Improving the experience for new students

Improving the experience for new students

Starting a new course at university can be both exciting and terrifying for students. But however students feel, they are unlikely to be able to focus on their studies until they feel accepted as part of a new social group. Designing social experiences for new...
Designing metacognition into learning experiences

Designing metacognition into learning experiences

  Metacognition (at its simplest, thinking about thinking) is gaining some ground in primary and secondary outposts; in higher education and the workplace, you may draw a blank. However, say researchers De Backer et al. (2011:559): ‘It is widely recognised that...