(NEW) Teaching and Learning Showcase Series
New 'Teaching and Learning Showcase' Series Spring Term 2012: NO BOOKING REQUIRED!
CDoTL have started organising a new series of informal Teaching and Learning Showcase events in 2012 on topical issues, none of which require pre-booking. They aim to provide colleagues with opportunities to share T&L practices/ideas and to offer a forum for informal discussion of topical issues. The first of these took place on 11th January on the topic of 'Engaging students in and with research'. Twenty-five colleagues attended the session, with speakers from English Language and Literature, Chemistry and Agriculture. It was agreed that this informal approach to sharing ideas and practices is a useful forum for colleagues and therefore CDoTL will organise more sessions throughout the year.
Coming soon
Showcase 5: Thursday 7th June 1-2pm Carrington 201
Using Group Work in Teaching and Learning
To include presentations from:
- Dr Matthew Almond (Chemistry) and students Imogen McCarthy and Imogen Payne - Team-working in Projects - the student view
- Cathy Hughes (Real Estate and Planning) - topic tbc
followed by questions and discussion. Everyone welcome, no need to book!
2012
24th April
The Use of Technologies to engage students in their learning
The use of technologies to engage students in their learning proved a hot topic with an audience of 50 colleagues from around the university. The slides from the presentations can be found below. The use of wikis in problem based learning has inspired many colleagues who plan to use a wiki, for example, to keep students connected while on academic or work placement. Poll Everywhere gets students using their mobile phones effectively in class and can collect student contributions prior to, and during, a session keeping things interesting and engagement high.
The use of a selection of social media ensured the engagement of students in Typography, not least through their contribution of resources and their continued engagement long after graduation. See their webpage http://www.reading.ac.uk/typography/ for more ideas.
A recurring theme in the discussion of the Showcase was the need to train students in appropriate use of such technologies when in a T&L environment. Some initial ideas from our speakers for developing a guide to Good Practice (see Draft Code of Conduct for Wikis at UoR, Student Code of Conduct when using Poll Everywhere and Code of practice by Gerry Leonidas).
Presentations included;
- Dr Kat Bicknell (Pharmacy) - Use of wiki technology in a problem-based learning exercise
- Dr Simon Burke (Economics) - An example of using technology in a debate; using Poll Everywhere
- Gerry Leonidas (Typography) - Cloudfacetweetflickpress is good for you
There's loads of information the web on Netiquette generally, here's a few we've looked at recently:
- Utrecht University - Netiquette and social media
- David Hopkins - Develop a guide to support students, who study and engage with each other online, on Internet etiquette: Netiquette
as well as some excellent resourceswhich the Digitally Ready project have already developed.
If you're new to social media and its possibilities the following link is really informative. Especially liked the 'Power of networks' and "Managing information overload". Well worth a look.
Have a look at the following blogs, see what's been going on and add your thoughts:
http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/develop
http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/digitallyready
21st March
The challenges of teaching Quantitative Methods
To include presentations from:
- Dr Karen Ayres (Dept of Maths and Statistics) - Delivering tailored formative problems
- Dr Philip Sanders (Co-ordinator, Maths Support Centre)
- Dr Philip Baker (School of Biological Sciences) - Teaching Statistics
8th February
Internationalisation
A second showcase event on the topic of 'Internationalisation' took place on the 8th February.
There were three presentations as follows:
- Dr Elizabeth Page and Professor Laurence Harwood (Department of Chemistry) on Chemistry's links with Diyala (Iraq) lunch meeting Dyala and NUIST (China) lunch meeting China
- Vicky Clarke, Student Development and RED Officer, on the 'Connect' project which aims to further integrate international students with home students on campus
- Dr Christian Nygaard (School of Economics) on his PGCAP research project 'Internationalisation of Curriculum - Developing a Master's in Public Policy' - Internationalisation of curriculum
11th January
Engaging students in and with research
This first session is related to the enhancement priority that "students be encouraged to engage in and with research." Speakers were:
- Dr Mark Nixon (English Language and Literature): The use of archives in undergraduate teachin
- Dr David Nutt (Chemistry): Engaging students in research seminars - Research-led teaching in Chemistry
- Professor Julian Park (Agriculture, Policy and Development): Undergraduate research journals