tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72832916170850652332024-03-19T04:08:11.833+00:00Uclan Pedagogic Research BlogUclan PRF
(Pedagogic Research Forum)
A Higher Education blog linked to the PRF at the University of Central Lancashire. Helen LHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649368919933241222noreply@blogger.comBlogger90125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283291617085065233.post-88447170535026476582015-04-16T08:55:00.003+01:002015-04-16T09:02:42.013+01:00UCLan's Learning and Teaching Conference 2015Call for contributions from UCLan staff, students and partner colleges in the form of 20 minute talks or posters giving an account of research, experience, evaluation, policy or practice with the emphasis on drawing out lessons for others and engaging participants.<br />
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Innovation and Research to Enhance Learning<br />
30 June, 9.30am to 4.30pm<br />
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This event is ppen to all UCLan staff and students. Themes for proposals, including but not limited to:<br />
- Learner experience and engagement<br />
- Professional identities<br />
- Collaborative and practice-based learning<br />
- Effective learning environments<br />
- The use and value of appropriate learning technologies<br />
Deadline for abstracts is 17 April. Please submit a 300 word abstract describing the research, link to themes and the potential impact. State if you are doing a poster or talk. Please email abstracts to HHewertson at uclan dot ac dot ukHelen LHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649368919933241222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283291617085065233.post-15838432201281315462014-06-17T08:25:00.001+01:002014-06-17T08:25:15.270+01:00Teaching Exchange 2014<div class="MsoNormal">
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Helen LHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649368919933241222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283291617085065233.post-62458949689125822702013-07-01T11:26:00.001+01:002013-07-01T11:27:58.138+01:00PRF dates for 2013-14<div class="MsoNormal">
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hold regular seminars at which colleagues share their practice and report on
pedagogic research. We also run two larger annual events: the Teaching Exchange
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host regular reading groups and have a thriving network through which we
disseminate papers, calls for conferences, funding calls and disseminate good
practice. The network has a community site within Blackboard, which is open to
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Helen LHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649368919933241222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283291617085065233.post-40928582208697720012013-06-27T15:03:00.001+01:002013-06-27T15:03:11.332+01:00National Teaching Fellows 2013<br />Two inspiring UCLan lecturers won the prestigious award of National Teaching Fellow.<div>
Dr Helen Day from the School of Language, Literature and International Studies and<br />Francois Nel from the School of Journalism and digital communication.</div>
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The National Teaching Fellowship Scheme recognises and rewards excellent learning and teaching and is funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW), and the Department for Employment and Learning in Northern Ireland (DELNI). It is open to all higher education institutions and further education colleges in England, Northern Ireland and Wales who have more than 100 FTE students and are directly funded by HEFCE, HEFCW, or DELNI.<div class="MsoNormal">
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Up to 55 awards of £10,000 are made to recognise individual excellence. The award is intended for National Teaching Fellows' professional development in teaching and learning or aspects of pedagogy." <a href="http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ntfs">http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ntfs</a></div>
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See full news story here<br /><a href="http://www.uclan.ac.uk/news/national_recognition_for_two_uclan_academics.php">http://www.uclan.ac.uk/news/national_recognition_for_two_uclan_academics.php</a><br />
We are extremely proud of our inspiring and engaging lecturers and these awards are a tangible reward for all the hard work they put in developing their teaching and providing and excellent student experience. </div>
Helen LHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649368919933241222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283291617085065233.post-86417725215919848412013-05-10T10:42:00.000+01:002013-05-10T10:43:14.828+01:00Teaching Exchange 2013 This years Teaching Exchange had drop in slots with talks and a demonstration. Featuring some of the winners of
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Opening introduction Ruth Pilkington talked about the PRF and the UCLan Pedagogic Research Rainbow taken from the <a href="http://www.uclan.ac.uk/research/environment/groups/assets/impact_pedagogic_uclan.pdf" target="_blank">Impact: Pedagogic Research</a> publication and how we support everyone interested in learning and teaching.<br />
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Debbie Williams talked about Innovation in
teaching and assessment- Realistic Working Environment. they have been all over the world with students from various disciplines all working on creating and publishing a book. <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Letters-Africa-UCLan/dp/0956528317" target="_blank">Letters to Africa </a>was their first and highly successful publication, they have since worked on 2 more books and have another 8 in production. This cooperative working environment with tangible outputs have been enjoyable for all involved and have led to students getting jobs in industry, some have moved to Africa to work as there experiences there were life changing. <br />
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Rob Smith talked about research -informed
teaching and learning and his young researchers project in Chemistry, where undergraduates spend time in the lab outside of class to work on solutions real world problems. Some of the students manage to get summer research internships from the Centre for Research-informed Teaching to enable the staff and students to work full time over the summer to conduct research and publish papers.<br />
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Due to a last minute cancellation the computing team Nicky Danino, Lesley May and Nick Mitchell stepped in to talk about their highly successful four week challenge project. This project runs a whole module in 4 weeks full time straight from when the 1st years start the course. It is a fully immersive experience with workshops and help sessions and the students are sorted into groups of 6 and given an app to develop and market in this time. Competition is fierce as there is a leader board updated regularly, but students get points for being helpful and developing resources the other teams can use. The reports from the students are overwhelmingly positive, although it is hard work, they get to make friends, share their knowledge and ask for help in this time so the rest of the course is not quite so daunting.<br />
