Thank you to everyone who attended the latest JLDHE Reading Club. This time we discussed Sheryl Mansfield’s article ‘Changing the face of academic skills workshops’ from issue 17 (2020). We would like to thank Sheryl for coming along, answering our questions and giving us some great insight into how she approaches and utilises flipped learning (or active blended learning) to support students to engage in learning development workshops!
We started by discussing how the move to online learning since lockdown had resulted in more learning developers and institutions adopting flipped learning to support students and how this move had come about earlier for Sheryl and Northampton. Sheryl’s close collaboration with subject staff to create the asynchronous content and design the live session sparked an interesting discussion about how we all try to encourage similar levels of collaboration with academic staff when putting embedded sessions together. It was really great to hear the different approaches individuals and institutions take to this. We finished with Sheryl showcasing some of the asynchronous materials used in her flipped teaching, which inspired us all!
Our next Reading Club event will be Wednesday 10th November at 5:30pm
We will be in touch in advance of the meeting with a selection of JLDHE articles for you to choose from. We will then confirm the piece with the most votes and share the zoom link before the day. Please contact Jenny if you would like to be added to the Reading Club mailing list.