Ideas and comments from plenary session and feedback

Contents:

• Ideas and comments from plenary session
• Ideas and comments from feedback forms

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Ideas and comments from plenary session

PERSONAL AGENDAS

1. Articulate teaching and research links
2. Build a 'Pedagogic Research Culture'
3. Develop a F/W strategy
4. Establish an undergraduate journal
5. Embedding problem based Learning (PBL)
6. Being explicit and 'up-front' to students
7. "Intelligence gathering' on students
8. Adapt/adopt the 'Vertical Project'
9. Escape from HE!

WHAT NEXT FOR LTSN GEES?

1. Encourage a policy of Pedagogic Research within institutions and departments and promote importance of Pedagogic Research in National Policy
2. Consider further research questions …. follow through (National Agendas to research)
3. HE/FE agenda - more work!
4. Challenge White Paper
5. LTSN to put pressure on Academy to develop teaching and research nexus
6. Carry out more work at the post-graduate Level
7. Monitor (lack of?) pre-92 department engagement with LTSN
8. Keep an eye on SHEFC themes and act where necessary

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Ideas and comments from feedback forms

"In the light of the conference discussions, please briefly outline below ONE change you will personally be making in your own teaching and/or research..."

Responses were:

• Use learning styles questionnaire in year 1 tutorials
• Reflect more on students. Prior learning experiences (collect data). Using VLE
• Collect pedagogic data systematically when opportunities arise esp. when using learning styles questionnaire
• Reflect more on the relationship between teaching and learning
• Think about producing pedagogic research resource briefings
• As leader of a pedagogic research forum, more emphasis on different values pedagogic research has: evaluation/empowering/informing decision making
• Research: Consider the wider possible options for methodologies to use.
• Provide time in class (at start or where necessary) to be explicit about why something is being done the way it is.
• Ask questions about pedagogic research - what's the structure and strategy in department
• Continue work PG Cert in HE - more discipline more forcefully, focus
• Make people aware of resources available, build active research community
• Undergraduate journal to invigorate student society
• Disseminate case studies presented at conference to Bioscience
• Develop fieldwork strategy for Env. & Geographical sciences
• Organise a student induction, field trip, using the argument of retention
• Change my project based learning final year option coursework submission into a simulated submission of an academic paper/peer review/re-submission exercise
• Develop pedagogic research and strengthen research links with teaching within a new HE system (NZ)
• Develop a more focused and strategic approach to pedagogic research. Try to integrate some of the ideas picked up into the curriculum
• Investigate PBL and consider using it in my teaching (based on my research)
• Think about integrating the lessons from the "Vertical Project" and write up work for dissemination
• Investigate possibility of promoting student research