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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi again everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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, </span><a href="http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk/resources/uploaded/metalbooklet.pdf"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333'>Media Enhanced Teaching and Learning: case studies and evidence of effective use</span></a><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333'> (Ed. Peter Rowlett), MSOR Network, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>as well as my existing blog page <a href="https://explainingmaths.wordpress.com/media-enhanced-teaching-and-learning-metal-workshops-at-nottingham/">https://explainingmaths.wordpress.com/media-enhanced-teaching-and-learning-metal-workshops-at-nottingham/</a> 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! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> Joel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> Joel Feinstein [mailto:Joel.Feinstein@nottingham.ac.uk] <br><b>Sent:</b> 18 April 2015 09:58<br><b>To:</b> metal@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br><b>Cc:</b> joel.feinstein@nottingham.ac.uk<br><b>Subject:</b> METAL case study<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am currently putting together a case study on the METAL project at Nottingham as part of an application to HEA for Senior Fellow.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It would be helpful if I could give some additional concrete examples of the “spread of good practice” resulting from the METAL project.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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! )<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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! <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(If you have seen any improvements, anecdotal or numerical, that can be credited to METAL or similar, that would be interesting.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have left it a bit late (University-set deadline to get applications in is the end of next week, Friday April 24<sup>th</sup>.) So quick and easy comments rather than deep evaluations would be appreciated!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Joel<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>