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Institution: University of Leeds
The Capstone experience team have created a sector-leading portfolio of capstone opportunities. Students select the one that best addresses their individual developmental needs and future career intentions. There is something for every student, an opportunity for each and every one to excel. A unique showcase of themselves to future employers.
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Institution: University of Gloucestershire
The reciprocal mentoring partnerships became a self-managed team. Team membership is dynamic, reflecting the annual cycle of recruiting partners, particularly students. Senior leaders remain core members of the team.
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Institution: University of the West of England
UWE’s Team Entrepreneurship Programme Team, practice what they preach! Their radical programme requires students to manage their own learning, work in teams, and use entrepreneurial competencies to generate value. The programme team model the way, believing that they should not ask students to do what they do not do themselves!
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Institution: University of Hull
The Teaching Excellence Academy celebrates, develops and promotes excellent teaching at the University of Hull. For them, excellent teaching is scholarship of teaching and learning led, technology facilitated and data driven. Their approach facilitates the agency of colleagues through active collaborative working to support individual development of excellent teaching.
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Institution: Prifysgol Wrecsam/Wrexham University
The Academic Development Team drive and support cross-institutional learning and teaching development across the university in an entirely distributed way, co-ordinating learning and teaching enhancement projects via an extended and diverse network of volunteer Academic Development Team Associates.
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Institution: University of Hertfordshire
As the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Student Success Working Group we aim to address the awarding gap and advance race equity at the university. Crucial to the group are our BAME Student Advocates who work with academic schools and professional departments to voice issues affecting BAME students and challenge structural inequalities and assumptions.
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Institution: Newcastle University
The team successfully transformed an established multidisciplinary Postgraduate Certificate in Research Training to offer more active and flexible learning experiences for students. The team-based approach enabled 32 academic and professional services colleagues to review and revise their teaching approach, whilst developing expertise in digital pedagogies and tools.
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Institution: University of Southampton
The MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) programme team drive and support the creation of open online courses. The team’s collaborative approach involves academics, professional services staff, students and external organisations in providing education to thousands of learners, offering opportunities for staff and students to acquire digital education skills and developing collaborations with external partners.
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Institution: University of Nottingham
The Health E-learning and Media Team (HELM) works collaboratively with students, practitioners and patients across the higher education and health sectors to provide community co-created digital educational resources for healthcare students, used internationally in over 140 countries. Collaborative sharing of practice through train-the-trainer events internationally is furthering and sustaining this impact.
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Institution: Edinburgh Napier University
The ‘Get on Board’ competency pathway places and supports students with boards of local charities, voluntary organisations and public bodies. They network with professionals and help make decisions which impact their community. The team supports with training, networking, mentoring and career guidance. In 2015, the pilot was awarded a Herald HE Award for Enhancing Student Learning.
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Institution: University of Sheffield
We are a cross-discipline team responsible for developing the employability skills of Biomedical Science students. Bringing together a careers consultant, with learning technologists and media specialists, enables a holistic approach for equipping undergraduates with future-facing skills. A positive outcome has been a sustained increase in graduate-level employment for our students.
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Institution: Newcastle University
The E-Learning Unit in the School of Mathematics, Statistics & Physics promotes using technology to support the teaching and learning of mathematics in the School, University and wider community through collaborative initiatives and innovations. This includes the Numbas e-assessment software and the Coursebuilder tool for creating accessible mathematics learning material.
