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We are delighted to be once again offering the Outstanding Student Contribution to Education Awards.These awards are intended to recognise the significant contributions that our students make towards enhancing the Cambridge educational experience.The last year has involved considerable and ongoing disruption for all and particular challenges for so…

We are pleased to open registration for the Diversifying Assessment Forum 2021 after the success of the inaugural event last year. It will be a venue to explore opportunities and processes for changing, refining or adapting current assessment practices, particularly in light of the University's commitment to diversifying assessment and to eliminati…

The new Technology-Enabled Learning Service will be offering a series of webinars to support staff in developing and delivering blended learning. Sessions will be recorded for those who can't attend and some may be repeated.The topics covered by these webinars will include:Running a successful small-group session online, including basic preparation…

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 we will work to support the…

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 are free for Cambridge teach…

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 of the project, and developing a…

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 supporting student learning who have de…

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 remote teaching and learning. …

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 notes created by participants…

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 and register on the Blended …

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) and online supervision; th…

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 discussions, student contributions, an…

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 Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ste…

Applications are now open for the Teaching Associates' Programme running over the 2020-21 academic year.This programme is designed for early-career academics and researchers (inluding postdoctoral researchers, early-career college lecturers, and PhD students) who teach Cambridge students, and will support you in extending your understanding of teac…

The Remote Teaching, Learning & Assessment Working Group has set up a new group on Yammer to act as a discussion board for all Cambridge staff involved in remote teaching, learning and assessment.We very much encourage you to join the group to engage with colleagues sharing questions, ideas and tools.It's easy to create an account and get involved;…