Embedding PebblePad for PDP in MSc Health Psychology
Dr Vicki Staples (Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology) The development of a portfolio is part of the practitioner training for a Health Psychologist, where a...
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Teams for Group work
James Bostock (Lecturer in Sports Outdoor and Exercise Science) Students undertake a group assessment in one of their Level 5 Sports Business Management modules. As...
Group Essay Writing
Psychology staff were looking for a way to teach their students how to construct an argument in an essay and demonstrate that an essay question...
My first University primary project: Lessons learnt
By Ndidi Chidomere (Senior Lecturer in Pre-qualifying Health Care) Aim of this ‘ideas Factory’: To share my experience with colleagues, Educators, Researchers, leaders and students...
Student Mentoring: An Exploration of the Benefits of a Partnership Approach to Student Mentoring and Peer Assisted Programme
I am a Senior Lecturer at the University of Derby on the BA Applied Social Work Programme, in which one of my responsibilities is being...
Transporting students to the year 2059
Saving journalism from the robots of the future with emerging technologies Journalism academics, Caroline Jones and Suzanne Nelson, felt their students would benefit from discussion...
‘Record, Pause, Rewind’ a Low-Tech Approach to Teaching Communication Skills
In Social Work education, as with many other subjects in higher education, we spend a lot of time talking to students about reflection, reflective practice...
Teaching with Wikipedia
What was the purpose of the activity? In the summer of 2018, academic librarians Caroline Ball and Jon White delivered a workshop at the University’s Learning...
Internationalisation of Higher Education: A link between the University of Derby and Nevsehir Haci Bektas Veli University
Internationalisation is a key item on the agenda of numerous universities around the world, having significant impact on external visibility, collaborative research articles and projects,...