Friday 31 July 2015

Seeds for Solutions, How does the past inform the future? Innovation projects from 2003/04 #KATS2015

Project Title: Crises in Victorian Thought - A Web Based Archive
Project Leader(s): Matt Cook

The project will provide a unique web-based archive of primary material, accompanied by suggested reading, biographical sketches of authors, and links to related web based resources. It will be organised into 16 sub-sections – including Sexology, Crime, Psychology, Madness, The Crowd, Feminism, Degeneration, and Eugenics – each available from the home page and linking to biographies and bibliographies. This resource will expand further in 2004/05 to include critical essays, teaching packs and further suggestions for students.

Crises in Vitorian Thought - A Web Based Archive - Final Report

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Project Title: Assessing Employability Skills through Problem Based Learning
Project Leader(s): Matthew Wyman and Kylie Cross

The module is designed to guide development in a range of basic personal and practical skills. Students will be asked to apply these skills to real world problems of representation and reflect on their personal effectiveness. The module will equip students with skills that are of paramount importance in being a student representative, an indispensable part of good practice in any academic discipline and also valuable to potential employers.

Intended learning outcomes:

On completion of the module, students will have developed the following:
  • Knowledge and understanding of representative processes in the UK, and also processes within the university itself
  • Written communication skills, through production of a reflective portfolio
  • Oral communication skills, through participation in a series of practical exercises aimed at exploring effective speaking and listening techniques in a range of contexts
  • Team working skills, through sustained exploration of the way in which teams function effectively and where they fail when pursuing specific goals
  • Problem solving skills, through exploration of a range of scenarios which confront participants with practical problems in trying to function effectively as a representative
  • Self confidence through analysis of personal development
Assessing Employability Skills Through Problem Based Learning - Presentation

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