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Previous Learning Teachnology fellowships

2003-04

Supported Self-Study via the Web for Trainee Teachers of Community Languages
- Jim Anderson (Educational Studies)

Students will have access to a range of online resources via a user-friendly website. These web resources, which include materials in non-Roman fonts for Arabic, Punjabi and Mandarin Chinese, are intended to support students in developing independent study within the modular PGCE in Community Languages. The resources will cover the following: methodology, materials and tasks, teaching resources, web links, a showcase of student projects, and course information.

Online Placement and Progress testing for Part-time Online Language Learners
- Fran Beaton (PACE)

Working with CELT, we will develop online language tests for learners of English, German, Italian, Japanese and Portuguese. The placement tests will be for potential PACE students, so that they can make an informed decision about their ability level before enrolling in a class. We will also produce a series of formative progress tests so that individual students will be able to monitor their own development independently and privately. Students will also have access both to existing learning materials, whihc we will put online, as well as other materials developed specifically for this purpose.
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Computer-Assisted Learning and Teaching in Social Statistics
- Chetan Bhatt (Sociology)

This project will explore electronic resources (commercial and open source) for effective student-centred, interactive learning of quantitative and qualitative research and data analysis methods at first and second year undergraduate and MA level. It will also develop a learning and teaching databank of appropriate quantitative and qualitative datasets, based on empirical research undertaken within the Department and externally, that can be sued by students. We will also develop interactive learning and teaching resources for statistical components of the ESRC-RT recognised MA Social Research (which all MPhil/PhD students also have to take) and for relevant undergraduate social statistics courses components.

Historical Recordings Multimedia Research Project
- Steve Cottrell (Music)

My CELT fellowship is to be used to investigate the collection of 78 rpm recordings held by the music department. Some of these will be digitised, cleaned up and transferred to CD, to make them more accessible for the department. A CD rom and possibly a website are going to be constructed on the basis of these transfers, which will demonstrate what can be learned from the study of early recordings, and how they can be used to underpin other approaches to music study in a variety of contexts.
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Development of Psychology Department Online Resources for Teaching and Learning
- Jan de Fockert

The main aim of this project is to promote the use of departmental electronic resources. First, for improved access to departmental resources we will develop an online point of access that is integrated in the main departmental web pages. Access priviliges will be given at various levels (e.g., undergraduate, postgraduate, staff). Second, using input from our postgraduate community, we will develop the postgraduate web pages, introducing PG students' entries, search facility, message board. Third, we will develop the undergraduate web pages and make all teaching material available electronically, ensuring that learning and teaching resources are comprehensive and consistent in their delivery.

Computerised Assessment in Year 1 Psychology
- Christopher French (Psychology)

The aim of this project is to introduce computerised assessment procedures to Year 1 Psychology students. The intention is that this will allow students to familiarise themselves with the technology involved and to use the technology for self-assessment. It will also pave the way for the possible introduction in the future of fully computerised examinations where appropriate.

Delivering a Lecture Seminar in Digital Multimedia Package
- Anna Furse (Theatre and Performance)

I am using my Fellowship to prepare a versatile multi media lecture on my current research in infertility and bio-ethics - YERMA'S EGGS. I am seeking a dynamic way of introducing a range of complex ideas and source materials in succinct and visually supported ways. Source material I am working with includes production and publicity images, digital footage of rehearsals and performance and bio-medical material both still and video. I have been asked to deliver this lecture for the new Research Centre for the Study of the Body in Performance in the new year. This lecture would also be used at Conferences and in other contexts as a means to explain my research which in itself is about our relationship to technology:

YERMA'S EGGS is a theatre production I created this year which confronts our relationship with technology - in this case bio-medical -explored metaphorically in a relationship between performers and projectors, audience and image, body and image, human and microscopic scale, the cellular nature of our beings. The future plans for this project are to create an interactive installation with a touch-screen component. My study of the above would have significant impact on my future research, which in turn will feed back into a great deal of my teaching.

Remaking the Museum: Enhancing Visitor Experience through Portable Technological Delivery Systems
- Sean Hall (Design)

This project seeks to challenge standardised forms of museum experience. By altering the format of information delivery through the employment of portable technological systems bespoke comment will be made on a series of art and design objects, images, and texts. This bespoke comment will be organised for visitors through pre-tour information, tour information, and post-tour feedback. The information provided via these portable delivery systems, both qualitative and quantitative, will be collected and used to assess the individual learning experiences of visitors who have undergone the tour.

