» see abstract Abstract: This paper describes the re-design of a first year undergraduate unit to address tutor concerns about student engagement and performance. A traditional lecture and seminar format (with assessment via a two-hour written exam and a 3,000 word essay) was replaced with team working on weekly tasks assessed by a team portfolio (of items selected from the completed weekly tasks) and an individual oral examination. The outcomes of the re-design included increased student performance, improved progression rates and the elimination of plagiarism. But, there was also decreased student satisfaction. The implications of the outcomes are discussed.

Make them eat their greens?: reshaping teaching, learning and assessment of a first year undergraduate unit
Rachel Delbridge, Alicia Prowse, Sian Lambert

» see abstract Abstract: ‘The teaching–research nexus is central to higher education.’ (Jenkins et al 2007). Anecdotal and published evidence suggests that there may be barriers to some students and academic staff fully engaging with the research process. This project aimed to identify barriers to and opportunities for, students and staff in one University Faculty and their external partners, to collaborate in research. Current requirements for student research activity in that faculty were scoped. Semi-structured interviews and focus groups were carried out with academic staff, students and an external partner. Participants discussed research for and with students, particularly collaborative research between staff, students and/or external partners. Data analysis was based on Framework Analysis. Key themes included the purpose of student research, power relationships; equity of experiences; barriers/facilitators to collaborative research. The data highlighted diversity of student experiences, staff views and the possible duplication of research teaching. Implications for student/ staff research are discussed.

Integration and development of student, staff and external partner interest and engagement in research.
Julie Marshall

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Vol 8 Issue 2, Summer 2009 Linking Teaching and Research - view contents

  • Linking Research and Teaching in Microbiology Joanna Verran
  • Integration and development of student, staff and external partner interest and engagement in research Julie Marshall
  • Enhancing teaching-research links through active field-based learning and peer review Dawn Nicholson
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Vol 8 Issue 1, Spring 2009 Open Issue - view contents

  • ARGOSI: Alternate Reality Games for Orientation, Socialisation and Induction Rosie Jones, Nicola Whitton
  • Numeracy Skills and Employability Richard Cameron
  • From Boring to Exploring Sue Jepson
  • Real World Learning = Enhanced Employability Gianpaolo Vignali, Isabell Hodgson
  • Formative assessment models and their impact on Initial Teacher Training Debra Kidd
  • Attendance as a measure of student motivation and engagement Nicola Hughes
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Vol 7 Issue 3, Autumn 2008 Assessment - view contents

  • The University Assessment Framework Rachel Forsyth
  • Student Assessment Workloads: a review Alan Fielding
  • Final year undergraduate student plagiarism: academic staff and student perceptions Luke Armstrong, Rachel Delbridge
  • Teaching students about plagiarism Maureen Dawson, Joyce Overfield
  • Deploying formative assessment during field work: using a classroom response system (CRS) outdoors on an ecology fieldtrip Dr W Rod Cullen, Dr Mark Langan, Dr Robin Sen, Paul Chipman
  • Sociology of Cyberspace: Assessing Generation Y Helen Jones
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Vol 7 Issue 2, Summer 2008 Open Issue - view contents

  • Developing creativity amongst first year science undergraduates: art assignments in science curricula Joanna Verran
  • Active Learning in History Seminars Paul Oldfield
  • Use of vidcasts and their link to the performance of first year undergraduates at MMUBS Kieran Maguire
  • Are your students ready to study in an online or blended learning environment? Nicola Greaves
  • The MMUBS Podcast Project: Establishing the groundwork for a podosphere Nillan Fakira
  • Autonomy, Motivation and IT skills: Impacts on the engagement of Physiotherapy students with eLearning Claire Hamshire, Rod Cullen
  • Inclusive Learning and Assessment Practice: Feedback from d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students Dawn Nicholson
  • Student views of diversity in two faculties at MMU Susan Jacobs, Maureen Dawson, Emily Falconer
  • Destination Choice and MMU Cheshire Students Susan Curtis
  • Developing a Programme Strategy for Feedback on Assessed Work Rachel Forsyth
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Vol 7 Issue 1, Spring 2008 Podcasting - view contents

