Developing and Supporting the Curriculum
Please note: The call for proposals for this award are now closed.
The Centre for Academic Development offered funding to support small-scale projects and case studies that would enhance learning & teaching. This year the theme is Developing and Supporting the Curriculum, which aligns with the current sector wide QAA Enhancement Theme (http://www.enhancementthemes.ac.uk/). All staff were welcome to apply, particularly applications from Teaching Fellows.
Members of staff were invited to explore the ways in which they as an individual, or as a member of a discipline, School or College, might develop innovative approaches and/or enhance support for existing or future curricula at either undergraduate or taught postgraduate level.
An award of up to £4500 was available to introduce new enhancement activities and/or disseminate current good practice.
There were twelve applications for this round of funding, and six were identified for support. The projects being supported are:
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Dr Ian Taggart |
School of Law |
Best Practice methods in Student Feedback |
| Dr Ian Heywood | Business School |
Simulating Distibuted Leadership |
| Drs Elizabeth Welsh & Lucy Hyde | Medicine & Dentistry |
Investigation into the use of Genelyn as a new embalming techinique to improve authenticity of anatomical preparations for undergraduate study. |
| Drs Nicola Cousins, Martin Barker & Lindsay McPherson | Biological Sciences |
Response to personalised learning opportunities by first-year students in biological sciences. |
| Dr Nir Oren | Natural & Computing Sciences | Improved Automated Marking of Student Programming Assessments. |
| Dr Marco Thiel | Natural & Computing Sciences | University of Aberdeen on iTunesU - Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory |
If you have any questions about this process, please contact us (cad@abdn.ac.uk).
The University of Aberdeen’s Learning & Teaching Enhancement Programme was established in 2007 to encourage the introduction of new enhancement activities, and to disseminate good practice throughout the institution.
Recent and ongoing rounds of the Learning & Teaching Enhancement Programme, include: