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 …
Turnitin: is it true that…?
December 14, 2012
Helen Whitehead: “We get a lot of calls about what Turnitin can and can’t do for staff and for students; here are your top 6 questions, with our answers and suggestions:” Q: Does Turnitin compare a paper against books, or is it just websites? Are the journals in my discipline included? A: If the books …
Audio-visual recordings and student learning
September 26, 2012
Dr Joel Feinstein & Claire Chambers: “Classes have become more interactive and there are new ways of supporting students with extra online resources, which they can access after class. We’ve run workshops for staff to help those with less experience to produce high quality videos. Staff from the Audio Visual unit (within the IS Learning …
Are you using Moodle? Can I help you?
April 26, 2012
Prof. Reg Dennick: “It is refreshing to be accosted in this way at a conference but the desire to help and facilitate was a theme that ran through the one day “Assessment in the Digital Age” conference. From the opening plenary lecture describing how a whole university institution can manage major assessment change to the …
Development of Anatomy CAL using Xerte Online Toolkits
July 4, 2010
The Medical School had a number of Anatomy CAL (Computer Aided Learning) packages, created in Authorware over a number of years. Due to their age and format they were not easy to update or support but they did contain relevant and useful content. There was a requirement for the packages to be reviewed and where …
Portfolio compilation: evidencing learning and professional development
January 26, 2010
Video >> Alison: “I think portfolios are getting increasingly important. They seem to underpin a lot of professional education as a strategy, or a tool, for assessing, formatively, or summatively, students’ progress. And the NMC requires it, that’s the Nursing and Midwifery Council, once you’re qualified, that you could be asked to submit one every …
Podcasts and student learning in the humanities
January 25, 2010
William Bowden: “The use of podcasts (downloadable audio files) is becoming increasingly common in higher education. At Nottingham members of staff are increasingly using them to make elements of their teaching available to students via WebCT. “Thus far, with a single exception, the use of podcasts has not been adopted by staff members in the …
Recording feedback as a podcast and uploading it to WebCT
October 16, 2009
Video >> Interviewer: “How long will the podcast be?” Sarah Westwater-Wood: “In general they’re four to five minutes. I find that technically WebCT supports that really well and it’s a bitesize for students so they can take it shape their revision with it and it’s not a lecture the podcast is not being used to …
How effective are reusable learning objects at supporting didactic lectures?
October 1, 2009
Andrew Fisher: “This project designed two Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) which were then used to supplement a core first year module in philosophical logic taken by eighty students. RLOs are reusable web-based resources with a single learning objective, with the functional requirements of accessibility and reusability. They are popular within the Sciences and Medicine, but …
Demonstrating practical skills to large groups using an overhead visualiser
August 1, 2009
Video >> Sarah Freeman: “We start almost all of our practical classes off with some sort of demonstration showing the students where they’re supposed to be looking at things, what they’re supposed to be doing, and then allow them to go and spend the time working, working it out for themselves.” Sarah demonstrating with the …
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