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Assessment and Enterprise through EBL
The aim is to development a robust method of assessment based upon the application of enterprise skills to an investigation. It is difficult to devise fair assessment when learning is characterised by a lack of rigid structure as in EBL. The project will develop a guiding structure for EBL assessment. This will provide some guidance and constraint to the lines of enquiry being followed and yet still allow students considerable freedom when making their investigations.
Project Team: Tim Jones Faculty: Engineering and Physical Sciences
Funding year: 2005
Keywords: enterprise, assessment, project, individual, undergraduate, engineering, report writing
Case Study (PDF, 129.6Kb)
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)
An enquiry-based student-led project to develop a learning module on cultural competency for patient-centred communication
To develop an enquiry-based student-led learning module on patient-centred cultural competency; to enable Phase 2 medical students to demonstrate awareness of and respect for cultural diversity when communicating in the workplace.
Project Team: Valerie Wass, Maria Ahmed, Jo Hart Faculty: Medical and Human Sciences
Funding year: 2006
Keywords: student led, project, cultural, competency, patient-centred, communication, medical, medicine, diversity, workplace
Case Study (PDF, 578.4Kb)
Life Sciences Enterprise Projects
Development of a new type of final year project in the Faculty of Life Sciences. Students will identify an area of life sciences in which there is potential for a hypothetical new product. After receiving didactic and EBL-based training in business methodology from the Manchester Science Enterprise Centre (MSEC), teams of students will conduct market research and formulate a business plan for their product. We anticipate that this will improve students' understanding of how businesses are structured and the skills required to be an entrepreneur and develop students' independent learning and decision making skills.
Project Team: Dr Maggie Fostier, Dr Tracey Speake, Dr Martin Henery Faculty: Life Sciences
Funding year: 2006
Keywords: science, enterprise, msec, final-year, project, product development, market research, business, teamwork
Case Study (PDF, 111.6Kb)
Incorporation of Enquiry-based Techniques into a Team-Based Programming Project.
This proposal is aimed at improving and developing students' planning, inquiry and presentational skills, within a team-based project. This will be achieved by re-structuring the existing framework of the module to include substantial elements of enquiry-based learning. By encouraging the students to devise their own activities, it is anticipated that they will perceive a greater sense of ‘ownership’ of the work carried out, and help lead to higher levels of achievement and enthusiasm. Another expected outcome is that the module leaders will also benefit by learning how to apply similar techniques to other areas of their teaching, where appropriate.
Project Team: Dr David Armitage, Geoff Rubner Faculty: Engineering and Physical Sciences
Keywords: engineering, project, programming, computer systems
Building Capacity for EBL through Staff Development
The aim of the project is to facilitate the process of restructuring two third year courses: Concurrency and Theory of Games and Game Models in the School of Computer Science. We intend to achieve this by developing capacity of two ambassadors in EBL approaches. These ambassadors will work with practitioners who have incorporated EBL for their courses through workshops and face-to-face meeting. This project will enable students to engage in the course material more actively, provide students with opportunities to manage their own enquiry, facilitate learning partnerships between student groups through peer-review/assessment, improve student motivation in learning and develop improved resources that encourage students to develop independent learning skills.
Project Team: Graham Gough, Peter Jinks, Alan Williams, Andrea Schalk, Marjahan Begum, Adrian Albin-Clark Faculty: Engineering and Physical Sciences
Funding year: 2007a
Keywords: computer science, project, ambassadors
Critical Project Development Skills in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
The Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM) provides service teaching to several hundred students from disciplinary backgrounds across the humanities and the social, physical and life sciences. By adopting an EBL approach to the delivery of its modules, the centre hopes to equip the students with the necessary skills essential for historical project work as well as other transferable skills such as independent learning and critical thinking.
Project Team: Dr James Sumner, Dr Flurin Condrau, Dr David Kirby Faculty: Life Sciences
Funding year: 2007a
Keywords: science, history, research, technology, medicine, project
Teaching Foundations for Interaction Design using an Enquiry-Based Learning Approach
Re-development of a Human-Computer Interaction module from being lecture based to collaborative and project-driven. Students will engage in collaborative observation and discovery in analysis of real world examples of interactive technologies and gain first hand experience applying tools and techniques used by industry. This new delivery approach to Human-Computer Interaction will prepare students with a better understanding of the foundations for interaction design and create a more relevant learning experience.
Project Team: Dr Victor Gonzalez, Pranoy Bhattacharjee, Luis Castro-Quiroa Faculty: Manchester Business School
Funding year: 2008
Keywords: Human-Computer Interaction, HCI, labs, projects, design, collaboration
Material and Textual Cultures
As part of the development of the MA in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, a core course is being designed that will give students practical awareness of the different types of literary text prevalent during the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods. The course will be predicated upon EBL approaches and will encourage independent learning, project-based skills and an appreciation of the complexity of textual cultures from 1300-1700. It will also give students a range of practical skills and enable them to have input into JRUL exhibitions.
Project Team: Dr Jerome de Groot, Dr David Matthews, Dr Anke Bernau, Stella Halkyard, Joel Swann, Matthew Yeo Faculty: Humanities
Funding year: 2008
Keywords: medieval, early modern, textual cultures, independent learning, project-based skills
Green City Projects: facilitating cross-faculty communities of practice in environment and sustainable development research for Manchester City Council
This project seeks to foster cross-university collaboration between dissertation and team research project components of taught masters and other level 4 programmes. Students will use EBL as research-based learning to develop solutions independently or in discipline teams on real projects for the City. Disciplines will share experiences in online action learning sets and compare results in a plenary.
Project Team: Professor Colin Hughes, Julia McMorrow, Peter Smyntek, Jonathan Sadler, Mark Baker Faculty: TEAM, Engineering and Physical Sciences, Humanities
Funding year: 2008
Keywords: TEAM, green city, Manchester, sustainable development, environment, research, projects, groupwork, interdisciplinary
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
Funding year: 2007
Keywords: seminars,tutorial activities,biological sciences, Final Level projects
Case Study (PDF, 240.2Kb)
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
Funding year: 2007
Keywords: project work, biology, e-learning
Case Study (PDF, 285.2Kb)
