Putting together new teaching materials or updating your existing ones? These things all take time. In this Design, Deliver Evaluate section of StaffNet we introduce a series of materials, ideas and links to staff from around the University of Aberdeen that are aimed at helping you to make informed, evidence-based decisions about your teaching. Investing your valuable time wisely in the early stages of your teaching can pay dividends later on.

Few teaching methods (or problems) are truly new and unique; frequently colleagues from another part of the University are grappling with, or indeed might have solved, the very issue with which you are tasked. A quick email or phone call to a colleague either within or outwith your discipline could help with new course design or enhancements. To facilitate this approach throughout these sections reference is made to examples submitted by teaching staff from across the University of Aberdeen.