Friday 4 December 2015

Seeds for Solutions, How does the past inform the future? Innovation projects from 2011/12 #KATS2015

Project Title: Using Flip Cameras to Enhance Student Employability Whilst Strengthening Employer Engagement
Project Leader(s): Dan Harding, Krys Manifold, Pat Leadbeater and Colin Rigby


Postgraduate students studying MA and MSc programmes were given the opportunity to utilise ultraportable video equipment to enhance their reflective practice whilst on internship placements. The project addressed a student-led demand for specialised equipment, equipping 8 student volunteers with Flip video cameras to record weekly diary entries. They were then privately shared with academic supervisors via YouTube. Previous reflective exercises had been ineffective in capturing student enthusiasm and failed to provide a valuable communicative link between students and their tutors. The success of the pilot led to the equipment being used for other School and University activities. Plans to expand the project are already in place and will form part of future internship programmes. During the session, attendees will see the processes which led to the project’s introduction, view student testimonials and hear from staff who decided to use the equipment. The session is broadly aimed at academic and support staff and will demonstrate how intuitive technology can be utilised without the need for intensive I.T. support.

Using Flip Video Cameras to Enhance Student Employability - Poster

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Using Flip Cameras to Enhance Student Employability Whilst Strengthening Employer Engagement by Dan Harding, Krys Manifold, Pat Leadbeater and Colin Rigby, Keele University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.