empowering Teaching Assistants in the Marking Process
Amélie is a teaching and learning professional, specialised in interdisciplinary learning and teaching theories of leadership to 100s of students each year at the University of Manchester. Her research background is in pedagogy in the arts, and she is passionate about...
Recap and Key Takeaways of the 2024 ITL Teaching and Learning Conference
Pietro is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at AMBS, passionate about improving teaching and learning practices and enhancing the student experience. With diverse interests in subject-specific topics and broader pedagogic innovation, Pietro strives to create a...
How Does It Feel to Organise a Conference? Reflections on the University of Manchester’s Teaching and Learning Conference
Pietro is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at AMBS, passionate about improving teaching and learning practices and enhancing the student experience. With diverse interests in subject-specific topics and broader pedagogic innovation, Pietro strives to create a...
The Long Leap to Excellence in Higher Education: A Personal Reflection
Thomas is a lecturer in bioscience, with a passion for enhancing student agency throughout their education and promoting narrative and multidisciplinary teaching experiences. Gaining expertise in fields from f-element chemistry, to photochemistry, protein structure...
FOMO, burnout, and how to help students do less, better!
Dr Neil Morrison is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics and one of our ITL Fellows. Here he answers some questions about his fellowship topic ‘Study Expenditure’ and its Alignment to the ‘Study Budget’ in Flexible Learning. N.b -‘Study budget’ refers to the...
Assessment and AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a distant science fiction concept but an emerging reality shaping various aspects of our lives. Current AI models, including large language models (LLMs), are restricted by biases and a lack of profound understanding: however,...
Redesigning the Student-Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC) to Enhance Student Voice
Abdullatif is a senior lecturer in chemical engineering in the Faculty of Science and Engineering. He has a background in the provision of taught modules, facilitating inquiry-based learning, student projects, and teaching laboratory modules. He is the Student-Staff...
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