Teaching

  • id-workshop-photo-3
    Permalink Gallery

    Departmental use of LSE LIFE: International Development’s consultancy project workshop

Departmental use of LSE LIFE: International Development’s consultancy project workshop

Together with Dr Stuart Gordon and Dr Regina Enjuto Martinez from the Department of International Development, LSE LIFE recently offered an innovative day-long workshop to support ID MSc students in preparation for their half-unit Humanitarian Consultancy Project. Dr Helen Green, Learning Developer from LSE LIFE, explains what students experienced as part of the workshop.

 

Learning opportunities through teamwork, presenting, and observation

Students […]

November 18th, 2016|Events, Student Experience, Teaching|0 Comments|
Read More

Student Experience: Settling into a life-changing year

Settling into the new academic year as an MSc student at LSE can be an overwhelming experience, but as Muna Ngenda observes, it forces students to think about both their past experiences as well as potential future experiences.

Welcome week at the LSE is a deluge of information: new names, faces, locations, procedures, and requirements for social wellbeing and […]

October 18th, 2016|Featured, Student Experience, Teaching|0 Comments|
Read More

The Great Lecture Notes Debate – Next Steps

This week LSE academic developer Dr Colleen McKenna reported on The Great Lecture Notes Debate for the LSE Teaching Blog, summarising the arguments and speaking to Professor Jean-Paul Faguet about what happens next.

At the end of last term, Professor Jean-Paul Faguet initiated The Great Lecture Notes Debate on the International Development blog. The debate was framed by the question ‘Should lecture notes be circulated […]

January 19th, 2016|Featured, Teaching|0 Comments|
Read More

The Great Lecture Notes Debate – The Educational Research

As part of the ongoing “Great Lecture Notes Debate” we hear from Dr Colleen McKenna, Departmental Adviser to the Department of International Development in the LSE Teaching and Learning Centre. Colleen has explored the educational research on how different approaches to handouts stimulate student engagement in lectures and are thought to support student learning and achievement.

 

I have enjoyed the rich discussion […]

December 8th, 2015|Featured, Teaching|1 Comment|
Read More
  • Students from the Department of international Development attending a lecture in the Hong Kong Theatre, LSE Clement House.
    Permalink Gallery

    The Great Lecture Notes Debate Part Four – The student point of view

The Great Lecture Notes Debate Part Four – The student point of view

LSE International Development students have their say on “The Great Lecture Notes Debate”:

Xu Gong – MSc in Development Studies.

For me, pre-circulated notes may reduce my motivation to finish all required readings before lectures. I took history classes at the LSE when I was an undergraduate, notes were always posted on Moodle before lectures. I sometimes skipped readings after […]

November 26th, 2015|Featured, Teaching|1 Comment|
Read More
  • Students from the Department of International Development attending a lecture in the Wolfson Foundation Theatre in the LSE New Academic Building
    Permalink Students from the Department of International Development attending a lecture in the Wolfson Foundation Theatre in the LSE New Academic BuildingGallery

    The Great Lecture Notes Debate Part Three – The Case For; the lecturers’ view

The Great Lecture Notes Debate Part Three – The Case For; the lecturers’ view

Continuing with our blog series “The Great Lecture Notes Debate” we hear from LSE International Development lecturers on why they think it’s a good idea

Teddy Brett – Professor of International Development
I think that a strong case can be made for pre-circulating lecture notes, and have done so whenever I have completed them in time to do so. I am aware […]

November 25th, 2015|Featured, Teaching|0 Comments|
Read More
  • Professor James Putzel teaching students from the Department of international Development in the Hong Kong Theatre, LSE Clement House
    Permalink Gallery

    The Great Lecture Notes Debate Part Two – The Case Against; Notes vs. Knowledge

The Great Lecture Notes Debate Part Two – The Case Against; Notes vs. Knowledge

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, students are once again requesting that lecture notes be circulated in advance, something I have always resisted. Here is an attempt to explain (not least to myself) why I find this objectionable.

What exactly do you have when you have ‘the lecture notes’?
I must admit to a feeling of mystery about why students want […]

November 19th, 2015|Featured, Teaching|2 Comments|
Read More

The Great Lecture Notes Debate

In our latest blog series International Development Professor Jean-Paul Faguet wants to know your thoughts on the subject of “Should lecture notes be circulated in advance?”
Every year my MSc Development Management students ask for lecture notes to be circulated in advance. Every year I decline, waving my hands and invoking vague dangers.
This year’s group – a particularly energetic bunch – […]

November 18th, 2015|Featured, Teaching|3 Comments|
Read More
  • SmartPhone Users. Image Credit: Esther Vargas [https://www.flickr.com/photos/esthervargasc/9657863733/]
    Permalink Gallery

    Is texting / Tweeting in lectures good for learning, or just a needless distraction?

Is texting / Tweeting in lectures good for learning, or just a needless distraction?

Mobile phones in class: useful, or just a nuisance?

A recent study by Jeffrey Kuznekoff in Communication Education argues that the use of mobile phones in class may actually be beneficial to learning – if students stay on topic, that is.

“Having the student bring their own device and use [it] in a meaningful way that connects to the content […]

June 9th, 2015|Featured, Teaching, Topical and Comment|2 Comments|
Read More

Introducing the MSc African Development – Cathy Boone

Our final introductory video features the newest course offered by the Department – the MSc in African Development. Are you currently a student on this programme? Perhaps you’ve taken the core units – African Political Economy or African Development? Would you recommend this to interested students? Let us know by leaving a comment below!

June 4th, 2015|Featured, Teaching|0 Comments|
Read More