On this page are various bits and pieces you can download, including a few of my most popular handouts, presentations files, extracts from some of my published work, and even the odd whole book! [Please note that I put up slides after my workshops only for a few days, otherwise this page would become far too long - and the capacity of the website is limited].
Most of these files are either
Microsoft Word Documents (.doc),
Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations (.ppt), or Adobe pdf files. Do feel free to use any of these things, mentioning where you got them from. I hope in their various ways these downloads contribute to making teaching, learning and assessment work better for everyone who uses them.
If you have any difficulty downloading these files, please email me to let me know and I'll repair any broken links, or email the files concerned directly to you. Email me on p.race@leedsmet.ac.uk
- Workshops Prospectus 2008
Sample programmes, with intended learning outcomes, draft timetables, and descriptive detail - and a broad indication of the range of my sessions on learning, teaching and assessment, now updated for 2008-9, and including the half-day workshop 'In at the deep end - starting to teach in higher education'.
- Making Feedback Work
A compendium of bits and pieces on ways of getting feedback to students, which I've written in various of my books during the last three years.
- Workshops that Work - whole book!
Formerly published by McGraw Hill; now out of print.
- Designing Workshops
This booklet on the design of training workshops was commissioned by TechDis, and is freely available from the TechDis website, and on their Resources CD. I've put it up here too, to make it available more widely.
- Practical tips for external examiners
These tips come from the 1st edition of '500 Tips on Assessment' (now out of print, and not included in the 2004 second edition). I hope they may be useful.
- Designing Multiple-Choice Questions
This PowerPoint file has the 'Content Free Test' which I use in my workshops. The test itself was found by Roger Lewis in the early 1980s, and he published it as an appendix in one of his books then (now out of print). The discussion slides which follow the 'test' are mine.
- Academic Dialects!
A tongue-in-cheek look at the language(s) around in higher education!
- Understanding
A slide sequence I often use when trying to persuade colleagues not to use the word 'understanding' in intended learning outcomes
- How to Win as an Open Learner
This PDF file is the free download of my new 3rd edition of 'How to Win as an Open Learner' which replaces the original versions published in 1986 then 1996. I hope it continues to help open learners everywhere.
- Serenity
A relaxation exercise 'Serenity' was given to me by Andrew Ferguson, one of my British Safety Council Delegates, and I now use the exercise to help workshop participants relax before I give them 'exams'!
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Just for fun
Just for fun - a PowerPoint sequence - if folks like the odd thing like this I'll put different ones up now and then here! If you don't I'll take them off.!
- Helping Students to build on feedback
An extract from the 2nd edition 'How to Get a Good Degree' (forthcoming, late 2007, Open University Press) which you can adapt to help your students benefit more from feedback.
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Phil's Conference Guidelines
A small pamphlet which has been used at several national conferences to help delegates structure their workshops and presentations.
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'Ripples' Model
This presentation includes slides I frequently use at some point in many of my workshops. They show the development of the model linking five underpinning factors for successful learning, which I published in an extended account in 'Making Learning Happen' (Sage, 2005). The model is based on many thousands of people's replies to four straightforward questions about their own learning.
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Competence Model
This shows a sequence about competence and 'uncompetence', and links feedback to learners to developing their conscious competence. I first published a version of these ideas as far back as 1991, and have been playing with the ideas since then.
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Book Covers
This is a Powerpoint presentation showing what some of my books look like - including some of the older ones and some translations.
- The 'Statements' exercise
This is the version of the exercise which I often use in my workshops, particularly for helping participants to think about the importance of making sure that words convey intended meanings.
- The 'Statements' exercise: slides
These are the slides I usually use along with the 'Statements' exercise.
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Self, Peer and Group Assessment
A booklet I wrote for the former LTSN Generic Centre, also still available from the Higher Education Academy website
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Assessment: A Guide for Students
Another booklet I wrote for the former LTSN Generic Centre, also still available from the Higher Education Academy website
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Inspiring Students
The results of a small survey on the SEDA mailbase discussion list, where respondents answered four questions about what they remember inspiring them when they were students.
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Using Feedback to help students to learn
This is a short discussion paper which I wrote for the (then) ILTHE some while ago, which can still be found on the HEA website, but I've put it here too for convenience. Note however that the SEDA link is now out of date. For anyone who needs to know how to reference this, probably best say 'first published on the website of the ILTHE in 2002'.
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Stress Test
In case you need to check out your stress levels!
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Meetings Bingo?
A friend sent me this - we don't know who created it, but it's great fun to have a copy of the grid to hand during policy orations at meetings and conferences! Suggestions most welcome for even better words/phrases to put in the boxes.
- The ILTA Guide
This is still available on the 'Education Guardian' website, but for convenience I have combined both halves into a single file here. This was first published by the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education in 2001, but seems to be no longer available from its successor's website (HEA). I've now completed a new booklet for Leeds Metropolitan University, provisionally entitled 'in at the deep end' aiming to help colleagues in higher education who find themselves thrown in regarding their teaching and marking work. I hope that this booklet after piloting and adjustment will be made available more widely through Leeds Met.
- Invitation to review your salary
You can now do this by clicking this download. Good luck.
- The future of online learning - and 'false dawns and failed prophets'
This piece by Sally Brown and myself is included in 'Making Teaching Work' by Ruth Pickford and myself, in our chapter on online learning. The book is now out from Sage Publications.
- Getting Published
The first of two handouts Sally and I use for our 'Getting Published' workshops.
- Getting Published
The second of two handouts Sally and I use for our 'Getting Published' workshops.
- Hong Kong City University
The main slides I used in my session on 16th July 2008.
- National College of Ireland
The main slides I used in my 'In at the Deep End' workshop on the morning of 13th August 2008.
- National College of Ireland
The main slides I used in my 'Smarter Lecturing' workshop on the afternoon of 13th August 2008.
- National College of Ireland
The handout material from my various books I referred to in my 'Smarter Lecturing' workshop on the afternoon of 13th August 2008.
- National College of Ireland
The main slides I used in my 'Linking learning outcomes to assessment and teaching' workshop on the morning of 14th August 2008.
- National College of Ireland
The main slides I used in my 'Making Small-Group Teaching Work' workshop on the afternoon of 14th August 2008.
- National College of Ireland
The main slides I used in my 'Inclusive Teaching'workshop on the morning of 19th August 2008.
- National College of Ireland
The handout material to accompany my 'Inclusive Teaching'workshop on the morning of 19th August 2008.
- 'Fantastic Firsts': Madingley, August 15-17th
Here are the main slides I used during our weekend. I've put in red the versions we actually played. Look forward to seeing at least some of you for 'Magnificent 9ths on 6-8th March 2009.