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Teaching Transformation Programme Tweets
April 23, 2015
Teaching Transformation Programme Conference – April 2015, University of Nottingham This is a record of the tweets that were exchanged during the University of Nottingham TTP conference in April 2015. Introductions and Welcomes Claire Chambers@Claires_tweet Has arrived at #ttpuon15 looking forwards to an interesting event Thu, Apr 23 2015 08:01:24 ReplyRetweetFavorite Wyn Morgan@WynMorgan8 @GabrieleNeher yes …
TTP School of Chemistry: improving the student experience of assessment and feedback
In recognition of the complex and multifaceted nature of the student experience of assessment, the project comprises a range of areas of activity. The primary focus is on enhancing student and staff assessment literacy. Staff assessment literacy is of paramount importance in order to achieve consistency in the application of good practices across the school. …
Moodle activities to promote student engagement in a Computing Professional Ethics Module
Video >> Dr Dario Landa-SilvaSchool of Computer Science Covering learning outcomes about the legal, ethical, professional and social (LEPS) aspects of computing is not only important as part of students’ education, but also required for the accreditation of programmes of study. Computer Science students are often less enthusiastic about learning such topics than they are …
A Vision for the Future BEng/MEng in Civil Engineering
Video >> Civil engineering is about integrating information for solving real world problems and students need to see their learning as integrated rather than in boxes defined by discipline. However, there is also a step change up from being a student to then being responsible for constructing a building. In this presentation we share our …
The Power of Course Design: the case of the Spanish N(ottingham)OOC
Video >> Factors such as high numbers of participants and unpredictable mixed abilities have been claimed as responsible for the relatively weak presence of language courses amongst open online courses. The purpose of this talk is to present an attempt to bridge this gap by leveraging course structure and activity design. The empirical context is …
Evaluate Report February 2015
April 16, 2015
Evaluate was introduced in September 2014 to electronically collect Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) and Student Evaluation of Module (SEM) feedback. This replaced previous paper based SET and SEM questionnaires. On 16/1/2015, Information Services extracted all the UK surveys in Evaluate and sent this as a spreadsheet to Professional Development. The following results are from …
WebPA: Peer-Assessed Group Work in the Faculty of Engineering
December 17, 2014
WebPA is an online, automated tool that facilitates peer-moderated marking of group work Students mark their fellow group members’ performance and this mark is combined with the teacher’s mark to give an overall score WebPA helps avoid the problems associated with imbalanced contributions to group work, making the process more fair Sean Moran, Faculty of …
TTP- The second phase
November 11, 2014
Video >> Wyn Morgan describes next steps in the Teaching Transformation Programme: The Teaching Transformation Programme web pages include full details of TTP activities, reports, contacts etc.
Peer assessment in large groups – Dr Susan Anderson (Graduate Entry Medicine)
Video >> Dr Susan Anderson (Graduate Entry Medicine) presents an example of the use of peer assessment with large groups (n=90) in Medical Education. Susan uses peer assessment in the context of formative assessment as a means of providing immediate feedback to students. She presents some exploratory data on the accuracy of students’ judgements. This …
Peer Assessment In Large Groups – Dr Kay Bond (Faculty of Engineering)
Video >> Dr Kay Bond (Faculty of Engineering) presents two distinct examples of peer assessment in a summative context and with large groups. Kay uses peer assessment and guides students through the marking criteria (n=260, Year 1). In Year 3, she organises independent peer assessment of video presentations (n=160). This presentation was given at a …
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