Previous meetings

Previous speakers and topics. Our last couple of meetings have notes of what was discusses, in case you missed it.

2019

Wednesday 15th May

'Inclusion, equality and diversity in the curriculum'

2018

Wednesday 19th September

'The BMS Student-Staff community: Are you in?’

By Dr Celine Caquineau (BMTO).

Wednesday 10 October 2018

"Marking criteria, grade descriptors, rubrics... what do we want from them?"

By Dr Michael Daw (CDBS).

Wednesday 7th February

"Thinking during lectures: An IAD secondee's tale of quectures, concepts and student engagement."

By Dr Heather McQueen, Associate Director of Teaching for Scholarship of Learning and Teaching, Biological Sciences.

2017

Wednesday 29th November

“Content knowledge within a research-led curriculum: Can we keep up with the pace of modern research?”

Dr Gerald Prescott, Director of Teaching, School of Biology, University of St Andrews.

Wednesday 11th October

"Towards a learning narrative"

by Dr Medhat Khattar (BMTO).

Wednesday 10th May

This session on the theme of “Digital teaching tools” has been organised by the BMS: IT tools for Teaching group.

"Online Student Orientation: Resources and Tools"

Chris McKenzie (Deanery of Clinical Sciences)

and

"Using technology to support the assessment of students"

Robert Chmielewski (Learning, Teaching and Web division, Information Services).

Wednesday 22nd March

"East meets West: Zhejiang University and the University of Edinburgh's BSc (Hons) degrees in Integrative Biomedical Science"

By Dr Joanne Murray.

Wednesday 8th February

"Research-led teaching and learning: What do we mean by 'learning in a research-rich environment'?"

By Dr Philip Larkman.

2016

Thursday 1st December

"Teaching: Why do we do it?"  

By Dr Sharron Ogle.

Thursday 27th October

"'No cell is from Ireland' - or why I stopped using lectures in honours year"

By Prof Jamie Davies.

Thursday 1st September

"Integrated assessment and feedback practices in BMS2: Findings from a PTAS project"

By Dr Celine Caquineau.

Thursday 16th June

“Blended Learning in Biomedical Education”

Prof Harold van Rijen,

Professor of Innovation in Biomedical Education and Director of Biomedical Sciences,

University Medical Center, Utrecht.

 

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