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The last session was a Demonstration by Juliet Ibbotson on <a href="http://srmo.sagepub.com/" target="_blank">Sage Research Methods</a> The University has a subscription to this useful service, which can give you definitions of research terms, provide research materials, and gives you access to<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">relevant books, book chapters, dictionary and encyclopedia entries, videos, or journal articles from over 175,000 pages of renowned SAGE content in research methods.</span> </span>The research methods map is a very useful tool and it will give you a definition of a method or procedure but you can also find related methods and the key theorists in that area.<br />
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We closed with a thank you to all the staff who came and we even had lecturers from our new associate school at Myerscough college, who were really interested in the amazing work done at the university and wanted to know how to get more involved.<br />
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Hopefully next years event will be even more successful.Helen LHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649368919933241222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283291617085065233.post-40846135778022652452013-03-22T11:59:00.002+00:002013-05-10T10:42:36.802+01:00#badacademia<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/letters/letters-gove-will-bury-pupils-in-facts-and-rules-8540741.html" target="_blank">This letter</a> appeared in the Independent. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It raises several concerns about Gove's new curriculum</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 21px;">"<i>We are writing to warn of </i></span><i><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/100-academics-savage-education-secretary-michael-gove-for-conveyorbelt-curriculum-for-schools-8541262.html" style="color: #009ab4; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">the dangers posed by Michael Gove’s new National Curriculum</a><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 21px;"> which could severely erode educational standards. The proposed curriculum consists of endless lists of spellings, facts and rules. This mountain of data will not develop children’s ability to think, including problem-solving, critical understanding and creativity." </span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">It was also signed by over 100 academics from universities across the country many of whom are experts in education and have published multiple books and papers on education. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">The academics state that Gove did not take on board the advice of experts when designing his curriculum and as such is sacrificing a good education for rote learning which will severely affect educational standards.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/mar/21/michael-gove-professors-new-national-curriculum" target="_blank">Gove's response </a>was this was to shout at the academics for living in their ivory towers and being an example of bad academia. How ironic! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://twitter.com/ThomsonPat">@ThomsonPat</a>: So Gove read my 12 books 140+ peer reviewed journal articles in 2 days as well as those of my 99 colleagues? - Pat Thompson - Professor in Education</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">This led to </span></span><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/timeshighered" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #0084b4; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><s style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #66b5d2; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">@</s><b style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #0084b4; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: underline; white-space: pre-wrap;">timeshighered</b></a> encouraging academics to take back the term by using #badacademia on twitter to tweet about the good education that happens in spite of Gove.</span><br />
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Right, off to do some <a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23badacademia&src=hash" style="color: #0084b4; text-decoration: none;"><s style="color: #66b5d2; text-decoration: none;">#</s><b style="font-weight: normal;"><strong>badacademia</strong></b></a>. Or, as it's occasionally known, critical thinking.</div>
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in my downtime giving 84 students 100 word feedback on first drafts of essays, another example of <a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23badacademia&src=hash" style="color: #0084b4; text-decoration: none;"><s style="color: #66b5d2; text-decoration: none;">#</s><b style="font-weight: normal;"><strong>badacademia</strong></b></a></div>
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Developing and assessing a hands on research methods module to encourage practical skills and critical thinking <a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23badacademia&src=hash" style="color: #0084b4; text-decoration: none;"><s style="color: #66b5d2; text-decoration: none;">#</s><b style="font-weight: normal;"><strong>badacademia</strong></b></a></div>
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Caught up w/ <a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23badacademia&src=hash" style="color: #0084b4; text-decoration: none;"><s style="color: #66b5d2; text-decoration: none;">#</s><b style="font-weight: normal;"><strong>badacademia</strong></b></a> Gove controversy: so the ConDem line appears to be "You're either with us or against us". How healthily democratic</div>
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I've done <a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23badacademia&src=hash" style="color: #0084b4; text-decoration: none;"><s style="color: #66b5d2; text-decoration: none;">#</s><b style="font-weight: normal;"><strong>badacademia</strong></b></a> all week too. In schools, working with teachers/leaders, supporting research, govs meeting... </div>
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And next week I plan on writing NEW stuff that people might not already know, that must be REALLY <a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23badacademia&src=hash" style="color: #0084b4; text-decoration: none;"><s style="color: #66b5d2; text-decoration: none;">#</s><b style="font-weight: normal;"><strong>badacademia</strong></b></a></div>
