CADQ Blogs
Learn more about the work of CADQ from our colleagues and be inspired by their experiences and insights.
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NTU Leading the Way: Transforming Learning, Teaching & Scholarship Through Micro-Credentials.
In this blog Senior Educational Developers William Carey and Helen Boulton explain how NTU is leading the way in developing micro-credentials to support colleagues' professional development.
Student-Centred Rubrics: Cracking the Grading Matrix Code so your Students Don’t Have To. Part 1
In the first of this two-part blog Diana De Butts, Educational Developer at NTU, explores what rubrics are for and why it's important to understand the nuance of exactly what it is that can make them hard work for our students.
Student-Centred Rubrics: Cracking the Grading Matrix Code so Your Students Don’t Have To. Part 2
In the second part of this two-part blog, Diana De Butts, Educational Developer at NTU, shares a set of ‘Effective Student-Focused Rubric Writing Principles’, developed whilst working with colleagues across NTU.
Enriching Student Learning Through Online Discussions: Evidence-Based Best Practices
In this blog Elena Khabarova, Learning Designer, explores the benefits of online discussions, shares strategies for making them effective, and provides guidance on how you can implement them successfully in your teaching practice.
Blog archive
Dual Coding: Exploring opportunities to deliver learning content in NOW: Elena Khabarova considers Dual Coding - the process of combining visual and verbal elements to convey information.
Creating digital learning activities that make you think: Ellie Howitt explores using Bloom's Taxonomy as a tool to structure online learning.
Hannah Kingman considers lessons learned from working with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, which changed the way we worked with professional bodies.
Most student feedback is a snapshot in time - but what happens if we listen over a longer period? Ria Bluck gets longitudinal.
Barry Gregory delves into scaffolding and explores how we can use this instructional method for designing online courses.
Amy Manktelow explores how to navigate project management within higher education.
In this blog Laura Stinson, Senior Academic Practice Developer (TILT Lead), talks TILT® (Trent Institute of Learning & Teaching) and how it has been supporting colleagues' professional development at NTU for the past ten years.
in this blog Tom Withers, Partnerships Senior Standards & Quality Officer, and Stuart Parkin, Educational Developer, share how NTU in Mansfield is widening access to higher education, increasing social mobility and supporting local businesses to grow through sustainable solutions to local employment skills gaps.
In this blog Dr Ellen Nicolls and Anita Love look back on a decade of SCALE-UP, exploring the flexibility of this landmark pedagogy, arguing for its potential to adapt to the needs of the moment, and adjust to different pedagogical modes.
In our first CADQ guest blog, Sarah Askin, Principal Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, demonstrates Success for All in action during a trip to Berlin.
In this blog Royce McKie, Learning Designer, explores the trend of Microlearning within Higher Education and how delivering learning content in short focused units, aligns with the changing preferences of younger generations.
In this blog Dr Kathy Charles, Executive Dean of Learning & Teaching at NTU explores how AI might be incorporated into you teaching.
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