Learning & Teaching

Dear Colleagues, 

As we come to an end of Academic Year 2024/2025, I wanted to reflect on the work of the Learning & Teaching Strategy. This year’s seen some great achievements, so I felt it was important to celebrate these and look at our next steps in 2025.

Student Skills & Futures
Over this year, the team has developed and entered a review process on an Employability Framework. From next year, the team will start embedding this with colleagues across the Colleges, to provide support in surfacing, embedding and developing skills in courses at the University of Glasgow.

Curriculum For Life
C4L is piloting an exciting new suite of challenge-based courses tackling real world problems, which students can take beyond their core curriculum to develop and surface skills for their future. C4L provides students with the opportunity to engage in interdisciplinary learning and collaborating with people across different courses. If you haven’t already read the item about our C4L interns, I would recommend it.

Assessment & Feedback
This year, the Assessment & Feedback workstream ran the second year of the Practice Enhancement Tool survey, which identified an increased awareness and application of the LTA pillars. The team also started to trial the Digital Assessment Platforms for online examinations. Work is also underway for the development of the AI Guidance for students next year.

Active Learning
The Learning & Teaching Strategy launched a new Active Learning Resources Hub which provides staff with helpful information on active learning strategies and methods, illustrated through good practice case studies co-created by students with ADD and Academic colleagues across UofG.

As we enter the next Academic year 2025/2026, we will be shaping the plans for the next Learning and Teaching Strategy.  Feedback from colleagues and from students, confirms that the current focus is the right one, so the new strategy will see much in the way of continuity, with more in the way of coordinated embedding of the approaches we are making good progress with developing at the moment.  Student partnership will become an even more prominent feature of our approach, aligned to both our institutional values and to the Scottish Tertiary Quality Enhancement Framework which strengthens expectations of the role of student voice and student partnership in the design and evaluation of the student learning experience.  We will say more about this in a future newsletter.

I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all those involved in the Learning & Teaching Strategy work, across Schools, Colleges and University Services, and within the strategy workstreams.  Thank you also to the SRC and in particular to Heri in his SRC VP Education role, and of course, a special thanks to our student interns who have had such a key role in shaping our activity. The achievements we’ve seen to date are no mean feat and wouldn’t have happened without a lot of hard work and dedication to the development of teaching at the University.

Kind regards,
Professor Moira Fischbacher-Smith
Vice-Principal, Learning & Teaching

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First published: 17 June 2025