Providing consolidated feedback to students
Do your students complain that they are unclear about how action is taken in response to their feedback? Want to enhance the ways in which you let your students know how their programme is being improved? Continue reading “Closing the Loop”
Following on from the success of this year’s Edubites Teaching Excellence series, Newcastle Educators bring you the Learning Excellence series. Continue reading “Newcastle Educators Learning Excellence Series 2017-18”
UKCISA (The UK Council for International Student Affairs) is offering small grants for projects (£2,000) and research (up to £5,000) to support the international student experience. Continue reading “Funding Opportunity: UKCISA Supporting International Students”
In our recent Pizza Pop and Practice event, Dr Ahmed Kharrufa and Dr Tom Bartindale from OpenLab let us loose on an app that Tom has been developing over the last few years called Bootlegger.
Bootlegger makes it easy to help people make videos together using mobile applications. One person creates a “Shoot” and invites others “the crew” to contribute. The Shoot contains a template with the set of shots required in the video. The crew sign into Bootlegger, join the shoot and then choose the shot to take from the template.
We used a template that Ahmed had offered to his students – one designed to help them capture feedback on Ahmed’s teaching. (A uniquely student centred view!)
Our film crew of 21 experimented and happily collected over 47 clips. Each person could then view all the clips in the shoot and curate a video by adding clips to a timeline.
Bootlegger made the process really easy and engaging.
You can find out more information about Bootlegger here:
Ahmed also introduced us to how the Event Movement site https://eventmovement.co.uk/ site could be used to enable students to co-design teaching sessions.
Ideas in Event Movement move through stages Promote -> Get involved -> Plan it. Students were invited to contribute ideas for a teaching session, they could vote on the proposed topics and once the topic of the event was selected could get involved in co-designing the session – proposing and voting on different ideas. Ahmed’s slides from the session give further details.
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Record Response Rates
Both the Postgraduate Research Experience Survey and the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey closed with the highest response rates that Newcastle University has ever achieved at 65% and 57% respectively.
This is a fantastic achievement which would not be possible without the continued support and promotion of the surveys from colleagues across the university, thank you!
High Satisfaction
In terms of Newcastle’s overall satisfaction rate for the PRES, 85% of students agreed with the statement ‘Overall, I am satisfied with the experience of my research degree programme’. This represents an increase of 2% on 2015, and is 3% higher than the Russell Group average.
Also in the PRES, over 90% of students agreed that their supervisor has the skills and subject knowledge to support their research and that they have regular contact with their supervisor that is appropriate to their needs. This represents an increase of 2% on 2016
In the PTES Early results show that satisfaction has remained high with over 90% of students agreeing that staff are good at explaining things and are enthusiastic about their teaching.
For further information regarding student surveys please visit our webpage.
Workshop: Exploring career development via teaching and learning
3rd July 2017 – The Core
This one-day workshop is for all academic staff interested in developing their career on the basis of teaching.
This interactive day will involve: identifying activities that may lead to reward and recognition, reflections from successful colleagues both internally and externally, and developing action plans.
It will be a space to discuss approaches to building your career, gaining internal, or external, validation of excellence and to consider your individual development path.
See the programme of the day: programme_final
Places are limited. To attend please complete the booking form.
All are welcome to the final NUTELA 3Ps event (Pizza, Pop and Practice) of the academic year:
Show and TEL and Have a Go: Open Lab.
7th July 2017 Bamburgh Room – Kings Road Centre. 12:00- 14:00. Continue reading “Next NUTELA event: Open Lab showcase”
The Higher Education Academy have just released their list of upcoming events which can be found here http://mail.heacademy.ac.uk/12ZA-4Z4E8-CB5ILPSUD6/cr.aspx.
Please note the University is a Strategic Partner with the HEA and we are entitled to get the relevant rate for events. (You can check the rate by going to the information about the event and selecting Newcastle university in the Price details box.)
Note there is an early bird booking discount until the end of July.
The Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) will remain open until Friday 16th June.
The PTES asks postgraduate taught students in universities across the United Kingdom about their course and their learning experiences.
What is it?
The survey asks eligible postgraduate taught students about the whole student learning experience including;
Why is it important?
The survey presents an opportunity for students to shape the student experience: the feedback we receive is valuable in helping to enhance the postgraduate taught experience at Newcastle.
Incentives
All the respondents are entered into a prize draw (see terms and conditions). In 2017, the prizes include:
Further details and support can be found on the LTDS webages. If you have any specific questions please contact LTDS@ncl.ac.uk
LTDS hosted the first of our Feeling Connected events last week. The series is all about how to help to engage large students cohorts in the classroom and beyond. In this initial session we considered how to engage students in the lecture.
Tony Chapman-Wilson brought an actors perspective on how to get the best out of, and look after our voices. He had us humming, thinking about our diaphragms and tripping over tongue twisters.
Sue Gill spoke about Powerpoint as an aid; we presented feedback from the recent TEA awards from NUSU on what student appreciate; heard top tips from colleagues via podcasts and Dr Alison Graham rounded the session off with real examples and insights from her use of the OMBEA student response system.
We interviewed Dr Sylvia de-Mars, Dr Julian Knight and Dr Keith Brewster and shared their insights in the session.
The links below take you to the recordings on ReCap.
Thanks to all who attended and contributed to a lively session, and to and to colleagues who gave up their time to contribute before and after.
Rowan South and Dr Joe Barton from NUSU talk about what students value:
Our next Feeling Connected event will focus on how to stay connected between lectures. It will take place on Tuesday 19 September in the Herschel Learning Lab and have a hands-on feel. You can book via our web-page: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ltds/about/training/feelingconnected/
