Courses available
All courses take place in the Learning Space, Woodbury 137, unless stated otherwise.
We also offer bespoke sessions on these topics or any other learning and teaching matters.
Please contact us if you want a session set up for your department or group. To book on the workshops listed below please contact Flo (e.floisand@worc.ac.uk) on ext 5505.
Implementing the Generic Assessment Criteria
Wednesday 28th November 2007
12 noon – 2pm
The generic grade descriptors for all work assessed within the undergraduate regulatory framework were updated in June 2007 to take effect from September 2007. The descriptors were changed to take greater account of national frameworks. This workshop will explore the changes to the grade descriptors and identify any changes that might need to be made to subject specific grade descriptors issues to students by academic departments.
Teaching Large Groups
Wednesday 12th December 2007
12 noon – 2pm
As the University continues to grow, more and more subject areas are seeking advice about teaching large groups. This session will examine ideas and advice on organising and supporting learning in large groups and will offer the chance to share and develop effective practice.
Assessment Criteria at Masters Level
30th January 2008, 10am - 12 noon
While generic grade descriptors have been in place for many years at undergraduate
level, there have, to date, never been a shared set of grade descriptors at
Masters level. This workshop will examine some existing taught Masters grade
descriptors and discuss the practicality of developing and implementing a
generic framework.
Seminar Sessions:
Tuesday 6th November 2007, 12.30pm - 2pm, Room MB1.123
Shaun Hughes:Creating and Exploring a 3-dimensional metaphor
Drawing on the work of De Bono and Gardner, this interactive workshop will explore creative approaches to teaching and learning. The group will engage in an individual 3D modelling event and will demonstrate an alternative way of exploring a complex issue.
Thursday 22nd November 2006, 12.30pm – 2pm, Room MB164
Will Bowen-Jones, Leverne Barber & Louise Martin:
Using Peer Observation to Promote E-Learning within a Department
Iriday 7th December, 12.30pm – 2pm,
MB1.57
Colin Price:
Unrealpowerpoint - a new "instructional" technology
Embedding PowerPoint slides into a computer Game Engine offers many learning
and teaching affordances above the sequential PowerPoint presentation. A short
demonstration will be given, and the associated theoretical grounding introduced
(Concept Maps, Experiential Learning and Collaborative Learning). This will
be followed by a discussion which hopefully will feed back into the development
of this technology.
To be re-arranged in 2008:
Lol Truman:
Block diagrams - an aid to developing the skills of critical analysis and intellectual rigour
The concepts of critical analysis and intellectual rigour although encouraged and rewarded in the Applied Sciences could be more effectively taught. The use of block diagrams to remove prose from the documentation of ideas and the development of theories and processes encourages the student to develop skills in these areas. The two families of block diagrams, flow and web, have different properties; the former allowing logical planning of research, events and even module outlines whilst the latter allows the student to explore the complex and insecure nature of academic knowledge at its cutting edge. Further, by imposing secondary structures on such diagrams commercial skills such as time and resource management can be supported. Finally such diagrams make effective ‘quick guides’/’aide memoires’ and are increasingly being used in the areas such as health delivery and commercial planning and productivity.
Miriam Isaac:
Teaching Support
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