Towards the end of last term I was pleased to be able to attend the launch at our host institution Swansea University, of the Swansea Academy for Learning and Teaching (SALT). The event was marked by a well-attended event on Assessment and Feedback, with a number of very good presentations, covering good assessment and feedback generally, and the use of technology as a means to this end. I particularly enjoyed the one by Sam Webster and Jo Bishop of Swansea University Medical School, about their use of clickers in embryology and anatomy teaching. It showed very convincingly that clickers (aka voting systems) have the potential be used in truly interesting ways to afford deep learning and self-assessment. Links to video clips of all the presentations are available here.

(By the way, if you’re interested to know more about what Swansea University Medical School have been doing with clickers, there’s also an interview with Sam Webster about his project on the Swansea University Learning Lab, as part of their podcast/vodcast series.)

All the best for the future to SALT! If you work in a university learning and teaching development unit or e-learning team in Wales and you have something you’d like to share with other organisations in Wales, why not send it to us here at RSC Wales and we’ll do our best to cover it in this blog.