Teaching Best Practice Awards
This category of award was launched in 2021 and invites applications from anyone who has an example of best practice to share with colleagues across our Learning and Teaching community.
The category was created to celebrate and showcase colleagues’ excellent teaching and ingenuity whilst also building upon our community of best practice by creating a collection of case studies and resources.
Applications are considered at the Teaching Awards panel, with the ‘Highly Commended’ submissions being selected to feature on the University webpages. From those, the final winners of the Teaching Best Practice Awards are selected.
All those selected are presented with their certificate at the University’s Annual Learning and Teaching Conference and, in addition to this accolade, winners will also receive a monetary prize to be used to enhance their teaching practice.
The 2025 Teaching Best Practice Award criteria are:
- The case study must be created as a digital poster responding to the given prompts within the Poster Guidance that is available below. Successful posters will be printed by EAP to enable Winners and Highly Commended applicants to showcase their case study within the poster session at this year’s Learning and Teaching Conference. The Conference dates are 1st and 2nd April 2025, with the poster session occurring on the 2nd.
- The case study poster must contain evidence of the impact this practice has made upon the student learning, this may be through student feedback or through reference to the literature.
- The case study poster must consider the applicability and transferability to others within your own discipline and the wider University.
- This year the panel will be particularly interested in examples of assessment and feedback practice or methods and innovations in the curriculum.
- Please include any extra resources i.e. supporting documents or videos that would help a fellow colleague implement/adapt your practice.
- Highlight the use of Loughborough University supported systems where possible.
Application submission point
Applications for the Teaching Best Practice Awards 2025 will open on the 9th December and will close 5th March 2025.
If you have an idea that you are considering for an application please get in touch with organisational.development@mailbox.lboro.ac.uk.
2025 Winners
The following 2024/25 case studies were all rated as Highly Commended:
2024 Winners
(Case Study) Using Module Roadmaps and Scaffolding to Unpack The Hidden Curriculum - O Haruna and SDCA / Graphics
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(Case Study) Innovation in the Curriculum: Using Virtual Reality to Teach Empathy - Professor Gary Burnett, Ms Sharon Cook, Dr Ahmed Ehab Abdelsalam, Dr Karen Sung – School of Design and Creative Arts.
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The following 2023/24 case studies were all rated as Highly Commended:
An Interactive Online course to Help Students Excel in Employer Selection Processes - Helen Jeffery, Professional Services
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Using Metaphors to Scaffold Knowledge - Dr Mhairi Morris (Senior Lecturer), SSEHS
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Flexible assessments: student choice of format - David John Hunter, SSEHS
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(Module) Lead by Example: collaboration within and beyond the curriculum - Dr Kerri Akiwowo, School of Design and Creative Arts
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Active Learning in Action: Boosting Outcomes with Strategic Assessment, Collaborative Feedback, and Pre-Learning Activities - Dr Hossein Nevisi & Dr Gary Storey, Computer Science Department
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Extending the use of unstructured data analysis technology (NVivo software) from qualitative researchers to the entire university community - Dr Susana Monserrat-Revillo, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences (SSEHS)
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2023 Winners
Outreach and Education for Applied Creative Practice - Dr Catherine Rees & Mrs Jennifer Stuttle, SDCA
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Improving Flipped Learning of Practical Laboratory Techniques - Mr John Warren, SSEHS
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Game-Informed Teaching - Dr Richard Blanchard, Dr. Tom Betts & Dr. Xiangjie Chen, Wolfson School
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External Exhibition - Phil Barber, SDCA
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Creation of an on-demand interactive tutorial for Doctoral researchers using Articulate Rise - Jen De Lillo, Christine Hallam, Laura Newman & Nathan Rush
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The following 2022/23 case studies were all rated as Highly Commended:
Group work: flipping the focus - Dr Bjorn Lee Cleton
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Bringing Practice into the Classroom: Guest Speaker Talks - Dr Laura Valadez-Martinez
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Research Informed Teaching In Practice - Dr Anne-Marie Beller & Dr Claire O’Callaghan, SSH
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2022 Winners
Promoting Immersive Engagement with Core Readings - Dr. Anthony Papathomas, SSEHS
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INDAF: an App that produces Individual Assessment Feedback - Dr. Christof Leicht, SSEHS
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Improving student experience and engagement with group assessments and peer review - Dr. Jamie Kenyon & Dr Peter Dickenson, SSEHS
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The following 2021/22 case studies were all rated as Highly Commended:
Student podcasts as an assessment format - Dr. Gareth Wiltshire
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Sociological Futures: Embedding careers content in to teaching provision for finalists- Dr. Katie Coveney, Dr. Iris Wigger & Dr. Thomas Thurnell-Read, SSH
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Feedback: Developing a Community of Practice and Web of Support - Dr. Gemma Towle, Academic Language Support Service
Case study document to be added shortly.
2021 Winners
Structural feeling and conceptual design: an innovative integrated learning framework to promote creativity and engagement - Mariateresa Lombardo, Giorgio Barone, Alessandro Palmeri
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From Fieldwork Sites to the Vegas Lights……Enriching an Environmental Research Curriculum in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic - Richard Hodgkins, SSH
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Locked Room Lecture Activity - Rachel Grew
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The following 2020/21 case studies were all rated as Highly Commended:
Socratic Hive - Alex Christoyannopoulos
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Improving Student Engagement - Andy Bayley and Patrick Stacey
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Designing Modules for the Digital Age - Ashley Fly
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Doing Distance Learning the Right Way - Christopher Kay
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Improving Peer-to-Peer Student Interaction - Chris Wilson
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Introduction of Problem Based Learning to Students of POLIS - Christos Kourtelis
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Applying the HTML5 Package - David Maidment
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Teaching Using a Homemade Visualiser - David Sibley
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Using 2 Computers to Deliver Group Activities and Feedback - Helen Nowell
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Using an Online Simulation Tool - Julie Holland
To view Using an Online Simulation Tool for Remote Teaching of Strategy and Strategic Decision please click the button below:
"One to One" Assessment Videos - Melodee Beals
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Peer to Peer Learning - Nick Morris and Mahdi MohammadPour
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Collapsing the curriculum - Oliver Hooper
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Lecture Flipping for enhanced student engagement - Simon Hogg
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Our Flipped Learning Approach - Gemma Towle
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