Recent and ongoing rounds of the Learning & Teaching Enhancement Programme, include:
Developing & Supporting the Curriculum
This enhancement programme ran over three year:
- Year 1, 2011-2012: Developing and Supporting the Curriculum
- Year 2, 2012-2013: Maths Support for Non Maths Students
- Year 3, 2013-2014: Supporting Student Retention & Progression
- Year 1
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The Centre for Academic Development offered funding to support small-scale projects and case studies that would enhance learning & teaching. Members of staff were invited to explore the ways in which they as an individual, or as a member of a discipline, School or College, might develop innovative approaches and/or enhance support for existing or future curricula at either undergraduate or taught postgraduate level.
- Year 2
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The focus was on identifying projects to support flexibly delivered, targeted, maths support in non-maths courses and an award of up to £5600 was made available for this from the QAA funding. Staff were encouraged to apply for funding to employ a student assistant for a 7 week period.
- Year 3
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The theme of this year's Programme is Supporting Student Retention & Progression, which aligns with the current sector wide QAA Enhancement Theme 'Developing and Supporting the Curriculum'. An award of up to £6000 was made available for this from the QAA funding.
Work Placements and Work-Related Learning
'Work Placements and Work-Related Learning' was launched in September 2011 and, in line with the latest Equality and Diversity legislation, encouraged staff to consider and assess the positive contribution which a diverse student body could make to their degree programmes or courses.
Four applications were received for this round of funding and three projects are being supported financially
Equality and Diversity in the Curriculum
'Equality and Diversity in the Curriculum' was launched in January 2011 and, in line with the latest Equality and Diversity legislation, encouraged staff to consider and assess the positive contribution which a diverse student body could make to their degree programmes or courses.
The projects currently being supported include:
| Dr Anja Finger |
Divinity History & Philosophy |
Queering Religion and Its Study: The Experience of LGBTIQ Students |
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| Dr Shi Min How & Dr Mark Whittington |
Business School |
Understanding the perceptions and attitudes to learning of international postgraduate business students |
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| Dr Debbi Marais |
Population Health |
Reflection on Self-Assessment Skills Audit to improve Employability for Postgraduate Taught Students |
A brief synopsis of these projects can be found here
Evaluating Graduate Attributes
This round of Learning and teaching enhancement programme, entitled Evaluating Graduate Attributes was launched in June 2010 and invited staff to evaluate how successful the embedding of Graduate Attributes in their courses or programmes has been.
There were seven applications for this round of funding, and three were identified for support, although since then one of these has been withdrawn. The projects being supported are:
| Dr Sarah Dalrymple, Dr Nicola King & Dr Martin Barker |
School of Biological Sciences |
Assessing the development of two Graduate Attributes within a new tutorial based course for Level 1 students in Biological Sciences |
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| Ms Sue Heard |
School of Geosciences |
Integrated Coastal Management |
Graduates for the 21st Century
A Learning and Teaching Enhancement Programme based on the Enhancement Theme of Graduates for the Twenty-First Century was launched in 2009 and applications were received up until December. The successful projects were among those which offered the possibility of embedding the skills, knowledge and attributes of 'Graduates for the 21st Century' in undergraduate curricula.
As a result of this, the Centre for Learning and Teaching supported six projects from across the University of Aberdeen. These include: 'Communicating abstract ideas through exhibitions', 'Co-operation across cultures: enterprise and entrepreneurship in the curriculum', 'Exploration of International Development Activity for proposed cross-school course on Political Economy', 'Imaging Exhibitions', 'What keeps you awake at night? A manager's view of operations' and 'Artificial Intelligence via Computer Games'.