Educational Development Team at Bradford (TQEG)
Latest developments, news and thoughts.
20 July 2010
2010 National Teaching Fellows
Congratulations to:
* Becka Currant, Dean of Students
* Peter Hopkinson, Director of Education for Sustainable Development
Both were honoured with National Teaching Fellowship awards in the 2010 individual awards category see http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/supportingindividuals/ntfs for more details.
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Baroness Lockwood Awards for Distinguished Teaching
This year's awards go to:
* Dr Tim Gough, IRC in Polymer Engineering, School of Engineering, Design & Technology;
* Jessica Guth, Bradford Law School, School of Management
* Stuart Walker, Disabilities Service, Learner Support Services
Congratulations to all three.
Posted by Ruth Whitfield at 13:55
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01 February 2010
Bradford's got T&LENT
9th Annual Learning, Teaching & Assessment Conference
Lunchtime Monday 7 June 2010 to teatime Tuesday 8 June 2010
To keep up to date with the details see http://www.brad.ac.uk/lss/tqeg/conferences/2010/index.php
Posted by Ruth Whitfield at 08:56
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Let's talk and other L&T Conversations
A study at the University of Roehampton found that academic staff valued chatting and sharing as a CPD activity; our own consultations for developing the vision for the Academic Policy Framework also highlighted the benefit of engaging in conversation. To take this further, ADEPT now offers Let’s talk, an online space for learning and teaching conversations. As a start, I have been thinking about encapsulating what a Bradford degree is about and have posted my thoughts on Let’s talk; your views are welcomed.
To get to Let’s talk, go to the ADEPT web site http://www.bradford.ac.uk/adept/ and click on L&T Conversations; you will be prompted for your Bradford username and password.
Professor Nigel Lindsey
Professor of Life Science Education
Director of Learning and Teaching
Posted by Ruth Whitfield at 08:45
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16 October 2009
Funding opportunities
For details of the latest funding opportunities from the HE Academy and links to other funding opportunities see http://www.bradford.ac.uk/lss/tqeg/project-funding/index.php
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Success for two Bradford projects
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.’
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19 August 2009
IT at risk periods - Possibly no Blackboard, PebblePad, Turnitin etc etc
IT at risk periods for 2009-10 are:
21-23 December 2009
4-8 January 2010
7-9 April 2010
19-23 July 2010
Upgrades and essential maintenance take place during these periods, therefore, none of the IT systems can be guaranteed although disruption will be kept to the minimum possible. Please plan assignment deadlines etc around these periods or make contingency plans for services being out of action.
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18 August 2009
An innovative approach to delivering questionmark assessments - Questionmark Podcast
In this podcast, John Dermo, our e-Assessment Advisor, explains the technology behind our innovative e-assessment facility that uses cutting-edge thin client technology.
http://blog.questionmark.com/podcast-an-innovative-approach-to-delivering-questionmark-assessments
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21 April 2009
HEA Free 1hr Online Seminar Series: Audio Supported Learning - May 1st 2009 14:00-15:00, British summer time. (GMT+1)
Our online seminar series continues with what we hope will be a really insightful session on the use of audio. Not just in providing feedback but also supporting self assessment and collaborative learning - not just the successes but what worked and what didn't. The seminar is being run by the engineering subject centre but the techniques apply to any discipline, indeed our presenter has worked with educators from many disciplines in building his understanding. Details below:
The use of spoken word audio can hugely improve the effectiveness of giving and receiving feedback for both student and lecturer, in all disciplines, not just in engineering. There are times when this approach will literally revolutionize this most critical academic discourse, but there are traps for the unwary and technology to tame before the benefits can be realized.
Will Stewart from the University of Bradford will introduce the work undertaken by him in partnership with Hertfordshire University and host a debate and answer questions about the practical application of audio. We expect to also hear the experiences of Bob Rotheram, manager for the 'Sounds Good' project, a pilot of audio feedback for student work at Leeds Metropolitan.
http://www.engsc.ac.uk/nef/events/onlineseries/onlineseminaraudio.asp
This page includes details of the event, a 6 min. vidcast to provide an introduction, preparation and initiators for the online discussion, how to sign up to the seminar, what equipment you need, technical support and what to do on the day.
Hope to meet you soon online,
Rob Pearce
Information Systems & Learning Technology
Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Centres
Room W.1.36
Sir David Davies Building, Loughborough University
Leicestershire, LE11 3TU
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06 April 2009
New Help Movies
The following are available from http://www.brad.ac.uk/lss/tqeg/pebblepad/
Student help movies
* Editing a webfolio - This video shows you how to edit your webfolio
* Taking the SaPRA profile - This video shows you how to take the SaPRA skills audit profile
* Submitting a webfolio for assessment - This video shows you how to make sure that your work is avaialable to be marked by your tutors.
* Taking a Proforma - You may be asked to fill in a specific form in PebblePAD. This video shows you how to do this.
Staff help movies
* Setting up a Gateway - This video shows how to set up a gateway for assessed work.
* Adding an External Examiner to a Gateway - This video shows how you can add an external examiner to a gateway so they can look at the student work and your feedback.
* Marking student work in a Gateway - This video takes you through the process of marking student work in a Gateway.
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