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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 …
Feedback and its benefits
April 8, 2013
Students describe the feedback they’ve been getting and how learning from the feedback on one piece of work helps with improving performance on the next piece. Visit the University’s Studying Effectively website for more on learning at University.
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 …
Making the development of employability skills more obvious to students.
January 22, 2013
Dr Jo Robinson explains how the School of English helps students to tailor their studies to develop a wide range of skills for their future careers. Dr Jo Robinson, School of English. This interview was carried out as part of the Study Skills project, run by Kim Lawson in Academic Support.
Transition to, and through, university
January 8, 2013
Dr Jo Robinson talks about the connections between developing students’ subject-specific and academic skills and the skills that will help them into employment. Dr Jo Robinson, School of English. This interview was carried out as part of the Study Skills project, run by Kim Lawson in Academic Support.
Saul Becker on Learning to learn at university
May 20, 2011
Video >> Saul Becker: “I teach the first four lectures that our first year students have on a particular module, called Social Problems. So that I am the first academic they will see in terms of those first four lectures and then it gets handed on to other people. So of course, these students are …
An international curriculum
February 10, 2011
Video >> Chris Barnatt: “I’m always keen to try and find examples which come from as many different places as possible.I teach a lot about technology and organisation so you’ve got to be aware, for example, technology development is very different in different parts of the world. Students will come from Japan having a very different …
A la mode: Setting a fashion for practical re-use of teaching materials
February 5, 2011
Steve Stapleton and John Horton: Background Types of Learners: Undergraduate level 1 Environment: blended course, predominantly e-learning with additional supporting methodologies. Intended outcome(s) To produce a handout used as part of a practical exercise about the statistical packages SPSS and Excel. The challenge To produce the handout in the absolute shortest time possible yet not …
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