Teaching at Nottingham
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Planning and completing your essay
April 22, 2013
Video >> Various approaches to starting out on choosing an essay, doing the reading and putting your argument together. Visit the University’s Studying Effectively website for more on learning at University.
Writing an academic essay: argument and criticality
April 15, 2013
Video >> Students’ understanding of critical thinking and building an argument in an essay. Visit the University’s Studying Effectively website for more on learning at University.
Delivery and assessment of a coherent professional degree
April 11, 2013
Video >> Dr Liz Mossop and Kate Cobb: “The Nottingham veterinary curriculum is integrated both vertically and horizontally. It is complex to deliver and alignment is crucial both in terms of student learning and accreditation processes. The school has therefore developed audit processes to ensure a coherent curriculum is delivered and that assessment aligns with …
Student experience investments in the School of Computer Science
Video >> Dr Max Wilson: “This talk describes three key initiatives that the School of Computer Science has invested in, with the primary focus of encouraging engagement in the curriculum, but though methods beyond delivering lectures, labs, and tutorials. The three initiatives are: 1) our Guru scheme – as a peer mentoring style framework tailored …
The role of peer mentoring in student engagement
Video >> Dr Marion Leducq and Claire Mann: “The findings from the What Works? Student Retention & Success Programme? (funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation) present a convincing case that “belonging” is crucial for student engagement, course completion and success. The final report identifies ‘supportive peer relations’ …
Internationalisation and student engagement
Video >> Prof. Cousin drew on her recent work to highlight the impact of internationalisation on curriculum review and teaching practice, and to outline approaches to improving student engagement. She reviewed the concept of global citizenship and its synergy with the notion of critical being that most HE courses aim to engender in their students. …
Creating an academic community.
Video >> Dr Gaby Neher and Dr Nick Thomas: “Both the Department of History and the Department of Art History have constructed curricula with the development of subject-specific skills built in to the progression process. Further, there is a recognition that students need to be socialised into both a University context and into their subjects …
Beyond employability and the market: envisaging curriculum change in the new higher education environment
Video >> Dr John Holmwood: “The session addresses issues arising from the ‘over-interpretation’ of employability as a desirable outcome of undergraduate education. Applications for undergraduate degrees in sociology and social policy have fallen nationally at the same time as the core and margin system have created a highly competitive environment in the upper margin. In …
A mechanism for optimising curriculum development and teaching
Video >> Dr Kay Bond: “In common with many units across the University, the Faculty of Engineering faces a number of significant challenges, amongst which maintenance of high quality teaching and excellent student experience in the face of efficiency savings rank highly. Additional, engineering-specific, challenges come from the need to respond positively and professionally to …
Jan Parker: Splendor! It all coheres
Video >> Dr Jan Parker outlines three overlapping models of curricula – an outcomes-based approach, the developmental pathway, and the discipline as a home and community of practice for students and teachers alike. She expands on the latter in particular, and relate these notions to the place of inter-, cross- and multi- disciplinary courses in …
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