'Sharing Excellence'
Is a project designed to maintain the excellent quality of teaching and learning undertaken by staff members at NTU for their students in the ever changing educational scene.
It helps to share good ideas between staff to develop new skills; to save time and not try to 're-invent the wheel'; to help peers see what is going on in their own department; to share ideas of teaching & learning to new and part-time staff; to help maintain top quality teaching & learning experiences for students. The project helps to look at ways of managing change in the University by involving staff at all levels to share their own examples of good practice in areas of teaching, learning and administration and learn how each can cope with the ever changing educational scene. The conference workshop will review the experience of geographers at Nottingham Trent University in sharing excellence
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Skills Development: the management of change
The objectives of the project are to:
The objectives of the project are to:
- identify good practice in teaching and learning for the progressive and structured development of students' skills;
- identify the barriers to change and formulate strategies for implementation, which are applicable to a range of disciplines and organisational structures;
- facilitate the implementation of identified good teaching and learning practice through the effective dissemination of the project deliverables.
In identifying best organisational practice in developing students' skills, and by supporting and facilitating the management of positive change, the project aims to provide wide-ranging and tangible benefits to the HE sector. By far the most important benefit will be to improve the educational experience and achievement of students in the long-run. The conference workshop will focus on the relevance of these ideas to geographers.
TEACHING AND LEARNING AT THE HIGHER EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT-
The project seeks to promote interdisciplinarity, values awareness and critical thinking in higher education, It aims to do this through the development and dissemination of teaching and learning resources (TLRs) for use across the HE sector. Specifically, these TLRs will be designed to enhance students' abilities:
- to integrate knowledges derived from traditionally-separate disciplinary bases;
- to integrate ethical insights with the supposedly value-free knowledges of the natural, physical and (with some exceptions) social sciences;
- to think critically and reflectively about complex environmental issues.