  • Assessing the use of Video and Audio Podcasts in the Teaching and Learning of Computing: A Pilot Study Atif Waraich
  • An evaluation of enhanced student support (including podcasting) on assessed course work achievement and student satisfaction Nick Scott
  • Eleven Months in Pod-casting Jane Matthews
  • Using Students' Assignments to Create a Library of Re-usable Learning Objects Philip Scown
  • Using YouTubeTM to deliver instructional videos in Exercise and Sport Science Adrian Burden, Ed Parker
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Vol 6 Issue 3, Autumn 2007 Ensuring Student Success - view contents

  • Re-imagining the Student Experience: UK Higher Education in the 21st Century Liz Marr
  • Understanding our Students' Motivations and Expectations Maria Wowk
  • No Time to Study Helen Rowe
  • Why do Foundation Year Students Fail to Attend their Classes? Nicola Hughes, Pauline Hearn
  • Ensuring Student Success for d/Deaf1 and Hard of Hearing Students at MMU Dawn Nicholson
  • Developing Online Assessments within Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism Education Christopher Mitchell
  • Feedback and Student Retention Dawn Nicholson, Mark Langan
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Vol 6 Issue 2, Summer 2007 Open Issue - view contents

  • What makes PDP work for students? Pauline Hearn
  • Distinctive Dialogues - The International E-communication Exchange Helen Jones
  • Supporting Large Group Teaching: the use of two complementary interactive learning strategies May Assawi, Maureen Dawson
  • Benchmarking e-Learning at MMU Bill Johnston
  • Blog Technology at MMUBS: Collaboration and Reflection in Student Learning - a research outcome Nillan Fakira
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Vol 6 Issue 1, Spring 2007 Encouraging Independence - view contents

  • Training for Independent Learning Karen Peters, Rosie Jones, David Matthews
  • Café Culture: The Use of Knowledge Cafés as an Innovative Learning Teaching Method Rachel McLean
  • Employability and the International Agenda Sharon Handley
  • Student Satisfactions in using Work Packs as aids to learning Ken Parsons
  • Experiences with developing an online Certificate in Egyptology at the University of Manchester Anita Gill
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Vol 5 Issue 1, Winter 2006 Widening Participation - view contents

  • Full Circle Widening Participation - developing a model based on the student experience and student success at MMU Cheshire Joss West-Burnham
  • Diversity and Achievement: how non-traditional students succeed in Higher Education Kate Kirk
  • The Social Construction of the New Student Liz Marr
  • Who Helps the Helpers? an interim report on work in progress Peter Millen
  • Aimhigher at MMU Peter Riley
  • Aspiration or Attainment - what are we trying to achieve? Susan McGrath
  • Raising Achievement and Aspirations Through Football Karen Duggan
  • Introducing ALIC at AUT - Enhancing learning and teaching with linguistically and culturally diverse students Lorraine Parker, Alison Kirkness
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Vol 4 Issue 1, Summer 2005 Information Technology - view contents

  • Metaphors for University Teaching Kim McShane
  • Supporting First Year Undergraduates through Blended Learning Margaret Kendall, Alicia Prowse
  • 3 Years of E-learning - the guinea pigs bite back! Helen Jones
  • Attendance System Liz Marr, Guy Lancaster
  • The JISC Plagiarism Detection Service Revisited Bill Johnston
  • Sociology Students Submit! to the JISC Plagiarism Detection Service Maria Wowk
  • A 3D Response to Reducing Cut-and-paste Plagiarism Using the JISC Plagiarism Detection Service Ian Martin, Mark Stubbs
  • The PlaySMART Research Project: promoting thinking through physical education Tom Bell
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Vol 3 Issue 3, Winter 2004 Focusing on Students - view contents

