Teaching at Nottingham
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Approaches to studying for learning at university
November 16, 2009
Video >> Stephanie Bridges: “I thought, well, in a minute, you know, we’ve done all this sort of paper planning and people and equipment but what about the students? What’s it gong to be like when they suddenly join the third year? How is it going to go? How are they going to find it …
Course planning: managing modules across campuses
November 6, 2009
Video >> Chris Barnatt: “If you are a Nottingham academic in the UK and the school which has got the participation of overseas campus is your role is different. There’s no question about that, it’s a role which involves you working with colleagues in other campuses, teaching material and developing material with them and that’s …
Sharing resources on modules taught across campuses
Video >> Chris Barnatt: “Initially we were coming at things from a very different perspective because the people teaching the module on the other campuses are native from Malaysia or China themselves and therefore they’ve come from a different education system and although they’ve got the same materials and even if you’ve got exactly the …
Recording feedback as a podcast and uploading it to WebCT
October 16, 2009
Video >> Interviewer: “How long will the podcast be?” Sarah Westwater-Wood: “In general they’re four to five minutes. I find that technically WebCT supports that really well and it’s a bitesize for students so they can take it shape their revision with it and it’s not a lecture the podcast is not being used to …
How effective are reusable learning objects at supporting didactic lectures?
October 1, 2009
Andrew Fisher: “This project designed two Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) which were then used to supplement a core first year module in philosophical logic taken by eighty students. RLOs are reusable web-based resources with a single learning objective, with the functional requirements of accessibility and reusability. They are popular within the Sciences and Medicine, but …
Perceptions of PhD students and supervisors of the academic and transferable skills training at the University of Nottingham
September 30, 2009
Sara Goodacre, Matthew Jones and Rumiana Ray: “The last decade has seen the initialisation and development of specific and generic skills training for PhD students at universities. Whilst the purpose of subject-specific skills training is to increase and validate the practical and professional competency of students in order to successfully complete their PhD programme, generic …
Reading academic papers: participation in tutorials
Video >> Nicola Pitchford: “I get them to go to the library and to make a copy of an academic journal article. It’s one of the things that they have to learn to do in psychology is to write lab reports and to write up their scientific studies so actually, it’s supporting, you know, the …
Idiomatic language in teaching
Video >> Mike Clifford, Faculty of Engineering: “I remember one particular incident, I do some lectures on composite materials, and there was a lot of terminology in there that’s, some of it’s quite colloquial, so I’ve had students, particularly some Erasmus students, some French students asking me after the lecture, you know, can I go …
Tutorials: participation and creativity using nominal group technique
Video >> David Clarke, School of Psychology: “I’ve got several kind of set piece formats which I use. One of them is something that comes out of the literature on psychology and related disciplines, it’s called nominal group technique and it’s designed as a way of getting a group of people who don’t particularly know …
Study skills support for international students
https://mediaspace.nottingham.ac.uk/id/1_bd68tpuh?width=400&height=285&playerId=13724441 Video >> Rebecca Moor, Legal Skills Advisor, School of Law: “Students can either make appointments to come see me one on one or in a group, and throughout the year, I also run workshops, lectures, sessions geared towards specific skills needs that students have, they’ve either expressed in the past or members of academic …
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