Learning and Teaching Week 2007
Learning and Teaching Week 2007 (19 -21 March) offered a range of workshops that any member of staff could attend and included input from Students. There was a display of posters from UG and PG students in the Hartley Library with a prize awarded for the best poster.
This is the programme of events organised for the week. The seminars took place in the Hartley Library Seminar Room and the keynote was given in the Turner Sims concert hall.
Exhibitions and displays
Monday 19 March – Wednesday 21 March on Level 4 of the Hartley Library |
Exhibition of Research Posters by Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students Each School has been invited to contribute one undergraduate and one postgraduate research poster, to be displayed on Level 4 in the Hartley Library. Please come and take a look, then vote for the ones that you feel are most effective, before midday on Wednesday. We will count your votes and present two awards for ‘best poster’ at the keynote session in the Turner Sims. |
Online |
Innovative Research-led Work by Students Several Schools have offered us interesting alternatives to exhibition posters, and since these were all available online they have been linked here: A 5-minute MP3 audio podcast that describes award-winning postgraduate projects by seven students studying Operational Research and Management Sciences. A 13-minute online video that showcases project work done by students from the School of Management working with local entrepreneurs. The following two websites were created as part of the assessment on GEOG3003 Fieldwork Techniques in Human Geography. The course started with a fieldtrip in Berlin in September 2006, during which groups of five students each formulated their own research projects and undertook field research to investigate the research questions they had developed. For each group, the field research was conducted along a 'transect' through Berlin and focussed upon an aspect of the everyday life of the city. The websites outline the context, theoretical background and methodology for these research projects, and discuss the research findings. |
Monday 19 March – 11.00 – 2.00 in the Staff Club near the Arlott Bar |
Developing Inclusive Approaches to Learning Teaching and Assessment Jane Seale (School of Education) will be launching a new DVD about inclusive learning, teaching and assessment practices at Southampton. Representatives from the Inclusion Task Force as well as student support services will also be available to provide an overview of the resources and services available to disabled students and the staff who are supporting their learning. |
Tuesday 20 March 10.00 – 3.00 in the Staff Club near the Arlott Bar |
Higher Education Academy - support for specific disciplines The Higher Education Academy (HEA) subject centres for Social Work and Policy (SWAP) and Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS) are hosted by the University. They will have an exhibition stand and display materials from all HEA subject centres. |
Tuesday 20 March
Tuesday 20 March 9.30 – 11.00 in the Library Seminar Room |
What is student-centred, research-led teaching? This panel discussion, chaired by Dr Ian Williams (School of Civil Engineering and the Environment) will start with a video of students’ views and then explore different definitions and interpretations of this central theme from the University’s Learning and Teaching Strategy. The video is available online - it requires QuickTime version 7 installed (a free download from Apple) |
Break
Tuesday 20 March 11.30 – 1.00 in the Library Seminar Room |
Podcasting and the Changing Face of Lectures Dr Jon Copley (School of Ocean and Earth Sciences) will talk about his experiences using audio and video recordings (podcasts) to support learning, including student feedback. In the second half of the session, Adam Warren (LATEU) will join Jon to show how podcasts can be created and distributed [online resources]. You can see a Windows Media Video of the whole presentation (30 mins - 10MB) or just the conclusions (3 min - 1.8 MB) |
Break - lunch
Tuesday 20 March 2.00 – 3.30 in the Library Seminar Room |
Integrating employability into research-led teaching Ros Foskett (School of Education) will consider what ‘employability’ means for students studying in a research-led university and how we can build interventions into the curriculum which enhance students’ skills and attitudes. There will be an opportunity to hear about examples of good practice within the university from those already engaged in this work. |
Break
Tuesday 20 March 4.00 - 5.30 CANCELLED |
Innovative Research-led Work by Students Several Schools have offered us interesting alternatives to exhibition posters which we have made available online - see the box near the top of this page. |
Wednesday 21 March
Wednesday 21 March 9.30 – 11.00 in the Library Seminar Room |
Research Skills Training for Postgraduate Students Chris Howls (School of Mathematics) will outline their new training programme for PGR students. This has involved the School in three national consortia to deliver an extensive programme of taught courses using conventional and innovative formats. Sue Heath (ESCR National Centre for Research Methods) and Tim Leighton (ISVR) will also be contributing. |
Break
Wednesday 21 March 11.30 – 1.00 in the Library Seminar Room |
The Assessment Landscape at Southampton Rosalynd Jowett (School of Nursing and Midwifery) will talk about the findings of the recent institutional assessment audit and its implications for students and tutors at this University. |
Break - lunch
Wednesday 21 March 2.00 – 3.30 in the Library Seminar Room |
Sharing Good Practice: VC Teaching Award Winners Liz Elvidge (Director of LATEU) will chair this session in which winners of the 2006 Vice Chancellor's Teaching Awards will discuss the impact their work has had within and beyond their Schools, the factors that have helped or hindered them and advice for tutors who wish to innovate. |
Break
Wednesday 21 March 4.00 – 5.30 – Keynote Address in the Turner Sims concert hall |
Points of Focus: strategies for engagement of teachers and learners in higher education Dr Keith Johnstone is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Plant Sciences and Principal Investigator of a Cambridge-MIT Institute funded project to devise and implement new teaching practices. He will talk about the project and the impact that it is having on teaching and student learning. A streaming video of this talk is now available - requires Windows Media Player. The presentation is available as a PDF file. |
Thursday 22 March
Thursday 22 March 11.00 - 1.30 NOC Conference Room, School of Ocean and Earth Sciences |
Student Ambassadors – Our University Working With Schools The aim of this event is to share and celebrate our experiences of student ambassadors, and it will be of particular interest to colleagues who have outreach, curriculum development or employability roles. |
Break
Thursday 22 March 12.45 - 3.00 NOC Conference Room, School of Ocean and Earth Sciences |
Undergraduate Ambassador Scheme/Student Ambassador Scheme planning meeting The main purpose of the meeting is to identify some options for the future delivery of student ambassador schemes. This meeting will be of interest to Schools who currently deliver the Undergraduate Ambassador Scheme (UAS), or who plan to offer UAS and also to staff who have a role in the delivery of the Student Ambassador Scheme. |
Photos
The display of research posters by undergraduate and postgraduate students. 'Our Water 2026' was the undergraduate winner.
There was a display about Inclusive approaches to teaching and learning in the Staff Club.
Jon Copley's session on podcasting proved especially popular.
Dr Keith Johnstone gave a fascinating keynote about his work for a Cambridge-MIT Institute funded project to devise and implement new teaching practices.
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