PGR Teaching Awards 2015
June 29, 2015
Postgraduate Teaching Award 2015 The Postgraduate Teaching Award is an annual award to recognise and celebrate examples of innovative teaching and support of learning. In 2015 there were 3 winners who each received a framed certificate and a £100 voucher. Due to the high calibre of applicants, an additional two received a “Highly Commended” certificate. …
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 …
Evaluate: (SET/SEM) update
June 11, 2014
Prof Alan Ford: “I am pleased to be able to give you an update on the progress of Evaluate. In recent weeks, a number of UK schools (Chemistry, Health Sciences, Maths, Medicine, NUBS, Pharmacy and Physics & Astronomy) have been taking part in an extended pilot to further test Evaluate prior to the full roll …
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 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 …
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 …
QAA Review of Overseas Provision: University of Nottingham Ningbo Campus
May 28, 2013
Chris Bexton: “The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) recently sent a team of reviewers to the University’s Ningbo campus as part of a review of Transnational Education in China and early indications are that the review went very well, with UNNC achieving it’s ‘stated intention to provide the “Nottingham experience” in China in less than 8 …
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 …
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