Our STEM topics are built in a culture of collecting and representing scientific knowledge based on clear facts that have emerged from (often) centuries of scientific endeavour. For those designing and delivering University content to students it has become clear that some more focussed discussion around what decolonising is, is required. A question often asked is: How is decolonising relevant to STEM? To help address this question, a team at the University of Exeter…
Read more Encompass: Decolonising STEM – what is this all about?
This blog has been written by Lucy Richards, a research assistant working as part of a bi-directional project between the University of Exeter Modern Languages and Cultures Department (Francesco Goglia) and Rokeby School (Sarah Lawson and Thomas Porter). This project is part of the Community-Engaged Learning projects run by the Education Incubator, as part of…
Read more Students as Teachers of Multilingualism #2: Delivering an interactive presentation on Microsoft Sway and via Zoom
This blog entry is brought to you by The InVEnTA team (Interactive Virtual Environments for Teaching & Assessment) in the way of a podcast. Download or play the podcast here or alternatively ‘watch/listen’ on YouTube below. On the podcast we refer to our feature video which is shown below. We also refer to the Madden et al (2018)…
Read more Incubator Podcast: InVEnTA, gamefication and active learning
Incubator Fellow Dr David MacDonald, Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter Medical School, speaks candidly about securing ethics approval and his project’s next steps. The unwitting 'pilot study' It’s been an eventful start to the peer impact project. First of all, trying to convince a cohort of Year 1 BSc. Medical Sciences students to attend additional…
Read more Peer impact – the story so far! by David MacDonald
