By Marie-Christine Lefebvre, Lecturer in Communications. My colleague Nathalie is a teacher at a horticultural and landscape gardening training college. On her courses, outdoor study is just as important as classroom-based learning. Plant observation is one of the most important skills her students have to develop: observing, comparing, recording changes and differences, reproducing and putting them together.

By Marie-Christine Lefebvre, Lecturer in Communications When you’re a lecturer how do you go about marking your students’ papers as and when you like, including while on the train, while spending a weekend at your parents-in-law or while sat in the car waiting to pick up your kids, and then securely archiving the papers?

By Marie-Christine Lefebvre, Lecturer in Communications When organising training sessions on neuroscience, I use mind maps as an educational tool with the trainees. This visual method of organising information provides a means of structuring a concept by showing the relationships among pieces of the whole. It improves memorisation.