bits and pieces in the news - simonpbates

Oct 2011: Article in the Guardian on student-led Teaching Awards.
Visit to the University of KwaZulu-Natal in May 2011. I gave a series of talks about innovative teaching, including two workshops on the Pietermaritzburg and Westville campuses with Lorne Wolfe, Biology at Georgia Southern. There is a news item on the UKZN webpage.

EUSA Teaching Awards 2011: I was awarded the Innovative Teaching award. There are links to the EUSA photo gallery, School web page and Teach First announcement.

Questionmark blog post about a review article I co-authored on diagnostic testing in Physics Education research (November 2010).

JISC effective practice video clip from part of the ouputs of the LEaD project (Sept 2009)

Nature Editorial on the Applets website we developed, April 2009

NYT article on the MIT way of teaching introductory Physics classes: TEAL and PRS (Jan 09)

Guardian feature on the outcomes of the LEaD project from December 2008 Academia Tackles the Future: available online - http://www.guardian.co.uk/digitalstudent/academia

Scotsman article 13th Feb 2008 on PRS in lectures (sadly filed on the front page under 'entertainment').

Opinion piece on same, 12th Feb 2008. The yes vote from the NUS chap is rather good; he has obviously read a bit. Limp 'no' if ever I read one.

Independent article, taking a view of PRS in lectures across the UK.

And entirely the wrong way to use PRS-type technology.....

Guardian article 1st May 2007, following league table publication for 2008

Chancellor's Award for Teaching : http://bit.ly/i5zzmh

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