L&T Chat Show

How do you get students to open up, engage and perhaps get to grips with some difficult subjects? Alan talks about his experiences with Lego serious play and the way he's used it in various classrooms teaching various subjects. You can find Alan's article here: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1472669620000523 which is to my article, 'Using Lego® Serious Play® in Higher Education with Law Students: Encour...

There are lots of ways of providing feedback, many of which students seem to ignore. In this episode Steve talks about his experience of using audio feedback and the engagement from students who feel it provide a more authentic voice and is more individualised to them.

We all know how important reflection is but sometimes it can be hard thing to get students to do successfully. Find out how here.

Getting students to work in teams especially for assessed work can be extremely difficult. Here Claire describes some of the creative ways she has addressed this in her own institution.

Chris and I discuss how much information in an assignment brief is useful. Is too much direction confusing? Does too much direction constrain creativity and self-development? How much is enough?

If you have a favourite lesson, activity or method you'd like to share, why not contact Roger and you can be the on the next episode roger.saunders@dmu.ac.uk

Anoop introduces the idea of using slam poetry as a way of enabling students to express and authentic voice

Helping engineering students to be able to visualise and explain the impact of different models and ideas on the wider world using creative activities