Matt Offord is Associate Director Learning and Teaching, and a Senior Lecturer in Experiential Leadership Education, at the University of Glasgow. He teaches leadership and management through experiential methods, in short learning by doing. Matt’s lectures often involve an element of outdoor learning where students are encouraged to look again at familiar spaces and the built environment. Additionally, Matt is a business simulation instructor using various simulations and educational escape rooms to bring management and leadership theory to life.
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Newest first, since July 2024
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It’s time to stop talking about excellence in teaching
Matt Offord and Jo Edson Ferrie argue that excellence works in research but not in teaching and why consistently good teaching, that meets a minimum threshold, is better
With Jo Edson Ferrie
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Shedding light on the scholarship of teaching
Matt Offord believed what everyone said about academic promotion, rather than reading the guidance. Now he traces the contours of other myths that keep academic staff from rewarding teaching-focused careers