Changing Practice- Changing times HE Academy Conference

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Changing Practice- Changing timesHE Academy
Conference

• Capturing intellectual exchange in changing times
  for postgraduate research
• Katherine Hewlett MA RCA

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The Context

• Reduced resources
• The student experience-isolation
• Barriers to communications
• NALN conference 2007
• Teaching and learning

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The justification

• Enhanced cultural capital
• Creative approaches to knowledge transfer
• Individual differences
• Intellectual growth

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Thinking approach to research
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Capturing what and how

• Multi dimensional thinking
• The Practice- Case studies
• Use of Technology

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The evidence- Case studies

• My own research practice
• The NTF InCurriculum Project
• NUCA research culture

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Practical tools

• Skype
• Flip Cam/ Vimeo site
• MP3/Smart phones
• Wikis
• ITunes U

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To recap!!

• Intellectual growth
• Student experience
• Knowledge transfer
• Creative cultural capital
• Enhanced research environment

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Discussion points

• List three ways you think the technology you use,
  every day, could be useful to your teaching
• Describe the technology used in your relationship
  with your research.