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trying to understand how early modern non-elite (not Gove's 'significant') people understood and used legal courts: <a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23badacademia&src=hash" style="color: #0084b4; text-decoration: none;"><s style="color: #66b5d2; text-decoration: none;">#</s><b style="font-weight: normal;"><strong>badacademia</strong></b></a></div>
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I am updating the undergrad reading list to incorporate the developments in historiography after 2000 <a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23badacademia&src=hash" style="color: #0084b4; text-decoration: none;"><s style="color: #66b5d2; text-decoration: none;">#</s><b style="font-weight: normal;"><strong>badacademia</strong></b></a></div>
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I'll be encouraging students & academics to turn the employability agenda in on itself in a critically reflective manner. <a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23badacademia&src=hash" style="color: #0084b4; text-decoration: none;"><s style="color: #66b5d2; text-decoration: none;">#</s><b style="font-weight: normal;"><strong>badacademia</strong></b></a></div>
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Helen LHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649368919933241222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283291617085065233.post-60881965948558618472013-03-06T15:11:00.000+00:002013-03-06T15:11:57.461+00:00Turn that phone on! Mobile technology in the classroom<br />
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This PRF session featured a talk by Anna Hunter who used mobile learning and TweetDeck to encourage engagement in the classroom. Students were expected to set up a twitter account if they didn't already have one by the next session and bring a smartphone or laptop....<br />
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She set up hashtags e.g. #EN1216d #fanficwhat #fanficwhere #fanficwho based around specific questions or tasks which the class used to tweet answers to those questions. A Twitter wall was displayed using the projector in the classroom, so students could see the live tweets appearing on the board.<br />
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The students really took to this activity really well. even those who didn't normally engage or were quite shy. <br />
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<li>Semi-permanent record of comments</li>
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<li>Fosters highly collaborative learning environment</li>
<li>140 character limit enforces concise response</li>
<li>Development of learning community outside of classroom</li>
<li>Positive student feedback</li>
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Anna was inspired by this video on Youtube: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WPVWDkF7U8" target="_blank">The Twitter Experiment - Twitter in the Classroom </a> by Dr. Rankin, professor of History at UT Dallas.<br />
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Helen LHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649368919933241222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283291617085065233.post-85336213175929932662012-12-10T10:09:00.000+00:002012-12-10T10:09:28.839+00:00VC's awards for excellence in learning and teaching <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Fri 7th Dec 2012 we celebrated the second annual Vice Chancellor's awards for excellence in teaching and learning. </span><br />
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the five categories. In addition to the title, all category awards will
receive £1,500, with the category E team awards receiving £2,000, to use for
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Craig facilitates UCLan students’ annual
participation at the Leeds, Bristol and Glasgow international arts events which
provide opportunities and experience of: working in a professional industrial
context; networking with artists, galleries and collectors; and, selling work to
major international gallery and museum collections, including the Tate Library
Special Collection.<span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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experiences, intellectual challenge and valuable summative and formative
feedback. The students experience is international on more than one dimension;
through structured appreciative engagement with peers, through the curriculum
and through direct interaction with domestic and overseas organisations at a
senior level, as well as structured international trips.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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has successfully designed a teaching project programme that involves students
from many diverse disciplines and programmes across the University, in a truly
collaborative multi-disciplinary approach, working together to produce a final
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designed and built a virtual Clinical Skills Training School which allows
connection to students across the UK; encourages the exchange of ideas to
develop practice development; and allows students to engage as partners In
assessment settings. Future developments look to provide a ‘mindspace’ for
dental health care professionals, and for this virtual school to be exported
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such as ‘The Great Egg Race’ and ‘Accumulator’; raising money for the Harris
Bursary though events such as Fire Walking, an Easter Fair, a Brass Band concert, as well as a ‘meet the buyer’ event
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support for health students with disabilities experiencing learning in practice
placement settings. Following extensive
scoping, a cross school team liaised with practice, university disability
services and students to facilitate a unique approach. A student
self-assessment tool was developed together with a process map detailing the
student’s journey. A best practice guide gives clarity to the process and the
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suggest techniques to enable improved attendance, retention and student
motivation. This initiative has had a very positive effect on retention rates of
first year students in its first year of operation. The initiative has also
been commended by the BCS (British Computer Society) during an accreditation
visit for its ‘innovative way of providing the students with continuity and moral support through daily
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service within the School that can respond to students needs, which is often
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What they found was, we are missing a trick when it comes to critical thinking. Students can observe and report straight forward data </span>successfully, but struggled when they had to manipulate variables or explain results. This seems to me like a problem we created because of the way we primarily assess students. Exams are fine for rote learning and regurgitating, and students had no problems with that type of activity, but when asked to employ critical thinking skills and develop arguments, then they struggle. </span><br />
