The Educational Development team are able to run staff development workshops to support Schools with objectives linked to NSS action plans and areas for improvement identified in teaching and learning enhancement reports. These workshops will be open to all lecturers and staff in directorates involved in teaching.
Standard Workshops
These are workshops that we have run a number of times, and can be booked ‘as is’. We would normally require a minimum number of staff when booking. (Currently 8)
Module Makeover
This workshop is designed for lecturers as thoughts turn to the next run of their modules and focuses on learning design and resources. Depending on peer, student and external examiner feedback and often most importantly, your own knowledge of what worked and what didn’t, you may be aiming to do a few small changes, or feel your module needs a total rework.
In the workshop we will explore how you can apply the University’s Curriculum Design Principles and learning design frameworks to help you to develop new activities to engage your students in active learning and to consider other assessment approaches.
There are currently no planned workshops. These will restart later this semester for those teaching in Sem 3, and then again in summer for next academic year.
If you would like to book a bespoke session (online or in person) for your team, please use the relevant link below.
Content Creation
The objective of these workshops is to leave lecturers feeling motivated and confident in taking on a new content creation task for a module.
Each session will have a slightly different focus however they will all cover the basics for planning and creating accessible engaging content for your students. Some examples of the types of areas that will be covered cover are:
- Making engaging visual aids. From PowerPoint to infographics
- Storyboarding and planning creative projects
- Capturing audio / producing podcasts
- Video creation. Planning, shooting and editing
Turnitin
These are aimed at staff and we have 2 main variants.
In some schools academic staff are responsible for setting up assessment points, marking, and collating grades.
In other areas administrative staff do the assessment point creation (particularly when complex models for different groups are required)
Turnitin – Setting up your assessment
This 1-hour workshop covers:
- A basic introduction to Turnitin
- Is Turnitin the correct tool?
- Creating assessments
- Basic features
- Advance features
- Turnitin and complex grouping of students
- An overview of similarity reports / grading (for interest)
- Turnitin and the My Dundee Gradebook.
Turnitin – Similarity Reports, grading and feedback.
This workshop would usually require 1.5 hours, though can be done in 1 hour.
- A basic introduction to Turnitin
- What the similarity report can, and can’t, tell you.
- Various settings within the similarity report.
- Grading
- Quick marks
- Introduction to Rubrics
- Overall comments
- Turnitin and My Dundee Gradebook
This session will allow time for discussion to meet the needs of the particular group.
Bespoke Workshops
These are more ‘one off’ workshops, that can be adapted to meet the needs of particular disciplines and schools.
Curriculum Design Programmes
If you are undertaking periodic programme review, or designing a new programme, or would like to update an existing course, we can work with programme teams to support this process.
Customised version of existing workshops
If you would like one of our existing workshops for your discipline or school, let us know. We can work with you to customise it if needed. (N.B Minimum numbers required)
Something else?
Perhaps there’s something else entirely you’d like a workshop on – contact us and we’ll design it with you. (N.B Minimum numbers required)