Seeds for Solutions, How does the past inform the future? Innovation projects from 2014/15 #KATS2015

Project Title: Students' Psychophysical Responses to Feedback
Project Leader(s): Yvonne Skipper and Russ Crawford

Research examining the impact of feedback suggests that different forms can lead to different responses to failure. Some forms lead students to persist and succeed while others can lead students to give up (Dweck, 1999). However, the reasons for this have largely been discussed as being due to thoughts about intelligence.

By using physical measures and combining ideas from both psychology and medicine, results from this research will tell us more about how the body and mind respond to feedback together. Perhaps some forms of feedback create more of an adrenaline-mediated ‘fight or flight’ response which could hinder learning.

Students' Psychophysical Responses to Feedback - Final Project Report

Students' Psychophysical Responses to Feedback by Yvonne Skipper and Russ Crawford, Keele University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Project Title: Can Interactive Classroom Technologies Improve Student Engagement and Performance?
Project Leader(s): Jan Hoole and Tracy Lovatt

Increasing student engagement with learning materials during lectures and tutorials is a challenge for every lecturer. This project evaluates three freeware and one licensed programme, each offering ways of optimising student/teacher interaction. The student can offer free-text responses to lecturer questions and answer multiple-choice questions. In addition some of the software is suitable for real-time student feedback in the form of ‘confusion rating’ of individual slides and of teaching evaluation questionnaires. The research will enable tutors to quickly choose appropriate free software for the particular application they require, reducing preparation time and improving interaction between student and tutor.

Can Interactive Classroom Technologies Improve Student Engagement and Performance? - Final Project Report 

Can Interactive Classroom Technologies Improve Student Engagement and Performance? by Jan Hoole and Tracy Lovatt, Keele University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Project Title: Personalised Immersive Learning: Using Virtual Reality Headsets to Provide Engaging and Flexible Clinical Learning Opportunities
Project Leader(s): Mel Humphreys, Luke Bracegirdle, Pete Lonsdale, Tim Smale, Daryl Kerr and Ian Wood

New virtual reality headsets allow us to provide students with personal, immersive environments where they can take part in simulations of clinical episodes. Building on previous work between the Schools of Pharmacy and Nursing & Midwifery, we will be extending existing work on the Virtual Ward to allow access by a greater range of students from more diverse settings, and utilising a variety of scenarios. Students will be able to immerse themselves within clinical environments, interacting with patients and healthcare teams to explore the essential skills of teamwork, communication, and meaningful decision making in an authentic and safe setting.

Personalised Immersive Learning: Using Virtual Reality Headsets to Provide Engaging and Flexible Clinical Learning Opportunities by Mel Humphreys, Luke Bracegirdle, Pete Lonsdale, Tim Smale, Daryl Kerr and Ian Wood, Keele University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.