{"id":5173,"date":"2019-08-28T11:05:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T10:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/?p=5173"},"modified":"2019-08-28T11:05:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T10:05:55","slug":"nutela-learning-and-teaching-conference-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/2019\/08\/28\/nutela-learning-and-teaching-conference-award\/","title":{"rendered":"NUTELA Learning and Teaching Conference Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr Alessio Iannetti, School of Pharmacy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the Newcastle Teaching and Learning conference in April, I\u00a0 received a NUTELA award for my presentation \u201cWho wants to be millionaire as a game for Pharmacy Curriculum\u201d. I have used an adapted version of this game as part of my biology seminars for Stage 1 Pharmacy-students. I did this to make the seminar sessions more fun and engaging thanks the competitive nature of the game, but at the same time to test a new approach to facilitate student knowledge retention on a difficult topic of biology, such as immunology is.<\/p>\n<p>The game worked well and the data collected showed that it augments student knowledge retention. Student feedback showed that the game activity was very engaging and that students appreciated working in teams for the game. Therefore, a second aim to keep this game in the seminar sessions, is to help students to practise the team-work skills that they will need in their career. In the feedback form, students acknowledged that they prefer a game activity to a seminar and underlined how enjoyable this is.\u00a0 One student said: <em>\u00a0<\/em>\u201c<em>Much better than seminars\u201d<\/em> Another student said: <em>\u201cThoroughly enjoyed the session\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the NUTELA award, I was able to fund part of my journey to the Biennal Monash Pharmacy symposium in Prato (Italy) last July, where I presented my work to Pharmacy educators coming from all the world. It was a great experience, I networked with a number of colleagues who expressed interest in the game and in applying it in their own institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full case study on the <a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/casestudies\/2019\/08\/28\/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-a-game-for-the-pharmacy-curriculum\/\">Case Studies Website.<\/a><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/2019\/01\/07\/nutela\/\">Find out more about NUTELA.<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Alessio Iannetti, School of Pharmacy At the Newcastle Teaching and Learning conference in April, I\u00a0 received a NUTELA award for my presentation \u201cWho wants to be millionaire as a game for Pharmacy Curriculum\u201d. I have used an adapted version of this game as part of my biology seminars for Stage 1 Pharmacy-students. I did &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/2019\/08\/28\/nutela-learning-and-teaching-conference-award\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NUTELA Learning and Teaching Conference Award&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3007,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320,299],"tags":[636,278],"class_list":["post-5173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-and-teaching-conference","category-nutela","tag-conference-award","tag-nutela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5174,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions\/5174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}