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View article: Providing Meaningful Hands-on Design Experience in the Remote-learning Environment with a Miniature Mechanical Testing Kit
Providing Meaningful Hands-on Design Experience in the Remote-learning Environment with a Miniature Mechanical Testing Kit Open
Laboratory work teaches students how technical knowledge is applied in practice and has long been recognized as a crucial component of a complete undergraduate engineering experience. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many engineering programs…
View article: Expanding your provision across the whole institution
Expanding your provision across the whole institution Open
This joint case study, delivered as a mini-keynote, presented and reflected on the ways in which we had adopted a whole-institution response to transition to new stages of learning and research. The case study highlighted the ways in which…
View article: Transforming transitions: learning and researcher developers and a whole-institution approach to successful transition
Transforming transitions: learning and researcher developers and a whole-institution approach to successful transition Open
The impact of Covid-19 on incoming students and researchers is plain: students and researchers were denied access to their usual educational experiences, to their usual networking and social interaction, and to their usual assessment types…
View article: Skills, Attributes, Literacies, and Capabilities: Developing Our Students at Every Level
Skills, Attributes, Literacies, and Capabilities: Developing Our Students at Every Level Open
This Special Issue engages with the concept of ‘graduateness’ across Higher Education by looking at the skills, attributes, literacies, capabilities, and capacities we seek to foster and develop amongst those whom we teach. This discussion…
View article: The CaT stretcher: An open-source system for delivering uniaxial strain to cells and tissues (CaT)
The CaT stretcher: An open-source system for delivering uniaxial strain to cells and tissues (CaT) Open
Integration of mechanical cues in conventional 2D or 3D cell culture platforms is an important consideration for in vivo and ex vivo models of lung health and disease. Available commercial and published custom-made devices are frequently l…
View article: Design of a Low Cost EEG Headset for Educational Research
Design of a Low Cost EEG Headset for Educational Research Open
View article: Quantifying Effectiveness of Three Unique Video Lecture Formats in a Large First-Year Engineering Chemistry Course
Quantifying Effectiveness of Three Unique Video Lecture Formats in a Large First-Year Engineering Chemistry Course Open
This study will compare three different supplementary video lecture formats, multi-camera recordings of in-person lectures, single camera recordings of in-person lectures, and short-topic videos. Previous studies have demonstrated the valu…
View article: An Analysis of Students’ Brain Activity when Participating in Different Learning Activities
An Analysis of Students’ Brain Activity when Participating in Different Learning Activities Open
Title: Work In Progress – An Analysis of Students’ Physiological Activities ranging from Brainwave to Heart Rate Data when Participating in Different Learning Activities - Existing research has demonstrated the improvement in effectiveness…
View article: Use of a Low-cost, Open-source Universal Mechanical Testing Machine in an Introductory Materials Science Course
Use of a Low-cost, Open-source Universal Mechanical Testing Machine in an Introductory Materials Science Course Open
Title: Use of a Low-Cost, Open Source Universal Mechanical Testing Machine in an Introductory Materials Science Course - The recent paradigm shift in engineering education towards more active learning has prompted careful consideration of …
View article: The Academic Writing Skills Programme: A model for technology-enhanced, blended delivery of an academic writing programme
The Academic Writing Skills Programme: A model for technology-enhanced, blended delivery of an academic writing programme Open
Recognising the varied challenges presented by an increasingly diverse student body at our UK university (a research-intensive institution with a high proportion of international and widening participation students), an online and blended …
View article: Strategic learning and teaching enhancement through funded teaching interventions
Strategic learning and teaching enhancement through funded teaching interventions Open
A case study of the Learning and Teaching Development Fund at University of Glasgow.
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\nIn order to maintain the pace of learning and teaching development in line with recent changes in the student population (such as demographics, numbe…
View article: Introduction of Reusable Learning Objects in a First-year Materials Science and Engineering Course
Introduction of Reusable Learning Objects in a First-year Materials Science and Engineering Course Open
Introduction of Reusable Learning Objects in First Year Materials Science and Engineering CourseReusable learning objects (RLO) were introduced into the introductory materials engineeringcourse for first year students at the University of …
View article: BYOE: A Portable Table-top Lab for Exploring Crystal Structures
BYOE: A Portable Table-top Lab for Exploring Crystal Structures Open
BYOE: Crystallographic Planes Lab for Introductory Materials Engineering CourseFirst year students often struggle to develop the spatial thinking skills required to understandcrystal structures and crystallographic planes and directions. T…