Facilitating Active Learning for diverse student cohorts
Dr Chris Leyland discusses positioning students as active participants in scholarly practices that facilitate professional competences.
Category: Active Learning
Embedding Sustainable Development through interdisciplinary problem-based learning
Dr Amy Proctor and Michelle Black reflect on how they embedded interdisciplinary problem-based learning into the design of a new module in SNES to help students explore sustainability challenges, develop a broad understanding of the SDGs and develop collaborative experiences and essential skills for future careers.
Street Law: Bringing Legal Education to Newcastle Community
More than 130 Newcastle Law School students translate theory into action by getting involved in one of several pro-bono /community-based projects. The projects are wide ranging, from delivering awareness raising sessions through the Street Law Project, to other social justice-based initiatives with various partners which allow students to participate in live-client advice and research campaigns. Read more about Street Law: Bringing Legal Education to Newcastle Community[…]
Using Applied Pedagogy to Deliver Social Value, on a Management Consultancy module
Jo Clark (NUBS) describes working with MBA students to deliver a consultancy project, using the social value model, adding authenticity and contemporary relevance to academic theory, testing students’ skills as business consultants, and delivering value to a client organisation.
Developing diverse skill-sets, student engagement, and self-evaluation in a poster assessment
Dr John Holton, Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, describes designing a poster assignment for his stage 2 module that builds and tests diverse skill-sets, promotes student engagement by enabling students to self-select and then personally research their choice of topic, resulting in students showing an increased assessment confidence and unusually high engagement with the task.
Experiential learning: challenges and opportunities in hybrid delivery
Jo Clark, Deputy Degree Programme Director of Master of Business Administration Newcastle Unviersity Business School Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences Please note: This case study describes hybrid teaching practices implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic. As such, some aspects of the interventions may no longer be current or relevant in periods of regular, undisrupted teaching. Read more about Experiential learning: challenges and opportunities in hybrid delivery[…]
Creativity and Innovation Challenge – A Combined Honours Case Study
Creativity and Innovation challenges are interactive, intensive, competitive student events that the Enterprise Team run with a variety of disciplines. Students are put into teams and presented with the opportunity to work collaboratively on a real life ‘problem’ that they need to solve through developing a product, service or intervention. Read on to find out what happened in Combined Honours…
Learning through Ancient and Modern Technology
The ‘You are what you make’ Archaeology module uses a mix of online videos and physically engaging practical activities to create an effective and engaging learning environment.
Inter-university competition – Greggs marketing challenge for postgraduate taught students
Find out about how Newcastle University Students took part in a competition to prepare a marketing and product development plan for local firm Greggs.
A hands-on project-based mechanical engineering design module focusing on sustainability
Professor Tom Joyce, Professor of Orthopaedic Engineering School of Engineering Science, Agriculture and Engineering What did you do? The School of Mechanical and Systems Engineering (MSE) changed the Stage 2 Design module to a Design and Manufacturing module, and completed the transition from a paper-based design exercise to a group exercise which required students to Read more about A hands-on project-based mechanical engineering design module focusing on sustainability[…]