Jude Carroll – Academic Integrity at University of Southampton
Posted by: fionajharvey on: 26 February, 2010
Jude Carroll Academic Integrity expert from Oxford Brookes University visited Southampton University to run a day exploring issues around Academic Integrity. Around 20 colleagues directly involved in Academic Integrity from across the University came along and discussed a range of issues.
Jude mentioned that there were six stages to Academic Integrity
1. Knowledge
i. What is plagiarism
ii. How to apply the rules
2. Programme design – practice
i. Assignment design
3. Spotting it – range of strategies
4. Management of cases that do not hurt the spotter
5. Penalties that match levels
6. Policies – fair, transparent, defenceable
For more information about events run by LATEU please see our website.
Jude Carroll - Academic Integrity
Academic Skills at Southampton
Posted by: adam1warren on: 7 December, 2009
I was pleasantly surprised to find that the University’s Academic Skills website, which is maintained by LATEU, comes up as the #1 entry when you search Google for ‘academic skills’. I don’t keep an eye on our ranking – but was just creating a sample screenshot about how students search for resources on the web.
If I had to say why we have achieved this ranking, it is because the materials provided are good quality and openly available for all to use. We regularly get emails from around the world asking if it is OK to use them – and we always say “yes, provided you attribute the University”.
(but if you search for ‘study skills’ we are only number 22 – so we won’t let it go to our head!)
Now….did I lock the front door?
Posted by: fionajharvey on: 2 December, 2009
Fiona Grindey attended a lecture by Prof Andy Stanford-Clark, Master Inventor at IBM UK today. It was an absolutely fascinating talk about pervasive innovation and its uses within IBM’s Smarter Planet agenda. Andy talked about and showed us how his house has been wired up to detect power and water usuage and how he has a avariety of security checks so that in essence his house can tell him (via Twitter) if he has locked the front door or not. Not only can he do this but he has also managed to work with a variety of colleagues from across the University to look at flood warnings – Floodnet and has developed a new messaging protocol (MQTT.org)
Andy provided us with a huge range of examples of how he has been using pervasive technology to save time and money – much more than we could post here – take a look at this from Andy’s web site.
Andy also features as part of this Twitter Power User video from EpicFu.com
JISC Online Conference ‘Thriving not Surviving’
Posted by: fionajharvey on: 1 December, 2009
Fiona Grindey attended this event last week – all online and very interactive. The conference was based on two themes – Theme 1 was ‘Finding the Way’ and Theme 2 was ’ Meeting the Challenge’. Each of these themes had a series of resources relating to them. There are resources relating to the presentations and discussion forums at the event which were either a live presentation using Elluminate or discussion forums, each with a whole set of resources and reading material, which could sometimes included video.
Theme 1 posed questions such as:
- What are the needs and expectations of learners using technology in their learning? How can we distinguish between the myths and the reality, and respond effectively?
- Is there a role for social media in supporting, engaging and retaining learners?
- How can technology enhance the broader canvas of curriculum delivery?
- What are the benefits and challenges posed by open educational resources?
- What will educational institutions look like in the future?
The keynote for this theme was from Charles Leadbeater via Elluminate was ‘The role of innovation in education’. At which there was a lively discussion and a very good attendance.
Theme 2 posed questions such as:
- How can institutions respond with more agility to the changing needs of the workplace?
- How can institutions engage employers and professional bodies in curriculum design?
- Adopt or avoid? Can virtual worlds open up new routes to learning?
- How can the design of technology-rich physical learning spaces be informed by research?
The keynote for this theme was ‘Becoming an edgeless university’ with Peter Bradwell, an independent researcher with Demos, who looked at how institutions could explore ways to prepare for the future. Peter’s presentation is based on the 2009 Demos report, The Edgeless University.
All the resources from the event will be availble via the JISC website in January 2010.
There was recent post about the conference on the JISC e-Learning Programme blog.
If you would like to know more about the conference please let me know.
English education is just too narrow
Posted by: adam1warren on: 18 November, 2009
The Guardian newspaper published an article today by our VC, Professor Don Nutbeam, which argues in favour of greater flexibility and adaptability in university curriculum structures to prepare students for a future work environment which is far more complex and changeable than their parents’ .
National Workshop on Learning in Immersive Worlds
Posted by: fionajharvey on: 12 November, 2009
I have just presented at the National Workshop on Learning in Immersive Worlds yesterday at Coventry University with Julie Watson in Modern Languages. I presented the model of the coordination and management of the University island and talked about how the communication between the five projects in the Schools and disciplines (Medicine, Modern Languages, Archaeology, Chemistry and Education) are maintained. Julie presented her work on one of the projects and also that of the M3 Project.
It was a really interesting event and there were a lot of interesting and new ideas, including augmented reality and also it was interesting to find out what has been going on elsewhere in Second Life. I attended presentations on the use of Sloodle for dynamic interactions from Peter Bloomfield of University of West of England and also a presentation from Dr David White of Oxford University giving an interesting insight to the views of students from their Open Habitat project. I will be providing a more comprehensive update to the Second Life interest Group via the mailing list (secondlife-info) which can be subscribed to through the majordomo lists at http://www.lists.soton.ac.uk
If you are interested in how the University of Southampton has been using virtual worlds to enhance education and research, please get in touch with Fiona Grindey in LATEU.
Providing Pastoral Support for UG and PG Students
Posted by: adam1warren on: 5 November, 2009
A new date, Monday 14 December, 1-30 – 4.40, has been confirmed for this workshop, which was originally scheduled for 6 October but cancelled due to illness. Further details and an application form are available on the LATEU website.
The workshop will introduce approaches to pastoral care and dealing with difficult situations and provide information on the services offered by the University that you can tap into to support students.
Introduction to Good Clinical Practice (workshop)
Posted by: adam1warren on: 5 November, 2009
We have added three new dates for this workshop: 11 December 2009, 11 March 2010 and 9 June 2010.
This course is designed to provide an insight to the history and application of relevant regulations and good practice guidance within clinical research. Delegates will be introduced to the principles of Research Governance and Good Clinical Practice and will be equipped with skills to ensure good conduct of clinical research. Further details here.
Sharing Good Practice
Posted by: fionajharvey on: 2 November, 2009
LATEU met with colleagues who were involved in staff development activities within their schools to share good practice today. It was agreed that the group of colleagues who were nominated by their schools would remain in contact with Fiona Grindey in LATEU to share relevant activites that were happening in their Schools and that the network would share themes generated from the Staff Development folder within the LTERAP. Notes from the meeting will be sent to the group shortly.
Fiona is also going to keep the LATEU web site up to date with information about good practice across the University. Anyone with an interest in utilising this network and would like to share good practice in education should get in touch with Fiona Grindey.
Government’s Select Committee Report now online
Posted by: adam1warren on: 30 October, 2009
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The awaited response of the Government to August’s Select Committee Report into Students and Universities was published on the 20th October. A copy can be found on the parliament website at http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmselect/cmsctech/991/991.pdf
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