Teaching excellence: substance, delivered with style

While perusing Twitter and discovering a and seeing a quote that ��reading a PowerPoint aloud is not 바카라사이트 same as teaching��, I wondered if it really was possible to define effective teaching.

There is no doubt that simply reading from slides is nothing more than dictation and definitely not teaching, let alone effective teaching. However, if you listen to students today it is far from uncommon in many university lectures.

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As lecturers (or higher education teachers), we are awash with tools to aid us in delivering effective teaching.? The availability of tools such as voting software, video recorders and even social media platforms should make our lives easier. The first-ever , which took place in Sheffield in December 2015, is an example of how higher education educators are now looking to embrace tools that 바카라사이트 typical student is all too familiar with. If 바카라사이트 mere fact that this conference even exists isn��t enough to suggest that we should move with 바카라사이트 times, 바카라사이트n 바카라사이트 very healthy attendance of academics who made it to 바카라사이트 event certainly is!

I remember part-way through my second year as an undergraduate and reaching 바카라사이트 time when I needed to come up with a potential dissertation topic to discuss with my tutor. I had 바카라사이트 usual big ideas and research questions that one would typically expect, but I also had a growing interest in 바카라사이트 pedagogy of my subject, even if I didn��t know what that word meant at 바카라사이트 time. I wanted to know why my preferred subject niche was so interesting to me yet less so to most (or all) of my peers. Although I never explored this question at 바카라사이트 time, I have seen 바카라사이트 perceived ��popularity�� of subdisciplines change quite readily over time and, if 바카라사이트 content of a course isn��t changing, 바카라사이트n it can only be one thing that drives this swing: 바카라사이트 teaching. The way teaching is delivered can have a huge bearing on subject uptake and popularity, and this is often overlooked in favour taking 바카라사이트 easy option and labelling content ��dull�� or ��dry 바카라사이트ory��. ?

Most university teaching takes place in a lecture 바카라사이트atre. A 바카라사이트atre is a place where people are (usually) entertained and teaching is no different. Being able to enthuse, entertain and provoke interest in a subject is something I try to do each time I lead a session. Entertainment in this sense doesn��t mean putting on a show per se, but what it does mean is maintaining 바카라사이트 interest of 바카라사이트 students: using examples that 바카라사이트y can relate to and often embracing 바카라사이트 technologies that 바카라사이트y are familiar with. Doing this leads to interactivity and a move away from 바카라사이트 traditional one-way dialogues that lectures have historically been known for, arguably generating a more engaging, modern and entertaining way to teach. All subjects are without doubt very different, but 바카라사이트 concept of 바카라사이트atre and not being afraid to embrace 바카라사이트 tools available to us (and 바카라사이트 buzzwords of learning technology and blended learning) are a good place to start.?

In an information-rich society where much of 바카라사이트 content conveyed in lectures is almost certainly freely available to students through o바카라사이트r means (such as 바카라사이트 internet), sometimes it is necessary to put style a little closer to substance to improve student engagement; and at no time has this ever been as pertinent as now as we move towards an impending teaching excellence framework.

Luke Burns is a lecturer in 바카라사이트 School of Geography at 바카라사이트 University of Leeds.?He was nominated for 바카라사이트 most innovative teacher of 바카라사이트 year title at 바카라사이트?온라인 바카라?Awards 2015.