There's a big overlap with the sort of stuff which we expect students to get to understand in some way when they start on a course - almost like looking at the norms & expectations of being a uni student #LTHEchat
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Leaving aside that a lecture can represent either something rather impressive or something v scary depending on context particularly if you're 18 & just started as an undergraduate, or even if you're 30 & gone back to study after working for a while #LTHEchat
And terms carry different meanings in different departments. 'Tutorial' means 1-1 meeting in dept A but group seminar in dept B. Dept C holds 'surgeries' #LTHEChat
One of my kids (arts subject) was very confused, they had seminars, but all their (science) house mates had tutorials. Discussions with my (then) teens absolutely inspired some of this work...#LTHEchat
Let's get started on the (r)evolving definitions of "continuation", "completion" and "progression". Effectively hidden from many heads of department. #LTHEchat
A very good point! our uni changed all its terminology recently which means there is now explicit clarity - https://www.deakin.edu.au/students/services?a=188855 I don't know what it looked like before though.
@maddipow.bsky.social we have just addressed these and similar aspects in our new book to be released on 14th Feb. Gap: assumption that students will just 'know' without being told. 1st-in-family to go to university; helpful lens for our book. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-0364-3411-3
And if we don’t do this, all people have to guide their expectations and behaviour is what they have seen in the media and online, which is generally quite an old fashioned, didactic style of learning
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