Success for two Bradford projects
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Group work resource wins double national recognition
As a partner in the LearnHigher Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), the University has been developing resources to support student group-work.
The online multimedia resource ‘Making groupwork work’(http://www.learnhigher.ac.uk/learningareas/groupwork/home.htm), developed in partnership with LearnHigher colleagues from Leeds and Brunel, won two national competitions – the Epigeum Award for Most Effective Use of Video 2009 (http://www.alt.ac.uk/awards.html) and the Jorum Learning and Teaching Competition 2009 (http://www.jorum.ac.uk/community/altcCompetition.html).
Prof Peter Hartley, Director of the University’s Centre for Academic Practice, collected the awards at the Association for Learning Technology’s Annual conference in September. The Bradford staff involved in the development of the resource were Vicki Illingworth (now with Escalate) and Peter Hartley from TQEG.
Prof Hartley, is working on the further development and dissemination of the resource with Mark Dawson from the Learner Development Unit. He said: “We have already received very positive feedback from staff and tutors who have used the resource and these awards will help us to extend its use and develop it further.”
ALPS picks up prestigious award from the mobile learning industry's most famous conference
The Handheld Learning Awards for Innovation (http://www.handheldlearning2009.com/awards) were held in London on 5th October 2009during the Handheld Learning Conference. Attended by more than 1,500 international delegates, the Conference is the world’s leading event about learning assisted by mobile technologies. ALPS (Assessment & Learning in Practice Settings) (http://www.alps-cetl.ac.uk/) walked away with the ‘Best Innovation’ Award in the Tertiary, Further Education and Higher Education category.
ALPS is an ambitious, collaborative programme involving the University of Bradford and four other Yorkshire universities, 16 health and social care professions, the NHS, the Strategic Health Authority and commercial partners (ecommnet, MyKnowledgeMap and T-Mobile). Its mission is to improve the competence and confidence of graduating health and social care students by improving the standard and delivery of work based learning and assessment.
Prof Trudie Roberts, Director of ALPS said, ‘I am delighted that ALPS’ achievements have been recognised by the Handheld Learning Awards. Learning and teaching are at the centre of ALPS work and our aim is to improve the experience of students, helping them to become competent and confident professionals. Going mobile allows us to support students on placement where there is often no access to PCs or the internet, allowing them to feel connected in what can be a lonely and challenging environment. This award is a testament to the innovative work being undertaken by ALPS, and the contribution of all the people involved in the programme across five universities and 16 health and social care professions.’
