Archive for the ‘Good Practice and Innovation’ Category
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 [...]
Now….did I lock the front door?
Posted by: fionagrindey 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 [...]
JISC Online Conference ‘Thriving not Surviving’
Posted by: fionagrindey 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 [...]
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.
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