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Improving the PBL Experiences for First Year Nurses
Staff contact with students will be modified to bring about a change in stimulus for learning. Variations in students' backgrounds results in some feeling unchallenged whilst others are confused, discouraged and fall behind. This along with a full curriculum, leads to tutors falling back into a didactic approach to facilitation. The new weekly format will offer an introductory lecture and time for students to undertake some self study before they come together for group discussions around a PBL case.
Project Team: Ingrid Gouldsborough, Elizabeth Sheader Faculty: Life Sciences
Funding year: 2005
Keywords: nursing, pbl, self-study, case, medicine, anatomy, first year, facilitation
Case Study (PDF, 156.2Kb)
Application of Chemical Knowledge to the Clinical Understanding of Medicines
The aim of this project is to encourage pharmacy students to take an integrated approach to their learning across the subject areas of this multi-disciplinary degree. The objectives are for groups of pharmacy students to select a therapeutic area and select four drugs, complete an information retrieval and processing exercise and apply knowledge of their chemical properties to appreciate their clinical effectiveness. The desired outcome is the development of generic skills (databases, IT, teamwork) and enthusiasm for self-learning which will support them through their degree and in a career committed to CPD.
Project Team: Sally Freeman Faculty: Medical and Human Sciences
Funding year: 2005
Keywords: chemistry, clinical, medicine, pharmacy, pharmaceuticals, teamwork, poster, drugs, processing, CPD, first year
Case Study (PDF, 69.7Kb)
EBL for EBL: Enquiry-Based Learning for an End to being Bored with Language Learning
To encourage students to engage actively with continuous independent language-learning, particularly the perfection of grammar and mastery of pronunciation in French, and to reflect upon their own learning process.
Project Team: Julie Lawton, Annie Morton, Catherine Franc Faculty: Humanities
Funding year: 2006
Keywords: french, languages, grammar, phonetics, pronunciation, undergraduate, teamwork, first year
Case Study (PDF, 154.2Kb)
EBL From The Very First Day: Developing New Senses of Place
To develop a new EBL project for all first year geography students to be implemented during the induction weekend residential fieldtrip to Keswick. The exercise will engage students directly with the environment through role play and collaborative mapping, and will be team-based, with students responsible for the design and execution of the fieldwork research. This will be the student’s first university experience of geography and will immerse them in an EBL project that will stretch them, encourage collaborative, creative and artistic appreciation of place, and also be fun. It will open their eyes to the different ways cultural geography makes places and their own roles in this process.
Project Team: Martin Dodge, Mark Jayne, Sara MacKian, Chris Perkins Faculty: Humanities
Funding year: 2006
Keywords: geography, fieldtrip, keswick, first year, place, environment, mapping, research, collaboration
Case Study (PDF, 988.3Kb)
An Enquiry-Based Chemical Engineering Design Project for First Year students
The aim of the project is to create a new Chemical Engineering Design Project that incorporates relevant aspects of today’s process industry with an enquiry-based approach. The objective is to design an open-ended task based on a real industrial problem in which students will use all mechanisms of enquiry to elicit a solution. The main purpose is to change the approach from a fixed and sometimes contrived process design with very restricted alternatives and solutions to a more open-ended problem in which students can explore different routes, make decisions and find different solutions depending upon those decisions. The project will look at real industrial questions and will set an engineering working environment by using role-playing. The work will be carried out in small teams with a team leader and also a chief engineer and a manager. The academics will act as consultants to the teams and a representative from industry will provide students with relevant information about the problem at hand.
Project Team: Dr Robin Curtis, Dr Esther Ventura-Medina Faculty: Engineering and Physical Sciences
Funding year: 2006
Keywords: chemical engineering, design, project, industry, process, role-play, first year, undergraduate, teamwork, professional
Case Study (PDF, 85.2Kb)
Embedding Enquiry-Based Learning in the First Year Curriculum
The aim of the project is to incorporate enquiry-based learning in the delivery of the first year curricula of the undergraduate courses of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering. The objective is to promote and develop critical thinking and problem solving skills as well as encourage students to be more independent in their learning by changing the focus of the course delivery from traditional lectures and tutorials in modules to an integrated format of lectures and enquiry-based learning sessions. Students will be given real and stimulating problems to solve as part of a team so that they will be encouraged and motivated to gather information, apply concepts and develop working skills. Learning resources such as lectures material, course notes and IT will also be available for the enquiry-based sessions.
Project Team: Dr Esther Ventura-Medina, Dr Ted Roberts, Dr Leo Lue Faculty: Engineering and Physical Sciences
Funding year: 2006
Keywords: chemical engineering, critical thinking, pbl, first year, problem solving
Case Study (PDF, 83.7Kb)
