eLearning showcase

Strand 4: Transition into the workplace

Using blogs to provide peer support for students on work experience through a community of practice
Helen Boulton, School of Education
As Web 2.0 technologies have emerged they have provided new ways of encouraging greater peer support and sharing work placement experiences which can lead to a community of practice (COP). This presentation will focus on the development of blogs to support student experience on work placement in the School of Education. The project reported lasted 3 years and has been developed with each group of students.
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Supporting placements – the wikimap project
Chris Reynolds and Phil Pierce, School of Arts and Humanities
The Wikimap is a student support tool, initially developed in Modern Languages, which prepares students to make informed decisions about their placement choices. It facilitates the placement experience through peer support and communication, achieved through student-led maintenance of current information about placement destinations via a google maps/wiki mash up.
The NTU Wikimap

eLearning at the vocational stage and beyond in legal education.
Adrian Savage and Jane Ching, Nottingham Law School
a) e-learning as part of the Legal Practice Course, including recording of lectures; an online writing module and other aspects of blended learning; and
b) work with employed, mature, students including telephone advocacy; examination of witnesses by videolink and creation of a google-group.
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Second life as a learning platform
Kirsty Hunter, Sarah Mallory and Dave Jukes, Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences
In this session Sarah, Dave and Kirsty will be talking about their experiences using Second Life (a multi user virtual environment) as a teaching aid for undergraduate Sport students. By developing environments which students could not access in real life, we aim to enhance the learning experience. But does it work?
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Sustainable communities - Developing final year students web-based skills as a form of assessment, preparing for transition into practice
James Hunter and Ann McCarthy, School of Social Sciences
Public service organisations are increasingly communicating with policy stakeholders via the medium of online platforms. Living Places offers final year students the opportunity to demonstrate in their final assessment their ability to develop policy-orientated web pages aimed at local citizens or policy stakeholder organisations. Given the emphasis upon understanding localities as real places, the medium of web pages enables students to visibly capture and communicate the key sustainability issues impacting on their community.
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Transition into placement: Collaborative wikis and the effectiveness of uploading audio feedback
Rachael Smith, School of Education
When student’s go onto work placements, they often forget some of the things they have learnt in university. I tried to combat this problem for my PGCE ICT students by setting up a wiki and trailing the effectiveness of uploading audio feedback on an APP assessment task that they could then refer back to later on placement.
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