Embedding study skills into the International Media and Communications degree
November 22, 2012
Video >> Dr Eva Giraud talks about designing a module dedicated to developing students’ study skills, set in the context of the discipline. Dr Eva Giraud Department of Culture, Film and Media This interview was carried out as part of the Study Skills project, run by Kim Lawson in Academic Support .
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 …
Supporting students in reaching their academic potential
February 1, 2011
Video >> Robin Dollery: “Getting into a University like Nottingham is very competitive. Once we get our students here, we would like to make sure they’re successful and so we try to think about that quite carefully, and it seems to us there are a couple of very important principles within this. “In a very …
Integrating students from across campuses
November 16, 2009
Video >> Stephanie Bridges: “I’ve done quite a lot of student interviews as part of my research and I find a real variety in students, in their friendships, in their mixing within the course, people who have a whole range of friends from different cultures, from different nationalities, different backgrounds, to students who very much …
Approaches to studying for learning at university
Video >> Stephanie Bridges: “I thought, well, in a minute, you know, we’ve done all this sort of paper planning and people and equipment but what about the students? What’s it gong to be like when they suddenly join the third year? How is it going to go? How are they going to find it …
Study skills support for international students
September 30, 2009
https://mediaspace.nottingham.ac.uk/id/1_bd68tpuh?width=400&height=285&playerId=13724441 Video >> Rebecca Moor, Legal Skills Advisor, School of Law: “Students can either make appointments to come see me one on one or in a group, and throughout the year, I also run workshops, lectures, sessions geared towards specific skills needs that students have, they’ve either expressed in the past or members of academic …
Brenda Smith on assessment and feedback
May 20, 2009
Video >> Brenda Smith: “In terms of the aims for the session, I really have three, and that’s to emphasise assessment for learning rather than of learning. “The second aim is really to engage the active engagement of students in the whole process of assessment and feedback, and that’s from the sort of the very …
Vague expectations and diverse preferences: a study of undergraduate students at Nottingham University Business School
January 28, 2008
Mohsen Derregia: “The increased number of students in higher education has coincided with a shift towards seeing students as ‘customers’ who should have their expectations fulfilled to be satisfied. A number of studies have looked at student expectation about methods of education, such as lectures and seminars in the hope of identifying some factors that …
Do we select the right students? Analysis of the 1st year performance of students selected through a multi component interview procedure
January 15, 2008
Michael Jones, Nigel Kendall, Cyril Rauch and Sabine Totemeyer: Introduction: “Applications for vocational courses such as veterinary medicine far exceed the number of places available. In 2006 the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science (SVMS) had 840 applications for 95 places. The course at SVMS differs from more traditional courses delivered at other institutions: The …
Support for developing writing skills
June 18, 2007
Video >> Kate: “Students are going to need to develop very high levels of writing and argument and different ways of presenting their ideas and the concepts that they’re learning about, how do you focus in and help them learn and develop those writing skills at such a high level?” Andrew Fisher, Philosophy: “First off …
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