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The power is in our hands. Do we want our students and future leaders to be well informed critical thinkers with enhanced problem solving capabilities, or do we just want students who can memorise facts and not understand them.Helen LHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649368919933241222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283291617085065233.post-80558601269694916832012-09-13T14:19:00.000+01:002012-09-13T14:19:48.048+01:00Other kinds of "impact" REF 2014David Willetts speech-at UUK conference today was interesting for many reasons. The biggest 'impact' for me was where he was talking about what will be REF'able and how research will be assessed for the <a href="http://www.ref.ac.uk/" target="_blank">Research Excellence Framework 2014</a>.<br />
The most surprising thing was that you could include unpublished work and journal impact factors would have no relevance!<br />
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"<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;">The REF is an assessment of research excellence. It is not about "journal rankings" or "journal impact factors". Whether the research output has been published in an open access journal, a traditional publication, or even if it hasn't been published in any journal at all, this does not affect the assessment of its quality in the REF. REF panels will not make use of “journal impact factors”, rankings or lists, nor the perceived standing of the publisher, in assessing the quality of research outputs. An underpinning principle of the REF is that </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, Helvetica, Verdana; font: inherit; line-height: 17.66666603088379px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">all</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;"> types of research and all forms of research output shall be assessed on a fair and equal basis by experts in the relevant disciplines." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This sounds like a tricky job for the assessment panels if they are not allowed to use journal impact metrics. which to be fair are flawed anyway. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm wondering if they will be looking at any other forms of impact metrics out there at the moment, or do they just use peer review? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Whatever happens they will probably change it again for the next REF </span>equivalent, so we will have to start all over again.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Watch out for the next crazy train.</span><br />
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For my contribution to this debate, I agree that there is much more to research and being an academic than the 'publish or perish' mentality. Many academics do fantastic outreach work which has amazing impact on local communities, or put enormous amounts of effort into helping their students succeed by researching and reflecting on how they teach and how they can best enable all their students to learn and grow. Teaching in itself is not rewarded enough and the fantastic research done by the non Russell group universities tends to be overlooked when government or RCUK grants are being handed out. Open access is a way that under fair conditions can enable access for everyone to publicly funded research. But again this <a href="http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=421081&c=1" target="_blank">news article </a>shows that again elite Russell group institutions who already get more than their fair share of funding and grants are getting even more help to go open access. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/sep/03/polytechnics-became-universities-1992-differentiation?CMP=twt_gu" target="_blank">This article</a> has it right in the reasons behind this dubious regime. Post 92s are very successful in widening participation and giving equality of opportunity for more to get into education from working class and ethnic backgrounds. Education should be a right not a privilege. The students at our university get a say in the research process, and many have taken part in real research and have even published papers before graduating, through fantastic projects like those in the <a href="http://www.uclan.ac.uk/information/services/ldu/research/research_informed_teaching.php" target="_blank">Centre for Research-informed Teaching. </a> We should embrace opening access to research and support those who take part in the research process whatever their background. Education and Research can only improve equality in our society, so help raise up everyone who has a passion for learning and applaud their commitment.<br />
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Here's to more of <a href="http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/well-being/journal/10902" target="_blank">this </a> <img alt="Journal of Happiness Studies" src="http://images.springer.com/cda/content/image/cda_displayimage.jpg?SGWID=0-0-16-135748-0" />Helen LHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649368919933241222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283291617085065233.post-56895634955438657172012-08-14T11:17:00.002+01:002012-08-14T11:17:50.912+01:00Academic Mentoring<br />
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This sounds like what we provide in the PRF here at Uclan. A supportive group of individuals who act as mentors, albeit informally. This kind of forum shares research, skills and offers opportunities for collaboration too. This kind of environment is essential to stop people getting disheartened with their research or their profession in general. Formal mentoring can fail because of a lack of clear direction or purpose from either the mentor or the mentee. These formal match ups are not always done with individuals in mind and both have to be willing to participate in the process. An assigned mentor is a good starting point but sometimes the informal voluntary route is the more effective one. A mentor does not have to be at your institution as various subject bodies can provide access to mentors, or you can connect with people at conferences or online.<br />
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Some good advice from <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/discussion/user/id/10630829">ClaireVStocks</a> "<i>Mentees should have the opportunity to express what they're looking for in a mentor, and mentors should be able to define what help or advice they are willing/able to give." </i><br />
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Helen LHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649368919933241222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283291617085065233.post-6010380577619640052012-07-04T16:55:00.000+01:002012-07-05T08:40:58.563+01:00Sharing Practice 2012We held the Sharing Practice conference in Livesey House at Uclan today. It was a great event with many more people than we were expecting. Really positive feedback from participants...<br />
