Employability skills in Politics teaching
October 18, 2012
Dr Lucy Sargisson: “We identified a need to update the curriculum to meet changing demands and to increase relevance in the School of Politics and International Relations. We want to offer a curriculum that supports students’ transition to becoming independent learners and also enhances staff skills, knowledge and expertise with regard to their teaching. “The …
Enhancing student presentation skills
June 13, 2012
Dr Karen Kilby: “The Department of Theology and Religious Studies identified a need to help UG students build their confidence and gain experience in making presentations. “In order to achieve these aims it set out to develop a 10 credit presentation module as part of its second year curriculum. The purpose of the module is …
How can we develop modern language speaking skills?
May 21, 2012
Wei Marton: “The main issue we have identified is finding ways to develop the speaking skills of modern languages students outside of class time. While there are plenty of resources available to enhance reading, writing and listening skills resources are limited for the speaking element. Therefore our aim is to develop a virtual interactive task-based …
Are you using Moodle? Can I help you?
April 26, 2012
Prof. Reg Dennick: “It is refreshing to be accosted in this way at a conference but the desire to help and facilitate was a theme that ran through the one day “Assessment in the Digital Age” conference. From the opening plenary lecture describing how a whole university institution can manage major assessment change to the …
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 …
Listening to our students
February 1, 2011
Video >> Amir Ghaemmaghami: “For every single module we have a module evaluation from the students. We also have staff/student committees which meet at least once every term, sometimes more. There is at least one representative, usually two representatives, from the course who attend and if there are any issues, we can discuss them as …
The Nottingham Advantage Award
Video >> Paul Greatrix: “Students, when they graduate, will want to feel confident that the skills, the learning, the knowledge they’ve acquired, the experience, the personal development they’ve gone through at University is something that will enable them to be more ready for work, whatever kind of work that may be, whenever they choose to …
Alan Jenkins on mainstreaming undergraduate research
Video >> Alan Jenkins: “The serious issue is that the relationship between people’s interest in their teaching, and commitment to their teaching, and the role of research in the university is now a massive issue, as universities try to grapple with handling those two roles. “We’re also interested in the fact that there is cutting …
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