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January PCUTL Presentations Online
January 23rd, 2012 | View Comments
Slides from the presentations that were given at the PCUTL event on Wednesday 12th January are now online. Further details for each of the nine presentations are available, and slides can be downloaded.
- Embedding assessment into course design: a view from Lifelong Learning
- Supporting undergraduate academic literacy development: an interactive resource
- Formula student as part of a mechanical engineering curriculum
- Review of student evaluation at WCPPE
- Maximising learning from feedback: three approaches
- Enhancing formative feedback in large cohort modules: a case study from CARBS
- Creating a work-based learning programme for ENGIN
- "I've been studying for 15 years and so know some things!": Some adventures in trying to make a study skills programme relevant
- Effective supervision of interdisciplinary PhD projects across multiple schools
The National Teaching Fellowship Scheme 2012
November 29th, 2011 | View Comments
The National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS) aims to recognise and celebrate individuals who make an outstanding impact on the student learning experience. The awards of £10000 carry considerable prestige and offer unique developmental opportunities and a national profile. In Spring 2011, two Cardiff staff were successful in gaining awards. Cardiff colleagues who can demonstrate an exceptional contribution to learning and teaching are strongly encouraged to consider submitting a nomination for the 2012 round of awards. Further information and submission details are available on the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme page.
Media-Enhanced Learning Event (24th June)
May 20th, 2011 | View Comments
The Media-Enhanced Learning Special Interest Group is a national, HEA funded project and they’re holding a one day event in Cardiff at the University of Glamorgan’s Atrium building on Adam Street on 24th June.
MELSIG was formerly known as the Podcasting for Pedagogic Purposes SIG and their events include a mix of workshops and presentations with sessions for beginners and experienced podcasters/media-enhanced learning practitioners. This event includes sessions led by Carol Beattie, the project manager, Gavin Brockis and Joel Eaton of JISC, Graham McElearney, Andy Ramsden and others – you can see the programme here: http://ppp.chester.ac.uk/index.php?title=MELSIG:Current_events
This is a free event. To reserve a place, please contact Lisa Rojas – l.rojas@chester.ac.ukor Izobel McAuliffe – imcaulif@glam.ac.uk.
Technology-Enhanced Education Conference Newsletter
April 11th, 2011 | View Comments
As we begin to add presentations to the online Conference area (http://bit.ly/teeconf) along with blog posts, discussions and debate, we’ll be providing a digested update in the form of a newsletter that you can sign up to here. This way you can have delivered straight to your inbox an at-a-glance overview of what’s being presented and discussed.
In our first issue we overview what’s different this year, publish our draft programme, and raise some of the questions underlying the themes around which the conference is organised: http://eepurl.com/djpxY. Our second issue is about the online presentations: http://eepurl.com/drniT. Our third issue is about the day itself http://eepurl.com/dF2ME.
Call for Contributions, Cardiff Technology-Enhanced Education Conference 2011
March 2nd, 2011 | View Comments
At last year’s event Technology-Enhanced Education Conference for Cardiff over 100 attendees heard from over 20 presenters giving details of pedagogical practice from a range of contexts. We received a lot of feedback indicating a strong desire to see the conference run again, and this year the conference is to be held on Friday 6th May in the School of Optometry, the same venue as in 2010. This year the conference will include online presentations and discussion and a revised format for the programme the day.
You can visit the online conference http://bit.ly/teeconf
(Cardiff University login required) and book to attend on May 6th http://bit.ly/teebook. The image above is a “QR code” also linking to the online conference (if you are curious, find out more about QR codes).
At this time we would like to call for contributions to the Conference for Technology Enhanced-Education from all Schools and Directorates at Cardiff University. We would like to give all staff the opportunity to highlight areas of good and innovative practice in the use of technology to enhance the student learning experience.
Contributions can be:
- Short presentations (up to 5mins) delivered on the day.
- Showcase presentations and hands-on demonstrations, delivered on the day to small groups during our educational technology fair
- Posters displayed on the day.
- Online presentations, posters and papers.