  • Conceptualising the Student-Tutor Relationship: Adventures in Marxist and Realist Analysis David Webster
  • Developing and Sharing Best Practice: some key issues and principles Della Fazey
  • Plagiarism Project 2002 - 2004: A how NOT to do it guide for students Bill Johnston
  • Designing Out Plagiarism and Supporting Widening Participation: a strategy implemented to support a technical unit, with online submission Richard Eskins
  • Enhancing Feedback to Students: Technology Can Help Jonathan Willson
  • Degrees of Uncertainty or TIPS for Success? Oiling the wheel rather than reinventing it Gill Rice, Karen Duggan
  • The Employability of History Students David Nicholls
  • Diversity and Achievement Kate Kirk
  • LT2004 fast-forward: A winning formula? Mike Cole
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Vol 3 Issue 2, Summer 2004 Reflection, Work in Progress and Successes - view contents

  • Quality Assurance of Open and Distributed Learning Jim Petch
  • QA for Online Courses - A View from the Shop Floor Alan Fielding, Simon Harris, Sue King
  • UNIGIS - Quality Assurance Crossing Borders David Lambrick
  • How Quality Assurance Can Learn From Distributed Learning Louise Walmsley
  • Quality Assurance In Open, Distance and Online Learning: From Cottage Industry Into The Mainstream Fred Lockwood
  • Integrating eLearning into University Procedures at UMIST Bland Tomkinson, Simon Perry
  • The Role of Evaluation in the Quality Assurance of eLearning Professor Grainne Conole
  • Inside and Outside the UK Quality Assurance Box: some issues for open and distributed learning Bernadette Robinson
  • Certificating Your Quality Assurance Richard Freeman
  • Quality Assurance in Open and Distance Learning: A National Perspective Professor John Slater
  • Collaborative Provision, and Flexible and Distributed Learning (Including e-Learning): QAA’s Revised Code Of Practice Peter Williams
  • Learning by Doing Lisa Oakley, Katherine Kinmond
  • Embodying Theory: Choreographic 'style' explored through Labanotation (Dancing off the page) Rachel Duerden
  • Research in Progress: Good practice in Open and Distance Learning – the experience of postgraduate students on the Postgraduate Diploma/MA in Health Promoting Practice Mary Issitt
  • Professional and Academic Development through Externally Funded Initiatives, or, Why should teaching staff get involved in 'Reach-Out'? Gaye Heathcote
  • Plagiarism Detection and JISC Bill Johnston
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Vol 3 Issue 1, Spring 2004 Professional Development - view contents

  • Developing the Workforce: learning and teaching in Action David Skidmore
  • Framework for Online Professional Development Santosh Panda
  • Survey of Academic and Professional Development Needs Nuala Byrne
  • Staff Development for Open and Flexible Learning Colin Latchem
  • Getting the Balance Right: Developing a Blended Approach to the Support of Technology Rachel Forsyth
  • The European Computer Driving Licence within MMU: The perceptions and performance of participants in the training programme Fred Lockwood
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Vol 2 Issue 3, Autumn 2003 Enhancing Learning and Teaching: Things Which Made a Difference - view contents

  • Blended Learning: One Small Step Mark Stubbs, Ian Martin
  • Real-time Lesson Observation: using technology in teacher training to learn about technology in the classroom Maureen Haldane
  • Telestia AB Multi Media CD Rom - Pattern Technology Clare Culliney
  • Using e-learning technology for student support - an early adopter's experiences Peter Cuthbert
  • An evaluation of the perceived importance and success of a Department-level key skills scheme Nuala Byrne
  • Trends in Faculty Use and Perceptions of E-Learning Som Naidu
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Vol 2 Issue 2, Summer 2003 Flexible and Lifelong Learning - view contents

