Double the Teaching Fellows!

The School of Science and Technology is going to double the number of Teaching Fellows to six (joining Jonathan Adams, Greg Spellman and Scott Turner). Three colleagues were successful in their application for Teaching Fellowship (one of only four to be awarded). 


Ruth Copeland-Philips, Louise Maxwell and Paul Cox will be awarded their fellowships for their work on Technology to help with the transistion into Higher Education of distance learning students.


Details of their work can be found at:

• The University of Northampton Teaching and Learning Conference (May 2009), Piloting Induction Strategies for Distance Learners. Poster presentation and conference paper.
• The University of Northampton Teaching and Learning Conference (May 2011) Technology Enhanced Transition Programme for Distance Learners, Poster presentation
• Widening Participation Seminar at The University of Northampton, (September 2011), Technology Enhanced Transition Programme for Distance Learners, Poster presentation and conference paper.

• Poster presentation available in Park Library atrium (24^th October - 4^th November 2011) .
• Widening participation web pages: http://www.northampton.ac.uk/info/200284/widening-participation/1132/projects
• School of Science and Technology blog (18 September 2011) Technology Enhanced Transition Programme:http://apslandt.blogspot.com/

Learning Global - Fourth Learning & Teaching Conference

The fourth Teaching and Learning Conference - Learning Global took place on 11th May.  The conference was well attended by members of staff and students from school, as well as having five papers:

Mind the Gender Gap - Reflections on addressing gender Diversity in Computing and Engineering
Tricia Goodchild, Rashmi Dravid, Scott Turner


Technology enhanced transistion programme
Louise Maxwell, Ruth Copelend-Phillips and Paul Cox


Cyberspace - The New Women Frontier for Mobile Communications
Rashmi Dravid and Catherine Klimes


Influencing students' construction of peronalised concept maps through the use of query expansion (QE) searching of the World Wide Web
Kieran MCGovern, Peter Mothersole and Scott Turner


Is it Visual? problem solving evaluation
Kumuditha Kariyawasam and Scott Turner


For more details click here.