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VR as a Tool for Career Success

Students attending an interview or assessment centre for the first time are often unsure of what to expect and lacking in confidence. With this in mind, the Careers Service at the University of…

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Using Adobe Connect to bridge the gap between geographically dispersed students

The aim of this session from Pirashanthie Vivekananda-Schmidt and Michael Nelson from the University of Sheffield demonstrate how Adobe Connect can support communicating and teaching students in a…

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A programme-level approach to supporting student development using PebblePad

The session from Dr Emma Gregory focuses on the development of a PebblePad workbook which aims to support the personal, clinical and professional development of speech and language therapy students…

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Tightrope Walkers: Social Media, Equity, and Educational Practice

This keynote talk is by Dr David Webster - Head of Learning & Teaching Innovation at The University of Gloucestershire. Social Media is touted as a panacea for course engagement. As generational…

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Active learning: engaging and supporting the new generation of student learners

This session from Gareth Bramley & Kate Campbell-Pilling from the University of Sheffield focuses on the use of technology to ensure active and engaging learning for students. Specifically, the…

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Student Designed Active Learning for Private Pilot Instruction

The Aerospace Engineering degree programme has for a number of years offered a module on private pilot instruction. This involves students taking all of the exams necessary in order to obtain a…

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Using breaks to boost student creativity

This talk is based on recently published research carried out by Dermot Breslin, Sheffield University Management School. In the first part of the presentation, findings from an experimental study…

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A flipped classroom approach to teaching basic maths skills

Although numerical competence is essential for success in the biological sciences, a number of students at this institution and others struggle with their maths skills and confidence. Rebecca Barnes,…

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Creative Media as an Alternative Assessment Tool

With the Universities Learning and Teaching strategy championing methodologies that foster inspiration, engagement, communication skills - while encouraging innovation and the use of technologies,…

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Live-editing the past

Wikipedia is now unquestionably the world’s most used repository of historical knowledge, heavily relied on by students, print and broadcast media, members of the public and indeed academics. …

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The good, the bad, and the ugly: Enhancing the quality, consistency and efficiency of assessment feedback using Turnitin

The 2016 NSS indicates that the University of Sheffield’s performance on indicators relating to the quality and timeliness of feedback is lagging behind the national average. However,…

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Danger of written feedback: In-the-moment video feedback for online counselling students' role play assessment

Although written feedback has several advantages, it lacks being able to convey spoken emotions (e.g., Mehrabian's communication studies). Despite the importance of emotions and feedback in…

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Using virtual classroom technology to bring together distance and face-to-face students

This session explores a specific scenario where on campus students attended a teaching exercise with distance students at the University of Sheffield Information School. The case study is a 2hr…

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Audio Feedback: Students’ and Tutors’ Perspectives

Giving effective feedback is a constant challenge for educators, and it is important to develop methods that students find useful and engaging. TurnItIn’s feedback studio allows markers to…

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Implementing a VLE framework

In 2017, Studygroup implemented a 3-tiered VLE Framework. Following a recent audit, the University of Sheffield International College has met the baseline of this framework, and we are now…

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Medical Careers advice: combatting accessibility challenges

The University of Sheffield Medical School has over 1250 medical students registered on the MBChB medicine degree with many of the students in the later years undertaking their clinical placements…

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