  • Lifelong Learning Priorities Rob Halsall
  • Flexible Learning within MMU: Working smarter not harder Fred Lockwood
  • “What the ..@#~* PDP* < $*|>.. is going on ?” Trevor Williamson
  • How adults really learn - or what we think we know about how they learn! Jane Artess
  • 'Transformative' Models for Learning, Teaching and Academic Professional Development � A �Self-ish� Approach Shaheena Abbass
  • Developing a Departmental Employability Strategy Chrissie Gibson
  • The eUniversity David Lambrick
  • Skills for Lifelong Learning: A Progress Report Louise Willmot
  • Professional Modern Apprenticeships Vic Leyden
  • Lifelong Learning Means You Too: A Review of Staff Development Activity Hannah Peace
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Vol 2 Issue 1, Winter 2003 Assessment - view contents

  • The Concept of Plagiarism Bill Johnston
  • Plagiarism Detection Software - a new JISC service Rachel Forsyth
  • Can students assess students effectively? Some insights into peer-assessment A Mark Langan, C Philip Wheater
  • Exploring the potential of Multiple-Choice Questions in Assessment Edwina Higgins, Laura Tatham
  • Developing a new assessment strategy Gaynor Lea-Greenwood
  • Assessing the Un-assessable Tim Dunbar
  • How to assess disabled students without breaking the law Mike Wray
  • Returning Feedback to Students via Email Using Electronic Feedback 9 Philip Denton
  • Tools for Computer-Aided Assessment Alan Fielding, Enid Bingham
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Vol 1 Issue 3, Autumn 2002 Student Support - view contents

  • A "Holistic" Approach to Support for Learning Kate Kirk
  • Learning in the Therapeutic Relationship Stuart Beckett, Yvonne Harris
  • The Role of a Counselling Service in Student Retention Carol Lomax
  • Creating Accessible Learning Materials Mike Wray
  • The Contribution of Assistive Technology in Supporting Students Ian Webb
  • Teaching students and supporting learning – is it the same thing? Sue Bailey
  • Teaching To Develop Employability Jan Moore
  • Building career development learning into the curriculum: working in partnership with the Careers Service Mark Kent
  • Guidance and Career Development Learning - an outcome of a research project into identifying the advice and guidance needs of Small � Medium sized Employers (SMEs) Jane Artess
  • Provision of Key Skills using Online Materials Rachel Forsyth
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Vol 1 Issue 2, Summer 2002 Information Technology - view contents

  • WebCT at Manchester Metropolitan University: progress and possibilities Rachel Forsyth
  • Developing Links Using Online Learning Rachel Harradine
  • Of Mice and Pen John Pal, Mark Stubbs
  • Using online learning to disseminate disability-related staff development materials Mike Wray
  • Independent Online Learning : Enhancing the Student Experience Michael Cole
  • Introducing Online Learning in the Curriculum - Ensuring an Inclusive Learning Experience Kate Kirk
  • Adding an extra dimension: the experience of using WebCT for the Literature and its Readers option Margaret Kendall
  • WebCT in the Arctic - evaluating the first module for a new university Bill Johnston
  • Developments in Lecture Theatre Technology Robert Ready
  • Lecture Delivery Using MS PowerPoint: Staff and Student Perspectives at MMU Dawn Nicholson
  • The European Computer Driving Licence Pilot Scheme Jerry Niman
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Vol 1 Issue 1, Spring 2002 Widening Participation and Access - view contents

  • Widening Participation and Student Support Sheila Aynsley Smith
  • Overcoming barriers - widening access for all students Ann Barlow
  • The University Foundation Year: a Work in Progress Karen Moore
  • Online mentoring - a role in Widening Participation? Mark Kent
  • Widening Participation - Supporting Students to Improve Retention Pauline Hearn
  • The Attraction, Support and Retention Project Philip Lloyd, Louise Willmot
  • Connexions: a bridge for Widening Participation Lydia Meryll
  • Visit days: do they really encourage students to choose us? Susan McGrath
  • Widening Participation: the National Challenge Geoff Layer
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