The Sustainability ‘NOOC’: learning from a multi-disciplinary online course
November 25, 2013
Dr Sarah Speight: “In spring 2013, I led a pilot project to foster a sense of community amongst students and staff across our three campuses through learning together. Working with Learning Technologist Helen Whitehead, we constructed the first ‘NOOC’ or Nottingham Open Online Course, called ‘Perspectives on Sustainability’. “Helen and I came to the project …
Working my way from the outside in: reflections of a NTFS winner
July 11, 2013
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 …
Sustainability in and through curriculum
April 11, 2013
Video >> Dr Sarah Speight: “Nottingham is currently running a ‘NOOC’ (Nottingham Open Online Course) called ‘Perspectives on Sustainability’. This is an interdisciplinary course that can be taken for credit towards the Nottingham Advantage Award. It developed from an externally-funded project to develop open educational resources on specific disciplines: Geography, Engineering, Arts and Humanities and …
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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