Category: Central Services

Dr David Grundy

Looking Beyond the Data – Using Student Learning Analytics as a Conversation Starter

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Dr David Grundy, Director of Digital Education Newcastle University Business School Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences  What did you do? I was part of the Learning Analytics Pilot who were using the Jisc platform, Data Explorer, to have data-informed conversations with my students about their progress and support. I usually have four meetings a Read more about Looking Beyond the Data – Using Student Learning Analytics as a Conversation Starter[…]

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Working in Partnership with the Academic Skills Team to Develop Effective Student Guidance on Designing and Producing an Infographic Assessment

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Dr Angela Mazzetti from NUBS explains her partnership work with Liv Jonassen of the Academic Skills Team from the Library to produce engaging and informative assessment support videos on the subject of designing infographics for BUS2040, resulting in an improvement in student achievement, and increased confidence when engaging with the assessment.

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Virtual Tours of the NU Farms

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As part of the Agriculture, Earth and Environment, and Applied Social Sciences Cluster (AESSC) Curriculum Redesign Project within SNES, we have developed virtual tours of NU Farms using H5P. These virtual tours provide an immersive experience during Open Days, familiarise students and colleagues with the farms prior to field trips, and enrich fieldwork activities.

An image of the title image of one of the Newcastle University Team's Induction Period Challenge presentation. It shows a group of people holding planet Earth in their hands, while other people hold, a light bulb, a solar panel and someone kneeling down gardening. There are wind turbines in the background.

Incorporating the Peer Mentoring Induction Period Challenge on United Nations Sustainable Development Goals into Teaching

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Dr Helen Mason and Gabrielle Vallons explain how the Peer Mentor Induction Period Challenge on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals is incorporated into first year teaching and delivered to students studying Nutrition and Dietetics, creating opportunities for students to submit group proposals for creative and innovative solutions to campus related issues with the potential to have lasting impact across the student body, alongside enhancing Peer Mentors’ personal and professional development.

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From Medications to Music Therapy (and back again): an undergraduate virtual exchange using intergroup dialogue to support cultural competence

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Dr Adam Rathbone, Lecturer in Social and Clinical Pharmacy at the School of Pharmacy collaborated with Dr Meganne Masko, Associate Professor of Music Therapy, to adapt the intergroup dialogue method of developing cultural competence to a virtual exchange between Pharmacy students in Newcastle and Music Therapy students from Indiana University – Purdue University, Indiana (IUPUI).

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Supporting student groupwork

Posted on by Claire Burnham

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.

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The Great Wall of student engagement: Using Quizzes and New Analytics to inform community design

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Helen Atkinson – Careers Consultant Careers Service What did you do? I used Canvas New Analytics and Quizzes to monitor how students were engaging with non-credit bearing careers initiatives, specifically the following two projects: China Career Gateway: An annual extracurricular career development programme designed to help Chinese students at Newcastle University prepare for their graduate Read more about The Great Wall of student engagement: Using Quizzes and New Analytics to inform community design[…]

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‘Advancing the SDG’s Together’: a US/UK Student Symposium

Posted on by Claire Burnham

Students worked together in this online event to share experiences and develop ideas to advance selected Sustainable Development Goals.

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Working in partnership: tackling sustainability challenges with a student-led virtual event

Posted on by Claire Burnham

Students from our University took part in a successful online event with students at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi (IITD) to share ideas around environmental sustainability.

Equitable Assessment Framework for today’s Digital Learners

Posted on by Claire Burnham

This collaborative project supported instructor’s adoption of the Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT) framework to help structure and communicate their assessments.