Managing time and competing priorities
September 30, 2013
Video >> Students on fitting work and play into a busy schedule, making sure that the balance is right for them. Visit the University’s Studying Effectively website for more on learning at University.
Getting used to studying at University
September 23, 2013
Video >> Students talk about what it was like starting at University and how they’ve got used to the new ways of working and the new expectations on them and their learning. Visit the University’s Studying Effectively website for more on learning at University.
Doing Theology with Richard Wagner
June 27, 2013
Four of Professor Richard H Bell’s students speak about their experiences of taking his 20 credit module in the Autumn Semester 2012-13. Sarah Ellerington (Theology and Religious Studies 3): “‘Doing Theology with Richard Wagner’ was a fantastic module – extremely interesting and really different from any of the Theology modules I’ve done before. People usually …
Matt Styles on Moodle
June 13, 2013
Matt Styles: “Ever thought that using wikis on Moodle could be beneficial to students’ learning? How about discussion forums to encourage flexible debate involving rich media and e-references? Should there be baseline material requirements or is that treating Moodle too much like a file store? Unfortunately, we don’t yet have the answers. “The Students’ Union …
Exam preparation
May 6, 2013
Video >> Students talk about how they organise their revision, check their learning, and prepare to take exams. Visit the University’s Studying Effectively website for more on learning at University.
Citing and plagiarism
April 29, 2013
Video >> The student take on ways to improve your citing and referencing performance through better note-taking and understanding when you need to acknowledge the source of ideas. Visit the University’s Studying Effectively website for more on learning at University.
Planning and completing your essay
April 22, 2013
Video >> Various approaches to starting out on choosing an essay, doing the reading and putting your argument together. Visit the University’s Studying Effectively website for more on learning at University.
Writing an academic essay: argument and criticality
April 15, 2013
Video >> Students’ understanding of critical thinking and building an argument in an essay. Visit the University’s Studying Effectively website for more on learning at University.
Feedback and its benefits
April 8, 2013
Students describe the feedback they’ve been getting and how learning from the feedback on one piece of work helps with improving performance on the next piece. Visit the University’s Studying Effectively website for more on learning at University.
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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