Popular Music Studies Lerning Resources
- Jill Halstead (Music)

This project will continue the wrok started in my CELT Fellowship 2002-2003, which explored the potential for online popular music teaching and learning materials. My project this year buildson this work and has a number of distinct, but related objectives. These include, continuing to develop online learning resources to support the new BMus Popular Music Studies (PMS) due to begin in October 2004. I will also pilot materials developed last year for music theory and jazz harmony courses. These online course materials are an essential part of the teaching strategy on the new degree (online coursework is a formal assessed part of some courses). Students will have supported and structured independent learning opportunities, staff will be freed to undertake focused, less time-consuming tutored work. The newly created materials will be housed in a new website, which I shall develop.

SRALT - Social Research and Learning Technology
- Mary Claire Halvorson (PACE)

The principal aim of this project is to equip learners to develop a blend of technological and traditional research strategies. This will be carried out by means of a learning environment website, which will provide students with relevant materials about the processes of social research online. It will support learners in PACE and across the range of College disciplines which involve social and cultural studies. Following from this, evaluation templates will be developed as a tool of good practice.


English Language Learning and Online Support
- Stella Harvey (Language Unit)

My CELT project has two main aims. Firstly I wish to create an independent study resource for English language students based in the Language Unit, in the first instance those studying for the Diploma in English Language for the Arts and Social Sciences. The resource should consist of a wide range of language practice activities integrated with the content elements of the Diploma. As these elements cover areas relevant to a wide range of Humanities subjects, the materials should be of interest to a Secondly, I am going to collaborate with my colleague Karen Nicholls in developing further academic literacy materials for the existing Realgold website.

Development of eForums for MA in Social Work Students on Placement
- Sandra Hopley (PACE)

The Department of Health expects an increase in the capacity in e-learning for the new social work degree. The Social Work staff team is committed to developing the embedding of e-learning in their work with students and proposes to pilot a project to develop e-learning for students on placement which will be evaluated for general applicability.

Students on the current MA/DipSW programme spend a total of 130 days on placement, attending regular teaching/learning sessions at college including facilitated case studies workshops. Under the General social Care Council regulations for the new degree students will spend 200 days on placement. To enhance the support and maximise the learning opportunities available to them while engaged in practice learning over this longer period, it is proposed to create additional resources in the form of e-forums and other online materials for them to use.

The objectives are to:

1 Provide an additional forum for synthesising academic and practice learning
2 Build an e-learning community for students on placement 3 Assist the development and maintenance of links between college and placement
4 Provide an additional forum for students on placement to share experiences and exchange emotional support

Virtual Interactive Library Introduction Tour
- Sally Houston (Library)

A web-based induction for staff and students will provide greater flexibility to learn and will make the induction programme's content more relevant to specific subjects and to student needs and capabilities. The tour will deliver comprehensive yet customisable content which covers orientation, procedures and resources, and allows for accessibility for students with special needs such as dyslexia. This year's project will continue this work, aiming to include practical basic tutorials on using the library catalogue and electronic databases.

Arts Policy and Practice Online Resource
- Gerald Lidstone (Drama)

I will briefly evaluate how existing students use existing online resources in this discipline. I will develop an online learning resource initially for Postgraduate students studying Arts Administration and Cultural Policy. I intend to research the existing collections of relevant material already online, and find the ways they can relate to this resource. I then hope to develop an example of existing teaching material (a case study exercise) currently delivered in the classroom to a format that can be delivered online for postgraduate students, and test it.

Study Skills Web Resource for Politics
- James Martin (Politics)

The objectives of this project are to create a resource to introduce students to the study of politics in HE. This will consist of interactive web pages to facilitate students' acquisition of study and academic skills in politics at Level 1. I will develop a series of five summative short, self-evaluation tests, which can be uploaded by staff and taken by students. I will also provide an ongoing resource available to students as theyprogress through their programme of study.

Interactive Film-making
- Gerry McCulloch (Media and Communications)

The Interactive Film-making project involves the creation of Learning and Teaching materials for practice courses in filmmaking, with a view to encouraging student-centred learning as follows:

  • Enhancing classroom learning and teaching by centralising a variety of existing video, audio, photo and graphic support materials in an accessible format.
  • Improving access to resources for students, both inside and outside of the classroom.
  • Improving learning opportunities through research, development and design of update-able support materials.
  • Supporting the learning of students by supplementing existing courses with learning technology-based resources.
  • Broadly enhancing student-centred engagement with learning processes.
  • Deliverables will include: CD, DVD & Hard disk based resources for classroom use - to be used in conjunction with Video Projection. ? Web resources for access to materials from outside of the classroom.

