From Joel.Feinstein at nottingham.ac.uk Sat Apr 18 09:58:18 2015 From: Joel.Feinstein at nottingham.ac.uk (Joel Feinstein) Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 09:58:18 +0100 Subject: [Metal] METAL case study Message-ID: <8824AAED239A0A48AE135277DC2B79B4448A70B27F@EXCHANGE1.ad.nottingham.ac.uk> Hi everyone, I am currently putting together a case study on the METAL project at Nottingham as part of an application to HEA for Senior Fellow. It would be helpful if I could give some additional concrete examples of the "spread of good practice" resulting from the METAL project. Do you know of examples where you or others have introduced new methods into your teaching as a result of the METAL project? (Or possibly some other workshops I ran, or anything else where I can claim some direct/indirect influence! ) It would also be good if I had some idea of what it was that persuaded people that it would be a good idea to try something new. I believe that motivation may include a combination of things through from a wish to assist the students' with engagement/interest and development of knowledge/understanding/skills and/or helping them to get better marks, and improvement in student satisfaction, through to staff obtaining better scores in student evaluations! (If you have seen any improvements, anecdotal or numerical, that can be credited to METAL or similar, that would be interesting.) I have left it a bit late (University-set deadline to get applications in is the end of next week, Friday April 24th.) So quick and easy comments rather than deep evaluations would be appreciated! Best wishes, Joel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Joel.Feinstein at nottingham.ac.uk Mon Apr 20 13:39:31 2015 From: Joel.Feinstein at nottingham.ac.uk (Joel Feinstein) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 13:39:31 +0100 Subject: [Metal] Re: METAL case study In-Reply-To: <8824AAED239A0A48AE135277DC2B79B4448A70B27F@EXCHANGE1.ad.nottingham.ac.uk> References: <8824AAED239A0A48AE135277DC2B79B4448A70B27F@EXCHANGE1.ad.nottingham.ac.uk> Message-ID: <8824AAED239A0A48AE135277DC2B79B444BA6DE8C3@EXCHANGE1.ad.nottingham.ac.uk> Hi again everyone, I thought, if people were willing, it might be useful to post on my blog something about this too, with quotes from staff using METAL project-inspired methods about the benefits, and examples of positive feedback from their students. Of course there is already the Metal project booklet edited by Peter Rowlett, Media Enhanced Teaching and Learning: case studies and evidence of effective use (Ed. Peter Rowlett), MSOR Network, 2012 as well as my existing blog page https://explainingmaths.wordpress.com/media-enhanced-teaching-and-learning-metal-workshops-at-nottingham/ but I think that it would be good to have a look, three years on, about what has been achieved and where we are going! Best wishes, Joel From: Joel Feinstein [mailto:Joel.Feinstein at nottingham.ac.uk] Sent: 18 April 2015 09:58 To: metal at lists.nottingham.ac.uk Cc: joel.feinstein at nottingham.ac.uk Subject: METAL case study Hi everyone, I am currently putting together a case study on the METAL project at Nottingham as part of an application to HEA for Senior Fellow. It would be helpful if I could give some additional concrete examples of the "spread of good practice" resulting from the METAL project. Do you know of examples where you or others have introduced new methods into your teaching as a result of the METAL project? (Or possibly some other workshops I ran, or anything else where I can claim some direct/indirect influence! ) It would also be good if I had some idea of what it was that persuaded people that it would be a good idea to try something new. I believe that motivation may include a combination of things through from a wish to assist the students' with engagement/interest and development of knowledge/understanding/skills and/or helping them to get better marks, and improvement in student satisfaction, through to staff obtaining better scores in student evaluations! (If you have seen any improvements, anecdotal or numerical, that can be credited to METAL or similar, that would be interesting.) I have left it a bit late (University-set deadline to get applications in is the end of next week, Friday April 24th.) So quick and easy comments rather than deep evaluations would be appreciated! Best wishes, Joel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: