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Managing time and competing priorities

Video >> Students on fitting work and play into a busy schedule, making sure that the balance is right for them. Visit the University’s Studying Effectively website for more on learning at University.

Getting used to studying at University

Video >> Students talk about what it was like starting at University and how they’ve got used to the new ways of working and the new expectations on them and their learning. Visit the University’s Studying Effectively website for more on learning at University.

Students on placement: supporting learning with a Mahara portfolio

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 …

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Blended learning approaches to teaching computer science to a diverse audience

Gail Hopkins: The Context “The School of Computer Science offers several MSc courses of which the MSc in Information Technology and the MSc in Management of Information Technology are the most popular. These two MSc courses are taken by students from a range of nationalities including UK and non-EU overseas students. As such some students …

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Using online portfolios to facilitate feedback, provide evidence of progress and encourage the development of academic skills’

David Button: Context: “CELE is an international centre based on three campuses, the UK, Malaysia and China. In the UK CELE run 4 terms of Pre-session English for Academic Purposes courses taking students at 4 levels of English competence. Students are a mixture of undergraduates and postgraduates. All 400+ students will be using an e-portfolio …

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Supporting face-to-face collaborative learning using a Mahara group blog

Gordon Joyes: The context: “The MA in Learning, Technology and Education is a course designed for professionals involved with learning technologies. This is currently a f2f course but will have an online version in July 2013. Moodle VLE is used, but a range of other technologies are used to enhance the learning experience but also …

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Postgraduate teaching award winners

The Postgraduate Teaching Assistant Award recognises and celebrates examples of innovative teaching and support of learning and is recognised as a mark of distinction within the University. Winners from 2013 come from the schools of Engineering in China and from Politics and Business in Nottingham.  Due to the high standard of applications, three applicants were …

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Working my way from the outside in: reflections of a NTFS winner

Dr Sarah Speight: “I’ve been at Nottingham since 1987 when I arrived to do an MA in the department of Archaeology. I followed this up with a PhD (on 12th century Yorkshire). Both the MA and PhD were studied part-time – I funded myself by working as the sales manager of a local company selling …

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Doing Theology with Richard Wagner

Four of Professor Richard H Bell’s students speak about their experiences of taking his 20 credit module in the Autumn Semester 2012-13. Sarah Ellerington (Theology and Religious Studies 3): “‘Doing Theology with Richard Wagner’ was a fantastic module – extremely interesting and really different from any of the Theology modules I’ve done before. People usually …

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Small group teaching for undergraduates in the School of Law

Prof. Stephen Bailey: “Small group teaching has been a feature of the Undergraduate programme in Law for at least forty years, and indeed probably throughout its history. Forty years ago, almost all law subjects were taught by a combination of lectures and tutorials. Most were year-long (semesters were not introduced by the University until much …

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