Critical thinking: developing students’ independence
November 24, 2009
Video >> Rebecca Moor: “My sense is that they come to study law here and they’re expecting someone to say Okay, welcome to law school. Here’s the answer, it can be this or it can be that. And what they get instead is someone throwing a huge amount of law at them and essentially saying, …
Graduate qualities: transferable skills and intercultural competence
Video >> David Clarke: “I think the thing that the best university students do in my view and what marks them out, is that they ask themselves the question continuously, What is it I need to know and how can I find it out? rather than I wonder what the teacher is going to tell me …
The lecturer-student relationship
Video >> Swetha Aknoor: “If you look at the Indian culture, technically, our teachers supposed to be as God for us. We have this thing, you know, the father, the mother and the teacher are all God. So yeah, our teachers, we do have to have a lot of respect for them, we can’t take …
Perceptions of PhD students and supervisors of the academic and transferable skills training at the University of Nottingham
September 30, 2009
Sara Goodacre, Matthew Jones and Rumiana Ray: “The last decade has seen the initialisation and development of specific and generic skills training for PhD students at universities. Whilst the purpose of subject-specific skills training is to increase and validate the practical and professional competency of students in order to successfully complete their PhD programme, generic …
Students working in a second language
Video >> Ting Lu, Student, School of Law: “I think language is the most important thing. No matter to your school mates, to your professors or to people who are around you in your daily life I think communicating is the most important thing so if they want to study in this English speaking country, …
Gina Wisker on supervising students
April 13, 2009
Video >> Gina Wisker: “I think about supervision as a form of teaching and teaching doesn’t mean thrusting things down people’s throats, it means bringing things out of people. Helping them develop. Enabling. And research at any level is, undergraduate, postgraduate, work based or whatever, it’s a form of learning, so when I’m supervising students …
Developing subject specific internet training sessions
January 31, 2009
Christian Haase: “In recent years, the Higher Education Academy, JISC, the University of Nottingham and other bodies have introduced new training sessions to encourage a more reflective use of the web. A number of studies suggest that such learning modules will reduce “copy and paste” plagiarism. However, it is questionable to what extent the new …
ePioneers project: podcasting – recording conversations
June 9, 2008
Video >> Richard Pemberton: “We wanted to give them some sort of extra input, in addition to the classroom input, that they could – could act as a, kind of, supplement, but was not delivered in the same format. “So we didn’t just want to, sort of, record, like, a lecture, and then they would …
Using problem-based learning to develop critical thinking skills
March 15, 2008
Video >> Paul Garrrud: “Another benefit of the structure we have of working through a case in three group meetings, and obviously they do quite a lot of thinking and research out with those group meetings, is that it gives them an appreciation and some experience of clinical reasoning. “From the patient who walks in …
Support for developing writing skills
June 18, 2007
Video >> Kate: “Students are going to need to develop very high levels of writing and argument and different ways of presenting their ideas and the concepts that they’re learning about, how do you focus in and help them learn and develop those writing skills at such a high level?” Andrew Fisher, Philosophy: “First off …
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