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Download fileUsing video reports to promote active engagement in learning
conference contribution
posted on 2010-07-13, 16:10 authored by Peter WillmotPeter Willmot, Sarah BamforthThe expectation of today’s paying customers is of ‘teaching’ not ‘learning’ and
sadly, even a mild spell of disengagement can quickly lead to an unwelcome request for a
course transfer. This paper describes how rising wastage rates encouraged a large
engineering department to review the first year curriculum and this resulted in the
introduction of an innovative new problem-based module sitting alongside traditional
engineering units. The new module features several team project assignments and a series
of skills workshops. All the learning scenarios were designed to improve study
competences, to add interest and enjoyment and to address the gulf in attitude to learning
that exists between staff and students. This paper concentrates on just one of the
assignments, which was designed to encourage teamwork and improve fundamental
knowledge of machines and systems. It shows, through survey data, how a novel video
reporting approach that has proved both exciting for the students and efficient for staff
was used to stimulate, present and assess the learning.
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