humbox humanities teaching resources

http://www.humbox.ac.uk/
HumBox - a new repository to share, store, manage and repurpose teaching materials from across the Humanities has been launched at the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield.

The repository has been developed by a partnership of four subject centres: English, History, LLAS and PRS and eleven institutional partners. It is funded by JISC and the HEA.

HumBox already contains over 1000 resources all uploaded using Creative Commons licences. Resources range from simple handouts to more complex learning objects as well as audio and video resources. The repository includes a simple commenting function so that users can leave feedback on the resources. Users have a profile page to promote their own research and teaching. They can set up collections of related resources and include descriptions to ensure that they are more usable for teaching.

handouts before lecture?

Research in the Applied Cognitive Psychology journal states that having access to handouts of the slides during lecture was associated with a number of benefits: less note-taking (studies 1 and 2), less time needed to prepare for a final test (study 1), and better performance on the final test (study 2). Overall, receiving handouts before lecture helped efficient encoding of the lecture

BPS digest lecturers-should-provide-powerpoint

Access to handouts of presentation slides during lecture: Consequences for learning

assessment conference

Well the Uclan Assessment: Research and Innovation for Inclusive Practice conference went great!
I created a poster for the PRF extolling the virtues of pedagogic research and some responses from members, who really appreciate the community. There were some fantastic talks and workshops, ppts will be up on the website soon.
http://www.uclan.ac.uk/assess_conference

The online talk was interesting and it was good to work the technology and realise that you don't to have to be there to give a good talk. you can still take part and respond here:
http://breeze01.uclan.ac.uk/r12245797

Reading groups

Is there any particular topics that people would like to see articles on? Assessment, group work and feedback all seemed to strike a chord!

Hopefully the first of many!

This is the new blog set up to disseminate information about the Uclan PRF (Pedagogic Research Forum) This has been inspired by a great talk by Ruth Smith on blogging as a means of reflection at the last PRF meeting.
This year got off to a slow start but the PRF really got its wings by the end of the academic year. we had some really productive sessions and reading groups, the adobe connect workshop was so packed we had to run two slots. Suggestions for workshops next year are end note referencing software, research methods/ designing a study and the new elgg social networking site which we now have a PRF group on http://atp.uclan.ac.uk/elgg/pg/groups/1656

Elgg is a site to support study, research, networking and collaboration at UCLan. If you don't have a password or would like some training email atpadmin@uclan.ac.uk. You must do this using your UCLan account (yourusername@uclan.ac.uk).