Everything is Awesome? Using LEGO® to trigger reflection in Higher Education Author Mag. Nicole Brown MTeach, DipTrans, SFHEA, Secondary Teacher Education Programme Leader, Lecturer in Education, UCL Institute of Education Nicole Brown facilitated an interactive workshop at the recent HEA Annual Conference, where participants used LEGO® and a river drawing activity to explore their own experiences within HE. This session attracted a lot of interest from the delegates, so we have invited her to tell us ..read more

You can’t teach Wisdom... Author Dr Kenneth McAlpine, Academic Curriculum Manager, Schools of Arts, Media & Computer Games, Abertay University Wisdom. Solomon had a surfeit; Curly, Larry and Moe, not so much. It’s something that we imagine we will all develop as time and experience ravage us – Stooges excepted, of course – and it’s a concept that’s becoming something of a hot topic in higher education. So began the HEA event on Optimising Higher Education Curriculum Design. Hang on a minute, I hear ..read more