Excel numbers from Word tables

1 Nov 202112 Mar 2022

Compared to the last academic year, we can do more face to face teaching. We just need to be savvy about how it's done! Social distancing is still in place…

JSmol in Moodle

9 Jul 202110 Jul 2021

Feel free to skip the blurb and get to the instructions section below. The blurb When I studied undergrad chemistry at Glasgow we needed to buy textbooks and a simple…

HPLC analysis on a spreadsheet

11 Jun 202111 Jun 2021

Help! Covid means we can't huddle four or five students round an HPLC system. Any lab-based HPLC experiments we do will take ages! And that's before we decontaminate each HPLC…

Snakes and Ladders at Monte Carlo!

4 Nov 202029 Jan 2021

I have been playing around with simple Monte Carlo modelling systems for a while. I started doing this because I realised that if I was to design games for teaching…

MCQ musings

30 Jul 2020

Background: A few weeks ago I logged into a Zoom session being run by the staff development unit at Strathclyde Uni. The topic was multiple choice questions (MCQs) and seemed…

SBARs for industrial case studies

15 Feb 202019 May 2020

The problem of presentations One of the undergrad activities I run is a case study workshop. I originally designed it so that the students would split into six groups, analyse…

Talking about games

30 Jun 201914 Oct 2019

This week my colleague Dave Breen and I drove down to Manchester for the UK's Pharmacy Education Conference. Dave and Gary Lynas presented a poster on a game they've designed…

Project types

2 Mar 2019

A few weeks ago, I had a meeting with my colleagues Stewart Mitchell and Daniel Markl discussing different aspects of the Advanced Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Masters course. One topic we discussed…

Teaching Model Canvas – update

26 Jan 2019

Over the past few months I've used my Teaching Model Canvas (TMC) quite a lot. I do find it helpful in setting the main ideas and concepts before I start…

Feedback thinking

25 Aug 201825 Aug 2018

I missed the TLAD session on feedback two months ago :( So now I have to spend sometime catching up. In my digging around I came across this interesting quote:…