#Students

UK Research and Innovation

UKRI_News

Today we’re publishing the results of our review of support for our students during the Covid-19 pandemic. We have spoken to many in our community and their experiences helped inform

Greg Thomas

Metacog01

The key tenet of constructivist theory is that learning is a process whereby people make sense of new information by relating it to what they already know, often unconsciously. This

Bryn Hughes

brynmdhughes

My institution is moving most of their classes online this fall, but there will be students living on campus and a small handful of classes taught in some sort of

Harry Fletcher-Wood

HFletcherWood

1) I have been very sceptical about growth mindset over the last few years, but a new study has substantially changed my mind… 2) In research-design terms, this was bulletproof:

Wm Chamberlain

wmchamberlain

#unpopularopinion I think schools/teachers have been given too big of a mission in our communities. Is it really our job to change students' lives for the better or is it

Cassie McGrath

cassiemcgrath_

A thread of remaining questions on the fall semester @UMassAmherst. Follow @CollegianNews for our continued reporting. First and foremost, has the University caused housing and food insecurity by making this

Hugh Clements-Jewery

hughseejay

Have been thinking about why students and instructors favor in person ‘live’ instruction and find online synchronous instruction so difficult. From the instructor perspective, a key thing I’ve experienced and

Avi Asher-Schapiro

AASchapiro

I wrote about what how the International Baccalaureate cancelled its exams, & built a black-box algorithm to assign grades. The IB won't release the model—& many are asking: did it

Tom Grundy

tomgrundy

In 6 years & dozens of student talks & conferences, I've never been asked to avoid a subject. Let alone by a UK university, my alma mater @LeedsUniMedia. Tough to

Aya M. Waller-Bey, MPhil

Aya__Marie

I’ve noticed an increased push for HS grads to consider CC if 4-year institutions remain online in the Fall. Students can usually transfer credits as general electives, but using transfer

Siân Cumming

siancumming1

A short picture thread around preparing for an assessment in English and the follow up activities post marking #ukedchat #teamenglish ... We started by going through the exam details (timings,

Free Spiritus 😷

freespiritus

1/ Here’s my best guess as to what happened yesterday in #bced. The Ministry folk read N.S. Education start up and thought, “Hey, this looks pretty good”. Forgetting that Nova

Dr. Kelly Finn

Dolfinnk

A rant about “mentor style”. #academictwitter @academicchatterHonestly, "mentor style" is kinda BS, and an excuse for departments and PIs to blame bad mentorship on "incompatibilities" when really PIs should do

FlizzyFletch

FlizzyFletch

Talked with a lot of esports folk over the past few weeks that have praised our safety protocols during COVID-19 in our esports facility. I wanted to share those resources

Tracee Saunders

TraceeMSaunders

Hopefully preaching to the choir here, but fellow instructors, PLEASE be careful when sending textbook orders for your courses. Only list materials as required if they are actually required. If

Michael Kinyon

ProfKinyon

As a service to my fellow faculty members, this thread will have some sentences you can use as you write letters of recommendation for students applying to graduate school. I

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