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The first session was a presentation by Mark Gilbert on Action theory and Assessment, linked to E-learning in Dentistry. Which was very interesting, and got a good response from the participants. The innovative aspect was in getting the students to design their own assessments based on a competency framework the staff had created.<br />
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The final session was on Social media and interactive teaching. Where I demonstrated the various tools out there and my top 5 tips. I used this blog as an example of blogging and discussed the types of different blogging platforms out there and how you would use one. We used the twitter hashtag #teachingexchange to demonstrate twitter and used an example of how staff in the School of Built and Natural Environment are using twitter in their teaching. This sparked a debate on social media policy in the university and how careful you have to be to not give to much of yourself away online and that you need to behave appropriately regarding the platform you use and the audience you have.<br />
We also agreed you can't force students to use these tools, or invade their space. It has to be voluntary, encourage them if they want to follow your twitter account or facebook group, but don't make it compulsory otherwise they wont engage. Not all social media can be or should be used for teaching, it depends on the subject and the students. You have to tailor it to the needs of your class. We also discussed how you can use twitter to get your research citation rates up by publicizing your research more widely. The uses of academic sites like <a href="http://academia.edu/" target="_blank">Academia.edu </a>and <a href="http://www.mendeley.com/" target="_blank">Mendeley </a>were also touched upon, as only a few had heard of them. See <a href="http://uclanprf.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/refworks-vs-mendeley-battle-of-online.html" target="_blank">previous post on Mendeley</a> for a full review.<br />
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The feedback for the event was very positive, many stated their enjoyment and how they found it useful. We even had some international participants from a university in China, who said they have nothing like this back home and how useful it was to share practice like this.<br />
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Interesting session on social media at <a href="http://twitter.com/search?q=%23teachingexchange">#teachingexchange</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/UCLan" target="_blank">@UCLan</a> Thank you <a href="http://twitter.com/Helen_Kurai" target="_blank">@Helen_Kurai</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Helen LHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649368919933241222noreply@blogger.com0UCLan (University of Central Lancashire), University of Central Lancashire-City Campus Preston, Fylde Rd, Preston, Lancashire PR1 2HE, UK53.7616004 -2.708473253.7522139 -2.7282141999999996 53.7709869 -2.6887322tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283291617085065233.post-5279483957383043462012-05-10T14:14:00.001+01:002012-05-10T14:14:26.473+01:00Innovations in Higher EducationThe internet has been abuzz with all the innovations for teaching and learning, the <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmarshallcrotty/2012/05/06/mitx-harvardx-edx/" target="_blank">free online learning platforms</a> and <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/09/move-over-harvard-and-mit-stanford-has-the-real-revolution-in-education/" target="_blank">different ways to teach students</a>. Now it is research's turn to be overhauled...<br />
<a name='more'></a> Make way for <a href="http://www.rockethub.com/projects/scifund" target="_blank">crowd funded research </a>and faster ways to initiate <a href="http://mcubed.umich.edu/" target="_blank">research projects</a>. Both could have a massive impact on the Higher Ed landscape. The world of Higher Education is changing and hopefully for the better.Helen LHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649368919933241222noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283291617085065233.post-78661192304135203572012-04-26T12:50:00.000+01:002012-04-26T12:50:13.995+01:00Uclan Journal of Pedagogic ResearchAfter the successful publication of our latest issue, the call is now open for further submissions to the <a href="http://www.uclan.ac.uk/information/services/ldu/research/UJPR.php" target="_blank">Uclan Journal Of Pedagogic Research. </a> ..<br />
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Important deadlines:<br />Submission deadline: July 23rd 2012<br />Notification of acceptance or rejection: September 7th, 2012<br />Final versions due: October 1st, 2012<br />Publication: November 2012 (provisional)Helen LHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649368919933241222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283291617085065233.post-35686108843400855292012-04-24T12:17:00.000+01:002012-04-24T12:17:08.093+01:00Should Lecturers have teaching qualifications?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The view that university lecturers in the UK should have teaching qualifications is not new, but with the increase in fees the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/apr/22/liam-burn-nus-academics-lecturers" target="_blank">NUS president</a> is demanding that it be made mandatory for all lecturers to have teaching qualifications, as at the moment it is considered advisable but not mandatory...</span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most universities now expect their teaching staff to gain a teaching qualification like the <a href="http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/new-to-teaching" target="_blank">PGcert in HE</a> within a couple of years of them starting in a post. Older lecturers have usually gotten away without having needed to purely because they have been in a institution so long it never came up. This would make it mandatory for everyone regardless of teaching experience. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/news/detail/2012/response_to_nus_comments" target="_blank">HEA</a> is on board with this, stating that "<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">professionalisation of teaching should be a shared goal across higher education in the UK"</span> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> What do you think, should every lecturer be made to have a teaching qualification? Should PhDs still be required as well ? PhD's are also preferred but not always mandatory, especially in professional/ vocational courses. Would you hire a good teacher to teach at a university who has a teaching qualification but no PhD? Would it be easier to integrate the two if both are going to be required? Provide options for a PhD with teaching qualification as well as the PhD purely for research?