Assessment “as” (not “of”) learning
April 20, 2012
Dr Matt Green: “As a lecturer with a longstanding interest in the contributions that technology can make to teaching, as well as a member of the University’s own Assessment in the Digital Age working group back in 2010, it was fantastic to see the conference topic generating such momentum and enthusiasm. The day’s discussions were …
Engaging students with their feedback
April 19, 2012
Prof. Katharine Reid: “Stephen Marshall gave various motivations for changing the way we assess student work and was very clear that it was important to be able to demonstrate that the changes had delivered improvements. In terms of staff workload this can easily be achieved, but in terms of the factors that impact on student …
Seeing the bigger picture
April 18, 2012
Sarah Seeley: “In my capacity of Examinations Manager (on-line exams) I was looking forward to the Assessment in the Digital Age Conference and saw it as an opportunity to meet staff across the University and talk about implementation and support and get a better perspective of how I fit in. “As my focus is summative …
Saul Becker on Learning to learn at university
May 20, 2011
Video >> Saul Becker: “I teach the first four lectures that our first year students have on a particular module, called Social Problems. So that I am the first academic they will see in terms of those first four lectures and then it gets handed on to other people. So of course, these students are …
An international curriculum
February 10, 2011
Video >> Chris Barnatt: “I’m always keen to try and find examples which come from as many different places as possible.I teach a lot about technology and organisation so you’ve got to be aware, for example, technology development is very different in different parts of the world. Students will come from Japan having a very different …
A la mode: Setting a fashion for practical re-use of teaching materials
February 5, 2011
Steve Stapleton and John Horton: Background Types of Learners: Undergraduate level 1 Environment: blended course, predominantly e-learning with additional supporting methodologies. Intended outcome(s) To produce a handout used as part of a practical exercise about the statistical packages SPSS and Excel. The challenge To produce the handout in the absolute shortest time possible yet not …
Valuing our teaching
February 1, 2011
Video >> Paul Greatrix: “I think recognising excellent teaching is hugely important and before I came to Nottingham, I was impressed from afar with the Lord Dearing Awards because they seemed to me to be an explicit and overt way of really celebrating teaching within the University. They are very competitive and the award of them …
Listening to our students
Video >> Amir Ghaemmaghami: “For every single module we have a module evaluation from the students. We also have staff/student committees which meet at least once every term, sometimes more. There is at least one representative, usually two representatives, from the course who attend and if there are any issues, we can discuss them as …
The Nottingham Advantage Award
Video >> Paul Greatrix: “Students, when they graduate, will want to feel confident that the skills, the learning, the knowledge they’ve acquired, the experience, the personal development they’ve gone through at University is something that will enable them to be more ready for work, whatever kind of work that may be, whenever they choose to …
Developing curiosity
Video >> Saul Becker: “When our students come here we are giving them the best knowledge that is available at that time and we’re also teaching them how to make judgements about the quality of that knowledge, so we are hopefully teaching them that some things are pretty certain and some things are less certain …
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