Archive for the ‘Good Practice and Innovation’ Category
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 [...]
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 [...]
E-Learning is now Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)
Posted by: fionagrindey on: 23 October, 2009
The E-Learning Implementation Group (Chaired by Rosalynd Jowett) and The E-Learning Strategy Group (Chaired by Hugh Davis) have now merged to form the Technology Enhanced Learning Steering and Implementation Group (TELSIG). this new group will be able to contribute and respond to the new University strategies for education as they are put in place. The [...]
LTEF Funding update
Posted by: fionagrindey on: 23 October, 2009
It was recently announced at the DHoS meeting that the funding via the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Fund would no longer be available. However, possible funding opportunities may arise through other University projects or external funding.
There are other sources of external funding for learning and teaching and many opportunities for these are circulated through the [...]
Virtual Worlds – Update
Posted by: fionagrindey on: 23 October, 2009
As you may or may not be aware LATEU have been instrumental in coordinating projects working in Second Life, on the University Island. They have been running for nearly a year and have proved to be very successful (full evaluations etc will be available in due course). It seems though, that we now have to [...]
Sharing Good Practice
Posted by: fionagrindey on: 23 October, 2009
LATEU is organising a meeting between all Schools and LATEU in order to arrange sessions on sharing good practice across the University in a more relevant way. It was clear that the Schools already arrange a lot of staff development activities (even if they don’t call it that) and so it was decided that instead [...]
Thinking about Dyslexia: a staff resource for developing practice
Posted by: adam1warren on: 5 June, 2009
The Learning Differences Centre forwaded me a useful link from the University of Nottingham, who have developed a comprehensive resource for tutors to help them adapt their practices to match the needs of dyslexic students. Such adaptations often benefit the whole cohort. The website includes advice, video case studies and documents.
Second Life at the University of Southampton
Posted by: fionagrindey on: 22 May, 2009
The May edition of activity from the University Island and beyond has just been mailed to all on the second-life mailing list. If you would like to be added to the list, please visit the majordomo website (http://www.lists.soton.ac.uk) for further information.
Don’t forget – the next Second Life seminar will be on September 23rd in [...]
Creating an Online Masters
Posted by: fionagrindey on: 22 May, 2009
Everyone welcome to attend a meeting of minds to discuss issues/processes around ‘Creating an online Masters’. we have gathered together people from across the University who are actively involved in creating masters programmes for online delivery. The meeting will be on July 6th and is organised by Fiona Grindey. Please contact fg@soton.ac.uk [...]
Open Educational Resources
Posted by: adam1warren on: 23 March, 2009
This is a report on the first session of Learning and Teaching Week 2009, organised by Hugh Davis (University Director of Education for E-Learning) – 11.00-12.30 Monday 23 March in B27/3007. It focused on the issues raised by the current movement towards open (freely shared) educational resources, especially in relation to EdShare, the University’s new [...]
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