About us
The Teaching & Learning Community of Practice (T&L CoP) provides a space to continue and expand many of the discussions you are already having at teaching & learning events and amongst your own teams within the wider collegiate University. We hope that the community will provide a space for sharing ideas and experiences, and that it will serve as a network for colleagues to tackle shared challenges in a collegial and informal way across Cambridge.
We organise a range of opt-in opportunities to meet and engage in discussions relating to teaching and learning across the year. There will be a theme for each term, an associated webinar, a 'podcast club' (similar to a book club), and a mixture of other in-person and online activities and discussions to join, both synchronous and asynchronous. The extent to which you engage with the T&L CoP is determined by you and your interests and availability.
The T&L CoP is guided by its members and respond to colleagues' interests and needs.
Join us
Sign up to join the Cambridge Teaching & Learning Community of Practice here.
Upon registration for the T&L CoP, you will receive a welcome email. Registering means that you will automatically receive the termly newsletter containing all the information and joining links for the community's activities. Should you wish to participate in asynchronous discussions and have access to shared files within the community, you will also have the option to join our MS Teams site through a link in the welcome email.
What's on this term
Spotlight on Practice: Video feedback in the Faculty of Law
- Tuesday 6 May
- 13.00-14.00
- Online
For this spotlight session, we're pleased to be welcoming Amy Goymour, Fellow and Director of Studies in Law at Jesus College and University Associate Professor in Land Law. Amy teaches across a variety of private law subjects within the Law Faculty.
In the session, Amy will share her recent approaches to providing video feedback to students. Join us in learning about how video feedback can foster a more personalised and holistic approach to student learning, and how leveraging tone, nuance and visual presence can establish a more constructive and empathetic dialogue with students, further promoting engagement and academic growth. We'll hear about Amy's motivations for pursuing these methods, the development of the video format and how students have responded.
Podcast Club: 'Assessment and feedback'
- Thursday 29 May
- 13.00-14.00
- Online
Just like a book club - listen to the podcast and join us for a facilitated discussion.
This term we have a rich conversational podcast between three renowned academics exploring assessment feedback. It's slightly longer than we'd usually select and overflowing with many interesting areas, so we're focusing on a 45-minute section for the club.
Hosted by Stuart Norton and Vic Stephenson from Advance HE, Prof. Naomi Winstone, Dr Miri Firth and Dr Lauren Woodlands share their reflections on a wide range of topics. During the podcast club, we'll focus on discussing: the purpose of and responsibility towards assessment, assessment as a learning opportunity, feedback for impact, the affective element of assessment and feedback, humanising assessment, intellectual streaking, optionality and AI.
Webinar: Using generative artificial intelligence for teaching, learning and assessment
- Monday 9 June
- 13.00-14.00
- Online
This webinar will cover specific use cases for generative AI such as: generating assessments to help students engage with set material; summarising scholarship in other languages to help students widen their reading; generating teaching outlines and lesson plans; 'prompt engineering' to return better results and avoid AI 'hallucinations'; tips on identifying student work that may have been generated using AI.
Dr Anthony Harris is a Fellow of Clare Hall, visiting academic at the Department of Computer Science & Technology, Visiting Fellow of Kellogg College (Oxford), Research Fellow at Regent's Park College (Oxford), and a recipient of the British Academy Ker Award in Manuscript Studies. He teaches Middle English (Chaucer and Gawain) and supervises computer science at Cambridge, and is currently a visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Committee on Medieval Studies at Harvard.