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Previous Social Sciences Showcases

February 2016 -- Measuring Success? The NSS and Other Student Surveys

Programme:

  • 12:00-12:30: Lunch
  • 12:30-13:00: Professor Christina Hughes, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning)
  • 13:00-13:30: Student Surveys (Teaching Quality)
  • 13:30-14:00: PTES/PRES (Stella Neophytou, Graduate School)
  • 14:00-15:00: Discussion -- Departmental Experience(s) with Student Surveys

March 2015 -- Case-based Learning: What is It and Why Use It?

Case-based learning (CBL) engages students in discussion of specific scenarios that provide the stimulus and focus for their learning. This simulation of authentic contexts helps students to bridge the gap between theory and practice, exposes them to multiple viewpoints and supports the development of analytical and critical skills. In their effort to find solutions and reach decisions through discussion, students build on prior knowledge and reflect on relevant experience, integrate learning across disciplines and become more effective self-directed learners.

Colleagues at Warwick who have been using this method will discuss the processes involved in facilitating this type of learning.

Programme:

  • 12:30 Arrivals, registration, lunch
  • 13:00 Catherine Bennett and Dawn Collins, Warwick Medical School
  • 13:30 Maja Korica, Warwick Business School
  • 14:00 Rochelle Sibley and Rachel Dickinson, Warwick Buiness School
  • 14:45 Professor Christina Hughes, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning); The Warwick International Academy for Higher Education
  • 15:00 Final remarks and close

December 2015 -- Reflecting on Innovative Practice

Chaired by Phil Gaydon

Programme:

  • 13:00-13:30: Lunch
  • 13:30-14:00: Innovative Teaching and Learning at Warwick (Phil Gaydon, Dominic Nah, Laura Primiceri)
  • 14:00-14:30: Digital Pedagogy in the Arts Faculty (David Beck)
  • 14:30-15:00: Reflecting on 'CORE' Modules (Rachel Dickinson)
  • 15:00-15:30: Blogging as a Tool for Assessment (Tilly Harrison, Jo Gakonga, Peter Brown)
  • 15:30-16:00: Inhabiting the University Otherwise (Erzsebet Strausz)

Programme Notes:

Innovative Teaching and Learning at Warwick: Phil, Laura, and Dominic (IATL) invite you to critically reflect on the idea of 'innovation' in teaching and learning and ask whether you should and how you might pursue innovative practice in your own context. They will also introduce their current IATL-funded strategic project: a handbook and online resource which looks at how innovation is conceived of and implemented in teaching and learning at Warwick and presents practical advice and considerations for those wanting to try out their own innovations.

Digital Pedagogy in the Arts Faculty: In this session David (History) will share some experiences of how digital pedagogy has been employed by a few Arts Faculty departments, looking at both good practice and the learning points from failed initiatives. We will then discuss the benefits (and drawbacks) of integrating digital techniques into your students learning, workload implications, digital literacy, support at Warwick, and the importance of intellectual resonance will all be briefly explored.

Inhabiting the University Otherwise: Subverting the aesthetic division between ‘teaching’ and ‘research’ (and the former’s increasing subordination to the latter) Erzsebet (PAIS) discusses a series of pedagogical interventions that work with the everyday scenes of university life, re-imagining them as experimental spaces and new sites of social research. Practices of storytelling, narrative writing, photography, and self-reflection are all (spontaneous) elements of an ongoing project that seeks to cultivate new sensibilities as to what it might mean to be a ‘knowing’ subject, an employee, an activist, or someone in continuous formation within the structures of the neoliberal university. She maps out some of the trajectories of creative labour and its potential in helping us encounter what surrounds us anew.

November 2014 -- Assessment and Plagiarism: How can we Reduce Plagiarism
Through Educating Students and Assessment Design?

The assessment of students and the prevention of plagiarism are central to current debates in Higher Education. Warwick has been reviewing its practice with a view to encouraging ‘Assessment for Learning’ and improving the way we design and carry out assessment, as well as considering ways of preventing and addressing plagiarism.

This event provided an opportunity to:

  • discuss and share effective practice;
  • reflect on why, what, and how we assess;
  • consider ways of reducing plagiarism through educating students and assessment design.

February 2014 -- Reflecting on Large Group Teaching

Active and experiential learning features as one of the HEA Social Science strategic priorities for 2013-14. Many of us use a range of successful strategies for encouraging active participation, but it can be difficult to effectively translate them to a large class format. In this showcase we explored how these strategies might impact on the student learning experience in a large group context and how we can make lectures more engaging.

Robin Naylor (Economics – WATE winner 2013) shared some of the teaching techniques that he has been trying out and Ian Tuersley (WMG) demonstrated how he uses clickers in lectures for participation and feedback.

November 2013 -- Social Science Teaching and Learning Showcase

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May 2013 -- Social Science Teaching and Learning Showcase

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