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 …
Assessment & Feedback – Dr Neil Hughes, School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies
March 24, 2015
Dr Neil Hughes discusses an example of an assessment strategy, its key features, the implementation in a programme and the impact on NSS over a period of two years. Dr Hughes is the Director of Modern Language Teaching at CLAS (UoN). This talk was given as part of the ‘Assessment strategies that work’ event, held at …
Improving NSS assessment and feedback scores at UCL – Dr Teresa McConlogue (Life and Medical Sciences, UCL)
Video >> Dr Teresa McConlogue discusses cases at UCL where they have reviewed programmes of study and addressed “hygiene factors” with demonstrable improved results on ensuing NSS. Dr McConlogue is a Senior Teaching Fellow at University College London working in the School of Life and Medical Sciences This talk was given as part of the “Assessment strategies …
Perspectives and Priorities from UNMC
March 23, 2015
As the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) approaches its 15th year of operation in Kuala Lumpur and its 10th year of operation on the campus in Semenyih, 2015 provides an exciting backdrop to drive forward the teaching and learning agenda, which is being developed across the University through TTP as well as to develop …
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