The themes for the conference are:
- political, economic and institutional drivers
- educational theory and research
- enhancing the student experience
- developments in media and technology
- ‘the lecture’
More information on these themes can be found by visiting the online conference http://bit.ly/teethemes.
Online Presentations
Online presentations can be in a variety of forms, and we can support you in adapting and uploading you presentations. Formats you might consider include:
- An audio or video presentation
- A series of slides, optionally accompanied by narration
- A report or article
- Example learning materials
Online space is not at a premium, so presentations can be as long as needed. Online presentations can also provide additional in-depth material to accompany a short presentation or poster. We can provide you with assistance in recording, compositing and uploading your presentations as required, please get in touch with us to discuss this.
Short presentations
There will be (limited) space in the programme for short presentations on the day of the conference (May 6th) during the sessions on the conference themes.
Short presentations must be no longer than 5 minutes in length, but can be accompanied by an online presentation which can go into greater depth (for more detail on online presentations, see below).
Demonstrations
The programme will include a session in which participants can visit a range of demonstrations to see how technology is being used to support learning. These demonstrations can illustrate a particular technology and the context in which it is used, giving participants an opportunity for hands on experience (if the technology is sufficiently portable to present on the day) or to see a poster or video illustrating its use – as well as a chance to discuss its application with the presenter.
We hope to include as many demonstrations as we can, within the limitations of the space provided.
Posters
Posters can be traditional paper-based or interactive posters. Posters can be accompanied by an online presentation if you would like to present further detail.
Submission
Please email your contributions to seminars@cardiff.ac.uk
by 4th April, providing a title, a brief summary (1-2 paragraphs) of what you would like to propose, names of those involved (for joint contributions) and your School/s. For online presentations let us know how you would like the presentation to appear online and how we can help you with this, and feel free to include at this stage any materials that you have already prepared for the presentation. Please indicate the type of contribution/s you would like to make. Please note that we may not have the space in the programme to give all proposed short presentations and demonstrations the exposure requested.
New Case Studies
February 25th, 2011 | View Comments
A set of new case studies have been published on the case studies page of this site highlighting the development of different approaches to enhancing learning and teaching using technology. They include the use of Turnitin originality reports and Grademark to enable students to develop an understanding of referencing and plagiarism, the use of a cheap and effective technique for displaying three dimensional images in lectures, conducting module evaluations using an audience response system to minimise impact on lecture time while maximising response rates, and an promoting collaboration and digital literacy using wikis. Further details are available on the case studies page.
QUILT Technology Enhanced Education Conference 2011
January 10th, 2011 | View Comments
This year’s conference for lecturers and those involved in supporting learning and teaching at Cardiff University is to be held on Friday 6th May in the School of Optometry, the same venue as in 2010. At last year’s event over 100 attendees heard from over 20 presenters giving details of pedagogical practice from a range of contexts. Further details on the format and content for this years event will be finalised shortly, but in the mean time please make a note in your diaries for 6th May and book now!
National Teaching Fellowship Scheme
November 15th, 2010 | View Comments
The National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS) aims to recognise and celebrate individuals who make an outstanding impact on the student learning experience. The awards of £10000 carry considerable prestige and offer unique developmental opportunities and a national profile. As this is the first year that the NTFS awards have been available in Wales, Cardiff colleagues who can demonstrate an exceptional contribution to learning and teaching are strongly encouraged to consider submitting a nomination. Further information
Resources to Support Student Learning Event Postponed
October 21st, 2010 | View Comments
The event “Resources to Support Student Learning – Handing it to Students on a Plate?” has, regrettably, had to be postponed and will now take place later this academic year. A new date will be announced here as soon as it can be confirmed. Meanwhile, we are still receiving your contributions, thoughts and reflections on the debate. Click on call for comments to join the discussion on that page or by email.
