A Vision for the Future BEng/MEng in Civil Engineering
April 23, 2015
Video >> Civil engineering is about integrating information for solving real world problems and students need to see their learning as integrated rather than in boxes defined by discipline. However, there is also a step change up from being a student to then being responsible for constructing a building. In this presentation we share our …
WebPA: Peer-Assessed Group Work in the Faculty of Engineering
December 17, 2014
WebPA is an online, automated tool that facilitates peer-moderated marking of group work Students mark their fellow group members’ performance and this mark is combined with the teacher’s mark to give an overall score WebPA helps avoid the problems associated with imbalanced contributions to group work, making the process more fair Sean Moran, Faculty of …
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 …
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 …
Using stories to encourage student empathy
January 30, 2013
Charley Baker: “The theoretical and pedagogic background to using literature, narratives, stories, autobiographies and fiction (and other humanities) in the education of clinical professionals is the subject of a growing body of research, with accompanying fierce debate about its educational utility. Tischler (2010, p. 2) suggests that current clinical curriculums “don’t nurture the student’s whole …
Negotiating learning outcomes and opportunities on a practice placement
January 26, 2010
Video >> Alison: “If you look at basically nursing, or I suppose any professional group then, you’ve got to identify your clients needs, which is your assessment process. And then you’ve got to put a plan of care, or action in to meet those needs and then, you’ve got to be able to evaluate it, …
Goalsetting for learning in stages on placement
Video >> Alison Clark: “It gives the students a clear goal of where they’re supposed to be because they’ll go out and watch a practitioner do the whole package for a patient and they might only be able to contribute part of a package, but they need to see that’s valuable. So if they go …
Giving constructive feedback and setting clear targets
Video >> Pam: “Right at the beginning we sit down, we work through what they – the goals they want to achieve and how they’re going to achieve them, and how they’re going to achieve the competencies, and basically today is to make sure that they are going to achieve their goals.” Alison: “They’ll point …
National subject specifications and the international context
September 30, 2009
Video >> Mike Clifford, Faculty of Engineering: “We’ve always taught sort of UK spec on everything from health and safety through to patent law through to sort of work place ethics. And a few years ago, I sort of looked around me and thought actually how relevant is some of the material we’re teaching? You …
Chris Rust on assessment and feedback
April 11, 2009
Video >> Chris Rust: “You don’t need to go to the literature and spend much time to find how important assessment is considered regarding learning and teaching in higher education. It probably took me five minutes to find these quotes, and there are many more saying the same thing. It is at the centre of …
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