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Analysis of the use of Wiki-based collaborations in enhancing student learning
Cubric, Marija (University of Hertfordshire, 2007)"Wiki" is an extension of a standard web-site that allows anyone to add new and edit existing content. The most famous example of the wiki usage is the “wikipedia” - the increasingly popular on-line encyclopaedia ... -
Applications of EVS
Robins, K.; Jefferies, A.; Willis, J.; Cross, I.; Lorimer, J. (2011)How did you use EVS in your teaching? For seven weeks over a semester, an EVS drop quiz for summative feedback was given in the lecture. This best five quiz results were then used as part of their assessment and worth 10% ... -
Assessing-to-learn; enriching the assessment process
Russell, M. (ICEE/ Silesian University of Technology, 2005)Assessment has a profound effect on learning - it focuses the students’ attention and actively encourages out-of-class engagement with the learning resources. Indeed it is repeatedly quoted as being the single most important ... -
Assessment for Learning: An introduction to the ESCAPE project
Russell, M.; Bygate, D. (2010)Assessment is a significant aspect of the student learning experience and good assessment engages students with the curriculum; it creates opportunities for dialogue and ultimately stimulates learning. In spite of the ... -
The Benefits and Challenges of Developing Collaborative Writing Skills to Support Students’ Learning
Cubric, Marija; Luz, S. (University of Hertfordshire, 2009)While the 2008 Educause Horizon report states that collaboration webs and collective intelligence tools, such as wikis, are one of the key emergent technologies that are likely to enter the mainstream use in education ... -
Building the Future Students’ Blended Learning Experiences from Current Research Findings
Jefferies, A.; Hyde, R. (2010)Between March 2007 and February 2009, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) funded a Learners’ Journeys project at the University of Hertfordshire. This was part of their second phase of investment in research ... -
The Change Academy and institutional transformation
Anderson, I.; Bullen, P. (The Higher Education Academy, 2009)This chapter presents a case study of institutional change. The University of Hertfordshire participated in the Higher Education Academy/JISC pilot e-Learning Benchmarking project in 2005–06 and a subsequent pilot Pathfinder ... -
Developing New Lecturers : The Case of a Discipline Based Workshop
Clark, K.; Blumhof, J.; Gravestock, P.; Healey, M.; Jenkins, A.; Honeybone, A.; Wareham, T.; King, H.; Chalkley, B.; Thomas, N. (2002)An educational development issue common to all disciplines and countries is how to combine generic development of staff as teachers with appropriate engagement with the specificities of teaching individual subjects. This ... -
Engagement with virtual learning environments : a case study across faculties
Urwin, J. (2011)The Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) at the University of Hertfordshire (UH) not only supports institutional and national strategies in learning and teaching, but represents a significant investment in capital. Studies ... -
Engaging students via student-unique Weekly Assessed Tutorial Sheets: A four year review
Russell, Mark (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2009)Following unacceptable examination performance in a core engineering module, (fluid mechanics and thermodynamics), an alternative and innovative approach to assessment was developed. The new approach centered on the use ... -
Evaluating the Weekly-Assessed Tutorial Sheet approach to assessment: background, pedagogy and impact
Russell, M. (2005)This paper presents the results of using student-unique, weekly-assessed tasks to overcome a low examination performance in a first-year engineering module. In this instance, the weekly assessment tasks were created by ... -
Evaluating the weekly-assessed tutorial sheet approach to assessment: the students' experience
Russell, M. (2006)Evaluations of teaching and assessment interventions often focus on pre- and postintervention changes in examination and/or coursework performance. Whilst these are important indicators in their own right, it is interesting ... -
An evaluation of distance learning programmes through the lens of students’ expectations
Clark, Karen; Cubric, Marija; Lilley, Mariana (ACPI (Academic Conference Publishing International), 2012-11)As the University of Hertfordshire (UH) moves towards its goal of 15% distance learning by 2015, it has become increasingly important to gain a deeper understanding of the needs and expectations of our growing population ... -
An exploratory comparative study of distance-learning programmes
Cubric, Marija; Clark, Karen; Lilley, Mariana (ACPI (Academic Conference Publishing International), 2011)In this paper we describe an exploratory study of distance learning practice. We review five different distance learning programme models from five different schools at the University of Hertfordshire, each varying in ... -
Facilitating conversations about equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI): Guidance booklet
Jarvis, Joy; Clark, Amanda; Dickerson, Claire; Clark, Karen (University of Hertfordshire, 2021-07-06)Developed with the University of Hertfordshire School of Education Student Success & Engagement Team (SSET) and Senior Technical Officers to accompany a set of cards developed by the SSET -
‘Find the Gap’: can a multidisciplinary group of university teachers influence learning and teaching practice?
Jarvis, Joy; Thomas, Rebecca; Rosella, Tony; Smith, Jayne; Nimmo, Susan; Hodgkinson, Julia; Glass, Lesley; Clark, Karen; Barlow, Janet; Baker, Thomas (2017-07-20)This paper describes and analyses a year’s project undertaken by a small, multidisciplinary group of academic staff in a UK post -1992 university. The purpose of the group was to: take a scholarly and inquiring approach ... -
Flexible study - what students do and what they want
Alltree, J.; Quadri, N. (University of Hertfordshire, 2007)There is considerable rhetoric about today s students wanting more flexible study options so that their studies can fit in with other aspects of their lives. Furthermore, staff and students increasingly use--managed learning ... -
A framework for creating semantically adaptive collaborative e-learning environments
Cubric, Marija; Tripathi, V. (2009)In this paper we present a framework that can be used to generate web-based, semantically adaptive, e-learning and computer-assisted assessment (CAA) tools for any given knowledge domain, based upon dynamic ontological ... -
Getting the best from PowerPoint: 2 and 3 dimensional animations
Porter, P.R. (2009)PowerPoint is a package that many academics and teachers use routinely in teaching and research; the days of presentations being in the form of carousels loaded with slides are a distant memory for most. PowerPoint offers ... -
Getting the best from PowerPoint: 2 and 3-dimensional animations
Porter, P.R. (2010)The following discussion and examples of animation techniques within PowerPoint follows on directly from the article „Getting the best from PowerPoint: 2 and 3-dimensional anima-tions‟ that was published in the last edition ...