Linking theory to practice in an undergraduate veterinary curriculum using case-based teaching: students’ perspectives
September 9, 2008
Hany Elsheikha: Background: “Case-based teaching (CBT) has been used extensively in medical and dental educational programs to develop critical thinking skills via a learner-centred approach. At the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, University of Nottingham CBT was introduced as an ancillary teaching intervention to integrate clinically relevant material into the basic science component of …
E-learning mentor as pedagogic advisor
June 26, 2008
Video >> Interviewer: “So firstly, looking a the mentor as pedagogical advisor. How do you see that working within the ePioneers programme?” Tony Fisher: “The pedagogical advisor role of the mentor was very much about saying, ‘Okay, this is what you want to do, but now let’s think about how that’s going to look from a user …
Working with learning technologists
June 9, 2008
Video >> Matthew Nilan: “Well, one of the things I’ve been interested in is the way in which, say, a Learning Technologist can be involved in a more – I’d almost say day-to-day way in course development. “And I think this is – in the past, what’s tended to happen is that people have said …
Setting up project support
Video >> Show and Tell event: Small group in conversation. Interview Gordon Joyes: “We had probably, I don’t know, two thirds or more of the school turn up to the initial briefing, and of that, well over half of those, two thirds of that two thirds ended up with projects that we looked at and …
Normalising e-learning
Video >> Matthew Nilan: “I’m quite a technologically aware person, but I also like to be aware of the, sort of, anxieties people have about, you know, even about the word ‘technology.’ “So I think it’s important to make them feel at ease about what they do, and to remind them about what they – …
Developing confidence and skills in e-learning
Video >> Brett Bligh: “I would contend that the confidence is perhaps more important than the skills, because the willingness to try to use new technology will carry you a long way.” Matthew Nilan: “I’m interested in where people find difficulties and often, those difficulties are, sort of, quite personal, in that they, sort of, …
Taking ownership: building School e-learning capacity
Video >> Brett Bligh: “It’s almost as though you start off with a very strict project structure, and then what you’re really doing is creating a culture whereby people are more anxious to learn in general, and you start getting approached from all sorts of directions.” Tony Fisher: “One of the things that we wanted …
ePioneers project: standardising WebCT materials
Video >> Matthew Nilan: “I think the project was a project related to one of the PGCE courses, and Paul Thompson, I think, was keen on developing a template based approach to developing e-learning materials. “And his mentor was actually Gordon, but I became involved when – because I’d been experimenting with this software called …
ePioneers project: vodcasting – videoing lectures
Video >> Rolf Wiesemes: “I guess I was thinking about video podcasting and podcasting before the ePioneers project started, and I – at some point just before that, I was looking at the website of some American Universities, MIT and Harvard in particular, I think, where quite a few of their teaching materials and talks, …
ePioneers project: podcasting – recording conversations
Video >> Richard Pemberton: “We wanted to give them some sort of extra input, in addition to the classroom input, that they could – could act as a, kind of, supplement, but was not delivered in the same format. “So we didn’t just want to, sort of, record, like, a lecture, and then they would …
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