Teaching & Learning Community of Practice

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

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

Webinar: AI-enabled simulations for authentic and independent student learning

  • Tuesday 3 February
  • 1-2pm
  • Online

We are pleased to be welcoming Abigail Crowther, Learning Design Consultant at the Judge Business School, to present an ongoing project at the Judge Business School to integrate AI into the learning experiences of students, transforming traditional paper-based case studies into interactive and authentic experiences.

Join us to learn about the rationale for the project, how the simulation has been designed and developed, early insights into creating more engaging case-based learning, and future directions for the project.

Podcast Club: 'Ungrading with Jesse Stommel'

  • Tuesday 24 February
  • 1-2pm
  • Online

Just like a book club - listen to the podcast and join us for a facilitated discussion.

This term we'll be listening to the podcast series Dead Ideas in Teaching & Learning, hosted by Dr Amanda Irvin from Columbia University. In this episode, guest speaker Jesse Stommel explores his practice of ungrading: a potentially controversial approach he describes as "pushing back against the culture of grades and quantitative assessment that reinforces hierarchies between students and teachers".

Jesse unpacks why he supports ungrading, explains how it promotes student learning and shares steps that listeners can take towards ungrading in their own contexts.

Readings for the term

We've curated a list of readings for this term for you to explore at your leisure. There will be an opportunity to discuss your thoughts on these texts asynchronously via the Community of Practice Team across the term.