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Contents 1 University-funded projects findings (LTDG) 2 Learning-specific skills case studies 3 Teaching-related skills case studies 4 Curriculum design case studies 5 Assessment and feedback case studies 6 Space and Events/Environment-related case studies 7 Technology and media case studies 8 People/Roles in the University case studies 9 Projects and Initiative-related case studies 10 CETLS 11 Student submitted case studies

University-funded projects findings (LTDG)

OVERVIEW

• Learning and Teaching Development Grants: Evaluation Findings for Faculties

FACULTY REPORTS

• Learning and Teaching Development Grants: Evaluation Findings for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
• Learning and Teaching Development Grants: Evaluation Findings for the Faculty of Social Sciences
• Learning and Teaching Development Grants: Evaluation Findings for the Faculty of Engineering
• Learning and Teaching Development Grants: Evaluation Findings for the Faculty of Science
• Learning and Teaching Development Grants: Evaluation Findings for the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health
• Learning and Teaching Development Grants: Evaluation Findings for non-Faculty projects

Learning-specific skills case studies

• Skills for the ideal student: navigating the transition to university in Intro Week (Music)

• Access, flyers and videotape: teaching and learning about service user involvement in research

• The REAL way to approach PDP (Information Studies)

• Constructing Learning: The Level 3 Politics poster exhibition

• A Departmental Information Literacy Strategy for Town and Regional Planning

• Playing Games: How engineers and Hoopla lead to student employability skills

• A Departmental Approach to English Language Support (ACSE, Engineering)

Teaching-related skills case studies

• Free is the Magic Number: Youtube lectures online
• Module in Teaching and Learning for Part-Time Tutors
• IBL Engineering
• Plagiarism: an educational approach for students and staff
• Designing International Groupwork: engineering a global perspective on standard projects
• Getting Students Talking in Seminars
• Showing Stats: Understanding Context and Meaning in an Applied Medical Context
• Developing Students' Intercultural Awareness in Engineering: Enhancing International Project Management Skills
• ‘Translating’ abstract concepts: teaching social science philosophy to international students

Curriculum design case studies

• Using research software in teaching: the development of a Geotechnical Engineering Limit Analysis Teaching Package

• Embedding existing good practice (enterprise activities) into design modules

• Computing Biology: A flexible approach to learning stats in APS

• Long-term recruiting: School Outreach and Widening Participation (Chemistry)

• Developing Professionalism Through Work Placement

• Human Communication Sciences Intro Week: CILASS Case Study

• Context and Quants: How and why Politics structured data analysis into the curriculum

• Integrating research and teaching: the refereed design studio

• About Inspiration: The capture of creative professionals’ idea processing to inspire the creative activities of students of architecture

• The First Year Team: improving Year 1 learning through a staff team approach

• Student-led curriculum and IBL: Current legal issues in EU Law

• Lab in a Box – a collaborative project to enhance Engineering students’ learning of flow down pipes

• Ecological identification skills: an online inquiry-based approach

• Adding an International Dimension to Studies: Holding a Joint Workshop with the University’s new International Faculty, City College (Management)

• Online Computer Aided Design Learning Resource

• International students and inquiry-based learning (IBL) on Masters programmes: CILASS Case Study

Assessment and feedback case studies

• An equal balance?: assessing group work (Geography)

• Marking time: teaching teams and quality assurance (Mechanical Engineering)

• Evaluating learning: assessing peer assessment (ACSE)

• Referencing incentives: Getting students to lead and participate fully in discussions

• Presenting Patient Case Studies: Dentistry final assessment in poster format

• Peer-assessment of essay questions in tutorials

• Computer Aided Assessment (CAA) for 1st Year Engineers

• Assessment through multimedia creation

Space and Events/Environment-related case studies

• Finding their way: the Compass resource for the induction and orientation of part-time mature students

• Induction of students during Intro Week and a pre-arrival task

• Virtually Sheffield: researching the community in the classroom

• Interprofessional Learning Afternoon

• The AIDS Day Experiment: tying in creative assessment with community events and exhibitions

• An interdisciplinary approach to history, language and music: La purpura de la rosa

• Teaching Circles: cross-school collaboration and sharing practice between hourly-paid tutors

• Induction Week: Research-Led Activities and West Side Story

• Facilitating interdisciplinary interaction in the space of the newsroom: The Journalism Election Project

• Developing a sense of community for international and UK research students: field trip to the Peak District (Town and Regional Planning)

Technology and media case studies

• Online Computer Aided Design Learning Resource

• Developing a video-based e-tutorial for Civil Engineering students

• Introducing a multimedia approach to music education

• Hierarchies of Evidence: Introducing information literacy (The School of Clinical Dentistry)

• Using wikis as a collaborative learning tool (Law)

• The Changing Face of Sheffield - information and communication skills

• How pre-modern Japanese poetry can be very modern indeed: Research lead teaching and learning on the web with podcasting

• Student e-skills: Do we really need to teach skills like podcasting (collaborative research between Holgate School in Barnsley and the University of Sheffield School of Dentistry)?

