Students as Change Agents: Promoting Collaborative Working at The University of Nottingham
April 22, 2015
Carina Neil: “I think that staff are used to collaborating with colleagues, but might not be quite sure what students have to offer. Of course, there are already lots of examples of staff working closely with students and doing some great work together, however the Students as Change Agents programme promotes a more widespread culture …
Reviewing the 3rd Year in the School of English
April 20, 2015
Professor Jo Guy: “One of the things we’ve been told consistently by our external examiners is that we have some of the best feedback they’ve seen—the ‘gold standard’; yet this judgment is not reflected in NSS surveys. So we’ve had this problem of not being able to understand why, despite putting a great deal of …
Evaluate Report February 2015
April 16, 2015
Evaluate was introduced in September 2014 to electronically collect Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) and Student Evaluation of Module (SEM) feedback. This replaced previous paper based SET and SEM questionnaires. On 16/1/2015, Information Services extracted all the UK surveys in Evaluate and sent this as a spreadsheet to Professional Development. The following results are from …
MOOCs & NOOCs: inspiring innovative approaches to teaching
April 15, 2015
“Nottingham has been involved in producing both MOOCs (online courses for external audiences) and NOOCs (online courses for an internal audience) since 2013, and there’s quite a bit of excitement about what’s happened in the first year and the direction we’re currently going in. I think over the past year we’ve been working out what …
Moodle Everywhere
April 13, 2015
The Moodle Everywhere project is a central element of the Teaching Transformation Programme and involves us working across all campuses to help position Moodle as the primary resource for students. We now have five Faculty Learning Technology Consultants who will be working with schools to support full implementation of the Moodle Everywhere mandate by the …
Academic Development from Day One: The Department of Civil Engineering
April 8, 2015
In conversation with Dr Martin Smith and Dr Barbara Turnbull, Faculty of Engineering Martin: “I think what’s come out of our discussions with the Teaching Transformation Programme team is that we need to get students thinking about problem solving in the wider context of Civil Engineering from the start of their course, to get them …
Lecture capture in the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies
April 6, 2015
In conversation with Professor Steve Tsang and Dr Jing Zhang Steve: “I think that there are several dimensions about lecture capture… there are always a few students who cannot attend a particular lecture, and having the lecture captured and available can be very helpful to them. There are also, occasionally, a few students who may …
Nottingham University Business School: Working with Students to Improve the Learning Experience
April 1, 2015
In an increasingly competitive, constantly changing sector, Nottingham University Business School (NUBS) is working with the Teaching Transformation Programme to ensure that it maintains its position as one of the world’s leading business schools. The School’s student body is both broad and diverse, with nearly 1,400 undergraduates from over 150 countries; the sheer size of …
Programme review in practice: The Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering
March 30, 2015
2014 saw M3 begin a Teaching Review with the intention of improving the student experience by providing more coherent programmes that deliver the learning outcomes whilst reducing assessment workload for students and staff. In partnership with the Teaching Transformation Programme, staff are looking at ways in which learning outcomes can be met effectively, efficiently and …
Tailored Approaches to Assessment and Feedback in the School of Physics and Astronomy
March 25, 2015
“Our priority at the moment is securing renewal of our accreditation with the Institute of Physics, so what we’ve started doing at the School is the process of mapping the learning outcomes of our courses with the requirements of the Institute. It’s a good time to look at [an Assessment Review]…we’ve got a very good …
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