Innovation Fund 2014: Running order for Dissemination and Welcome Event, 9th Dec 2013
2-2.15pm Welcome and introduction, Chris Phillips and Simon Pallett (Innovation Fund panel members)
Presentation block / Project leads / Project summary2.15-2.45pm / FMS Institute for Ageing and Health – Laura Greaves and Ellen Tullo / Investigating what students know, and need to know, about ageing. Designing and piloting a cross-Faculty module about ageing for all UG students to support the Societal Challenge Theme of Ageing and Health.
HaSS Education Communication and Language Sciences – Rene Koglbauer (staff) and Paul Miller (EdD student) / Piloting a project in which students (typically international PG students) work together to better understand both the UK educational system and to compare and understand national education systems in each other’s home countries. Organising visits for PG students to local primary and secondary schools both so they learn more about UK schools and to link with local schools’ priorities on developing intercultural understanding.
SAgE Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials – Jarka Glassey. SAgE – Katie Wray. Careers Service – Jess Jung. / Researching, piloting and establishing a robust framework for the assessment of professional skills in view of increased student numbers and intended increased involvement of students in industrial placements.
10min break for discussion and refreshments
Presentation block / Project team / Project summary2.55-3.25pm / FMS Graduate School – Lynne Rawles, Alison Clapp. FMS MSED – Laura Delgatty / Investigating the use of ReCap personal capture recording software and dropbox for distance learning students and tutors to use in online viewing of and feedback on assessments. Employing students to investigate and test using the software in this way, and to write and test a student user guide.
Student Wellbeing – Kate Aitchison/Michelle Robson. Computing Science – Marie Devlin / Developing a Cognitive Behaviour Therapy app to support students experiencing depression and/or anxiety.
FMS Biomedical Sciences – Lindsey Ferrie / The ‘Feedback Foghorn’. Starting from an awareness that both students and staff are disengaged with HE feedback, and suggesting that ‘simpler’ is better than ‘more’ feedback processes. Establishing staff and student perceptions and expectations of feedback , then developing an integrating a feedback ePortfolio directly linked to early stage assessments. The feedback ePortfolio should help students engage with their feedback as part of a reflective process and also show staff whether students have read their feedback and used it in writing reflective summaries.
15min break for discussion and refreshments
Presentation block / Project team / Project summary3.40-4.10pm / HaSS School of Modern Languages – Jean-Christophe (JC) Penet / Supporting final-year students to act as learning facilitators and peer advisors to enhance first-year students’ linguistic progress and career awareness. Using ePortfolio to deliver peer feedback.
HaSS Law – Kathryn Hollingsworth / Supporting Law students to undertake part-time pro bono placements with LegaCare, a local charity that provides legal advice and representation to people in the North East diagnosed with major illness.
SAgE Mechanical and Systems Engineering – Didier Talamona, Kenny Dalgarno, John Lockey / Understanding the difference in perceptions of peer evaluation from MSE students (and staff) in the UK and in Singapore, and reasons for this difference. Research in partnership with Civil Engineering and Geosciences.
10min break for discussion and refreshments
Presentation block / Project team / Project summary4.20-4.50pm / HaSS History Classics and Archaeology (Archaeology) – Jan Harding / Supporting student to plan, deliver and disseminate a field investigation, using ePortfolio to help them recognise the skills they are using and developing.
SAgE Mathematics and Statistics – Lee Fawcett / Investigating the use of case-based teaching in statistics service courses as a way to improve student participation and motivation, and to promote a deeper learning of course material rather than a surface learning of how to pass assessments. Focussing on how to assess the deeper learning this case-based teaching promotes, including self- and peer-assessment forms and self- and group-reflection video recordings.
SAgE Electrical and Electronic Engineering – Jon Goss. SAgE Marine Science and Technology – Sara Marsham. SAgE Biology – Alison Graham. SAgE Faculty/QuILT – Christie Harner / Trialling electronic marking and feedback using GradeMark on a selection of coursework submissions. Developing clearer marking criteria and libraries of comments for use in electronic marking.
10min break for discussion and refreshments
5pm End of event
Innovation Fund information is online: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/quilt/resources/excellence/innovationfund.htm
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