L&T Forums Archive
Learning & Teaching Development held a number of Learning
& Teaching Forums showcasing a great variety of projects and
good practices happening across York St John. This page lists the
showcased projects and provides links to PowerPoint
slides.
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Liviana Ferrari and Dasha Zhurauskaya
"e-Portfolios for language learning and assessment"
The presentation showcase a
pilot project which reviewed its existing paper-based portfolios
with the view of replacing them with an open source ePortfolio
system (Mahara) in the future. As part of the project, the tutor
(who was also the project leader) provided the students with
recorded video feedback on a spoken assignment.
For a PowerPoint
presentation, please click
here.
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Celine Kingman
"Challenging the
apparatus: supporting and enhancing both student learning and
career aspirations using e-Portfolios"
The session described the curriculum
project in Film & TV designed to utilise the Mahara
e-Portfolio system ‘as a tool for embedding Professional
Development within Module Content.’ As a programme long
engaged in employability and using paper-based portfolios for
assessment for several years, the project endeavoured to aid the
identification and reflection upon skills (written, presentational,
technical, research) that were tied into module content and
relevant career aspirations, hence adopting a technology which had
facets more closely resembling the marketing approaches adopted
across the industry.
This initial report reflected on key issues
which were raised as part of the experiences of not only
practically establishing Mahara as a workable platform, but
using E-Portfolios to develop learning and teaching practices.
For a PowerPoint presentation, please click
here.
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Andreas Walmsley and Glynn
Littlewood
"What's in the News?
Using case studies in business education”
The session focused on the
use of case studies in a final year module at undergraduate level.
Case studies that drew on current issues in business were used at
the start of each lecture with an aim to motivate students and
thereby lead to an enhanced learning experience.
For a PowerPoint presentation, please click
here.
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Mike Hickman
“Digital audio technology
to encourage student engagement, reflection and
assessment”
The presentation was about
the use of Livescribe pens and similar technologies, enhanced by
stimulated recall, to revisit learning and encourage
reflection.
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Alison Hayes and Daniel
Mackley
"Independent learning
materials-encouraging active student engagement with Supported
Open Learning (SOL)”
This presentation was about the creation of a weekly package of
SOL activities to provide exercises with feedback and to encourage
self-assessment, reflection and greater engagement in the learning
process.
For a PowerPoint presentation, please click here.
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Matthew Reason and Nick Rowe
"Arts and
Narrative: Telling our stories from the Counselling Room to
Performance Space"
In the autumn of 2011, a group of third year theatre students
and counselling students met each week with Andy Pendle and Nick
Rowe to tell and perform stories from their own lives through
playback theatre. The PowerPoint presentation about the
project is available here.
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Mike Wray and Catherine
Samiei
"Developing inclusive teaching and
learning strategies at York St John University"
York St John University prides itself in its inclusive approach
to higher education but what do we mean by that statement? This
presentation outlined an innovative project which seeked to deliver
on our promise by engaging with curriculum issues and explored how
we ensure that students experience an inclusive university.
For a PowerPoint presentation, please click here.
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Mandy Asghar
"What’s a
Dialogue Day?"
This learning and teaching lunchtime
workshop provided an opportunity for staff to:
- find out about the benefits and challenges of running dialogue
days
- hear what students thought about the dialogue days that already
took place
- provided resources to design this session for staff and
students.
For a PowerPoint presentation, please click
here.