Talking of teaching: communicating about strategy, policy and practice
December 11, 2013
Teaching strategy and policy, and quality assurance and enhancement, all benefit from ongoing conversations between the centre and Schools, and between staff across campuses and across disciplines. Communication about teaching should support the involvement of students and all staff in teaching development. This principle has guided the development of a revised approach with three key …
Learning spaces at Nottingham
December 10, 2013
I conducted a study in autumn 2013 which aimed to assess the distribution and utilisation of innovative teaching and learning spaces across UK campuses of The University, and to establish how these spaces might contribute to the student experience using feedback from colleagues and benchmarking at other institutions. I looked in particular at rooms which …
Peer observation college
December 9, 2013
There has been a growing interest in getting involved in peer observation with staff from other Faculties. Requests for a University-wide scheme are being addressed with the design of a peer observation college, consisting of 80-100 academic members of staff, which will draw on advice from the HEA and will develop from consultation with Deans …
Teaching leadership programme
November 28, 2013
The time is right for a ‘Leading Teaching’ programme at the University. Seismic changes in the HE landscape means that consistently high quality teaching is fundamental to the continuing success of the University. In an environment where students will increasingly act as consumers and be less prepared than they might have been previously to put …
Teaching and Learning Review
November 22, 2013
The use of School Review to evaluate all of a school’s activities on a periodic basis is being discontinued from this session, as many of the elements of this methodology are contained within the recently implemented Academic and Financial Strategy Framework (AFSF). As a result, a new system of Teaching and Learning Review is being …
Teaching and learning governance
November 21, 2013
The move to Faculty Teaching Committees within the University has prompted several changes in our governance arrangements for teaching and learning: Chairs of Faculty Teaching Committees (i.e. Directors of Teaching & Learning in each Faculty) will be ex officio members of the University’s Teaching & Learning Board (TLB). The membership of TLB has consequently been …
Teaching and Learning at UNNC
November 20, 2013
Prof Julie Sanders: “It has been a busy start of the year here at UNNC. Our student induction weeks took place at the start of September and included family ‘Q and A sessions’ in each of our three Faculties and lots of student-led events. We now have a growing group of international students from over …
University perspective and priorities
Professor Stephen Doughty: “As we embark upon the 2013/14 academic year at The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, we are also in the process of laying out the UNMC Roadmap for 2013-2020. Hence there is a constant shift between focus on the near-term and the significantly longer-term. In both foci, improving and enhancing the Teaching …
The Teaching Transformation Programme
November 19, 2013
Prof Alan Ford: “It has been an exciting year internationally and nationally in teaching and learning, with headline grabbing news in online learning – MOOCs – and potentially radical proposals emerging for a redesign of the UK assessment regime through the adoption of GPA. Here in Nottingham we have made our contribution to these developments, …
Cross-campus teaching: an admin perspective
June 5, 2013
Ellen Salway: “I assume that from lots of people’s perspective my reasons for attending stem from the boring side of our HEI world. I’m on board with the exceptional and enriching experience inter campus learning can bring, but I’m afraid my main interest is solidly in ‘how can we get this to work’. I’ve got …
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