QUILT Seminar: Engaging Students in Large Groups
September 29th, 2010 | View Comments
November 10th Seminar room in Careers and Employability Centre, 50 Park Place
12:00-14:00
Nigel Morgan (INSRV) and colleagues will introduce Cardiff’s Cephalonian Method. They will discuss and demonstrate the popular presentation method which originated at the Science / Biomedical Sciences Libraries. Although designed for library orientation, this engaging method has been used in a number of other contexts including workshops and conference presentations. It has spread beyond Cardiff and is being used extensively in Europe, North America and Australasia.
Andrew Shore (BIOSI) will show how he has used Turning Point software to help engage students more fully in their learning in the lecture situation.
Further resources:
Seven things you should know about clickers.
Exploring the effect of the use of clickers in large college courses.
Increasing interactivity in lectures using an electronic voting system.
New tools for audio feedback
August 26th, 2010 | View Comments
Audio feedback has the potential for delivering richer feedback in faster turnaround time than written feedback, and sending audio using the new Wimba Voice tool via the VLE is now easier than ever before. Staff who have used audio to provide feedback to students at Cardiff University shared their experiences at a recent QUILT Workshop, and the Wimba Voice tool for recording and delivering audio via the VLE was introduced.
Phil Davies (CHEMY) has over three years’ experience of using Audacity software to give feedback to his students. More information about his experiences, and what his students think of audio feedback, can be found below:
Poster-The use of audio to provide feedback to students
Other useful resources in this area include:
http://sites.google.com/site/soundsgooduk/
QAA Code of Practice for the assurance of academic quality and standards in higher education, Section 6, Assessment of Students: Institutions provide appropriate and timely feedback to students on assessed work in a way that promotes learning and facilitates improvement but does not increase the burden of assessment.
Call for Comments: Handing it to students on a plate?
July 8th, 2010 | View Comments
QUILT event, date to be confirmed, 2011
Worries about spoon-feeding are widely expressed – but what is your experience?
According to Frank Furedi, “…handing out lecture notes is a really bad idea… [it] symbolises the growing estrangement of universities from a culture of studying. Handouts are the equivalent of the idiot’s guide of yesteryear… A handout culture helps foster a climate where ideas are not taken seriously.”
“I refuse to hand it to students on a plate” Frank Furedi
THES, 25 March 2005 http://ow.ly/24DHV
We’d like to know what you think.
- What would it mean to ‘hand it to them on a plate’? Is the use of handouts really in tension with taking ideas seriously?
- What is the opposite of spoon-feeding?
- If you use handouts, or other supplementary materials, why have you chosen to do so? Has your practice changed over time? Does it differ according to the course or module?
- What do you include in your supplementary materials? How do you design them? At what point do you make them available to students?
- What do you want students to do with them – and what do you think they actually do with them?
Leave a post here or send your rants, reflections or recommendations (up to 300 words, in a Word document) to education@cardiff.ac.uk. It’s not an abstract, you won’t have to write anything up, and if we use your reflections to prompt further discussion they will be anonymised!
eAssessment at Cardiff
May 27th, 2010 | View Comments
An exciting new development in technology to support learning, teaching and assessment is being rolled out at Cardiff University.
Questionmark Perception is an eAssessment system that enables computer-based assessments to be carried out. All staff will have access to create questions and publish tests via the web-interface for the system. In addition, there are also TWO licences available to each School for Windows-based authoring software, which allows a greater variety of question types to be used and will give more advanced options in creating questions, giving feedback to students and controlling how assessments run.
Please contact the University’s eAssessment Officer, Pete Obee (ObeePC@Cardiff.ac.uk) to suggest two members of staff from your School who would like to have access to the more sophisticated questioning software. Please be aware that these staff may need to be involved in supporting other members of staff in your School who need to use these advanced features that are not freely available through the web-interface version.
For all other staff requirements, please visit our Events page and check for future QMP Workshops.
Join the CUE at Cardiff…..!
May 27th, 2010 | View Comments
We are pleased to announce that from July 2010 the University will have an enhanced Virtual Learning Environment, to be known as CUE (Cardiff University E-learning).
CUE has an improved interface that brings the ‘look and feel’ in line with that of the MWE and makes the system much easier and more intuitive to use for staff and students. CUE will include added functionality that meets the requirements that have been conveyed by Schools.
