Resources for Supporting Learning

How to Guides

The ILE How to guides include short tips and resources to highlight the practical ways in which academic staff can improve their students' learning.

Good practice case studies

For examples of good practice have a look at these case studies. These pages contain helpful tips and ideas from colleages across the University.

Curriculum Design Resources

Information, templates and prompts for Curriculum Design.

Blended Learning

Blended Learning Unit

The Blended Learning web pages are dedicated to providing support for teachers to design and create effective electronic Blended Learning opportunities.

Other Resources

Learning to Teach Inclusively module

The Learning to Teach Inclusively module illustrates inclusive learning, teaching and assessment practice across a range of different subjects. The module highlights video interviews and extracts of teaching sessions which offer teachers a chance develop their teaching practice though review of their peers.

How the Students’ Union helps students

Information for staff on all the different services that the Students Union can offer students.

UCE Birmingham Guide to Learning Outcomes

This guide to learning outcomes is designed to help you write appropriate learning outcomes when developing and revising your modules and programmes, and when devising assessment tasks.

Linking Teaching and Research

This national project for the Generic Subject Centre/Learning and Teaching Subject Network provides resources and workshop materials to help build links between teaching and research.

Supporting learning

HEA support on the issues of employability, internationalisation, sustainability, personal tutoring and PDP.

Assessment

• Effective Assessment in a Digital Age
  A JISC guide to technology-enhanced assessment and feedback
• ASKe 1, 2, 3 Leaflets 
  ASKe has launched a series of '1,2,3' leaflets which highlight some practical ways in which teaching staff can improve their students' learning. Each leaflet focuses on a piece of assessment-related research and clearly states how that research can be applied to teaching practice in three easy steps.
• The HEA Assessment web pages 
  These pages bring together information on the topics of assessment, feedback, group work and plagiarism. The HEA offers advice and policies about assessment as well as resources and activities for use with students.

• Assessment Futures
  This site from the University of Technology, Sydney provides information on key assessment elements such as engaging students, Integrative tasks, working with peers and giving and receiving feedback.

• Assessment 2020: Seven propositions for assessment reform in higher education -  The ALTC report by David Boud and Associates (2010),

HEA Subject Centres and other networks

The Higher Education Academy has a number of networks including the Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and 24 subject centres for more subject-specific support.   Visit the HEA disciplines and networks web pages for further information. 

EvidenceNet

EvidenceNet is a service to promote and explore the use of practice and research-based evidence in teaching and learning in Higher Education.