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Faculty
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Teaching and Assessment Information and Resources |
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6/10/15 Faculty of Science Learning, Teaching and Assessment (LTA) Update |
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AV and IT information (thanks to Harry Morton and Bryan Roberts) ·
Funding has been
released to maintain audio-visual facilities in our general teaching
spaces. Please advise Bryan Roberts B.Roberts@ljmu.ac.uk, Senior AV
Technician, if any rooms that you have taught in merit attention. Similarly, for any issues relating to PCs
within classrooms and the seven bookable IT suites across campus, please
contact Harry Morton H.J.Morton@ljmu.ac.uk,
Senior IT Technician. ·
The web page
that we use to advertise IT suite availability to students has recently being
changed to reflect the new Social Zone and changes to the University’s
timetabling systems. The new website
may be found at www.tinyurl.com/byrompc
and this link has been circulated to students. ·
Following-up
from a previous LTA update, staff wishing to use Skype
within taught sessions are invited to contact Bryan Roberts to discuss
potential in-class support. ·
Colleagues may
already be aware that students now have access to Office 365. This is a cloud-type system that
essentially provides file storage and off-campus access to MS Office
applications. Staff
do not yet have access to Office 365 and Harry Morton is happy to
demonstrate to staff what students are now able to access by prior
arrangement. ·
A reminder that
non-AV/IT issues e.g. room temperature and furniture, should be reported to
the Estates Management Helpdesk on x5533. |
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Class lists and student
photographs To
obtain a class list for your module, first log on to the Student Information
System from the staff homepage. From
the Main Menu choose Self Service > Faculty Center
> Class Roster > My Schedule. Click
the For
photographs, again within the Student Information System Main Menu, choose
LJMU > Photo reports. You may
access photographs by module (‘Course/Catalog’) or
by Programme in a PDF format. |
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Design of new programmes
starting in 2016 A reminder that validation
guidance is available via the Academic Quality Services website and this
will be mainly of interest to Programme Leaders and those coordinating
validations. Of interest to Module Leaders is the
indicative list of active verbs that might be used when drafting learning
outcomes for ten-credit-based modules.
These are included on p12 of the new Curriculum Design Guide and
are aligned with Bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives: 1.
Knowledge:
recall, define, state, list, repeat, name, present, find, recount 2.
Comprehension:
identify, discuss, locate, recognise, review, explain, clarify, restate 3.
Application:
demonstrate, operate, sketch, employ, use, practise, solve, illustrate,
interpret, apply, solve 4.
Analysis:
distinguish, differentiate, appraise, debate, calculate, compare, contrast,
examine, experiment, criticise, test, discriminate 5.
Synthesis: formulate, design, develop, create,
propose, construct, arrange, manage 6.
Evaluation:
appraise, choose, assess, value, measure, criticise, judge A
recent University/LiverpoolSU study into the
Internationalisation of the Curriculum has made some recommendations that
might also inform curriculum developments.
These include: ·
Providing global perspectives and scenarios in
the syllabus to encourage an international outlook on theories and
concepts. ·
Broadening the international feel of the
curriculum through working with the knowledge and experiences of our
students. ·
Using guest lecturers or virtual/online
materials to provide specific examples that might clarify and expand upon
curriculum content. There
was also a recommendation to coordinate resources associated with
internationalisation to ease tutors’ access to relevant materials and I
expect further details will be forthcoming. |
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Careers-related Workshops and Employer Events (thanks to Laura
Aldridge) A range of workshops and employer events open to students
are now listed at: https://worldofwork.ljmu.ac.uk/events/. The ‘one-off’ tab details some subject specific events
and includes: ·
A bespoke
programme of 6 workshops/ events for sports science students. ·
A presentation
by Teach First about their Leadership Development Programme. ·
A workshop
regarding graduate schemes in dentistry and medicine. ·
Workshops on
pursuing specific careers in, for example, clinical psychology and
therapeutic radiography. ·
A
pre-registration pharmacy employer event (with pharmaceutical industry
employers) in an exhibition style. More workshops and events will be added as the year
progresses. |
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These will be adopted all by programmes across the
University from 2016/17 and more details are emerging about the scope and
content of associated enrichment activities.
Progress review meetings between personal tutors and tutees
are expected to occur during Directed Study Weeks, those for first year
students being “in-depth” and concentrating on students’ experiences of their
transition into higher education. The
University’s skills support services will also be offering a range of
development opportunities during this period that tutees can elect to
undertake. Academic programmes will be
encouraged to develop group/collaborative learning activities linked to the
curriculum that are focussed around Directed Study Weeks and further details
will follow. During these Directed Study Weeks, ‘normal’ teaching will
not take place although field work and laboratory practicals may be
permitted, so long as individual progress reviews are offered to
students. Programmes with existing
arrangements that include frequent one-to-one progress meetings may be
excused from this element of Directed Study Weeks, but formal approval for
this exemption will be required from the PVC (Education), Prof Peter
Byers. Please contact me in the first
instance you are a Programme Leader and this applies to your course. |
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Staff availability
advertising A reminder that staff should advertise their availability for ad-hoc
meetings with students on a poster by their door, with full-time staff
offering four hours of availability per week. The
poster may include either: ·
a list of time slots bookable by signing-in on
the poster, ·
a ‘read-only’ availability calendar or schedule
showing available time slots, or, ·
instructions as to how student may make
appointments online e.g. by presenting a URL to an appointment booking
website An
Excel poster template has been circulated for staff who do
not offer an online booking facility.
Its use is optional and I can provide a copy on request. If you use the template and your
availability is the same week-on-week, then delete the contents of cell E8. |
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Dr Philip Denton BSc PhD PGCE PGCert SFHEA |
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