Becoming Solution Finders: Fostering global citizenship and commitment to sustainable development through course assessment
Through this blog, Alia Nazor (Assistant Professor, EGIS), reflects on [...]
Understanding Academic Integrity: what do we know?
With three new Watt Works Quick Guides now published on understanding academic integrity in higher education, Dr Erica Morris considers what we know about student academic misconduct in assessment and the strategies that can be adopted to address this issue.
Making the most of the National Student Survey
To mark the release of a new guide to responding to NSS scores for assessment and feedback, Alex Buckley from the Learning and Teaching Academy gives some general advice about how to deal with the annual conundrum that is the National Student Survey.
Exploring the potential of microcredentials at Heriot-Watt University
In this blog, Dr Robin Westacott, Associate Professor and Director of Apprenticeships, presents a QAA Enhancement Themes Project led by him and Dr Anne Tierney aimed at understanding the potential and barriers to using microcredentials in Scotland.
ePALs Adapts to the ‘New Normal’
In this blog Alia Nazor, Assistant Professor (EGIS), and Stella [...]
We can’t teach international students without intercultural education
In this blog, Katerina Strani, Deputy Director of the Intercultural [...]
2020 Delight and Despair: ELIR, Mountain Biking and, of course, COVID
In this Blog, Dr Maggie King, Head of Academic Quality & [...]
Creativity in a time of crisis
Reflecting on the unexpected opportunities provided by lockdown, Prof. Guy [...]
Managing the feedback marathon
Finding the time to provide helpful feedback to students is [...]
Reflections on four weeks of RBL within the School of Textiles and Design. Wobbles and all.
Taking the opportunity to pause and reflect now that teaching [...]