CEEBL Projects 2007/08
Innovative Ways to Teach Innovation: Introducing Enquiry-Based Learning to Manchester Business School Undergraduate Teaching
This case study describes the development and evaluates the use of Enquiry-Based Learning (EBL) on undergraduate (UG) teaching in Manchester Business School (MBS).
Project Team: Paul Dewick Faculty: Humanities
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Group Intelligence, Creativity and Learning
The B.Sc. Information Technology Management for Business (ITMB) is a new type of degree designed to meet the needs of major employers in the business-led IT sector. Employers identified the need for graduates who understand IT within a business context and who can work creatively within an ever-changing environment. This report presents the results of the first-year Enquiry-Based Learning (EBL) project reporting on how it assisted in meeting employer objectives of greater student creativity and participation in team work.
Project Team: Linda Macaulay, Yin Leng Tan and Rico Chow Faculty: Humanities
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Enquiry-Based Learning Use of Papyri in the Teaching of Classical Studies
This project formed part of a new core course entitled ‘Theories and Mythology’ and involved the production of new digital images of papyri and manuscripts from the John Rylands University Library (JRULM).
Project Team: Emma M. Griffiths Faculty: Humanities
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Students Facilitating and Validating Peer-Learning
This case study describes the challenges encountered in engaging students in the facilitation and validation of peer-learning on the level-two module Religion, Culture and Gender.
Project Team: Katja Stuerzenhofecker Faculty: Humanities
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Values and Worth: An Enquiry-Based Learning Approach to Encountering and Constructing Collections
The initial aim of the project was to produce a reusable learning object based on EBL principles that encouraged a reflective approach to collections in museums, art galleries and other environments in a real or virtual setting and provided a framework for the construction of new individual or team collections; these ‘new collections’ might also be real or virtual.
Project Team: Janet Tatlock, Samantha Lackey and Jolene Debert Faculty: Humanities
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Linking Teaching and Research: Using Research Seminars to Enhance Enquiry-Based Learning Activities in Faculty of Life Sciences Tutorials
This project aimed to link teaching with cutting-edge research in the biological sciences by using Faculty research seminars as a basis for the development of enquiry-based tutorial activities, incorporating video clips of the seminars.
Project Team: Tristan Pocock, Carol Wakeford and Ian Miller Faculty: Life Sciences
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Critical Project Development Skills in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
We have developed a short course using an enquiry-based approach to orient final-year students, some of whom have little or no prior experience, in techniques of archival research, critical source investigation, and the management of an extended writing project in the history of science, technology and medicine.
Project Team: James Sumner, Flurin Condrau and David Kirby Faculty: Life Sciences
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Progress Report: Generation of EBL Materials to Support Second-Level Practicals and Final-Level Tutorials
Phase II of the Faculty of Life Sciences (FLS) CEEBL project in 2007-8 aimed to generate Enquiry-Based e-Learning resources by Final-Level project students, themselves using an enquiry-based approach in project work.
Project Team: Carol Wakeford and Tristan Pocock Faculty: Life Sciences
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Developing Personal Professionalism and Career Awareness Early in the Medical Curriculum through Enquiry-Based Learning
This work describes the development and introduction of a pilot Career Awareness teaching session into the year-two medical student timetable. A total of 275 students took part in the pilot and their responses to questionnaires have informed the recommendations that we make.
Project Team: Alex Langhorn, Sarah Smithson, Judy Stokes, Thomas Kelley and Val Wass Faculty: Medical and Human Sciences
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