• First year podcasts: Drip feeding students information via RSS feeds

• MOLE quizzes: Giving students an incentive to engage with the basics of a course

• Assessment through multimedia creation

• Social bookmarking software helps students to generate resource lists

• Podcasting for learning

• Opened up learning: generating content and learning opportunities with communities beyond the classroom

People/Roles in the University case studies

• The Role of Learning and Teaching Advocates: Julian Burton in Medicine - Disseminating Opportunities

• The Role of Learning and Teaching Advocates: Julian Burton in Medicine - Promoting Teaching and Learning Excellence

Projects and Initiative-related case studies

• Business in the Curriculum
  • Sociological Studies - Building external relationships and negotiating contracts for group-based projects
  • Sociological Studies - Peer review as part of the assessment process
  • Political Studies - Enhancing student learning and skills – presentation skills workshop
  • Political Studies - Developing a reflective learning log to support a work-based dissertation
  • Political Studies - Showing casing innovative modules and external engagement through multimedia
  • Language and Linguistics - Developing a reflective learning tool– an innovative and interactive way to assess a module in the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition
  • Language and Linguistics - Developing industry relationships for departmental projects in the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition
  • Language and Linguistics - Establishing Group-work dynamics and appreciation of personal strengths through personality profiling - the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition
  • Automatic Control and Systems Engineering - Embedding existing good practice (enterprise activities) into design modules
  • Electronic and Electrical Engineering - Developing industry relationships for departmental projects
  • English - The Business of Theatre: Working with professional partners to develop and deliver a new curriculum
  • Engineering - An interdisciplinary approach to student groupwork and student learning on a live project
  • Engineering - Developing enhanced staff team working skills through an interdisciplinary project
  • Engineering - Developing a suite of recorded guest lectures on sustainable development by inspirational speakers, to support an enterprising interdisciplinary student project linked to a series of modules
  • Information Studies - Engaging students in successful groupwork in the MSc Information Studies programme
  • Music - Embedding enterprise skills into the curriculum
  • Philosophy - Reason & Argument: Critical Thinking & Informal Logic

CETLS

• CILASS Case Studies
  • Archaeology: Athens, empire and the Classical Greek world
  • Archaeology: Human Evolution and the Hominid Fossil Record
  • Automatic Control and Systems Engineering (ACSE): Induction of New Undergraduates to ACSE
  • Chemical and Process Engineering (CPE): Blended Learning Approach in Chemical Engineering IBL
  • Education: The Caribbean Programme
  • Hispanic Studies Group Presentation Project
  • History of English Mentoring Scheme
  • History: Inquiry-led Independent and Collaborative Research Modules
  • Human Communication Sciences Intro Week: CILASS Case Study
  • Information Studies: Inquiry in Information Management
  • Inter-institutional video conferencing and collobaration discussing Multicultural Society in the Netherlands
  • Roots Routes: Eight Things to do with a Text
  • School of Modern Languages: Torquemada en la Hoguera
  • Understanding Law 1 Electronic Workbook
  • Law: Understanding Law 2
  • Virtual Learning Environments in Hispanic Studies

Student submitted case studies

To submit a Case Study as a student please go here: Student Case Study Template

• Student Submission: The Philosophy of a Seminar: Engaging student participation
• Student Submission: Engaging With Students: The Chemistry of Public Speaking
• Student Submission: Making Students Matter: The Family of East Asian Studies
• Response to Student Submission: Making Students Matter: The Family of East Asian Studies
• Student Submission: Primary Sources increase interest and confidence in seminars
• Response to Student Submission: Primary Sources increase interest and confidence in seminars
• Student Submission: Presenting Other People’s Work
• Student Submission: Late admission to Sheffield
• Student Submission: How The New Perspective on Paul helped me to read
• Student Submission: Intriguing Tutorials