It’s always a pleasure to work with Deirdre.  She’s a great communicator, but most importantly the audience is always enthused and engaged by her passion for her subject and they learn effectively through her highly professional and hugely engaging style. Deirdre has repeatedly helped clients at various levels to reach their goals, guiding them through a wide range of challenges from developing good general pedagogical practices, often with a digital focus, to much more complex and demanding topics

Duncan Christelow, Head of Regional Business Operations and Account Support, English, Cambridge University Press & Assessment

Motivation

Cambridge Academic English Conference, February 2023

Motivational ups and downs, WOOP goal setting, individual vs situational interest and how to strategically lean on both of these to sustain motivation throughout the academic year.

Inclusive Technology – Ensuring Universal access to career training and higher education

Digital Education Futures Initiative, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge

A short discussion of the representation and inclusion elements of the Exploring Law course as part of DEFI’s Webinar series.

Introducing Libraries (Online)

Remote Teaching Webinar Series

A blended course simultaneously designed and delivered to support educators making the rapid pivot to remote teaching in April 2020. Pre-session materials include more practical information, e.g. instructions for use of particular tools and links to further reading leaving room in the live webinar for more discursive pedagogy-focussed exploration where participants were expected to contribute throughout.

Recordings, slides and pre-session materials are all available from the Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning (CCTL) website.

Maintaining student engagement remotely

This session explores how to make your live remote sessions more dynamic, using specific question types to drive participation in chat to generate useful learner contributions to the discussion

Communicating your ideas online

This session focusses on how you can create or curate asynchronous materials to reduce the need to deliver content live so you can use live time for active discussions, workshops and meaningful connection with your learners.

Keeping the conversation going

This time we explore how to structure a live session to maximise student-student interactions, give people a reason to listen to each other to make discussion tasks more authentic and engaging. The pre-session materials look at various tools you can use to do this.

Planning your course

Having looked at some best practices for live remote teaching and asynchronous content delivery, this session looks at how to put the pieces together to create a coherent whole.

It takes principles of online course design, student support and walks you through the process of designing your course. The pre-session materials are a simplified and annotated, downloadable blended learning course storyboard (plan).

Creating and managing your community

Maintaining momentum over the course of a term or academic year will rely, on building a solid community of inquiry, where learners are present, meaningfully connected, learn together and support each other. This session looks at how to build and sustain these communities.

IATEFL

Facilitating student to student communication in online only courses

On breakout rooms and encouraging peer to peer communication to take focus away from the teacher in live online delivery (remote teaching) and create more discursive, collaborative sessions.

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