• Hybrid Update #3: I made a vlog!

    In this week’s post we start off with some key updates and answer some questions we’ve been getting this week. We also have details of our communication plan, an update on the project team’s current activities and we’ve attached a copy of last week’s project board update. Finally, as a…

  • Hybrid Teaching Update #2: Early progress

    I am off on leave for 2 weeks but I wanted to get a quick post out before I’m dragged away from the computer by my children. By popular demand you’ll find the list of 50 rooms that have been earmarked for hybrid listed below. I’ve also added a little…

  • Hybrid Teaching Update #1: Lights, cameras, action!

    As lockdown restrictions ease and we tentatively reintroduce in-person sessions to our teaching, Hybrid has become a hot topic. It offers a much-needed flexibility to run sessions with in-person and online students simultaneously, a key advance as we enhance the experience of our students in a continually changing world. In this message, I am pleased to offer some initial detail of this initiative and our plans for this new area of teaching capability going forward.

  • QAA Annual Conference 2021 – Quality, Resilience, Innovation and Enhancement

    Universities have shown themselves to be flexible and resilient over the past year, and we should learn from this as we come out of the pandemic and look to our learning and teaching going forward. We need to help students make better choices when faced with the pressures of studying by providing the right support, and not creating a catastrophe from making the wrong decision.

  • Mentimeter Webinars

    We have been offered 2 Mentimeter webinars – an introductory one (Fem 23rd) and an advanced one (Feb 25th)