Teaching resources

Starter resources on teaching groups

Cathy Davidson (2011), "Collaborative Learning for the Digital Age," The Chronicle: Davidson critically reflects on what her class taught her about working in groups and updating grading practices.
Dr. Mary Deane on teaching small groups (mp3 audio)
Chadha, Deesha (2012), Teaching Groups Resources on JORUM
Jaques, David (1989), Small Group Teaching (Free e-book edition in 2 formats.)
DePaul University Teaching Commons. "Engaging Students using Discussion" with segments on face-to-face and online discussions; great print and video resources.
Graham Gibbs, "The assessment of group work: lessons from the literature"

‘Introduction for Lecturers New to Teaching in Higher Education’ An OER Course Pack from the Staff Development Centre at the University of Leicester. Session 3: ingredients of effective large-group teaching, provokes some self-reflection on what you want to achieve in your lectures. A good place to start. http://www2.le.ac.uk/projects/oer/oers/staffdev/introduction-for-lecturers-new-to-teaching-in-higher-education
Images of lecturing from medieval times to present day. What has changed over time? e.g.
- From Wellcome pictures at http://images.wellcome.ac.uk/indexplus/image/M0009407.html
- ‘Medieval woodcut/teacher in classroom’ From University of Minnesota Virtual Museum at http://iconics.cehd.umn.edu/ImageryPoetry/Gallery/images/Case4/default.html
- can you find any more to add to this list?
‘Improve your lecturing’. An online module for clinical educators from the London Deanery. You can read summaries of the topic and work through the suggested learning activities at http://www.faculty.londondeanery.ac.uk/e-learning/improve-your-lecturing, starting with ‘Why lecture?’
Twenty terrible reasons for lecturing - free ebook by Graham Gibbs (in Kindle and iPad formats)

The Open University has made available some of its course materials in its OpenLearn Labspace at labspace.open.ac.uk. Setting up an OpenLearn account gives you access to LearningSpace forums and free courses (for example, you can enroll on the unit H800: Repurposing open educational content). The Labspace includes the module that Graham Gibbs wrote on lecturing while he was at the OU. Copyrighted materials has been removed but it is still worth a read athttp://labspace.open.ac.uk/file.php/5196/H850_pk5p2.pdf. Ideally have Donald Bligh’s book ‘What’s the use of lectures’ alongside you as you work through Graham’s notes.
‘Don’t lecture me’ is Donald Clark’s controversial keynote to the Association for Learning Technology Conference in 2010. From YouTube:

Worth watching all the way through to the end.
Prince, M. (2004) Does active learning work? A review of the research. Journal of Engineering Education, 93(3), 223-231.http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Papers/Prince_AL.pdf . This review article defines the core elements of active learning as introducing activities into the traditional lecture and promoting student engagement. It reviews empirical studies which have attempted to show the effects of engaging students in such activities. Do they work?

‘Creating Accessible Lectures’ is one of series of booklets created by the SHEFCE fund Teachability project at University of Strathclyde. See http://www.teachability.strath.ac.uk/
David Baume’s ‘First Words on Teaching and Learning’ (e-book).
Active collaborative learning in engineering at the University of Strathclyde. A video case study on using clickers to engage students, from the JISC Innovative Practice with E-learning guide at http://www.elearning.ac.uk/innoprac/practitioner/strathclydevid.html
The use of activities in lectures by Dr Stuart Cooper; Matt Davies from Aston University. Available from the Jorum OER Repository at http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/15380 . Some fairly introductory thoughts on the values of activities in lectures.