The Learning Innovation Office provides support for all faculty members who want to enhance their pedagogical approach.  

For example, we can support by helping you: 

• Revisit your syllabus and curriculum  
• Plan sessions according to the learning objectives 
• Move towards a more student-centric approach and active learning environment 
• Create innovative classroom dynamics to boost your students’ participation 
• Plan a blended learning approach, exploring the best of synchronous and asynchronous moments, online and face to face teaching, learning and assessment 

We can work with you on your course’s site (Moodle, Canvas or Academy), by giving you feedback on your page, provide advice on how to enhance the learner experience and to efficiently manage the students’ progress. 

This can be from adding a single new activity to fully developing a blended unit, for example, by starting to use a flipped learning approach. 

If you’re using Moodle, we provided a Moodle Best Practices page as an example on how to organise your unit's Moodle page according to digital learning criteria and a checklist to help you shape your site. ​

If you would like to have some feedback on your teaching practices in classroom, the Learning Innovation Office can support you by observing one or some of your sessions. This feedback is targeted for pedagogical aspects and aims to enhance your teaching practices.   

There are some activities that can become very engaging for students when developed with an app or a digital platform. For each specific case, we can suggest an app or a platform that suits the session’s objectives and the learning outcomes.

Note that using apps or platforms for a specific activity needs to support the objectives and learning outcomes for the session, therefore it is important to identify if/when it is suitable.  

In our Learning Innovation Toolkit, we present some suggestions of apps that you can use in your session's activities.  

Visual aids are a very useful tool to get your students’ attention and to provide them with succinct and important information about the session’s content. There are some tips that can change your PowerPoint presentations which can be helpful to organise your speech, focus on what is important to highlight and to support the activities you will be doing during your sessions. 

In our Learning Innovation Toolkit, we developed a PowerPoint template for faculty to use in their presentations and we also listed some good practices to guide you when creating a PowerPoint presentation.