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Comments welcome!</span>Helen LHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649368919933241222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283291617085065233.post-36779701726679937872012-04-23T11:00:00.000+01:002012-04-23T11:02:14.982+01:00Free universities?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the age of increasing fees and <a href="http://uclanprf.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/sale-of-uk-higher-education.html" target="_blank">sale of Higher Education </a>, there has been another university set up that will offer courses for free as reported by the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-17789049" target="_blank">BBC </a>....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our <a href="http://uclanprf.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/liverpools-free-university.html" target="_blank">previous post </a>commented on the Free university of Liverpool which is limited in the number of courses it offers but started admissions for its foundation degree last year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are also plenty of online courses that offer their services for free the most famous being the <a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm" target="_blank">OCW</a>, and the most innovative being<a href="http://www.udacity.com/" target="_blank"> Udacity</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So despite some students being priced out of the market for formal degree courses there is plenty on offer for those who love to learn. The question now is will employers appreciate the new free courses if they develop and assess students as rigorously as the formal courses. If so then the more expensive elitist universities had better watch out!</span>Helen LHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649368919933241222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283291617085065233.post-13200130346722236382012-04-19T10:45:00.000+01:002012-04-23T08:58:10.577+01:00Refworks Vs Mendeley: The battle of the online reference managers<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been using <a href="http://www.mendeley.com/" target="_blank">Mendeley </a>for a while now, and I find it easy to use and a great way to organise and share research. But then my University released access to<a href="http://www.refworks.com/" target="_blank"> Refworks </a> and so I thought I would try it out and see if was as easy to use as Mendeley. This review is based on my experiences in using both platforms to organise my references....</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Generate citations and bibliographies
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Open PDFs and capture your thoughts
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Import and organize PDFs from your
computer, EndNote™, Papers or Zotero.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a70805;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.mendeley.com/features/collaborate/"><span style="color: #a70805; text-decoration: none;">Collaborate</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Connect with colleagues and securely
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Access your papers on the web, iPhone
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Easy to use and import files either from your documents or from the web. Uses existing citation management links and imports to Mendeley, eg
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">BibTeX, RIS and EndNote™ XML files</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">.</span> Bulk upload options available. It will also keep track of any saved files in a specific folder and import new items automatically. It does not work with every academic database, but the only one I have had a problem with is Science Direct due to unknown file type. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can use Import</span> to Mendeley in all browsers to take web snapshots
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Imports refs easily into word using plug in, no need to come out of Word but needs Mendeley desktop to be open. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Automatically reads pdfs and <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">identifies t</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">he author, title, journal and other information. It flags up any that are not complete. Generally very good, but I have had some issues with more obscure journals. It is always worth double checking to make sure all the info is correct. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Can open PDFs and add notes and highlights.</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Can easily create groups and share documents securely both in the desktop and web platforms. Has some issues adding tags to groups, not very intuitive. </span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is compatible with all modern web browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. Access</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Has desktop platform with unlimited storage based on the size of your hard drive space. The web version has up to 1GB of free space and can be accessed from anywhere.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Organize and create a personal database online – no more index cards to write out and organize. Everything is done automatically as you import the reference into RefWorks.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Format bibliographies and manuscripts in seconds – this saves hours of typing time and decreases the number of errors in creating tedious bibliographies. Easily make changes to your paper and reformat in seconds.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Import references from a variety of databases using the already created Import Filters.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Manage Alerts – RefWorks has incorporated a RSS feed reader to allow you to establish links to your favorite RSS feeds and import data from those feeds directly into RefWorks.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Searching your RefWorks database is fast and easy – RefWorks automatically creates author, descriptor and periodical indexes when importing so you just click on the word to perform the retrieval. Use Quick Search to search all fields for the most comprehensive results or Advanced Search to narrow your search to specific terms and fields.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Usability</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not very easy to use and only really imports files from the web, as its not worth the hassle trying to import stuff you already have in your documents as it is complicated, will only do one record at a time and you have to enter all the info in manually. Uses own citation management links which are not available on 4 out of 5 databases I've tried<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">.</span> Bulk upload options available from some academic databases. It does not work easily with most academic databases I tried ,but the only ones I have not had a problem with are Science Direct and Wiley online library. There is a work around that they suggest which is exporting citations as plain text and uploading to Refworks, but this is overly complicated. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can use</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Refgrab-It in some browsers to take web snapshots.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Allegedly Imports refs easily into word using plug in, but I couldn't install the plug in at work as needed admin rights, so would need to ring one of our library technicians to install it for me. Which means extra time delay and messing about. </span>
