September 2016

  • Training the Trainers to Enhance Peer Support

    Summary Peer learning schemes at the University of Bath are student-led, discipline-owned and centrally coordinated through the Students’ Union. The success of these programmes relies both on enthusiastic volunteers and an intensive training package that fully prepares students for their...

  • Department GTA Support: Chemistry

    This case study from Chemistry, is part of a series providing short summaries of some of the different good practice models and approaches taken to department level support for graduate teaching assistants (GTAs). The Department of Chemistry moved GTA training...

  • Department GTA Support: Mathematics

    This case study from Mathematical Sciences, is part of a series providing short summaries of some of the different good practice models and approaches taken to department level support for graduate teaching assistants (GTAs). The Department of Mathematical Sciences has...

  • Department GTA Support: Chemical Engineering

    This case study from Chemical Engineering, is part of a series providing short summaries of some of the different good practice models and approaches taken to department level support for graduate teaching assistants (GTAs). In Chemical Engineering a member of...

  • Department GTA Support: SPS

    This case study from Social and Policy Sciences, is part of a series providing short summaries of some of the different good practice models and approaches taken to department level support for graduate teaching assistants (GTAs). Support for GTAs in...

  • Department GTA Support: Computer Science

    This case study from Computer Science, is part of a series providing short summaries of some of the different good practice models and approaches taken to department level support for graduate teaching assistants (GTAs). Computer Science created a specific named role...

  • An e-platform for enhancing the Operations Game

    Summary The project was about the development of an e-platform to improve a simulation game we play in class for the Undergraduates, the Postgraduates and the MBAs. The simulation game is a simulation game played worldwide in Operations Management classes,...

  • Learning from Blogs – evaluating the learning and teaching benefits of using blogs in higher education

    Summary The project aimed to evaluate the use of blogs across a number of units in the SPS department with a view to enhancing existing practice, by carrying out a detailed assessment of how students’ learning can be enhanced by...

  • Exploring the Benefits of Peer Assisted Learning (PAL): an evaluation of University undergraduate PAL schemes

    Summary Peer support, comprising peer mentoring and peer assisted learning (PAL), is an important component of HE and thus contributes to the University’s Education objectives. Our investment in PAL is significant, especially where it is essential for professional accreditation. There...

  • Randomised Coursework

    Peter Sloan, Department of Physics In this case study (from accounts first published on his blog), Peter Sloan discusses the implementation of randomised coursework, followed by an evaluation over two years looking at the outcome on exam performance and considering additional...