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By Dr Josephine Deguara Dr Josephine Deguara, ITLSIG Committee member and Research Co-ordinator visited Istanbul between 24th – 30th June, 2024.  The main aim of the visit was for Josephine to take part at the Childhood, Education & Society (CES) conference held at Istanbul Kültür University (Figure 1).  Josephine co-presented two research presentations: Navigating educationalContinue reading “Two ITLSIG Committee Members met in Istanbul, Turkey-June 2024”

By Dr Fahimeh Farjami Introduction Dr. Fahimeh Farjami, who serves as a committee member and Co-Secretary for the ITLSIG, resides in Istanbul, Turkey. She recently learned that Dr. Josephine Deguara, a fellow ITLSIG committee member and the Research Coordinator, was attending a conference in Istanbul with her colleagues from the 24th to the 30th ofContinue reading “In the Heart of Eurasia: 2 ITLSIG Committee Members’ Istanbul Rendezvous”

By Dr. Xia Zhu, Lecturer, Open University & ITLSIG Communications Co-ordinator I was invited as one of the keynote speakers at the Global Chinese Teaching and Learning Symposium, led by Fudan University with co-organisers from nine other Chinese universities. My talk centred on “Deploying simulations to bridge the theory-practice divide for learning facilitation in businessContinue reading “Participation at the 2024 Global Chinese Teaching and Learning Symposium”

By Dr. Josephine Deguara, ITLSIG Research Coordinator The ITLSIG is delighted to communicate that we are working with 67 contributing authors on the publication of two books with Emerald Publishing House. The book titles are shown below: Volume 1 Innovations in Pedagogical Practice and Curriculum Development in Higher Education: Contemporary Global Perspectives Volume 2 InnovationsContinue reading “The ITLSIG Edited Books Project”

Dr. Gladson Chikwa & Dr. Josephine Gabi Revived! Yes, this was the feeling we got after attending a conference in Oxford. How many of you find conferences reviving or rejuvenating? We felt really super-charged! We had an opportunity to participate at the Living Values Education Conference at the Global Retreat Centre in Oxford, UK onContinue reading “Conference experience: Revival Time”

By Sobia Kauser Sobia Kauser is a lecturer in Biomedical Sciences and holds a BSc and PhD from the University of Bradford. I am passionate about inclusive practise in teaching and learning and I gave a keynote presentation to the group in February on the Managing Risks for Impaired Laboratory Users (MaRILU™) system, which IContinue reading “Celebrating Success!”

Donia Keith, 1 June 2023 The herd instinct can be very powerful, and if it creates a sense of ‘not fitting in’ or ‘not good enough’ this can be a big contributor to poor mental health on campus, including a sense of isolation, depression and even suicide. Context Extensive quantitative and qualitative research in theContinue reading “Learning & wellbeing enhancement through understanding the extraversion-introversion (E/I) spectrum”

Dr Josephine Deguara Dr Josephine Deguara is a senior lecturer at the Department of Early Childhood and Primary Education, Faculty of Education, University of Malta. Introduction In February, 2023, I was invited to Nord University in Bodø, Norway, under the Erasmus+ Staff Mobility for Teaching Mobility for Higher Education programme. This programme, which supports teachingContinue reading “A visit to Nord University in Bodø, Norway  under the Erasmus+ Mobility for Teaching Mobility for Higher Education”

Higher Education Institutions worldwide are expected to cater for every student’s needs by embracing inclusive teaching and learning practices including the designing of inclusive learning environments. In the UK, the implementation of the Disability Discrimination Act (1995), Part 4 of the Special Education Needs and Disability Act (SENDA) (2001) and the Equality Act (2010) haveContinue reading “Promoting Inclusive Laboratory Teaching Spaces through a Managing Risk Assessment for Impaired Laboratory Users (MaRILU) Toolkit”

Often, we, as educators, think that instructions to our students could not be more clear. However, how many of us have thought this and then received a lot of questions for more clarity, or had no questions but the assignment was not completed correctly by many of the students? The reason why we should, asContinue reading “Transparency in learning and Teaching (TILT)”