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New Technology-Enabled Learning Service launched

25 January 2021

The University has launched a new Technology-Enabled Learning Service, to assist staff in the design and delivery of excellent teaching and learning. The Service will, in the first instance, focus on supporting staff in the transition to greater blended and remote teaching necessitated by the pandemic. In the longer-term...

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Further workshops on online/blended learning design now open for booking

21 December 2020

In September 2020, Cambridge teaching staff were offered a series of online workshops focused on online / blended learning design, provided by Skilled Education, an external learning design agency. Three of the most popular of these workshops will now be repeated in January 2021 , in advance of Lent Term. These workshops...

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Opportunities are open for students to contribute to CCTL's strategic priorities

12 November 2020

We are currently seeking students to contribute to two different strategic priority projects. The first is the Access & Participation Plan: Participatory Action Research Project, for which we are seeking paid student co-researchers. These co-researchers will be tasked with evaluating the outcomes of last year's cycle...

Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 Technology-Enabled Learning Prize

9 October 2020

Cambridge University Press are delighted to announce the winners of the 2020 Technology-Enabled Learning Prize . The TEL Prizes, one for Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences (AHSS) and one for Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths & Medicine (STEMM), are intended to recognise Cambridge academics and other staff...

Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 Outstanding Student Contribution to Education Awards!

7 October 2020

After the successful launch of the OSCEAs in 2019, the enthusiastic response from staff and students and the quality of the nominations confirmed our decision to make this an annual award. This year we received another impressive set of nominations, even though the nomination window was opened during the rapid pivot to...

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Recordings and further resources are now available from this year's Annual Meetings

5 October 2020

This year's Annual Meeting for Directors of Teaching and Senior Tutors and the Annual Meeting for Directors of Postgraduate Education and Postgraduate Tutors were held online in September. You can now watch the recordings of each event's plenary talks and panels (Raven access required). In addition, we have compiled the...

Workshop series on online/blended learning design open for booking now

1 September 2020

An online series of workshops focused on online / blended learning design will be running over the course of September, provided by Skilled Education, an external learning design agency. These workshops are free for Cambridge teaching staff to attend, though places are limited to fifty participants. You can find out more...

Updated guidance on teaching in 2020-21 released

7 August 2020

As the next academic year approaches, we have extended our introductory guides to teaching online. Easter Term 2020 required a rapid adaptation under very challenging circumstances. Our revised guides address affordances and challenges of Teaching in 2020-21, including larger-group teaching (lectures, seminars and classes...

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Registration is open for two events for directors of teaching and education, senior tutors and postgraduate tutors

29 July 2020

Registration is currently open for the Annual Meeting for Directors of Teaching & Senior Tutors , and for the Annual Meeting for Directors of Postgraduate Education and Postgraduate Tutors . Both events will be chaired by the Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education, Professor Graham Virgo, and will feature panel...

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Extraordinary teaching in extraordinary times

19 June 2020

We were delighted in April to announce the 2020 winners of the Pilkington Prize . For obvious reasons, the planned Pilkington Prize celebration can't go ahead this summer. We are very much hoping that we'll be able to welcome this year's Prize Winners and next year's to a double celebration in 2021. In the meantime, the...

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