Small group teaching for undergraduates in the School of Law
June 21, 2013
Prof. Stephen Bailey: “Small group teaching has been a feature of the Undergraduate programme in Law for at least forty years, and indeed probably throughout its history. Forty years ago, almost all law subjects were taught by a combination of lectures and tutorials. Most were year-long (semesters were not introduced by the University until much …
Psychology’s “open doors”
June 18, 2013
Dr Richard Tunney: “Academics have always sought to strike a balance between their roles as teachers and as researchers. That balance has probably shifted one way or the other as a knock on effect of the changing priorities of governments and universities. Recent years have seen university schools and departments responding to changing student expectations …
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 …
Teaching for Me
June 10, 2013
Prof. Sue Pryce: “ ‘The secret of success is constancy to purpose’ (Disraeli). Mrs Ringer, a teacher of English language wrote this on the board, on the first day I attended a GCE ‘O’ Level course at Poole College of Further Education. It proved to be inspirational for someone who had left school at 15 …
Cross-campus teaching: an admin perspective
June 5, 2013
Ellen Salway: “I assume that from lots of people’s perspective my reasons for attending stem from the boring side of our HEI world. I’m on board with the exceptional and enriching experience inter campus learning can bring, but I’m afraid my main interest is solidly in ‘how can we get this to work’. I’ve got …
Cross-campus teaching: an academic perspective
May 31, 2013
Kirsty Hyndes: “How can I develop cross-campus teaching in a programme that has no teaching in Malaysia or China at the moment? This was my question before attending the session. Was my question answered? No: but what I did hear was food for thought. “What I learned was that there are some very dedicated, charismatic, …
QAA Review of Overseas Provision: University of Nottingham Ningbo Campus
May 28, 2013
Chris Bexton: “The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) recently sent a team of reviewers to the University’s Ningbo campus as part of a review of Transnational Education in China and early indications are that the review went very well, with UNNC achieving it’s ‘stated intention to provide the “Nottingham experience” in China in less than 8 …
Curriculum Review conference: the Mumford method
May 23, 2013
Dr Jing Zhang: “The presentation of Professor Stephen Mumford was fantastic. He introduced a new method – Mumford Method – in academic writing and how it could be used in research, teaching and particularly assessment. “For many modules in the Social Sciences, students are assessed by essays or essay based exams. However, some students are …
Curriculum review conference
May 17, 2013
Dr Anna Betram: “Kay Bond discussed her curriculum review project for Faculty of Engineering courses. The learning outcomes for each course and module were established by considering the requirements of the governing bodies and following input from module convenors. In conjunction with the Medical School and Information Services software was developed to map learning outcomes …
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.
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