<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">EDIT: managed to get it to install in Word, using Write -N-Cite, and you have to open it as well as Word, and log in. You have to keep switching between it and Word to cite references. It does this easily but I could not find the option for Harvard format in Word, as it was set to Harvard in Write N Cite but was not presenting the in text references in Word as Harvard. It did however quickly produce a bibliography in Harvard format just not in text citations. It was easy to edit the in text citations, but again it just seemed like a lot of extra messing about.</span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Can create groups and share documents securely but not very intuitive.</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Has RSS feed reader, which is a bit gimmicky and not what I would use a reference management platform for as it doesn't import citations from the RSS feed. I couldn't even get it to take me to the web page of the article.The Yahoo RSS feed reader is much better.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is only fully compatible with Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. Which isn't great for me since my main browser is Chrome.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. Access</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The web version has up to unlimited space for records but limits attachments to 5GB. and can be accessed from anywhere.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Results </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So in the battle of online reference management platforms, Mendeley is the clear winner for me. Scoring highly on all areas that I use regularly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For more information and good comparisons including other reference managers see <a href="http://library.wisc.edu/citation-managers/comparison.html" target="_blank">this comparison </a>and also <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/fullscreen/giustinid/ref-works-mendeley-zotero/1" target="_blank">here </a></span></div>Helen LHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649368919933241222noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283291617085065233.post-13569664149682798152012-04-17T14:18:00.000+01:002012-04-24T09:58:36.410+01:00The Sale of UK Higher EducationNews has come about regarding the <a href="http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=419667" target="_blank">sale of the Charitable College of Law</a> to a private equity firm, who now has degree awarding powers....<br />
<a name='more'></a> UK Higher Education has not been the same since fees were introduced by New Labour in 1998, based on a report commissioned by the Conservatives in 1996. UK Higher Education has grown massively and with that come extra costs, so it seemed it was inevitable that there would be a charge to bridge this gap. Scotland however decided not to introduce fees for native Scottish residents, and even scrapped their <a href="http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2008/02/28172530" target="_blank">graduate endowment</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Scottish Education Secretary Fiona Hyslop said "</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">"We believe access to education should be based on ability to learn, not ability to pay" </span></span><br />
In the rest of the UK however, it started off with means tested fees of up to £1000. See <a href="http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/resources/heca/heca_ks23.pdf" target="_blank">The Dearing report</a>. Now we are in the year 2012 and the price of university education is up to a whopping £9000 per year. This time introduced by the coalition government made up of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. There is also the creation of new private universities, like the<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/jun/05/new-college-dawkins-grayling-ferguson" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">New College of the Humanities</span></span> </a> who want to charge £18,000 per year and now the sale of universities to private equity firms.<br />
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Who owns our universities? The students pay for them, private companies can create them and sell them. What is to become of our once public Higher Education system? Will the best lecturers/ researchers move to the high paying private sector? Meaning that only the rich will be able to access these great minds? Maybe I shall just move to Scotland so my children don't have to pay what could be mortgage scale fees. It could end up being a choice for our children on whether to get a university education or buy a house. Only the rich will go to university, unless in the future the government continues to gives access to student loans to cover costs and there are still enough public universities left to take them!<br />
Edit : new article by the Guardian <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/apr/23/college-of-law-private-sale" target="_blank">Could universities be sold off? </a> raises an interesting perspective about the quality of degrees from private providers with no experience in education.Helen LHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649368919933241222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283291617085065233.post-59629017448218039002012-04-03T11:54:00.003+01:002012-04-04T09:24:01.876+01:00University A LevelsIn the news at the moment is a story around universities, specifically 'Russell Group' elite universities being given control over A-Levels, by the Education Secretary Michael Gove ...<br />
<a name='more'></a><a href="http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=419521#.T3q8bikHBBY.twitter" target="_blank">See here </a><br />
But this has not gone down well with the teachers or other universities. <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-17595345" target="_blank">Here</a> and<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/apr/03/gove-university-set-a-levels?CMP=twt_fd" target="_blank"> here </a>.<br />
