Author Archives: rustleblog

Summer is here – students are handing in work and sitting exams and marking is getting under way; so this seems like a good time to think about the feedback that students will receive. Feedback is integral to the learning … Continue reading →

When thinking about learning at university it is all too easy to concentrate on the written curriculum and to forget that students come to university with their own set of interests and even desires and passions around the subject they … Continue reading →

One of the less used, but very useful and versatile functions available in Study Direct (SyD) is the Choice activity. Designed for voting, this simple tool lets students choose one from a list of options – and those options could … Continue reading →

Participants in the Sussex Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (PGCertHE) are required as part of their assessment portfolio to produce a piece of scholarly writing focusing on an issue in their teaching. Sometimes they choose to … Continue reading →

Seminars are important spaces for students to discuss material and ideas they have encountered in lectures and their reading. Traditionally, seminars tend to focus around student presentations, but with larger groups this can eat up discussion time in a 50-minute … Continue reading →

In the quest for more and faster feedback on students’ learning, Study Direct (SyD) quizzes can play a useful part. Online quizzes can give students an instant progress report on their learning and, with the right input from the tutor, … Continue reading →

RUSTLE has been talking to some of the winners of the Sussex Teaching Awards 2012 to hear about their approaches to teaching and learning and the sorts of good practice that their colleagues and students appreciate so much. This post is … Continue reading →

A previous blog post addressed the topic of lecturing as one of the principle forms of large group teaching, but increasingly seminars and tutorials are also involving more students. This post will draw on the web page on large groups provided … Continue reading →

Students want to learn, and are more highly motivated to learn what they see as relevant to them. Sometimes skills-based training that is generic or abstract fails to fully engage learners and skills acquired at the wrong time – before … Continue reading →

There are some simple things that can lift a Study Direct site from basic and functional to engaging and dynamic – that can give it some personality. These are things which came through strongly when the Study Direct team asked … Continue reading →