Teaching at Nottingham
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Learning academic writing and skills of argument
November 24, 2009
Video >> Iain Coyne: “Our good students really get the element of discussion and critical debate and argument into their essays and coursework, you can clearly see that they’ve thought about it. And I think that most of our criteria that we mark and assess, that one distinguishes the excellent from the less good students, …
Clarifying assessment criteria and setting expectations
Video >> Azi Etire: “I think in Nigeria the years of your performance are equally weighted, every year so, for example, if you are doing a 4 year course each year weighs 25% “but here it progresses, the weighting and so the weight of my first year is less that that of my second year …
Valuing the student voice: the tutorless tutorial
Video >> David Clarke: “I’m particularly mindful of the difficulty of getting everybody to participate in a way they’re comfortable with, and getting them to believe that we genuinely want to hear the student’s voice. I think the difficulty for so many students, and it’s not a peculiarity of international students, is they either don’t …
Providing a cultural context to the discipline
Video >> Chris Ennew: “Well, I suppose, the issue for me in business is that, if you look at the origins of business education, it’s probably in North America. Going back to the early part of the twentieth century, and an awful lot of thinking about management practice, management education, comes out of North America. …
Globalisation and a university education
Video >> Stephanie Bridges: “It’s not just international students and thinking about the international students but actually, it’s a much wider process and how it relates to the whole student body. And I’m quite struck by how a lot of the literature does relate to international students and what you think of as international education …
Critical thinking: developing students’ independence
Video >> Rebecca Moor: “My sense is that they come to study law here and they’re expecting someone to say Okay, welcome to law school. Here’s the answer, it can be this or it can be that. And what they get instead is someone throwing a huge amount of law at them and essentially saying, …
Graduate qualities: transferable skills and intercultural competence
Video >> David Clarke: “I think the thing that the best university students do in my view and what marks them out, is that they ask themselves the question continuously, What is it I need to know and how can I find it out? rather than I wonder what the teacher is going to tell me …
Giving a broader perspective using culturally varied examples
Video >> Chris Ennew: “When we come to content, clearly, you could talk to a physicist who’s going to say, well, you know, the laws of physics are the same round the globe, by and large and I’m quite comfortable with believing that. When you come to social sciences and humanities, and you know, indeed, …
The lecturer-student relationship
Video >> Swetha Aknoor: “If you look at the Indian culture, technically, our teachers supposed to be as God for us. We have this thing, you know, the father, the mother and the teacher are all God. So yeah, our teachers, we do have to have a lot of respect for them, we can’t take …
Integrating students from across campuses
November 16, 2009
Video >> Stephanie Bridges: “I’ve done quite a lot of student interviews as part of my research and I find a real variety in students, in their friendships, in their mixing within the course, people who have a whole range of friends from different cultures, from different nationalities, different backgrounds, to students who very much …
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