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Key skills such as preparing and gathering information, organising and synthesising ideas into a final assessment are integral to success in students chosen programme of study. UCEM has set up various study support and assessment support resources and channels to help students thrive in their academic journey. This blog covers about the compact resource designed for assessment success.
Reflecting on my first experience of working on a UCEM Baseline+ module.
For UCEM students their time learning online, the time they spend within their VLE spaces, can be their entire experience of their University. Unlike an…
Covid19 has resulted in a wider spread focus on online and distance learning, the buzz word being the ‘online pivot’. There are also lots of…
In on-ground education the quantity of contact hours is considered a measure of educational quality. Contact time is traditionally defined by academic work that takes…
‘Acquisition’ is one of the original learning types used in the ABC curriculum design method that we have localised to UCEM. It has been derived…
Last week we hosted our first UCEM Design Jam. The Jam marks the beginning of each module development phase under the Transform programme and provides a…
This is the first in a series of posts about the approach we are adopting in the design of our modules. Here we introduce the…
At UCEM our pedagogy for online education is centred around the idea of participatory (or active) learning. Traditionally, education has taken a transmission-based learning approach where…
UCEM has recently announced that we will be moving away from webinars in favour of ‘online seminars’. This is not just a change of terminology.…