This coming Monday, I’m presenting a symposium with Odessa Dariel (and on behalf of absent Claire Mann), at the SRHE Postgraduate and Newer Researchers Conference at Celtic Manor, Newport.
The presentations will address our ongoing work as student interns with the Visual Learning Lab (VLL). Student interns have played an integral role in VLL activities since June 2008, working with Schools across the University of Nottingham to deliver workshops and provide training and support for both staff and students in new learning technologies and related pedagogies. Our role was recognised as offering a unique position with which to undertake research that promotes the development of the ‘student voice.’
We recently conducted a series of focus groups in a number of Schools across the University asking undergraduate students about their learning experiences. In the last few weeks we have started delivering the key findings to teaching staff in participating Schools in a number of participatory workshops based around a video we made. We are looking to extend this to PGCHE and MA (Ed.) students in the New Year.
We have adopted the Participation Action Research (PAR) model as a broad methodology for the project. PAR is a research method built on progressive ‘action-refection’ cycles enabling ongoing communication and collaboration between researchers, students and tutors.
We hope to replicate the video workshop in the final part of our symposium, and as such the conference will itself constitute a further strand of our own reflective practice.
This coming Monday, I’m presenting a symposium with Odessa Dariel (and on behalf of Claire Mann), at the SRHE Postgraduate and Newer Researchers Conference at Celtic Manor, Newport.
The presentations will address our ongoing work as student interns with the Visual Learning Lab (VLL). Student interns have played an integral role in VLL activities since June 2008, promoting visual learning across the University of Nottingham, providing support for both staff and students in new learning technologies and related pedagogies. Our role was recognised as offering a unique position with which to undertake research that promotes the development of the ‘student voice.’
We recently conducted a series of focus groups in a number of Schools across the University asking undergraduate students about their learning experiences. In the last few weeks we have started delivering the key findings to teaching staff in participating Schools through interactive workshops based around a video we produced. We are looking to extend this to PGCHE and MA (Ed.) students in the New Year.
We have adopted a Participation Action Research (PAR) model as a broad methodology for the project, with progressive ‘action-refection’ cycles enabling ongoing communication and collaboration between researchers, students and tutors.
We hope to replicate the video workshop in the final part of our symposium, and as such the conference will itself constitute a further strand of our own reflective practice.
Tags: conference, research, student voice, visual learning lab
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January 14th, 2010 at 3:52 pm
You can now view the symposium presentation here:
January 21st, 2010 at 6:52 pm
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