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Recent Additions to the Engineering Subject Centre
Resource Database
The Resource Database has direct online links to around 1500 learning and teaching resources.
The Resource Database holds a mix of discipline-specific and generic resources, which cover both pedagogy and policy. All of the resources are regularly reviewed, with additional resources being constantly added. Here we display the ten most recent additions to the database.
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Assessment : resources, references and tools for assessment in the biosciences
Author(s): UK Centre for Bioscience, Clark, Meskin
The Assessment Briefing is the first in a series of briefings from the UK Centre for Bioscience. It brings together references and resources in specific areas of learning and teaching such as group work, work placements and work-based learning. Each section includes references from the Centre and from…[more][Created: 09 Mar 2010]
Socio-centric sustainable design : the development of a learning resource : Engineering Subject Centre mini project report
Author(s): Humphries-Smith
This is the short-form report from a mini-project which was undertaken at Bournemouth University. The project was funded by the Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Centre and resulted in the development of a web-based learning and teaching resource specifically aimed at the socio-centric dimension…[more][Created: 23 Feb 2010]
Optimising my coursework : card sort exercise
Author(s): Smith
This is an online card sort exercise that can be used with students to help them with their approach to coursework. Eleven questions are posed, covering preparation, scheduling and feedback and the student selects an answer from a choice of five options. The results of the exercise are presented and…[more][Created: 23 Feb 2010]
Optimising lectures : card sort exercise
Author(s): Smith
This is an online card sort exercise that can be used with students to help them make the most of lecture attendance. Thirteen questions are posed, covering preparation, notetaking and learning outcomes and the student selects an answer from a choice of five options. The results of the exercise are…[more][Created: 23 Feb 2010]
How do values underpin professionalism? An approach to explore values in education and practice [ebook chapter]
Author(s): Baillie
This ebook chapter by Caroline Baillie, Yamun Nahar, George Catalano and Eric Feinblatt - How do values underpin professionalism? An approach to explore values in education and practice - forms part of 'Learning to be Professional through a Higher Education'. It considers an emerging pathway towards…[more][Created: 22 Feb 2010]
HoneyBee : evaluating Glamorgan’s work-based learning initiative : mini project report
Author(s): University of Glamorgan, South Wales
This is the final project report of the mini-project 'HoneyBee: Evaluating Glamorgan’s Work-Based Learning Initiative', funded by the Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Centre, and carried out by Lenira Semedo, Loretta Newman-Ford, Stephen Lloyd and Stephen Thomas of the Faculty of Advanced…[more][Created: 11 Feb 2010]
Socio-centric sustainable design website
Author(s): Humphries-Smith
The Socio-Centric sustainable design website is intended as an educational tool for undergraduate designers and engineers. It pulls together existing material about sustainable design, though its focus is on the socio-centric dimension of sustainable design. It contains articles, events, features, links…[more][Created: 11 Feb 2010]
Employer-responsive provision survey : a reflective report
Author(s): QAA
This report shows that higher education institutions in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are "successfully responding to the needs of employers and, by becoming more flexible on where and the way they offer their courses, are prepared to meet anticipated challenges in the future". The report…[more][Created: 09 Feb 2010]
The design of a computer-based maths toolbox for engineering students
Author(s): Alpay, Masouros
This is the final report of the Mini Project jointly funded by the Engineering Subject Centre and SIGMA Centre for Excellence in Mathematics & Statistics Support. It is an abridged version of the full journal paper published in the EJEE - see http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a917141701.…[more][Created: 09 Feb 2010]
A student-led design course related to sustainable engineering
Author(s): Joyce, Evans, Pallan
This case study looks at a second year mechanical engineering design course in the School of Mechanical and Systems Engineering, Newcastle University. Over a four-year period the course has been developed with an increasing emphasis on student-led learning and sustainable engineering. A history of these…[more][Created: 19 Jan 2010]
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