Innovative Learning Week

The University is to abandon traditional lectures and tutorials for one week in February. The bold move will be taken for Edinburgh's inaugural Innovative Learning Week, in which students and staff can explore new ways of teaching. Packed programme. Innovative Learning Week will run from 20-24 February. Regular teaching on many courses will be replaced by a programme of alternative learning activities that will give students access to extra opportunities to develop new skills and prepare for employment. Some of the activities students may find on their timetable include the opportunity to get involved with a project to revitalise an Edinburgh high street and the chance to learn about or get involved with science communication. Other planned activities include: student conferences poster sessions student-led workshops course design involving students and staff cross-year interactions in tutorials shared revision sessions - During Innovative Learning Week, there will be a real engagement of minds between academics and students and a chance for rich and deep learning in a wide variety of intellectual encounters.