Employability Rocks – Dr Judith Wayte, School of Biosciences
May 1, 2015
Video>> Dr Judith Wayte from the School of Biosciences explores the idea of employability as seen through the lens of a practitioner. This talk was given as part of a Teaching and Learning seminar on 18th March 2015.
Students on placement: supporting learning with a Mahara portfolio
September 2, 2013
Judith Wayte: “Don’t ask what the technology can do for you, rather what the pedagogy needs – Gilly Salmon; Professor of e-learning and learning technologies, University of Leicester” “Say at the outset – it’s just a piece of software” “I first used the first of these quotes when giving a presentation at the Assessment in …
Supervising an International Masters project – a UK perspective
April 9, 2013
Prof Vicky Story: “Both Duncan [Dr Shaw on the UK perspective] and Mohan [Prof Mohan Avvari on the Malasia perspective] highlight the difficulties in getting firms to host MBA projects. However, as they also highlight, and based on my own experience supervising a number of these company-based projects, when they are done well, they are …
Supervising an international Masters project – a Malaysia perspective
March 26, 2013
Anita Chakrabarty: “The success of an international project hinges on many things, amongst them of course is excellent support from the teams that set up the entire collaborative effort in both campuses. Apart from students, I believe that such projects are equally sought after by faculty, for two reasons. First it expands our own knowledge …
Setting up an international Masters project – a Malaysia perspective
March 13, 2013
Prof. Mohan Avvari: “As Dr Duncan Shaw rightly put it in his post on the UK perspective, many MBAs love doing projects with external organisations because it gives them access to the full commercial context of their work, they can see how it helps the firm and they have a much more compelling addition their …
Setting up an international Masters project – UK perspective
February 26, 2013
Dr Duncan Shaw: “About seven years ago they gave me the admin job of finding projects for MBA dissertations. I used to work for Motorola and I did consultancy projects for lots of firms, so when I became an academic the Business School in the UK asked me to work with firms to get company-based …
Helping students to identify what they’ve learned on placement
January 26, 2010
Video >> Annie: “We’ve had students out on placement before. They usually stay with us for about six weeks, and towards the end of the six weeks they’re starting to be involved with patient education. They do the sessions, the patient education sessions at phase three. They become more confident talking about coronary heart disease …
Learning Sets as a strategy to enable learning from a work placement
Video >> Alison: “I think the role of the learning set, for me, in bringing students and mentors to share their practice is to develop critical thinking, to actually enable students and mentors to critically discuss, have time to reflect, have time to think about and challenge practice and then usually take some action, personal …
Linking theory and practice: guiding students on a work placement
Video >> Alison: “In a lot of work related professions where there’s work experience and it comes across whether you have sandwich courses or courses where the practice is integrated in different ways. I think you’re in school one minute and you’re out of the practice setting, you’ve got classroom world-real world, and I think …
Portfolio compilation: evidencing learning and professional development
Video >> Alison: “I think portfolios are getting increasingly important. They seem to underpin a lot of professional education as a strategy, or a tool, for assessing, formatively, or summatively, students’ progress. And the NMC requires it, that’s the Nursing and Midwifery Council, once you’re qualified, that you could be asked to submit one every …
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