The Learning Enhancement Unit aims to provide all staff and students with scholarly, informed and principled guidance in relation to learning and teaching.
For students, we offer:
- the Gold Award, promoting student personal and professional development
- Peer Assisted Learning, providing an extra level of support to all new students
For staff, we offer:
We help Goldsmiths meet the aims of its Learning, Teaching and Assessment Strategy. Please contact gleu@gold.ac.uk or your departmental liaison to discuss how we can work with you.
- accredited programmes in learning and teaching in Higher Education (PG Certificate, Diploma and MA). These are accredited both by Goldsmiths and by the Higher Education Academy.
- assistance with teaching-related funding bids.
- developmental workshops.
- the Peake Awards for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, to reward and disseminate good practice.
- funded fellowships for developmental teaching projects
- help in explaining to prospective students how they’ll learn, and why.
- informed support for changes in teaching practice: delivery and assessment, curriculum development, and the use of learning technology.
We help Goldsmiths meet the aims of its Learning, Teaching and Assessment Strategy. Please contact gleu@gold.ac.uk or your departmental liaison to discuss how we can work with you.
News
News
New funding opportunities from the Higher Education Academy (HEA).
Professional recognition. The HEA also offers the following levels of professional recognition - Associate, Fellow, Senior Fellow and Principal Fellow of the HEA. This corresponds to the recently revised UK Professional Standards Framework.
Upcoming Events
Tuesday 11 September Wednesday 12 SeptemberGoldsmiths Learning & Teaching News
Files on learn.gold (the VLE) – obtaining, naming, copyright, &tc
Some recommendations, further to a session with colleagues from Art and the Library. Requesting a digital copy for learn.gold via Goldsmiths Digital Copy Service Before you try to get your file any other way, start with Bekky (Rebecca Randall and … Continue reading 
Turnitin UK service disruptions – 8 May 12
We’ve just found out that Turnitin UK is experiencing service disruptions. This will affect submitting or marking Turnitin assignments in learn.gold. We will update Goldsmiths users via the News & Announcements forum linked from learn.gold’s home page – we’d recommend … Continue reading 
HEA e-assessment event at Middlesex University – notes
Transforming e-assessment for Learning: Developing an institution wide scaffold Middlesex University 1 May 2012 Margaret House Deputy Vice Chancellor – Academic There are three arms to e-assessment: e-submission, e-feedback, and e-reflection. Middlesex e-assessment initiative was firmly top down, and they … Continue reading 
Turnitin UK is experiencing problems
Goldsmiths students and staff We’ve just found out that Turnitin UK is experiencing outages (it’s broken basically). This will affect any Turnitin assignments in learn.gold until they get their systems working again. We will let you know via learn.gold’s home … Continue reading 
Looking forward to … connectivism
Two Future Tense speakers will be discussing the pressing issue of connectivism. Put simply, connectivism suggests that students learn in large part by making connections – between themselves and sources of information, and between one other. Mira Vogel and Mary … Continue reading 