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The search for active learning: Lessons from a happy accident Department of Social & Policy Sciences Hedley Bashforth Nitin Parmar C-SAP e-Learning Forum Thursday 8 July 2010 http://opus.bath.ac.uk/18900/

Context Department of Social & Policy Sciences
Redesign of Year 1 units
Focus on 2 Social Research units
Embedding study skills in a research-focused set of activities: small group, large group and VLE
‘ The search for active learning’

Ingredients
Small project funding
Vibrant team of PG Research students
Central e-Learning Team
Learning Technologies
Department of Social & Policy Sciences

The ‘Enabler’
Audience Response System pilot
Promotion of good practice
Departmental focus
Re-construction of pedagogical
relationships

The EVS exercise
Small groups conducting literature reviews
Creation of survey questions with support via VLE-based discussion forums
Survey questions displayed to peer group in turn

Which groups of people are over represented in the working class?
Women
Disabled
Ethnic Minorities
All or none of the above

Discussion of survey questions Appropriateness of wording Question approach Reducing ambiguity Reducing bias Department of Social & Policy Sciences

Different uses of EVS Department of Social & Policy Sciences

Different meanings of active learning Department of Social & Policy Sciences

“ We came to use EVS in the way we did because of the co-incidence of a number of factors: the institutional search for technologies that were seen to promote the kinds of active learning that might raise student survey satisfaction scores, the pedagogic search for new ways of teaching about old problems, but crucially the chance meeting between an Academic and a Learning Technologist outside the formal structures of institutional management. ” Department of Social & Policy Sciences

Contact Hedley Bashforth [email_address] Nitin Parmar [email_address] go.bath.ac.uk/nitin Department of Social & Policy Sciences

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