L&T Chat Show

Araida tells me about a system they use at Manchester Met using work-based mentors to support BAME students to help address the award gap. If you'd like to know more please contact Araida on A.Hidalgo@mmu.ac.uk If you enjoy these podcasts please feel free to like, review and share. If you'd like to participate please contact me on roger.saunders@dmu.ac.uk

Ever since students have started to pay fees they have changed how they see the relationship with staff and institutions. Here I talk about one way of highlighting the personal responsibility of learners. If you enjoy these podcasts please leave a review, like and share. If you'd like to participate please contact me, or send your mp3 to, roger.saunders@dmu.ac.uk

Acknowledging that all our students are different and that many are struggling with or anxious about their sense of self and doing our best to show support. If you would like to see a particular topic covered or have somethign you'd like to share please contact me on roger.saunders@dmu.ac.uk

Sudesh explain the process he use to help students search for, find, analyse and use academic literature to enhance their knowledge, understanding and assessments. If you have something you're passionate about or would like to share with colleagues please contact me on roger.saunders@dmu.ac.uk

I often use video as a way of providing explanations and illustrations of ideas using different voices and interesting approaches. It's easy to embed in Powerpoint and well worth it. If you have something you'd like covered or to contribute please contact me at roger.saunders@dmu.ac.uk

What have I learned from making the L&T Chat Show podcast? That how we interact with students has a significant impact on engagement and learning. If you enjoy the Bite Size episodes please let me, like, share and review. If there is a topic you would like covered, or if you have somethign to contribute please contact me roger.saunders@dmu.ac.uk

Jenni and I cover a range of subjects, including sustainability, Freire's dialogic pedagogy and monopoly. Plenty of food for thought and some practical advice for anyone who wants to make their teaching more playful. If you enjoy this episode please like, share, review or follow If you have something you'd like to contribute please contact roger.saunders@dmu.ac.uk

How and why to pre-record lectures, even if you're not teaching remotely or have lectures on your timetable. If you'd like to contribute contact me or send your mp3 (of not more than 15 minutes) to roger.saunders@dmu.ac.uk If you have enjoyed any of the Bite Size episodes please let me know

Good starting points for a discussion on reflection are Kolb's and Gibb's models. I add my own comments about how I reflect and why I think reflection is important for both staff and students for learning and development. If you enjoy Bite Size please let me know, follow, like, review or share. If you'd like to contribute, contact me, or send your recording to roger.saunders@dmu.ac.uk

In this week's episode I talk to Sarah about her own experiences as a lecturer with neurodivergence. She shares her personal story and gives some great advice for interacting with others and providing support for students. If you'd like to continue the conversation, Sarah can be reached on twitter (X) @SarahJ_MW If you enjoy this episode (or any of the previous ones) please share, review,...

Giving students an idea of how they might go about answering an assessment by taking them through an example can be very useful and can help augment showing them examples of previous student work by helping them to understand the process of research and analysis, rather than just outputs. If you'd like to contribute to the Bite Size series please reach out or send your mp3 to roger.saunders@dm...

For the third and final episode of AI week I'm joined by Emmanuel discussing AI and assessment. How can it be used, how should it be used, whether assessments should or can be AI proof and how we can incorporate best practice for both ourselves and the students. Apologies for the poor sound quality in places, there seems to have been some gremlins on the line. If you enjoy this or any of the o...

As part of a special AI week, this episode is a live recording of a special AI panel held at De Montfort University, Leicester, featuring Dr Martin Beckinsale, Associate Professor, Jack Brown, Lecturer in Strategic Management, Nichola Phillips, University Teacher Fellow and Chris Goldsmith, Associate Dean Academic. In the episode we cover the use of AI for assessments, the ethical use of AI, poten...

Welcome to AI Week on the L&T Chat Show. In this episode Lynn and I talk about AI, assessment and exactly what it means in terms of learning. We talk about a number of issues in relation to how students might use AI, how perhaps they should use AI and some of the pitfalls. If there's something you'd like to share about any aspect of teaching, learning, assessment or student experience...

This week I'm talking about what I've spent much of the last few weeks doing, prepping lectures, making sure they're up to date, videos work, that they allow interactivity, reflect the assessment and link with both the seminars and the VLE. Next week Bite Size is on holiday as I release 3 main pod episodes about AI, but they'll be back the week after. Still hoping someone else migh...

Liz and I discuss the importance of communication with students in terms of making them feel valued and consider a few ways in which this can be done using various electronic means. If you have something you'd like to share please email me on roger.saunders@dmu.ac.uk Next week we have an AI Special featuring three episodes.

Today I want to quickly mention the importance of talking to students about process and not just your subject. How to do the assessment and not just what the assessment should cover. If you'd like to contribute to the Bite Size series, or if you have any questions of comments, just contact me at roger.saunders@dmu.ac.uk

I'm hoping in the not too distant future to apply to become a National Teaching Fellow and so I need to be able to demonstrate reach and impact. So 'the challenge' is for you to contact me about a topic you want to make more interesting, active or fun and for me to help you design something. In return all I ask is that you let me know how it goes. What have you got to lose? roger.saund...

James Webber is the Online Learning Director at SayWhatEnglish.com and has 20 years experience in language teaching and testing.  In this episode we discuss why and how university staff can adapt their own use of English to improve the international student experience. If you enjoy this episode please like, follow and share. If you have something you'd like to share with colleagues about any a...

A quick and easy idea for helping improve module evaluations and potentially NSS responses. If you'd like to participate in L&T Bite Size please send an mp3 of between 1 and 15 minutes to roger.saunders@dmu.ac.uk - same address if you have an idea for the L&T Chat Show. If you've enjoyed any of these episodes please like, follow and share, and if you have any specific comments plea...

A few thoughts on how to help students see learning as a partnership. Helping students understand their role in learning and diminishing the view of the process as somehow being at fault for any disappointments. If you enjoy these podcasts please like, follow and share (feedback is always welcome). If you'd like to participate just send an mp3 of not more than 15 minutes to roger.saunders@dmu....

Today Karen tells me about how the AGILE model helps students to celebrate employability wins through personal reflective narratives. Karen is Principle Teaching Fellow at Southampton Business School and you can read more about her research at https://www.southampton.ac.uk/business-school/about/departments/digital-and-data-driven-marketing/staff/kjc1v18.page? Or contact her via https://www.linkedi...

In this episode I describe how I intend to use buttons to teach segmentation. Inspiration for ideas for teaching can come from many different places and it's always worth keeping a look out for something you think you might be able to use in your teaching, even if you're not sure how. If you'd like to discuss ideas, or if you have a subject that you'd like to teach in a more practi...

Assessed groupwork can be fraught with difficulty. Here I talk about how I've used groupmate agreements and peer evaluation to try to address dome of those issues. If you'd like to contribute to this series please send an mp3 of between 1 and 15 minutes to roger.saunders@dmu.ac.uk, or drop me a line

Today Amr and I discuss his methods for encouraging students to learn as part of a group and to develop important social skills in the process. He provides some top tips for getting the most out of active group learning inside and outside the classroom. Dr Amr Al Khateeb is Senior Lecturer in Marketing at John Moores University, Liverpool If you have something you'd like to share please get in...