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16 October 2025
3 minutes to readPeer Power in Action: How our PTY Mentoring Scheme is Transforming Placement Support
A student-led mentoring initiative is bridging a crucial gap in placement preparation by pairing students who have successfully completed their placements with those just beginning the process, offering insider insights, guidance, and confidence-building support. Dr Shalinee Dhayal outlines her approach to a implementing this support. Securing a Professional Training Year (PTY) placement…
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31 July 2025
2 minutes to readAssessment at Scale: Clarity, Relevance and Manageability
Part 6 of our series on teaching at scale explores the topic of assessment. With 500+ students, your assessment plan has to work for everyone, from students and staff to systems and schedules. In this post, colleagues Dr Cliff Li and colleagues teaching on very large modules in the University of Exeter Business…
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24 July 2025
2 minutes to readTeaching Everyone: Inclusion and Challenge in Large Multidisciplinary Cohorts
In part 5 of this series of posts, Dr Cliff Li and the Team from the University of Exeter Business School have some tips to help us to address issues of diversity and challenge. From seasoned business students to arts undergrads encountering entrepreneurship for the first time, how do you design a…
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3 July 2025
2 minutes to readBeyond the Video Lecture: Flipping the Classroom for Massive Modules
In part three of our guidance around teaching large cohorts, the team from the University of Exeter Business School are discussing flipped learning. Flipped learning works – but only if students engage. Here’s how to design active, inclusive, and AI-resilient experiences at scale. Flipped classrooms offer a compelling approach to teaching large…
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26 June 2025
2 minutes to readFairness at Scale: How to Calibrate and Coordinate Large-Scale Marking
In the second of our blog series on leading extra large modules, the team from the University of Exeter Business School are concentrating on consistency in assessment. Consistency in assessment is a cornerstone of quality. Here’s how to make marking fair and efficient when your module enrols hundreds. Fair and consistent marking…
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20 June 2025
2 minutes to readDesigning for Thousands: Planning Extra-Large Modules with Purpose
When your module enrols 500+ students, clarity, consistency and creativity in design are essential. Here’s how to plan with confidence. What happens when your module enrols a thousand students? At this scale, planning isn’t just a best practice – it’s survival. In this post, we share collective insights from educators who have…
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13 June 2025
4 minutes to readLet’s make some CAOS! The use of drama-based pedagogies in Higher Education.
How can we ensure that different standpoints, particularly those often silenced and neglected, are included and that students play an active role in making their experience of learning truly memorable and transformative? CAOS – CAmpus On Stage builds on these questions and recent calls to develop appropriate pedagogical tools to teach complex…
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6 June 2025
5 minutes to readReconceptualising field courses in higher education
Field courses provide important and potentially transformational learning opportunities across a range of disciplines. Yet, a wealth of literature spanning several decades highlights the significant complexities and barriers of this area of pedagogy in relation to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). Discourses are often wide-ranging and dynamic, relating to (not exclusively) disability,…
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15 January 2025
4 minutes to readDecolonising doctoral supervision: Rethinking power, positionality and partnerships
Decolonisation in higher education has become a popular topic, and it’s not just about tweaking reading lists or including diverse perspectives in curricula. The conversation is shifting to more nuanced spaces, like the relationship between doctoral supervisors and their PGRs. So, what does a decolonial approach to supervision look like, and why…
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