Is this a case of Gove passing the buck and not wanting to be responsible for a criticized system? Why only give control to the elite universities, when there is no evidence that they are any better at teaching than any other university. Is this another case of the rich and privileged taking control of a public system without fair access for everyone else? The exam boards are not doing a good job hence the move away from them, to the university sector, wait isn't the University of Cambridge a Russell Group university and an current examining board? <a href="http://www.cie.org.uk/">http://www.cie.org.uk/</a> Surely if we think they are not doing a good enough job we should be looking outside the Russell Group.<br />
Despite all these criticisms I do believe that all universities should have a say in how to manage A-Levels. They are not working and students just learn how to pass tests and not how to actually learn or think independently. The<a href="http://www.accesstohe.ac.uk/" target="_blank"> Access</a> courses were much better structured and gave better preparation for learning and going to university. But changing A-Levels is a big job and will not happen overnight. The government has to give enough time and resources for this to be managed properly by qualified and experienced groups and not just pass the responsibility onto their 'friends'.Helen LHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649368919933241222noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283291617085065233.post-6588041431067546322012-03-27T14:15:00.000+01:002012-03-27T14:15:51.013+01:00Pedagogic Research Model<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recently we published an <a href="http://www.uclan.ac.uk/information/services/ldu/research/prfimpact.php" target="_blank">Impact guide to Pedagogic Research,</a> with members of the PRF and the Centre for Research informed Teaching. We had a highly successful Launch event, w<span style="color: #191919; line-height: 21px;">ith posters, resources and contributions from 10 different schools, demonstrating inspirational teaching, and a speech from our </span><span style="color: #191919; line-height: 21px;">Pro Vice-Chancellor (Student Experience).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #191919; line-height: 21px;">What I would like to share with you is our Model of Pedagogic research...</span></span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Uclan PRF model of Pedagogic Research</span><br />
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<span style="color: #191919; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">You start in the centre of the rainbow, as a teaching professional, with professional practice at the heart of what you do whether a new teacher or experienced academic. Then as you seek to enhance your teaching you expand your knowledge and move up the rainbow, the next step is sharing what you have learned from enhancing your practice with other teachers/ lecturers, and finally when you formalise your research into a journal or conference paper or through formal education you reach the outer aspect of the rainbow and become a scholarly practitioner. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #191919; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">You can read more about it in our<a href="http://www.uclan.ac.uk/information/services/ldu/research/prfimpact.php" target="_blank"> Impact guide.</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #191919; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do you think this covers the stages of pedagogic research ? What else would you add?</span>Helen LHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649368919933241222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283291617085065233.post-35685022865322287442012-03-26T12:24:00.000+01:002012-05-10T13:50:56.225+01:00Teaching Exchange<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Uclan PRF and LDU is hosting a Teaching Exchange, on Wed 13th June 12-3pm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The teaching
exchange is open to anyone who teaches at Uclan or partner colleges and who is interested in developing their teaching
skills...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">email hhewertson@uclan.ac.uk for more info or to RSVP.</span>Helen LHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649368919933241222noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283291617085065233.post-44580964758171954902012-03-22T14:45:00.001+00:002012-03-22T15:08:49.985+00:00PRF event on problem based learning and disability<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We held a very interesting event on problem based learning (PBL) and disability....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">PBL enables <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">students to learn better and absorb more. One of our PRF members Carolyn Gibbon has done excellent work with colleagues on a </span><a href="http://www.pbldirectory.com/toolkit" style="line-height: 18px;" target="_blank">PBL toolkit. </a><span style="line-height: 18px;"> The website is also building a directory of teachers demonstrating their use of PBL at various universities, please get in touch with them if you have something to share. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">With regards to disability "the university has a duty to inform staff appropriately of a students needs" is your system passive or active? </span> Do you just have names in a file or have you checked if your data is up to date and looked at the progress your students are making? It is very important that all students gain access to help when needed so don't let that file sit on a shelf. Some schools have meetings every other month to see what work needs doing and update their information and check on student progress. Don't do it alone! Share the workload and it will make life easier for all involved. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Helen LHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649368919933241222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283291617085065233.post-26308107242763255882012-03-20T11:43:00.000+00:002012-03-20T11:45:02.129+00:00HEA guide to pedagogy for employability<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The HEA (Higher Education Academy) has published a new revised guide to pedagogy for employability to help embed employability skills into the curriculum.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> It <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">includes case studies of learning and teaching that support the development of student employability. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Should employability be embedded in the curriculum in every subject or just vocational ones? Should a degree be all a student needs, or should extra measures be taken to ensure employability of students?</span></div>
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