Assessing the learning impact of electronic revision aids
July 28, 2009
Derek Irvine, Deborah Kays, Darren Walsh: Background: “Traditionally, weekly small group tutorial/example classes are used within the School of Chemistry / Faculty of Engineering (Chemical Engineering) to enhance student understanding of material delivered during lectures. By relating exam performance to tutorial attendance, both departments recognize that these sessions are highly beneficial to students’ learning. The …
Giving feedback on practical sessions via a podcast
June 10, 2009
Video >> Sarah Westwater-Wood: “In the Therapeutics Studies module I teach three groups the same thing every week and they’re two hour long lectures and it’s quite intensive delivery of manual skills and underpinning knowledge. When I finish the week’s practical sessions I realise that there are common things that I want to feed back …
Video overviews of specialist software for students new to biological databases
May 30, 2009
Sally Chappell, Paddy Tighe: “One of the modules I convene on the MSc in Immunology and Allergy is a bio-informatics module where we want the students to get familiar with a lot of online resources. We use a lot of software that’s really quite complex, so anything that we can do to remind them of …
Making a podcast of a lecture: recording and uploading to WebCT
May 27, 2009
Video >> Andrew: “This is the podcasting kit we use in lectures. It’s pretty bulky. This is what I just picked up from the learning and teaching resource and support people. This is the main kit and these are just the wires to plug it in, which I’ll do. “So that’s plugged in and on. …
Video demonstrations of common laboratory techniques address student diversity and limited lab time
May 1, 2009
Sally Chappell and Paddy Tighe: “When people start the MSc in Molecular Diagnostics they come with quite varied levels of experience. Some of our students have been working in industry or a related area for maybe a year or two years, so they’re quite comfortable with lab techniques, whilst others come straight from a degree …
Normalising e-learning
June 9, 2008
Video >> Matthew Nilan: “I’m quite a technologically aware person, but I also like to be aware of the, sort of, anxieties people have about, you know, even about the word ‘technology.’ “So I think it’s important to make them feel at ease about what they do, and to remind them about what they – …
ePioneers project: standardising WebCT materials
Video >> Matthew Nilan: “I think the project was a project related to one of the PGCE courses, and Paul Thompson, I think, was keen on developing a template based approach to developing e-learning materials. “And his mentor was actually Gordon, but I became involved when – because I’d been experimenting with this software called …
ePioneers project: vodcasting – videoing lectures
Video >> Rolf Wiesemes: “I guess I was thinking about video podcasting and podcasting before the ePioneers project started, and I – at some point just before that, I was looking at the website of some American Universities, MIT and Harvard in particular, I think, where quite a few of their teaching materials and talks, …
ePioneers project: podcasting – recording conversations
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 …
Trigger exams: assessing decision making
April 14, 2008
Video >> Paul Crawford: “And we have innovative assessments, such as the DVD trigger examination, which I introduced with colleagues a year ago, and is evaluated really well. “If we’re going to assess students on their health communication, that’s not easy to do. You can’t really do that very easily within a school setting. So …
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