Goldsmiths Online Language Development (GOLD)
- Karen Nicholls (English Language Unit)

Initiated in last year's CELT Fellowship project, the GOLD website provides ELU students with the opportunity to develop their English language skills through self-access. This year the listening and note-taking practice resources will be expanded to incorporate an additional academic subject. There will also be further development of the writing resource to include more creative writing styles which are important in various departments as well as interactive practice of common areas of language weakness. Records of student progress will be saved to a database for further analysis.

Using Digital Video Editing in Teacher Education
- John Potter (Education)

My project is concerned with providing a web-based resource for teaching and learning with digital video which is tailored to the needs of staff and students in the Department of Educational Studies. The resource will include a number of pages concerned with a whole range of activities which should address a variety of needs. These will range from simple technical advice on using a digital video camera, connecting to and editing at a computer through to discussions of ethical issues and project ideas. There is also scope for providing exemplar material in a variety of media. I am working on this project with Sonja Grussendorf from CELT.

Learning Data Compression with Multimedia
- Ida Pu (Computing)

The main objective of this project is to enhance the facilities for teaching and learning of Data Compression, a popular BSc. final year optional module in the Computing department. The current teaching web site will be expanded to provide a modern e-learning environment for broader audience. The dedicated site and the interactive on-line resources will assist, in their studies of the subject, the large number of students in Goldsmiths College and world-wide on the external programme of University of London, and anyone who is interested in Data Compression. The site will furnish advanced users with research resources for Data Compression as well as conventional learning facilities such as subject guide (published by University of London), lecture notes, exercises and solutions, frequently asked questions and answers, examination papers etc.. Special lectures on multimedia data compression will be highlighted using multimedia facilities such as video and audio systems.

The Reservoir: An Interactive Learning Event
- Terence Rosenberg (Design)

I will undertake the design of a virtual object/tool (3D interactive model) to aid in the learning and to assist in the development and deployment of research and ideational processes for design. It is at the same time, a tool for idea generation, an analytical template and an explicative model for designing. This product will support individuals in other educational establishments and others in the generation, understanding and analysis of their own practice. It will build an understanding of the uses of interactive 3D models in education by exploring the educational experience as event produced in, through and around the software designed.

Establishing Uniform Assessment Criteria for Undergraduate History Coursework Essays Leading to Automated Compilation of Student Feedback
- Craig Spence (Historical Studies)

The objectives of this project are to establish agred uniform, yet flexible and responsive, criteria for assessment and feedback of coursework essays. My goal is to improve content and clarity of coursework essay feedback, aiming to achieve an eqitable level of response, and to improve response times. I will design an automated (online) system for the compilation of feedback sheets and indicative mark calculation, allowing for tutor adjustment of final mark. I wil also aim to improve the tracking of failing students in order to aid retention and achievement rates.

The Development of a Semi-Automatically Scrutinised/Supervised Virtual Environment for Student-Managed Learning
- Marian Ursu (Department of Computing)

This project aims to develop a web-based information exchange software system which will provide a virtual environment that aims to enhance and encourage: students' participation in the learning process; students' critical evaluation of published knowledge; the continuity of the learning process; the exploration of new topics and the provision of up-to-date relevant information; and collaboration in the learning process. This will lead to better information dissemination as well as closer interaction and involvement among students as they will have continual access to resources, which a classroom-based environment alone cannot provide.

Interactive Learning Event - Contextual Practice Diagram for Design
- Michael Waller (Design)

My objectives are to develop new interactive learning materials for design students and teachers that solve an existing problem and limitation of our (2D printed) existing design territory diagram. I will translate the current knowledge and know-how of the design territory into a reusable format as an interactive learning event. I shall take the existing sketches and diagrams of the 'design territory' and spatialise them into an interactive 3-dimensional learning tool.

Synergistic Mapper-Inclusive Learning Environment (SMILE)
- John Wood (Design)

My CELT work will be part of a larger inquiry that seeks to support the way that creative practitioners (such as designers) use writing to inform their practice. Because of the high level of learning difficulties associated with studio-based studies I wish to explore the advantages of using 2D and 3D forms as a mnemonic and conceptual framework through which problem-holders, contextual criteria, purposes, and significant propositions may be modelled/mapped in a quasi-holonomic field of representation.

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