Internationalising Student Support Community of Practice (COP) by Matthew Daley
The University Strategy for Teaching and Learning identified “communities of practice” as key vehicles for informal dialogue with the ‘academic voice’ and for mutual support, for the exchange of ideas...
View ArticleNSS 2012 and student engagement by Dr Karen Ayres and Dr Paul Glaister
Late in September 2012 we received our National Student Survey (NSS) results: 98% overall satisfaction across the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, including a perfect 100% for our BSc...
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‘Experiencing’ university: A Polemic by Professor Peter Kruschwitz
Avant-Propos The University of Reading, like any other Higher Education Institution, is a diverse place, with many stakeholders, but – at least in theory – one mutual mission: ‘our mission is to...
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Blackboard Quizzes To Help Students to be Prepared for Laboratory Practicals...
It is important that students turn up for our three hour laboratory practicals suitably prepared, but just providing the Lab Scripts in advance is not enough, as often students don’t read them! Now in...
View ArticleAs good as it gets: Reflections on 2012 NSS in Clinical Language Sciences by...
Having students say they are 100% satisfied with what we offer is not an everyday occurrence. This is what happened in Clinical Language Sciences in the 2012 NSS. All of the students who responded...
View ArticleFlexible Learning: Blended Learning for the Biosciences
Recently, we had the opportunity to participate in the Teaching & Learning Showcase event on ‘Flexible Learning’, put together by the CDoTL team, during which we presented the Existing and...
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I-TUTOR: Intelligent Tutoring for Lifelong Learning
The University of Reading is a project partner in a prestigious project to develop a multi-agent based intelligent tutoring system to support online teachers, trainers, tutors and learners: I-TUTOR....
View ArticleBecoming a Senior Fellow of the HEA
As part of its remit, the Higher Education Academy offers professional recognition to its members – colleagues are able to apply to be an Associate Fellow, Fellow, Senior Fellow or Principal Fellow. I...
View ArticleFORREST 2012
Forrest (Forensic Research and Teaching) is an annual conference partly organised by Higher Education Academy. Two of the strengths of this meeting are its multidisciplinary nature; chemists,...
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NSS success: It’s the little things?
I was asked to contribute this after the Business School scored highly in the NNS survey for Management & Business degrees, and was invited to focus on things the School has done that have...
View ArticleAcademic Placements by Dr Cindy Becker
In the Department of English Literature we have been working hard, as have so many of our colleagues across the university, to make the most of the intellectual, personal and career advantages that...
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Presenting the brand new Placement Guide for staff by Em Sowden
The new placement guide has been written for all University staff involved in managing student placement options, internships, work placement programmes and volunteering schemes in and outside of the...
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Students like live lectures (and online ones as backup) by Rebecca Reynolds
Dr Amy Smith, Ure Museum curator Every year, students on the first year Analysing Museum Displays optional module have a talk from Dr Amy Smith at the Ure Museum, looking at the display there about the...
View ArticleInternationalising Student Support Community of Practice (COP) by Matthew Daley
The Internationalising Student Support COP has been established with the remit to offer opportunities for staff involved with and interested in the development and enhancement of student support and...
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Learning on Screen Awards by Nadja Guggi
Congratulations to Matthew Nicholls, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics, who has been shortlisted for a prestigious Learning on Screen Award by the British Universities Film & Video...
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Virtual Careers Fairs by Amanda Duggan
The Careers, Placement and Experience Centre’s investment, thanks to a grant from the Annual Fund, in a software package for virtual fair technology, has enabled the service to extend its traditional...
View ArticleStudy support for MOOCs – do the Study Advisers have the answer? by the Study...
The recent announcement that Reading has been selected as a partner in the Futurelearn project to provide free online courses is an exciting move towards new ways of engaging with a potentially massive...
View ArticleOnline resources for physical and life sciences students by Helen Williams
Even more online support has been made available for students here at Reading seeking work placement and graduate employment. A new online tool dedicated to helping students find opportunities within...
View ArticleShowcasing Excellence in Students’ Research at Reading By Dr Anne Crook and...
The T&L away day in September 2011 focused on the theme ‘Building an Undergraduate Research Community’. Arising from these discussions a group of staff met to investigate ways in which...
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Chemistry’s Mini MOOC Attracts Industrial Interest by Dr Elizabeth Page and...
Course participants see NMR in practice with Dr Geoff Brown in the CAF during an on-site visit Dr Elizabeth Page and Professor Matthew Almond developed an online distance learning course in 2011-2012...
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