UNNC Teaching and Learning Newsletter
November 3, 2014
UNNC Teaching and Learning Newsletter Welcome to the newsletter relating to Teaching and Learning issues, Quality Assurance requirements and the Student Learning Experience. Welcome from Vice Provost Teaching and Learning Welcome to the second of this year’s T&L newsletters. We hope the teaching semester has got off to a good start for you. We have …
Structuring and facilitating conversations online
April 29, 2014
Video >> Dr Sarah Speight and Helen Whitehead, University of Nottingham on “Structuring and facilitating conversations online”. This was a session at the 2014 University Teaching and Learning conference on Students in Conversation. Session abstract: Online learning has become part of our core provision. We offer increasing numbers of courses online; we use ‘blended’ approaches …
The Sustainability ‘NOOC’: learning from a multi-disciplinary online course
November 25, 2013
Dr Sarah Speight: “In spring 2013, I led a pilot project to foster a sense of community amongst students and staff across our three campuses through learning together. Working with Learning Technologist Helen Whitehead, we constructed the first ‘NOOC’ or Nottingham Open Online Course, called ‘Perspectives on Sustainability’. “Helen and I came to the project …
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 …
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, …
Sustainability in and through curriculum
April 11, 2013
Video >> Dr Sarah Speight: “Nottingham is currently running a ‘NOOC’ (Nottingham Open Online Course) called ‘Perspectives on Sustainability’. This is an interdisciplinary course that can be taken for credit towards the Nottingham Advantage Award. It developed from an externally-funded project to develop open educational resources on specific disciplines: Geography, Engineering, Arts and Humanities and …
Find, follow, join us