All existing Blackboard modules will be rolled-over to the new CUE in July, as they have in previous years. Training materials to ensure staff can easily adapt to the slight changes within the CUE will be made available and familiarisation sessions for staff will be held in each School. It is anticipated that many of the familiarisation sessions will be conducted by staff within the Schools, with the materials that will be provided centrally; however, for any School that this will not be possible, central support to deliver these will be provided.
Please contact Peter Rayment, INSRV Learning and Teaching Manager, (RaymentPJ@Cardiff.ac.uk) if you will require additional support to deliver the sessions within your School so that these can be scheduled.
Learning & Teaching Bulletin May 2010
May 21st, 2010 | View Comments
The May edition of the Learning and Teaching Bulletin is now available and features: Innovative Education Projects 2010, Assessment Matters, Postgraduate Research Student Update, Seminars and Events and Cardiff Practice: Induction and Orientation.
New round of funded projects underway…
May 20th, 2010 | View Comments
A diverse range of enhancement projects are being undertaken by Schools and Directorates at the moment, supported by Learning and Teaching Committee funding for innovation.
The listed projects were successful in a typically competitive round of applications, and promise exciting developments for students and the wider University community. Contact the project leads to find out more, and check our seminars and events programme for the dissemination of outcomes.
G Roberts and D Hearle (SOHCS) – Appreciative Inquiry: developing a new learning and teaching approach to the end of life
J Price (CLAWS) and Dr P Mason (JOMEC) - Electronic case management learning: Cardiff University Innocence Projects
Dr D Watkins (SONMS), Prof P Dummer (DENTL) and Dr K Hawthorne (MEDIC) – Electronic feedback: pilot implementation of GradeMark to enhance feedback on students’ work
C Davies (DENTL) and Dr J Cowpe (PGMDE) – Evaluation, development and implementation of a Dental e-Portfolio
Dr J Anderson (CPLAN) - Integration of digital film technology into teaching and assessment
Dr H Shaw and Dr T Wilkinson (BIOSI) – Online anatomy tutorials
Dr T.C. Hales and Dr S Wakefield (EARTH) – Real-time virtual field trips: making environmental science accessible to everyone
Dr A Roberts (ARCHI) – Remote learning for overseas students
Dr S.A. Coulman (PHRMY), Dr D.N. John (PHRMY), Dr L. Woodgate (BIOSI), Dr M. Baker (BIOSI) and Dr R. Wilson (MATHS) – The design of a psychometrically robust formative and diagnostic numeracy tool for level 1 undergraduate students who are required to perform medicines-based calculations
Website Guided Tour
May 20th, 2010 | View Comments
Walk through the new Learning and Teaching Support website with the following presentation.
New fund available
March 23rd, 2010 | View Comments
The Development Fund for Technology-Enhanced Education is a new stream of support available to help Schools at Cardiff University further mainstream the use of technology into their programmes. The aim of the funding is to support Schools in developing their use of technology and incorporating technology that enhances the learning experience whilst meeting the learning outcomes of the module or programme. The call for submissions for project proposal is now live.
New look website
March 22nd, 2010 | View Comments
Look out for the new look Learning and Teaching Support Website, which was launched on March 23rd at the QUILT Conference on Technology Enhanced Education.
The website has all the same resources and information that you are used to, with the addition of information from different Directorates across the university. There is the option for you to interact with items on the website with, for example, the option to comment on news items. Please let us know what you think.
Learning & Teaching Bulletin October '09
October 1st, 2009 | View Comments
The October edition of the Learning and Teaching Bulletin is now available and features: revision of the promotions criteria; feedback from the ‘diary room’; PALET project; learning and teaching community; seminary and events; peer review of learning and teaching; HEA update and “clickers” case study.
Learning and Teaching Bulletin May '09
May 1st, 2009 | View Comments
The May edition of the Learning and Teaching Bulletin is now available and features: national recognition for Cardiff information literacy, innovative learning and teaching projects, higher education academy update, ideas and inspiration – simulations and role play, seminars and events and recent research.