Supporting Academics
Academics juggle teaching and research in the best of times. However, with COVID19, the need to adapt teaching for the online context and the loss of many jobs, there is a much higher workload for those who retain their positions. We offer:
academic research and writing strategies for your students, whatever their background (see sections below, e.g. on students with equity challenges)
learning design to help you create tasks with clarity that aid student learning and assist you in less time-consuming administration and marking.
As academics who have experienced first hand the massive workload increases created by the online response to COVID19 we understand how difficult it has been for colleagues to maintain teaching and research requirements. The current and future loss of academic teaching positions will further add to these problems.
We are here to help. We have extensive teaching experience and qualifications which we have been using to support students and colleagues through the COVID changes as highly experienced academic specialists we already have significant experience teaching academic strategies for pre-entry, undergraduate and postgraduate students.
We have extensive experience in support across all academic disciplines. We have also lectured, coordinated and tutored in linguistics and history and collaborated extensively with academic colleagues on course design, special needs and assessment.. (See Bios)
Some examples of help we can offer are listed below.
We are aware that special need’s requirements have been increasing over the last few years and have considerable experience diagnosing and working with complex learning issues. If you have students in this category and can find no support we are here to help.
The new mode of online delivery has caused significant difficulties finding suitable and appropriate methods of assessment. We can help with learning design to help you make your courses stand out and be more effective for student learning.
Improved learning design should lead to significantly easier administration, saving you time and energy for other tasks such as research.
Simplify assessment.
In addition, to this your students can have direct access to highly qualified and experienced academic specialists to learn more about academic strategies.
As lecturers in learning development we are familiar with many issues that students find challenging. By assisting with learning design we may be able to help prevent some of the email or forum communications.