Newsletter 01.6
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The Higher Education Academy
The Higher Education Academy came into being on 1 May this year. Professor Paul Ramsden, the Academy’s newly appointed Chief Executive, outlines his hopes ...
Authors: Prof. Paul Ramsden;
FDTL4 update: Developing tomorrow’s leaders in health and social care education
This FDTL4 project, led by Leicester Medical School in partnership with Imperial College, London; the University of Leeds Medical School; University College, Northampton and Liverpool ...
Authors: Ms Judy McKimm;
FDTL4 update: A core question bank linked to learning outcomes for undergraduate medicine
Following a successful application to the FDTL4 funding program, the UMAP project began as a consortium of five medical schools (Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Sheffield and ...
Authors: Ms Andrea Owen;
Supporting the development of employability
An employable graduate is one who can perform those roles and responsibilities expected of those entering their profession. But what is ‘employability’ and how can ...
Authors: Mr Nigel Purcell;
Project focus: ‘iSUS’ Using ICT to enhance quality in clinical placements
iSUS is an ICT placement management system which helps students evaluate their learning, choose learning objectives, find ways of fulfilling them, and reflect on the ...
Authors: Ms Debbie Leadbetter;
LTSN-01 Mini-project update: Developing a virtual learning environment for a postgraduate orthodontics course
At the University of Bristol, the needs of both orthodontic trainees and trainers are changing. A potential solution has been the development of a Virtual ...
Authors: Mr Dominic Alder;
LTSN-01 Mini-project update:Formal veterinary communication skills teaching
Does the formal teaching of communication skills improve the ability of veterinary students to communicate with clients in clinical situations? LTSN-01 commissioned staff at the ...
Authors: Ms Christine Latham;
Special focus: Sharing and reusing learning resources with intraLibrary
IntraLibrary is a learning object repository. It acts as a library of teaching and learning resources and is used primarily by teachers. Its function is ...
Authors: Mr Charles Duncan;
Focus: Becoming a reflective practitioner
Reflection and reflective practice are two of the key buzzwords in professional and education practice at present. But what exactly do we mean by these ...
Authors: Prof. David Brigden; Mr Nigel Purcell;
LTSN Project Focus: Ethics Teaching Highlighted in Contextualised Scenarios
The year long ETHICS project aimed to promote existing examples of good practice in ethics teaching and learning by drawing on the extensive combined knowledge ...
Authors: Mr David Mossley;
Conference report: UNFOLDing the mysteries of capturing pedagogical context?
I was recently invited to attend a three day meeting to inaugurate three communities of practice under the banner of an EU project called UNFOLD ...
Authors: Ms Suzanne Hardy;
Admissions testing for entry to medicine
With the publication of the Schwartz report into fair admissions to university, interest is growing in both a general admissions test for university applicants and ...
Authors: Mr Philip Brown;
Resources for medical teachers taking certificate programmes
Are you on a Post Graduate Certificate in Education programme but feeling that maybe a lot of the material is too general to be of ...
Authors: Mr Nigell Purcell;
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