Dr Alessio Iannetti

“Who wants to be millionaire” as a game to enhance students’ engagement and teamwork skills in life sciences curricula

Does the competitive nature of a game help to improve student knowledge retention, while making a seminar session more fun and engaging? Dr Alessio Iannetti investigated this and shares the results in this case study.

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Supporting student groupwork

Group work was introduced right at the start of this Planning module to get students working together ready for their assessed group project. Find out how it worked.

Newcastle campus and Loyola campus
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Enhanced Personal Tutoring: Embedding Academic Mentorship

An overhaul of the personal tutoring system resulted in the introduction of Academic Mentorship in the School of Medical Education. Find out how this impacted on student evaluation, portfolio usage metrics, and academic performance

Rachelle Maddison and Paul Mackay