Moodle Everywhere: a new lecturer’s angle
January 13, 2014
Simon Harrison: “How are you using Moodle this semester? “As a new lecturer here, I’m experimenting in two different ways. “For my undergraduate module, I post preparatory slides ahead of time that I design to either guide students through the assigned reading or to offer a preview of the slides I’ll use in class. After …
Lectures, Laptops, and Learning
November 26, 2013
“The beauty of YouTube is that it’s … chock-full of fantastic educational content for students and teachers alike to access and learn from.” Dr Philip Moriarty: “That quote is taken from a short blog post entitled “Serve up Some YouTube EDU This Summer” (which I stumbled across just as the summer was ending). “As someone …
Using Pencasts to create online learning objects
November 8, 2013
Video >> Gail Hopkins: “Computer Science is a technical subject, some areas of which can be challenging for students to grasp. Additionally the subject is such that it is important to grasp earlier concepts before moving on to more complex ideas. Therefore it is especially important that students understand concepts in a timely manner and …
Blended learning approaches to teaching computer science to a diverse audience
August 22, 2013
Gail Hopkins: The Context “The School of Computer Science offers several MSc courses of which the MSc in Information Technology and the MSc in Management of Information Technology are the most popular. These two MSc courses are taken by students from a range of nationalities including UK and non-EU overseas students. As such some students …
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 …
How effective are reusable learning objects at supporting didactic lectures?
October 1, 2009
Andrew Fisher: “This project designed two Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) which were then used to supplement a core first year module in philosophical logic taken by eighty students. RLOs are reusable web-based resources with a single learning objective, with the functional requirements of accessibility and reusability. They are popular within the Sciences and Medicine, but …
Assessing the learning impact of electronic revision aids
July 28, 2009
Derek Irvine, Deborah Kays, Darren Walsh: Background: “Traditionally, weekly small group tutorial/example classes are used within the School of Chemistry / Faculty of Engineering (Chemical Engineering) to enhance student understanding of material delivered during lectures. By relating exam performance to tutorial attendance, both departments recognize that these sessions are highly beneficial to students’ learning. The …
Video overviews of specialist software for students new to biological databases
May 30, 2009
Sally Chappell, Paddy Tighe: “One of the modules I convene on the MSc in Immunology and Allergy is a bio-informatics module where we want the students to get familiar with a lot of online resources. We use a lot of software that’s really quite complex, so anything that we can do to remind them of …
Video demonstrations of common laboratory techniques address student diversity and limited lab time
May 1, 2009
Sally Chappell and Paddy Tighe: “When people start the MSc in Molecular Diagnostics they come with quite varied levels of experience. Some of our students have been working in industry or a related area for maybe a year or two years, so they’re quite comfortable with lab techniques, whilst others come straight from a degree …
Effective demonstration of bench practical skills to large laboratory classes using an integrated system of visualisers, screens and SMARTboard
March 1, 2009
Colin Melia: “In these labs, we teach our students how to make different types of medicines including liquid medicines, creams, ointments, powders and suppositories. The students learn skills that they’ll have to use when they work in a hospital pharmacy manufacturing unit, a ‘specials’ medicines lab or anywhere where individual medicines have to be made …
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